Messrs Black, Look and Palmer entered the House and took their seats. Senate Bill No. 87 (file No. 49), entitled A bill to provide for the resignation or retirement of justices of the Supreme Court and for the payment of compensation to them during their life-time, Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: The House agreed to the title of the bill. Mr. Darin moved that the bill be given immediate effect. The motion did not prevail, two-thirds of all the members-elect voting therefor. Mr. Curtis, having reserved the right to explain his vote, made the following statement: "I have never voted upon any measure that hurts me more to vote 'no' on than this, but I have been consistently opposed to opening the gates to a pension system in Michigan. There have been bills introduced before this body to give a pension to people who are abundantly worthy. It has been a question of sympathy on the one hand, and judgment on the other. The bill has been before every session of the legislature for several sessions past. I have consistently opposed it. The biggest fight I have ever had was against the administration of this State for a pension system. I have been opposed to it and I am eternally opposed to it because I am opposed to Germanizing the State of Michigan in regard to a pension system. In my opinion there is no man in Michigan who is better entitled to some assistance on the part of the people, and I wish it could come in any other possible way than by opening the gates to a pension system in the State, as this does, because it does not close the gates there. It leaves room for other members of the supreme bench. For these reasons I have opposed this, hurt as it does." No. 68] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE 937 House Bill No. 390 (file No. 200), entitled A bill to amend sections 1 and 2 of Act No. 43 of the Public Acts of 1921, entitled "An act to protect and promote industrial and labor interests of the people of the State of Michigan; to create a Department of Labor and Industry and prescribe the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the transfer to said department, of powers and duties affecting labor and industrial matters now vested in certain other State boards, commissions, departments and officers and to abolish the boards, commissions, departments and offices, the powers and duties of which are hereby transferred," Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Senate Bill No. 10 (file No. 181), entitled Preston Rauchholz Thomas, Walter J Wade 39 A bill to provide for the payment to the survivor of husband and wife, of notes and other obligations secured by a mortgage given as part of the purchase price of lands held as a tenancy by the entirety, and the vesting of the title of the mortgage in the survivor, Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: The question being on agreeing to the title of the bill, Mr. Watson moved to amend the title so as to read as follows: 0 A bill to provide for the payment to the survivor of husband and wife, of land contracts, and of notes and other obligations secured by a mortgage, given as part of the purchase price of lands held as a tenancy by the entirety, and the vesting of the title of the mortgage or land contract in the survivor. The motion prevailed. The title as amended was then agreed to. House Bill No. 34 (file No. 13), entitled A bill to permit two or more counties to combine for the purpose of establishing a system of super-highways; to define the term "super-highways"; to designate the officers and their duties with respect thereto and give said counties the power to legislate for the regulation and control thereof, Was read a third time, and, the question being on its passage, Mr. Peters moved to amend the bill by inserting in line 8 of section 3 after the word "city" the words "and three other persons to be named by the board of supervisors of the county or counties not represented by a rapid transit commission." The motion prevailed and the amendment was adopted, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor. The bill was then passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: A bill to amend section 8 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," being section 4002 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as last amended by Act No. 297 of the Public Acts of 1921, Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Senate Bill No. 258 (file No. 261), entitled A bill to empower justices of the peace to perform official acts and exercise Jurisdiction in criminal causes in any part of the county in which elected and qualified, Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: |