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MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.•enatb. jLansing, Mich., Feb. 27.—Bills were introduced in the senate yesterday: Authorizingsheriffs to act as game and Ash wardens; to prevent fraud in elections; to amend law relative to trust, deposit and security companies; ! making election day a legal holiday; providing for a site for governor’s residence in city of Lansing; making an appropriation for erection of new buildings at the mining school; abolishing board of school examiners in each county; for a tax upon fishermeivYesterday was tha la?t day for introduction of bills.Lansing, Mich., March 4.—A bill granting municipal suffrage to women passed to third reading in the senate yesterday.Lansing, Mich., March —The somite yesterday by a vote of t; to 12 adopted the report ©f the minority of the committee which investigated the management of the state publioschool ut Coldwatcr, with reference to the murder of Nellie Griffin.£ By this action, which doubtless disposes of the matter, Supi Newkirk is censured, but the question of his retention is left to the members of the board of con trol, who arc friendly to himV .J'-HO ITS K. V V. : [I, ansi no. Mich I Feb, 27,- -In the house yesterday the minority reoort of the committse^ on the state public school, *he institution from which Nellie Griffin wasKindentured to an unknown man, by whom she was carried to Eaton county and murdered, was male* The committee found the internal manage, ment of the school to bj excellent. It excuse* the action of Bivpt. Newkirk In lotffttg the giri goon the ground that the mur terer. Canield, had practiced an Imposition which wa no; detected by the county agent. Hills wore introduced for death penalty by electrocution; to repeat certain sections of the liquor law; amending law relative to r-gist ratio u of births, deaths and marriages; to provide for the apportionment of congressional representative districts; to reincorporate the village of Howell$ to divide state into thirty two senatorial districts; to organize tan county of Wiuans; to merge the offices of game warden and fish commissioner into one; to abolish state board of health and transfer the business to the secretary of state; to prevent criminal surgery; to provide for a state board of prison inspectors ; to incorporate village of Watervllet; to create office of dairy and food commission; to allow the catching lt;f tish in any streams suppUcJ with fish by state; to compel saloon keepers it obtain permit of county in which they wbh to engage in business; making appropriation* for a horticultural exhibit at the world s fair; to incorporate the village of Clare; making an appropriation of state swamp lands to ccn truct a canal across the state; providing for the ir.an-ufuc.ur * of binding twine in state prisons.Lansing. Mich.. March 4.—Tho house com \ mittee on rtatc affair?* yesterday reported favorably a bill changing the method of tax ng express companies doing business in this state. Under the exLtiog law the companies pay t per cent, of their not earnings, anil the new J measure seeks to change this to 5 per e’;*nt. of the gross earnings between Michigan { points, and would materially increase the amount ut present received by the state from this source. A favorable report Was l also made on a bill prohibiting tho taking offish from any of the inland w aters of Michigansave by hook and line. Tae bill provide* that its operation may be subtended in any county by a two-thirds vote of the board of supervivirsthere.Lansing. Mich.. March 5.—The house yesterday parsed to third rftiding a bill providi ig for th'» repeal of the Haker con -ph uty law. A Joint resolution for the submmMoa of an amend* ment to the eoustitultou to tho people iucreas* ini the salary of the attorney general to $.\5JU was defeated, Mr. 1)nvmus gave notice of a motion for reconsideration.
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Gogebic Iron Spirit
Bessemer, Michigan, US
Sat, Mar 07, 1891
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