The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations. By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs, to whom was referred A bill to provide for the incorporation of companies for the carrying on of any lawful business; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. DAN P. MCMULLEN, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 1283 (file No. 138), entitled A bill to amend section 9 of Act No. 229 of the Public Acts of Michigan for the year 1887, entitled "An Act establishing a lien for labor and services upon lumber, shingles, logs, timber, cedar posts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, bark, shingle bolts, stave bolts, staves, cord wood, pulp wood, hop poles, hoop poles, veneering wood and all other forest products, and to repeal Act No. 145 of the Session Laws of 1881, entitled 'An Act establishing a lien for labor and services upon logs, timber, cedar posts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, tan bark, shingle bolts and staves, and to repeal Act No. 185 of the Session Laws of 1873, entitled "An Act establishing a lien for labor and services upon logs and timber, as amended by Act No. 253 of the Public Acts of 1879,"'” being section 10764 of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year 1897; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. GEO. E. NICHOLS, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 387 (file No. 86), entitled A bill to provide for assigning errors on the rulings, orders, acts, decisions and judgments of any circuit court, or other court of record, in any civil or criminal suit, action or proceeding; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. GEO. E. NICHOLS, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 37 (file No. 104), entitled A bill to amend sections 7, 18 and 19 of the General Railroad Laws, being section 6232 and 6243 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act 266 of the Public Acts of 1899, and section 6244 of said Compiled Laws, relative to the railroad maps and the condemnation of land for railroad purposes; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. GEO. E. NICHOLS, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 908, entitled A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 87 of the Public Acts of 1891, entitled "An Act to provide for appropriation of money to pay the salary of the Attorney General, clerks and certain expenses in such department, and to provide the manner and condition of payment, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts contravening the provisions of this Act," as amended; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. GEO. E. NICHOLS, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 48, entitled A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 171 of the Public Acts of 1873, entitled "An Act establishing a State agency for the care of juvenile offenders, as amended by Act No. 57 of the Public Acts of 1895, being section 2260 of Miller's Compiled Laws; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the Senate without amendment and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. GEO. E. NICHOLS, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The bill was ordered printed, referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE. The following message from the House was received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to inform the Senate relative to House bill No. 1341, being An Act to confirm the organization of school district No. 7, fractional, of Lansing and Meridian townships in the County of Ingham; That prior to the receipt by the House of the request of the Senate for the return of the bill, the House had received from the Governor the following message: EXECUTIVE OFFICE, To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir I have caused to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, unsigned, House bill No. 1341, being An Act to confirm the organization of school district No. 7, fractional, of Lansing and Meridian townships in the County of Ingham; The same having been presented to me March 29, 1901, at 3:20 p. m. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to transmit the following bill: A bill to amend section 2, section 6 and section 10 of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize proceedings against garnishees and for other pur poses," being chapter 35 of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan of 1897; Which has passed the House by a majority vote of all the members elect, and in which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully asked. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was read a first and second time by its title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, April 10, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir—I am instructed by the House to transmit the following bill: A bill to revise and amend the charter of the City of Saginaw, being Act No. 465 of the Local Acts of 1897, approved June 2, 1897, as amended by Act No. 431 of the Local Acts of 1899, approved June 1, 1899; Which has passed the House by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect been ordered to take immediate effect, and in which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully asked. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was read a first and second time by its title and referred to the Committee on Cities and Villages. Mr. Holmes moved that the Senate resolve itself into the committee of the whole on the GENERAL ORDER. The motion prevailed. The President called Mr. High to the chair. After some time spent therein the committee rose and, through their chairman, made the following report: The committee of the whole have had under consideration the following: I. House bill No. 289 (file No. 223), entitled A bill making appropriations for the Michigan State Agricultural Society for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1902, and June 30, 1903, and to provide a tax to meet the same; Have made no amendments thereto and have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate and recommend its passage. The committee of the whole have also had under consideration the following: II. Senate bill No. 210 (file No. 65), entitled A bill to amend sections 1, 3, 4 and 10 of Act No. 128 of the Public Acts of 1887, entitled "An Act for the requiring of a civil license in order to marry, and the due registration of the same, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions of the same," approved May 31, 1887, the same being compiler's section 8602 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; And have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that all after the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out. The report was accepted. H. M. HIGH, Chairman. The bill named in part I of the report was placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills. Mr. Pierson moved that the Senate concur in the recommendation of the committee regarding the bill named in part II of the report, and that all after the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out. Mr. Humphrey demanded the yeas and nays. The motion made by Mr. Pierson then prevailed, a majority of the Senators present voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Mr. Humphrey moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate concurred in the adoption of the report of the committee of the whole regarding the above named bill. Mr. Earle moved that the motion made by Mr. Humphrey be laid on the table. The motion prevailed. By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of |