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The President replied that the Senate would take order in the premises, whereupon the committee withdrew.

Mr. White offered the following resolution:

Senate resolution No. 82.

Resolved, That the message of the House of Representatives relating to the impeachment of James Russell be referred to a select committee of three Senators to be appointed by the President, to consider and report thereon.

The resolution was adopted.

The President announced as such committee Senators White, Miller and Taylor.

Unanimous consent being obtained,

Mr. Moriarty moved to discharge the committee of the whole from the further consideration of

House substitute for House bills Nos. 199 and 221 (file No. 256), entitled

A bill to prescribe the qualifications of telegraph and telephone operators, railroad conductors, engineers and flagmen employed on the railroads of this State, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. On which motion Mr. Collins demanded the yeas and nays. Pending the order for the calling of the roll,

· Mr. Moriarty moved that the bill be re-referred to the Committee on Railroads.

Pending which, the President announced that the hour had arrived for the

SPECIAL ORDER.

The President then laid before the Senate,

House bills Nos. 42 and 48 (file No.70), entitled

A bill to amend section 9 of Act No. 198 of the Laws of 1873, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of the railroad, bridge and tunnel companies and to regulate the running and management and to fix the duties and liabilities of all railroad, bridge, tunnel and other corporations owning or operating any railroad, bridge or tunnel within this State," as amended, said section being compiler's section 6234 of the Compiled Laws of 1897.

Mr. Kingman moved that the Senate resolve itself into the committee of the whole on the special order.

The motion prevailed.

The President called Mr. White to the chair.

After some time spent therein, the committee rose and through its chairman, made the following report:

The committee of the whole has had under consideration the above entitled bill,

Has amended the same as follows:

By inserting after line 126 following the word "prescribed" the following additional proviso: "Provided further, That any railroad com

pany may charge a minimum fare of five cents for each passenger transported over its road, whenever cars are propelled or moved by motive power other than steam;"

And has directed its chairman to report the same back to the Senate, asking that the amendment be concurred in, and recommend that, as amended, the bill pass.

The report was accepted.

CHAS. E. WHITE,

Chairman.

The Senate concurred in the amendment made to the bill by the committee, and the bill was placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills.

By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of

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Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That when the Legislature adjourns at 12 o'clock noon on April 19, it stand adjourned until 11 o'clock a. m., on Tuesday, May 2, at which hour the business of the session may be completed in readiness for the final adjournment as already determined by the two Houses. The resolution was adopted.

Mr. Cartier moved that the President of the Senate appoint a committee of three to appear before the bar of the House of Representatives and request a joint session at 7:30 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of hearing the reports of the joint committees appointed for the purpose of conducting recounts of the votes cast in Wayne and Macomb counties for the election of circuit judges.

The motion prevailed.

The President announced as the special committee under the motion, Senators Cartier, Mapes and Kline.

Mr. White offered the following resolution:
Senate resolution No. 84.

Whereas, The Honorable, the House of Representatives, has this day, through a committee of its members notified the Senate that said House of Representatives will, at an early day, through managers by them appointed, present Articles of Impeachment at the bar of the Senate against the Warden of the prison at Marquette, now therefore

Resolved, That the President of the Senate appoint a committee of three Senators to wait upon the House of Representatives, and inform the House that the Senate will be pleased to receive the Honorable Managers at their convenience, for the due reception of the charges which they may be prepared to make.

The question being on the adoption of the resolution,

The resolution was adopted.

The President announced as the committee under the resolution, Senators White, Miller and Taylor.

Mr. White moved that the committee of the whole be discharged from the further consideration of all bills on the general order, including the bills which have been referred to the committee of the whole today, and that the several bills be placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills. The motion prevailed, a majority of the Senators-elect voting therefor.

The following are the titles of the several bills placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills under the action above taken:

House bill No. 473 (file No. 335), entitled

A bill making appropriations for the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912;

House substitute for House bill No. 281 (file No. 309), entitled

A bill making appropriations for the State Board of Fish Commissioners for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 430 (file No. 343), entitled

A bill making an appropriation for the Michigan State Normal College for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, for the payment of a certain claim for the construction of sidewalk and curb through the campus at the Michigan State Normal College, and to provide a tax therefor; House bill No. 529 (file No. 334), entitled

A bill making appropriations for the State Industrial Home for Girls for building and special purposes and for current expenses, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax therefor;

House bill No. 222 (file No. 312), entitled

A bill making appropriations for buildings at the Michigan Agricultural College for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 81 (file No. 326), entitled

A bill making appropriations for the State Public School for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 290 (file No. 121), entitled

A bill to amend section 14 of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1891, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act." approved June 1, 1893, as amended by Act No. 32 of the Public Acts of 1899, approved April 8, 1899, being section 3837 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 129 of the Public Acts of 1907, approved June 5, 1907;

House bill No. 487 (file No. 262), entitled

A bill regulating the sale of turpentine, and providing penalties for the violation of this act;

House bill No. 227 (file No. 225), entitled

A bill to amend section 7 of Act No. 209 of the Public Acts of 1897, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the laws for the incorporation of ecclesiastical bodies," being section 8303 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 74 (file No. 13), entitled

A bill to define what shall constitute fraternal benefit societies, to provide for their incorporation and the regulation and control of their business, and for the punishment for violations of this act, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith;

House bill No. 109 (file No. 323), entitled

A bill making appropriations for special purposes at the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 201 (file No. 148), entitled

A bill to provide for the support of certain dependents of those confined in the prisons and reformatories of the State of Michigan, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 94 (file No. 190), entitled

A bill to amend sections 24, 26, 37 and 39 of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1891, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," said sections being compiler's sections 3847, 3849, 3860 and 3862 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, said section 24 having been amended by Act No. 226 of the Public Acts of 1907; House bill No. 324 (file No. 212), entitled

A bill to amend sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of chapter 32 of Act No. 215 of the Public Acts of 1895, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," approved May 27, 1895, being sections 3340, 3341, 3342 and 3343 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 110 of the Public Acts of 1907, approved May 22, 1907; relative to the election of school trustees;

House bill No. 401 (file No. 167), entitled

A bill to amend section 19 of Act No. 183 of the Public Acts of 1897, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May 29, 1897, being section 381 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 242 of the Public Acts of 1895;

House bill No. 267 (file No. 238), entitled

A bill to amend section 35 of Act No. 285 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act;"

House bill No. 515 (file No. 346), entitled

A bill to prohibit the killing of deer until the year 1920, in counties having a population of more than forty-eight thousand and less than sixty-five thousand as shown by the United States census of 1910; House bill No. 546 (file No. 351), entitled

A bill to amend section 12 of chapter 1 of Act No. 243 of the Public Acts of 1881, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State," being compiler's section 4047 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 536 (file No. 289), entitled

A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 277 of the Public Acts of 1905, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the adoption and use of a standard form of fire insurance policy and to repeal Act No. 149 of the Public Acts of 1881, as amended by Act No. 38 of the Public Acts of 1889:"

House substitute for House bills Nos. 199 and 221 (file No. 256), entitled

A bill to prescribe the qualifications of telegraph and telephone operators, railroad conductors, engineers and flagmen employed on the railroads of this State, and to provide penalties for the violation therefor; House bill No. 547 (file No. 266), entitled

A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 144 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to regulate the issuance of stocks, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by persons, corporations and associations owning, conducting or operating certain public utilities;"

House bill No. 465 (file No. 199), entitled

A bill to regulate the taking of bluebacked herring in the waters of lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie, and the bays thereof, within the jurisdiction of this State;

House bill No. 351 (file No. 253), entitled

A bill to regulate the spearing of ciscos and carp in the inland lakes of this State;

House bill No. 371 (file No. 182), entitled

A bill to amend section 7 of Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1887, entitled "An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking, and to establish a banking department for the supervision of such business," the same being section 6096 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; Senate bill No. 447 (file No. 425), entitled

A bill to regulate gifts, grants, bequests and devises to religious, educational, charitable or benevolent uses;

House bill No. 452 (file No. 181), entitled

A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 249 of the Local Acts of 1871, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Alpena," as amended, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to stand as section 2;

House bill No. 28 (file No. 350), entitled

A bill to prohibit the hunting of rabbits with ferrets or guinea-pigs; House bill No. 391 (file No. 254), entitled

A bill to amend Act No. 164 of the Public Acts of 1877, entitled "An act to authorize cities, incorporated villages and townships to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms," by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 10a;

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