The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. A message was received from the House of Representatives returning A bill to make appropriations for the Board of Osteopathic Registration and Examination for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1922, and June 30, 1923, for maintenance, operation and other specific purposes. The message informed the Senate that the House of Representatives had passed the bill and had ordered that it be given immediate effect. The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. A message was received from the House of Representatives returning A bill making an appropriation for special purposes for the Traverse City State Hospital, and authorizing a tax to meet the same. The message informed the Senate that the House of Representatives had passed the bill and had ordered that it be given immediate effect. The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. Reports of Standing Committees. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 326 (file No. 353), entitled A bill to define the limits of Duncan Bay, Lake Huron, and to prohibit the taking or catching of fish with any kind of a net, set hook line or other device except with the hook and line within such limits. The report was accepted. GEO. B. FORRESTER, The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Chairman. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 527 (file No. 266), entitled A bill to amend sections 1, 2 and 7 of Act No. 108 of the Public Acts of 1913, entitled "An act to license and regulate the hunting, pursuing and killing of wild animals and wild birds found in this State, except deer and beaver," approved April 23, 1913. The report was accepted. GEO. B. FORRESTER, The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Chairman. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 418 (file No. 340), entitled A bill to permit the taking of suckers and red sides by seines or nets or set lines in the waters of the Tittabawassee river and its tributaries in the County of Midland, during the months of March and April of each year. GEO. B. FORRESTER, Chairman. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 247 (file No. 79), entitled A bill to repeal section 8 and to amend section 1 of Act No. 249 of the Public Acts of 1903, entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of the forests of this State and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie fires," the same being section 772 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended. The report was accepted. The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: GEO. B. FORRESTER, Chairman. The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 480 (file No. 339), entitled A bill regulating the catching of fish in the waters of Grand river within the corporate limits of the city of Grand Rapids. The report was accepted. The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: GEO. B. FORRESTER, 'Chairman. The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill with amendments, recommending that the amendments be agreed to and that bill, as thus amended, do pass: House bill No. 485 (file No. 236), entitled A bill to amend sections 1 and 5 of Act No. 242 of the Public Acts of 1919, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of bounties for the killing of weasels, woodchucks, crows, and certain kinds of owls and hawks," approved May 12, 1919. The following are the amendments recommended by the committee: (1) Section 1, line 2, after the word "woodchuck" insert the word "or." (2) Section 1, line 2, after the word "crow" strike out the words "or weasel." (3) Section 1, line 5, strike out the word "and twenty-five cents for each weasel thus killed." (4) Section 5, line 6, strike out the word "weasel." The report was accepted. GEO. B. FORRESTER, Chairman. The amendments recommended by the committee were agreed to and the bill, as thus amended, was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Forrester submitted the following report: The Committee on Fisheries and Gaming Interests respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill with amendment, recommending that the amendment be agreed to and that the bill, as thus amended, do pass: House bill No. 536 (file No. 321), entitled A bill to prescribe the powers and duties of the Director of Conservation in connection with the enforcement of the game and fish laws. The following is the amendment recommended by the committee: (1) Section 3, line 10, after the word "magistrate" strike out the words "in the township in which the arrest is made and in the absence of such, then to the nearest Justice of the Peace or other magistrate." The report was accepted. GEO. B. FORRESTER, Chairman. The amendment recommended by the committee was agreed to and the bill, as thus amended, was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Senator Riopelle submitted the following Conference Report. The Committee of Conference on the matters of difference between the two Houses relative to Senate bill No. 76 (file No. 64), entitled A bill to amend section 107 of chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled "of County Officers," being section 2491 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, Having met and considered said matters of difference, have agreed to recommend, and do recommend as follows: That the House recede from its amendment, which amendment reads: (1) Amend by striking out of line 13 of section 107 the word "five," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "two." OSCAR A. RIOPELLE, CHAS. TUFTS, Conferees on the part of the Senate. H. H. AVERILL, N. G. FARRIER, Conferees on the part of the House of Representatives. The question being on the adoption of the Conference Report, the roll called and the Senators voted as follows: was 1 So, a majority of all the Senators-elect having voted therefor, The Conference Report was adopted. Mr. Clark moved that a respectful message be sent to the House, asking the return to the Senate of the following entitled bill: House bill No. 96 (file No. 182), entitled A bill to make appropriations for certain special State purposes for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1922, and June 30, 1923, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts making appropriations therefor for said years. The motion prevailed. General Orders. Mr. Baker moved that the Senate resolve itself into Committee of the Whole for consideration of the General Orders. The motion prevailed and the President designated Mr. Baker as chairman. Accordingly the Senate resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, with Mr. Baker in the chair. After some time spent therein the committee rose; and, the President having resumed the chair, the committee, through its chairman, reported back to the Senate, favorably and without amendment, the following entitled bills: House bill No. 509 (file No. 295), entitled A bill to amend section 10 of Act No. 49 of the Public Acts of 1875, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called The Superior Court of Grand Rapids," as amended by Act No. 7 of the Public Acts of 1891, the same being Compilers' section 14691 of the Compiled Laws of House bill No. 508 (file No. 296), entitled A bill to amend section 12 of Act No. 49 of the Public Acts of 1875, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called 'The Superior Court of Grand Rapids,' as amended by Act No. 9 of the Public Acts of 1907, and Act No. 216 of the Public Acts of 1907, the same being section 14693 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No 537 (file No. 282), entitled A bill to prevent interference with firemen in the performance of their duties, and to enforce obedience to orders of fire chiefs at fires. House bill No. 498 (file No. 298), entitled A bill to prohibit the corrupt influencing of any person engaged in professional baseball, boxing, wrestling or other competitive athletic pursuits. House bill No. 503 (file No. 309), entitled A bill to amend section 5 of Act No. 184 of the Public Acts of 1905, entitled "An act to provide for the indeterminate sentence as a punishment for crime upon conviction thereof, and for the detention and release of persons in prison or detained on such sentence, and for the expense attending the same," being compilers' section 15863 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended by Act No. 198 of the Public Acts of 1917. House bill No. 560 (file No. 341), entitled A bill to authorize the Auditor General under certain circumstances to use certain fees, special taxes and other moneys paid into the State Treasury towards the payment of appropriations and to deduct such appropriations from the tax levy. House bill No. 441 (file No. 269), entitled A bill to repeal Act No. 265 of the Public Acts of 1913, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of a Joint Penology Commission, to fix its powers and duties, make an appropriation therefor; and repeal section 34 of Act No. 118 of the Public Acts of 1893, entitled 'An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Prison, to the House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula and to the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith,' being compilers' section 2113 of the Compiled Laws of 1897," being sections 1765 to 1780, both inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No. 397 (file No. 178), entitled A bill to abolish the State Board of Library Commissioners, and to transfer their duties to the State Librarian. House bill No. 478 (file No. 303), entitled A bill to amend section 21 of chapter 156 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Michigan for the year 1846, entitled "Offenses against public justice," said section 21 being compilers' section 14992 of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year 1915. House bill No. 472 (file No. 307), entitled A bill to amend section 6 of Act No .148 of the Public Acts of 1869, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the several acts relating to the support and maintenance of poor persons," being section 5211 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No. 463 (file No. 305), entitled A bill to amend sections 1, 2 and 3 of Act No. 184 of the Public Acts of 1905, entitled "An act to provide for the indeterminate sentence as a punishment for crime upon the conviction thereof, and for the detention and release of persons in prison or detained on such sentence and for the expense attending the same," being sections 15859, 15860 and 15861 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No. 107 (file No. 15), entitled A bill to amend Section 1 of Act No. 89 of the Public Acts of 1911, entitled "An act to provide for the lawful taking and removing with seines or nets, or otherwise and destroying under certain restrictions of dogfish, carp, garfish, bill fish, sheepshead, suckers, mullet, red-horse and other obnoxious fish and to sell or authorize the sale of such fish taken from the inland waters of this State," being section 7594 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No. 391 (file No. 275), entitled A bill to amend sections 1, 2, 10 and 11 of Act No. 350 of the Laws of 1865, entitled "An act to protect fish and to preserve the fisheries of this State." House bill No. 460 (file No. 258), entitled A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 207 of the Public Acts of 1915, entitled "An act to prohibit the hunting of rabbits with ferrets and guinea pigs or other rodents exempting from its provisions farmers or fruit growers hunting on their own lands, and those townships wherein electors so decide by referendum, prescribing penalty for violation and repealing Act No. 180 of the Public Acts of 1911, entitled "An act to prohibit the hunting of rabbits with ferrets or guinea pigs," and all other acts or parts of acts in contravention therewith, being section 7548 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, and to repeal section 2 of said act. House bill No. 533 (file No. 277), entitled A bill to permit the taking of certain fish by the use of a spear in Tamarack Lake, Montcalm county. House bill No. 532 (file No. 273), entitled A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 290 of the Public Acts of 1917, entitled "An act to regulate the taking of rainbow trout in the waters of Round Lake and Pine Lake in Charlevoix county, Michigan, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof." House bill No. 440 (file No. 212), entitled A bill to amend section 3 of Act No. 365 of the Public Acts of 1913, as amended entitled "An act to regulate and license fishing with tugs, launches, boats and nets in the waters bordering on this State," being section 7731 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bills were placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills. Mr. Riopelle moved to take from the table his motion to discharge the Committee on State Affairs from the further consideration of the following entitled resolution: Senate resolution No. 30. Providing for a committee to investigate the incorporation of the Michigan-Colorado Mining Company, its authorization to sell and the sale of its stock to the people of this State. Upon which motion Mr. McRae demanded the yeas and nays. The roll was then called and the Senators voted as follows: So, a majority of the Senators present not voting in favor thereof, The motion did not prevail. Mr. Davis moved that the hour of meeting of the Senate for tomorrow be fixed at 10:00 o'clock a. m. The motion prevailed. Mr. Davis moved that the Senate adjourn. The motion prevailed, the time being 10:28 o'clock p. m. Accordingly, and in pursuance of the order previously made, the President declared the Senate adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27, 1921, at 10:00 o'clock a. m. DENNIS E. ALWARD, Secretary of the Senate. |