House bill No. 1172, entitled A bill to authorize the county agent of the several counties to accompany to the State Public School at Coldwater all persons who may be committed to that institution; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration and have directed me to report the same back to the House, with the accompanying substitute therefor, entitled A bill to amend Sec. 5 of act No. 115 of the public acts of 1893, entitled “An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act," approved May 26, 1893; Recommending that the substitute be concurred in, and that the substitute do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. William L. January, Chairman. Report accepted and committee discharged. The question being on concurring in the substitute reported for the bill by the committee, The House concurred. Pending the order that the bill be printed, referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order, On motion of Mr. January, The rules were suspended, two-thirds of all the members present voting therefor, and the bill was put upon its immediate passage. The bill was then read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: YEAS. Mr. Phillips, C. C. Phillips, M. F. Powers Putney Rulison Scully Shepherd, F. Shisler Smith Stoneman Teitt Vought Weier Wetherbee Whitney Widoe Williams Wing Zimmerman Speaker Petrowsky NAYS. Title agreed to. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: A bill to prohibit the employment of females as barkeepers, or to serve liquors or for dancing, or to furnish music in any place where spirituous or intoxicating liquors or malt, brewed or fermented liquors are sold or kept for sale; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, ard have directed me to report the same back to the House, with amend. ment thereto, recommending that the amendment be concurred in, and that the bill when so amended do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. J. B. Madill, Acting Chairman. Report accepted and committee discharged. The question being on concurring in the amendment made by the committee to the bill, The House concurred. The bill was then referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. By the committee on State Affairs: A bill to compel dealers in ice to designate quality of same on delivery wagons and to provide for a license by the board of health or the common council of cities or villages; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the House, with the accompanying substitute therefor, entitled A bill to regulate the sale of impure ioe and to compel dealers to designate the kind of ice for sale on their wagons; Recommending that the substitute be concurred in, and that the substitute do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. E. S. Williams, Acting Chairman. Report accepted and committee discharged. The question being on concurring in the substitute reported for the bill by the committee, The House concurred. The bill was then ordered printed, referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general order. COMMUNICATION. Sir-Ip compliance with the following resolution passed by your honorable body: WHEREAS, There is now a bill before this House which, if passed, will materially change the present method of enrolling the bills and resolu- . tions of the legislature; therefore Resolved, That the Clerk of the Enrollment Committee of the House be required to make a detailed report of the entire expense incurred in said office during this session to date, including per diem, mileage and all payments made by or due from the State to all clerks and employes of the office, and which were incurred in enrolling the bills and resolutions of the present session; and that the said report be presented to the House within five days of the date bereof; I have prepared and herewith submit for your information a full and complete report of all expenses either paid, or due, incurred by or on account of the enrolling and engrossing of bills passed during the present session of the legislature up to and including the 17th of this month. In addition to the above on two separate occasions when large charter bills 'had to be speedily engrossed, to wit: March 18, and March 26, in order that the municipalities affected thereby might operate under thein at the spring election, there was employed the following: There was paid at the beginning of the session to Mrs. M. N. Braiverd for making four fancy engrossed copies of various resolutions for members of Congress and others the sum of.. $20 00 (All fancy engrossing has since been done by a member of the regular force.) For: blank account book............................. McKinley ....... 1 20 Total expenses for all purposes including mileage..........$3,352 15 All of which is respectfully submitted, Francis W. Redfern, Enrolling Clerk. The communication was ordered spread on the Journal. MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE. The Speaker announced the following: SENATE CHAMBER, Lansing, May 18, 1897. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir-I am instructed by the Senate to respectfully ask the House to retransmit to the Senate House bill No. 776 (file No. 190), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 29 of Chap. 96 of Howell's annotated statutes, being compiler's Sec. 3624, relative to plank road companies; Very respectfully, Charles S. Pierce, Secretary of the Senate. The question being on complying with the request of the Senate for the return of the bill, On motion of Mr. Graham, SENATE CHAMBER, Lansing, May 17, 1897. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir-I am instructed by the Senate to return to the House the following bill: House bill No. 776 (file No. 190), entitled · A bill to amend Sec. 29 of Chap. 96 of Howell's annotated statutes, being compiler's Sec. 3624, relative to plank road companies; And to inform the House that the Senate has amended the same as follows: By striking out of line 16 of Sec. 29 the word “half;" In the passage of which, as thus amended, the Senate has concurred by a two-thirds vote of all the Senators elect. Very respectfully, Charles S. Pierce, Secretary of the Senate. The question being on concurring in the amendment made by the Senate to the bill, The House concurred, two-thirds of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: YEAS. Mr. Pearson Peters Phillips, C. C. Phillips, M. F. Powers Putney Reed Rulison Scully Shepherd, F. Shisler Smith Stewart Stoneman Tefft Van Camp Vought Weier Wetherbee Whitney Widoe Wing Zimmerman Speaker NAYS. SENATE CHAMBFR, Lansing, May 18, 1897. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives : Sir-I am instructed by the Senate to return to the House the follow. ing bill: House bill No. 494, entitled A bill to authorize the board of education of the city of Cheboygan to borrow money for the purpose of paying floated indebtedness, and to provide for the payment thereof; 73 |