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Detroit JljBwijS VOL 60 NO 1G3 DETROIT MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 1895 PRICE: THREE CENTS Hair Ornaments We refer to the Tortoiseshell Things so deservedly popular in all their deli cate and fanciful shapes Just now we have a richer assortment than most dealers carry Some of the Eack Combs are in the square patterns In vogue sev eral generations ago They are beau tiful pieces of shell and show a quality of artistic design and finish rarely equaled No less attractive are the Hairpins and Side Combs Some are embellished with silver and gilt mount ings The prices are not high 271 WOODWARD AVE Insurance Bureau A LINDSAY 93 Griswold Street Detroit Home Insurance Company New York LiTerpooI Lcndoa and Globe Insurance Company of England North British Mercantile Insurance Company of Grat Britain Northern Insurance Company of Great Britain Germania ire Insurance Company New York Hanover ire Irsnrance Company New York VilllRmsturg City ire Insurance Company Norwich Union ire Insurance Company prate Mutual Life Insuunce Co of Worcester Mass american Surety Co New York supersedes lndi rldual bondsmen Losses promptly paid and adjusted at this offlco ELMIGER INE SPECIAL URNITURE Ko 193 CASS STREET THONE 1753 CARPET CLEANING SILK DRAPERY WEAVING RUG MANUACTURING MnrTrno Carpet Cleaning and rCiCnO Rug Co Tel 4465 547 Clinton Ave Hallet Davis The favorite of professionals Th choice of conservatories Toe preference of residence The friend of the pupil Whitney Marvin Music Co 141 143 1 45 Wudward Avenue CRAWORD'S OS and TOO Woodwnrd Avenue The most popular 25c Dinner in Detroit eerved between 11:30 a and 2 Valine Virds Milburn Co progressive Druggists 81 Woodward Ave THIS PAPER IS PRINTED WITH Tne Standard Ptg Ink Co's Ink CINCINNATI HIESD5 REE SILVER Kames of Democrntw Who Have Hat Themselves on Record (Washington March The following are the names of the Democrats who signed the address recently given to the public urging all Democrats to make the money question the paramount Issue and to en deavor to place the Democratic party on record in favor of the restora tion of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation as it existed prior to 1873 such coin to be a full legal tender for all debts public and private: It Bland of Missouri IV Bryan of Nebraska A Coffeen of Wyoming George ithian of Illinois Cock rell of Texas John McLaurin South Carolina James Maguire California George Ikert Ohio Justin II Whiting Snodgrass Tennessee George Ttlchardson Michigan A Smith Arizona A Ogden LouisianaT Capehart West Virginia Moore Kansas Money Mississippi Ryan Missouri Grady North Car olina Charles Morgan Missouri ochell South Carolina: Edward Illi nois Donovan Ohio A Latimer South Carolina Marshall Arnold Missouri Denson Alabama: Talbert South Carolina A Camtnrtf California: AV Bower North Carolina Antonio Joseph New Mexico Evan Howell At lanta Constitution loyd King ex mem ber of congress Louisiana John Will iams Mississippi Strait South Caro lina They represent sixteen states and two territories The paper was taken to the senate just before the close of the session but it was impossible to have any confer ence with the senators or to see anv con siderable number of them As it was not possible to make a thorough canvass among them it was decided to leave them out entirely so that no misunderstanding might exist between those willing to sign and those who had no opportunity to do so Air Bryan said in regard to the address that it had been Issued in order to call at tention of the rank and file to the import ance of active work in favor of bi metal ism Pensions Raised rom S4 tn Washington March 5 The officials of the pension bureau will soon take active meas ures to put into operation the recent leg islation raising all pensioners receiving'ess than $6 a month to that rating It is estimated that cases will be affected by the legislation and will involve an in crease of about $1500000 The bureau has Biven notice that the pushing of individual cases will be unnecessary ne peculiarity of Sarsaparilla Js that it stimulates nature to expel all im purities through the natural channels there by cleansing the blood and restoring the "whole system to a pure and healthv state Now is the time to take it if your druggist does not keep the gen uine get it at pharmacy and be healthy and happy Gas Appliance Exchange 243 Woodward avenue Sole agents for famous Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light George Clark newel" gas ranges and gas heating stovesre superior to all others and are only Bold through us Digestible Cocon contains ah the titigja xni fat prvducitj properties Jlich fiajrpr MICHELLS LORISTS and DRUGGISTS say that we want the But we A verv small piece of it gives us all the PLEASURE LIB to satisfy us The florists who are so determined on confounding herring with flowers must have become dyspeptic from over eating of this very popular fish But what relation will our LO AVER and LORAL Department have with any of our many other departments? None whatever Each department in our establishment is a complete business in itself and when you will be purchasing LOWERS after our new fixtures are in place you will see only flowers until you look for other articles and WHEN YOU DO SO you will ac knowledge seeing the greatest arrav of all that is TEMPTING palatable and admirable you have ever seen anywhere in the United States To day is ish Day and a partial list is given below of what specialties we will offer: 500 lbs fresh Cleaned PERCH heads off Sc lb resh No 1 Silver Smelts at 9c lb resh Whitefish elegant stock at 10c lb (weighing 2 to 6 lbs each) resh Codfish Trout Halibut Pike Pickerel nud Hluefisli inest Deep Sea MACKEREL fat and juicy at 30c lb ancy Bloated Mackerel free from rust at 20c lb (weighing 1 to 3 lbs each) Salt HERRING at 5c lb ine INNAN HADD1E and SMOKED HALIBUT RESH WATER HERRING and CRO MATHY BLOATERS Nct a bone Codrish 3 lb boxes at 50c each ECHTE KIELER SPROTTEN at 30c per doz or $1 per box Imported BUCKLINGS at 2 for 15c Spiced ANCHOVIES 22c lb New Salt SARDELLEN 2oc lb Imported RUSSIAN SARDINES (with or without heads) at 63c per keg HOLLAND HERRING all milkers JI 10 per keg HOLLAND HERRING roes 85c per keg LOBSTERS and SALMON the best brands packed Sardines of all descriptions resh OYSTERS by can or measure daily resh Vegetables and Delightful lowers every morning at half past 8 from our own Hothouses at Grosse He To thoroughly enjoy your meals you should alwavs get your entire supplies at MICHELLS LET DEBTS UEIILVD THEM Two Brothers of St Louis Absent rom the City Under a Cloud St Louis March 5 It has just come to light that Crawford Hendrick and Chas A Hendrick two brothers who have been doing business in this city under the names of Hendrick Co the Mississippi Valley Mercantile Co and the Inter State Candy Co and who stood high in busi ness and social circles have left for parts unknown leaving behind them considera ble indebtedness Last January the firms of Kendrick Co and the Inter State Candy Co made an assignment but the Mississippi Valley Mercantile Co con tinued in business It is said that the brothers borrowed money from various banks giving as security the paper on one of their other firms and bought goods un der one firm name and sold them under an other firm name All this was done with out the knowledge of the eastern firms that sold them goods and without the knowledge of the local banks who loaned them money The Kendrick brothers were rated by the commercial agencies as being worth from $75000 to $100000 They are said to have in vested considerable money in coffee planta tions in old Mexico where rumor says they have gone As far as can be learned but two banks here have suffered The State Bank of this city advanced $22000 on notes but may get back $SOA) from the assets of the two firms while the National Bank gave out Half of this may be safe as this and the State Bank hold trust deeds Issued by the failed firms to secure them for the money advanced How much more the brothers were enabled to borrow in this way Is not known but the amount of their indebtedness may reach JIOOOJO Mr Valle Heyburn attorney for the City National Bank states that last week he be came suspicious of the Kendricks and teas about to bring proceedings against them when they skipped out He captured at their boarding house eight trunks two handbags all packed with goods ready to leave but the Kendricks have not been seen since CLERK ORGOT THE DATE Marriage Certificate of Anna Gould and the Count ound Defective New York March 5 The board of health refused to record the marriage certificate of Anna Gould and Count Castellane to day on the ground that it was defective in a vital point All information as to the mat ter is refused by the board of health the president saying that it is in the discretion of the board they will not make the record public without the permission of the fam ily It is said the cause for the action is that no date was given in the cer tificate Upon investigation the Associated Press learned that Archbishop clerk bv inadvertance omitted the entry upon the date line of the Gould Castellane marriage certificate and the paper was therefore returned to the proper persons for correction Irvington March 5 Count de Cas tellane and his bride the countess who arrived from New Y'ork last evening spent a quiet day at Lynhurst Helen Gould's mansion A number of newspaper men this morning went to Lynhurst but they were not allowed to go any further than the gate and were refused all information as to the movements of the bridal couple Two men probably detectives closely scru tinized all who asked for admission to the grounds surrounding Lynhurst Michigan Patents Washington ebruary Patents granted to Michigan Inventors: Corydon Albee and ixson Coldwater harness: rank Aldrich as signor of four fifths to Aldrich and Main Detroit car seal and tag Otto Arner Three Rivers stand pipe tor locomotives Ludwig Baker assignor to Wickes Bros East Saginaw sectional boiler Edward Butler assignor of one half to A Metzelaar Grand Rapids letter box Charles A Day Kalamazoo muscle testing machine James Donovan Three Rivers potato bug catcher Axel Gus tafson Chicago assignors of one half to Anderson Negaunee mangle bnel don Jackson Weston wire fence Geo Roberts and Donovan assignor to Roberts Thorp Co Three Rivers po tato digger Alton Shaw assignor to Shaw Muskegon rheostat LICHT THE TAILOR $20 suits to order 144 Michigan avenue IN SECRET I REPUBLICANS THE HOUSE CAU CUSED LAST NIGHT THEY TOOK GREAT TO CONCEAL THEIR PROCEEDINGS THE KEYHOLES WERE PLUGGED UP AND THE LIGHTS TURNED DOWN EVERY MEMBER PRESENT WAS SOL EMNLY SWORN TO SECRECY PROHIBITION WAS THE SUBJECT DISCUSSION AN HOUR AND A HAL WAS SPENT IN TALK ON THE SUBJECT When the Mutter of Submitting' It Came to a Vote the Antis Won Lansing Mich March 5 (Special) The Republicans of the house caucused to night Up to date all these gatherings have been held in the legislative chamber but the proceedings have always appeared In print the next morning The regularity with which this happened was very annoying to some of the more sensitive members who thought the ambitious reporters were in hiding somewhere Accordingly it was decided to hold a caucus to night in Pioneer hall This is a room on the top floor of the capitol which has been used by the municipal committee for some time All of the members of the house except Donovan he was not repaired to this room at about Sergeant at Arms Sebt rt guarded the door the key holes were plugged up and the lights turned down Not even a messenger boy was per mitted to remain So fearful were some of the members that their proceedings would become public that they decided to swear every man present to secrecy and every man In the room was made to hold up his hand and swear that he would never give away what had been done Representative Chamberlain presided Soon after the caucus was called to order Speaker Gordon took the floor and made a speech setting forth his belief that the peo ple wanted the legislators to draw tnelr session to a close as soon as possible He propounded his plan to have a steering committee appointed whose duty It would be to push forward the more important bills This plan was unanimously agreed to and the follow in? committee was ap pointed for thia important work: Rep resentatives Hose Curtis and Waite Then came the subject that every man was waiting for the all absorbing question of the prohibition of the liquor traffic Representative Redfern of Maple Rapids who from the first has been the advocate of submitting the amendment made a speech calling upon the liquor traffic and judiciary committees to report to the house the joint resolution providing for submis sion of the prohibitory amendment He made the argument that the majority of the people of the state are in favor of putting down the liquor traffic and he said it was not right that the privilege of vot ing on the matter should be denied them Altogether there were twenty one speeches made on the subject ten were in favor of submission and eleven against Representative Campbell of Ingham county supported Redfern as did Repre sentative Ware of Kent Among those who talked strongly against the amendment were Representatives Rice of Presque Isle and Matthews and Part ridge of Detroit The latter two base their arguments principally on the great loss that would entail to the various counties of the state from the loss of the license fees from saloonkeepers Wayne county was quoted as receiving over $300000 annually from this source and this money would have to raised by taxation of real and personal property in case prohibition went into effect The brewing industries of De troit would be ruined Besides it had been proved that prohibition does not stop drink ing and it would only transfer so much business to Canada as was lost to Detroit and Michigan When the matter was finally brought to a vote It was an hour and a half from the time that the caucus was opened The re sult was a victory for the anti prohibition men The vote stood thirty six against sub mitting the amendment and thirty four in favor of it The antis are confident that thev will win when the question comes up on the floor of the house as it takes a two thirds vote of all the members to carry a joint resolution or sixty six votes CANNOT COLLECT INCOME TAX Thomas Ha ria al Snys the Revenue Deputies Are Ineligible New Y'ork March 5 Thomas Harland who was deputy commissioner of internal revenue when the war measure income tax laws were in force and who successfully defended Samuel famous income tax suit has given an opinion which in sub stance is to the effect that the income tax law puts the collection of the tax in the hand of officials who cannot constitution ally collect it These are the deputy collec tors of internal revenue They cannot collect it because they are not "public but merely the hired men This he says is not a mere technicality The im position of the tax requires a knowledge and discretion for which few men are qual ified probably not even a majority of the collectors themselves They can collect if they are spry There are two of them for instance in this district and if they can get around among the 50000 potential income taxpayers and pass judicially upon the taxability of their several incomes the elements of time and space will have to be reorganized or the deputies to collect the tax is a legal impossibility or the col lectors it is a physical impossibility In conclusion Mr Harland says: "Under this state of the law I cannot doubt that as soon as the real situation is brought to the at tention of the authorities in Washington they will deem it wise to suspend proceed ings for the collection of the tax until some more effectual steps can be provided by law" Another Veteran Passes Array Galesburg Ill March 5 Col David Clendennin A who served with dis tinction during the civil war and was re leased from active service April 20 1891 died to dav at his home in Oneida after a long illness He was 65 years of age At the time of his retirement he was colonel of the Second United States Cavalry He was one of the military commissioners that tried the conspirators who planned the as sassination of Abraham Lincoln The original white pine and spruce cough syrup cures coughs colds and hoarseness at once 20c at Phar macy jflO Reward The ree Press Co will pay a reward of Ten Dollars ($10 00) for the arrest and con viction of any one caught stealing The ree resi VS? 7 ZOte i I mEaW Cl 1 1 I ThK rpHEArrER PI AT4 OR Law ax id The Boston Uerabl CHAS LANMAN IS DEAD ONE HISTORIC CHAR ACTERS HAS PASSED AWAY HE WAS BORN IN NEAR LY EIGHTY TWO YEARS AGO WELL KNOWN AS AUTHOR ARTIST EDITOR AND LIIIILUILIN The Latter Tears of His Life Were Devoted to Writing and Printing Washington March 5 (Special) One of most historic characters has passel away at his home No 3035 Sixth street in the ancient city of Georgetown Charles Lanman was nearly 82 years of old and had been for almost half a cen tury the most noted historian of our state being the author of the "History of Michi gan" which bears his name the "Michi gan Red the "Dictionary of Con and many other standard works of reference both state and national Ir Lanman had been in failing health for severt years but his condition was not believed to be serious until three or four days ago since which time he failed rapid ly with the result of his death as stated Mr Lanman was born in Monroe June 14 1813 He received an academical edu cation and had been ten years in a business house in New city when he returned to Michigan and in 1S45 took charge of the Monroe Gazette The following year he was associate editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle and In 1847 was an assistant on the Nev York Express In 1849 he was li brarian of the war department and in 1830 librarian of copyrights and private secre tary of Daniel Webster In 1853 he was examiner of depositions for the southern states and in 1S55 1837 librarian and head of the returns office in the interior depart ment He was also associated with the National Intelligencer He was librarian of the house of representatives in 1866 and from 1871 to 1852 secretary of the Japanese legation Since he retired from the latter position he has lived at his home engaged in writing and in painting He was the author of some twenty five works On his retirement the mikado of Japan presented him with $3000 As a landscape artist he has won recognition and there are over a thousand of his works in existence Mr Lanman was a great traveler He was the first civilized man to explore the region of the Sagueney He went up the river several hundred miles in a canoe The trip was attended with much danger All of his explorations have been graphically de scribed in his works The latter years of his life were devoted to writing and paint ing His funeral will be held Thursday at 4 tn at the chapel in Oak Hill Cemetery Rev Dr Buck of St Georgetown officiating He leaves a widow but no chil dren On the last day of congress Representa tive Richardson introduced a bill for devel oping and operating gold and silver mines in the United States The bill was intro duced by request and contains some rather astonishing provisions It authorizes and tequires the secretary of the treasury to employ 100000 male citizens of the United States between the ages of IS and 60 years for the next ten years at a salary of $20 per month with rations arms ammunition and clothing for every man of them This army is directed to explore and mine the precious metals of gold and silver in the states and territories of the United States all such metals so mined to belong to the government and to be immediately coined into dollars silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 of gold at 23 8 10 grains to the dollar and when so coined said dollars shall be a legal tender for all debts both public and pri vate to any amount A bounty of 10 per cent shall be paid to any citizen company or corporation of the United States who or which shall mine either gold or silver ore within the states and territories of the United States for a period of ten years The value of the respective ores to be de termined by the amount of dollars the ore will produce and make when coined into dollars silver at ratio of 16 to 1 of gold and that the treasurer of the United States shall pay this bounty to said person or company or corporation so mining said ores on presentation of a certificate to him for it from the directors of the mint that said citizen or corporation has mined such an amount of ore and that there is due such person company or corporation so many dollars and cents as bounty for said ore to the date thereof or the purpose of carrying the bill into effect it was pro posed that SlOOOOO'Xto be appropriated and set aside first to provide for the payment of the persons employed and their main tenance and for the purchase of suitable arms and ammunition tools machines and the erection and construction of mills fur naces retorts blasts railroads and neces sary equipments which may be deemed necessary for the operation and develoy? ment of the silver and gold mines of the United States When any number of citi zens are so employed they shall be divided into companies of twenty five and one of their number shall be and act as superin tendent of such company The superinten dent shall receive $l'Xi per month and his maintenance As fast as the companies are formed they shall be apportioned to each state and territory as near alike as pos sible and shall be under the control and management of three commissioners to be appointed by the governor of each state and territory respectively It shall be the duty of the commissioners appointed in each state or territory to have supervision of the companies and men apportioned to their respective state or territory and to explore mine and develop the silver gold and copper mines discovered or hereafter discovered in their respective state and territory and to deliver to the director of the mint the entire product of the mines discovered or operated under their manage ment or control taking his receipt and fil ing it with the secretary of the treasury of the United States to the end that the precious metala of America may be dis covered and developed The compensation of each commissioner shall be $5o0 per month Representative Richardson does not say at whose request the bill was offered Capt Henry Howgate will In all prob ability be at liberty in a day or two Mr A Worthington his counsel appeared in the criminal court this afternoon and gave notice that he would make applica tion for bail on Thursday morning Prev ious to his acquittal bail was fixed at His counsel will now make an effort to have it reduced to $10 000 even less In view of his very rec ent acquittal on both of the indictments upon which he was tried it is not likely that the government will refuse this re quest The next trial of Howgate is very distant apparently Nearly ten days have been wasted over the Taylor Chase im broglio and Mr Birney has five murder ers waiting trial This will occupy the time of the court a month or two and there are a number of minor caes also awaiting trial The opinion is confidently expressed by friends that he will never be brought to trial again Among the bills which passed both houses of the late congress and failed to become laws by reason of not obtaining in season the signature of President Cleve land were several of particular interest to the people of Michigan Among them may be mentioned the bill introduced by Mr Weadock increasing the pension of Col Isaac Toll of Petoskey to $20 per month Col Toll was a gallant officer in the late war ana also served in the Mexi can war Mr bill for the re moval of the charges against the record of Lieut Robert Tubbs of Gladwin for which he fought so persistently also failed to receive the approval The Gorman bill for the relief of Matthew Lewis shared the same fate Representatives Whiting and Mrs Whit ing left last night Messrs Richardson Thomas and Avery left for home this afternoon Representative Griffin left this evening Representative Linton will re main in the city for several days closing up business in the departments and will probablv be the last of the members to reach his home in Michigan Secretary Herbert has oeen much embarrassed by the action of the last congress la seizing ujon all the apioint meuts to fill vacancies in the naval academy which under the rules of the department belongs to the incoming congressmen Lasa month about twenty cadets were dropped for lack of pro liclency In studies under the law as construed by the attorney general in past years vacancies thus created did not actually exist until the fol lowing June and nominations to dll them were made bv the new congressmen To meet this construc tion of law arid secure for themselves the appoint ments that would go to the members of the fifty fourth congress by some sharp log rolling the old members who were about to be retired and bad va cancies in their districts secured the inclusion in the naval appropriation bill of an amendment au thorizing the vacancies to be filled immediately Then they rushed their nominations to the navy department Secretary Herbert was obliged to con firm those that were received before noon yesterday but it appears that some of the members failed to get their papers in in time and there is a question Continued ojl a our SILVER IS THE THEME ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE BY THE BIMETALLIC LEAGUE a PLAN OR THE ORMATION A NEW PARTY OUTLINED STATEMENT THE ISSUES ON WHICH IT WILL ORGANIZE The Money Question is Now Indis putably Dominant Washington March 5 The following was to day issued by the American Bi metallic League: A statement of the issues on which the new party will organize: The money question is now indisputably the dominant issue in the United States and will remain so until settled and settled rightly Other questions however import ant must wait for this which to a greater or less extent involves all The is sue is between the gold standard gold bonds and bank currency on the one side and the bimetallic standard no bonds and government currency on the other irst on this issue we declare ourselves to be unalterably opposed to the single gold standard and demand the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver by the restoration by this govern ment independently of any foreign power of the unrestricted coinage of both silver and gold into standard money at the ratio of IS to 1 and upon terms' of exact equality the silver coin to be full legal tender equal with gold for all debts and dues public and private Second we hold that the power to control and regulate a paper currency is insepara ble from the power to coin money and hence that all currency intended to cir culate as money should be issued and its volume controlled by the general govern ment only and should be legal tender Third we are unalterably opposed to the issue by the United States of interest bear ing bonds in time of peace and demand the payment of all coin obligations of the United States as provided by existing laws in either gold or silver coin at the option of the government and not at the option of the creditor On this issue we appeal from tne dicta tion of the money power to the intelli gence and patriotism of the American peo ple Address to the People of the United States: The supers of the Declaration of Independence held that a decent respect for the opinions of man kind required that reasons should be given for dis solving the bonds that had bound the colonies to Great Britain So we who find it nec wiry to sever our relations with the parties with which we have heretofore acted and form new al liances in a common cause deem it proper that some of the reasons which impel us to this action should be submitted to a candid public The mone tary reform for which we contend as alvwe set forth is our judgment so vital to the common welfare and so necessary to a return to conditions of pros perity iu this country as to preclude longer delay in the Inauguration of a movement the purpose of which 1 to bring together all who believe In the necessit of the proposed reform for this object and this alone Those iu favor of the gold standard are and have been united tn purpose and action Party flues do not divide them when this Issue is raised Differences on other questions are then laid aside and together they well beseeming ranks march all one On the other hand those who are in favor of a return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver are split into as many divisions as there are parties Silver Republicans from the west and south to the great delight of the leaders of the liepubliean party insist on contending for their cause only within the lines of that party and southern and western Democrats earnest sliver men equally to the delight of the leaders of the Demo cratic partv continue the contest on their part only within the lines of the Democratic party In other words the advocates of the bi metallic standard through the unrestricted coinage of silver as well as gold now contend for their cause in organizations which are controlled by the gold party Hence how ever aealous in the cause one may be no results are possible because his party refuses to carry out his views or to permit them to be carried out It 13 believed that there are now and have been for twenty years a large majority of voters In the United States in favor of restoring the free coinage Continued on ae Two LA8T NAIL! REP MATTHEWS SAYS HE SENT IT INTO COUi BY SECURING THE PASSAGE THE REGISTRATION BILL I GOV RICH SIGNED THE MEASURE ATERNOON MILITIA MEN WIN THEIR BTRST POINT IN THE LEGISLATURE SOLDIER BOYS HAD GOOD DEEND ERS ON THE LOOR EMALE LOBBYIST WANTS THE LAW ON DENTISTRY CHANGED Men rom the Interior Want to Keep the Tax on Mortgage Lansing March (rom a Staff Corres In spite of the protest of Mayor Pingree and the common council of De troit Gov Rich this afternoon signed the bill providing for a general re registra tion in Detroit prior to the approaching April election It was quite noticeable that the McMillan gang of the were working with the governor to prevail upon him to make a law of the measure Joseph Al Weiss and Senator McLaughlin talked to his excellency in favor of the measure while it was noticeable that several of the other lieutenants of the senator had made their appearance here Representative Matthews whom Mayor Pingree scored so roundly in Detroit last Saturday for introducing this bill also did his very best to have the bill signed Mat thews was correspondingly happy this af ternoon driven the last nail into Mayor Pin said Matthews "How is that?" asked the reporter are was answer you know that it will take off the books just about enough Pingree votes to prevent his ever becoming mayor The house had another busy afternoon acting on numerous local bills In commit tee of the whole Representative isk of Detroit presided An amendment to the general tax1 law by Representative Wildey was then considered It proposes a plan for the collection of state taxes twice a year so that a half of the tax may be paid tip to January 10 without percentage and the other half up to July 1 It also proposes more speedy payment Into the state treasury by township and county treasurers of 'the taxes collected At pres ent much of the money collected in De cember and January may be kept In town ship and county treasuries up to June 1 It is proposed that at least one half of the money collected shall be turned over to the state treasurer by ebruary After a little discussion it dawned on the members that the bill is a very important one and the whole thing was turned over to the committee on general taxation for a hearing It may be expected that there will be gr hot fight on the passage of Representative bill repealing the provision of the tax law taxing mortgages and land con tracts The Detroit members have all be come educated to the belief that taxing mortgages injures the borrower more than the money lender as it results simply in having all contracts and mortgages made with the clause that all taxes shall be paid by the borrower instead of by the money 'lender But many of those from the agricultural districts do not share these views Representative Morse an Ionia farmer set forth the views of the oppon ents of the bill in the following talk: "We do not find in the country that the bor rowers have to pay the tax There are very few mortgages in my county where such a practice exists It may be a bad thing for the borrower in the city but if we pass this bill taking the tax off from mortgages we are certain to be accused of favoring the rich and abusing the poor Thev will not understand the argument in favor of this The house committee of the whole took up the bill of Representative Holmes pro viding that all officers of the Michigan Na tional Guard shall have passed an examina tion by a board of examiners to consist of the inspector general and two officers not below the rank of captain appointed by the commander in chief Representative Holmes explained that at present the ex aminations are supposed to be made by the inspector general but there is no pay nrovided for him to travel about doing this work and the result is that officers are selected rather on the score of good fellowship than because of the military ac quirements The bill provided that the pro posed board of examiners shall be paid $2 and expenses during the time of making such examinations Representative NV agar moved to strike out this provision and this brought on the first talk on militia expenses during the session Representa tive Redfern said the time might come when Michigan would the services of well trained soldiers and he hoped the pay provision would remain Representative Kempf said the China Japan war illus trated the advantage of having well trained soldi er The state was now paying $60000 to the militia but he thought the expendi ture was commendable Representative Wagars motion got only a few votes and the militia men won the first round in the agreement to the bill Representative Kempfs bill was agreed to compelling midwives to report cases inflammation and redness in the eyes of infants so as prevent blindness Prof Waite let himself out when the house committee of the whole took up the bill providing for a new compilation of Michigar laws under which it Is expreiid the legislature will select Clerk Lewis Miller to do the work The measure pro vided that the work of compiling the laws was to cost $25 and there were to be OOO copies printed and sold by the state This was amended to 20000 copies Then Mr Waite tackled the measure he said "proposes to destroy the work of an erudite and experienced law yer (Judge Howell) and substitute a com pilation made bv some one selected by the legislature I submit that this legislature is not at present competent to select a man to do this Important work If the jdrtiary ctmmittee nave recommends! tbi measure for passage they cannot have con sidered it as well as its importance de serves and I move that it be referred back to Representative Covell chairman of the judiciary committee retorted with: the gentleman from Menominee began hla remarks he said he knew very little about the bill I believe it but I have no objec tion to th bill back to the commit This was done It is understood that Continued on Pag Etht.