and employes for malfeasance or misfeasance in office, and for bribing or attempting to bribe certain officers, and for aiding and abetting in the commission of such offenses, including reasonable counsel fees of special counsel lawfully appointed to assist in such prosecution. The motion prevailed. The joint resolution was then placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills. Mr. Humphrey moved to take from the table. House bill No. 383 (file No. 254), entitled A bill making appropriation for the Michigan School for the Blind for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1902, and June 30, 1903, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. The motion prevailed. Mr. Humphrey moved that the bill be given immediate effect. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the Senators elect voting therefor. Mr. Earle offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the members of the Senate committee appointed to attend the funeral of Hon. William H. Elliott, be and they are hereby allowed ten dollars each for expenses incurred, and that the Sergeantat-Arms be allowed ten dollars for expenses incurred in making the necessary arrangements. The resolution was adopted. PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS. No. 297. By Mr. Palmer: Petition of B. P. Wilkinson and 27 other citizens of the Twenty-seventh Senatorial District, asking for the passage of a bill to prohibit the use, sale or giving away of cigarettes or cigarette paper. The petition was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. No. 298. By Mr. Earle: Petition of Mary A. Willard, representing the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Detroit, upon the same subject. Same reference. No. 299. By Mr. Earle: Petition of Rev. S. W. Horner, of Detroit, representing the Martha Holmes M. E. church of said city, upon the same subject. Same reference. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. By the Committee on Railroads: The Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred A bill to provide for the consolidation of street and electric railway companies organized under the laws of Michigan with like companies organized in adjoining states whose lines of road, constructed or in process of construction, form or will form a continuons or connecting line; 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. GAD SMITH, Acting 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. REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES. By the select committee, appointed to confer with the authorities having in charge the Detroit Bicentennial: The select committee appointed to confer with the parties interested in the commemoration of the bicentenary anniversary of the City of Detroit, respectfully report that upon the 25th day of April last, at Detroit, they conferred with a committee of prominent citizens of the City of Detroit, who had been appointed for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for a proper celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city, and also with a committee appointed by the Common Council of the said city, and the Mayor of the city. The committee learned that arrangements are already well under way for a celebration commensurate with the importance of the event, it being proposed to set apart three days, given up to festivities, entertainments and parades of different kinds and representing different ideas and industries, as well as historical circumstances, and further to erect a permanent memorial arch, to commemorate this anniversary. Insomuch as Wayne county, now a part of the State of Michigan, at one time included five states, known as the so called Northwest Territory, and insomuch as Detroit is one of the most historic spots in this territory and one of the oldest cities in the United States, and in view of its importance in the development of the Northwest Territory the Governors of adjoining states have already been invited by the citizens having the matter in charge to be present in the celebration of an event in which they are so much interested. The City of Detroit has appropriated $25,000 as their share toward the expenses incident to the present plans. It is proposed to raise upwards of $100,000 by popular subscriptions from individuals, and in view of the historic importance of the event, which is of more than local significance, and in which the State should take an interest and have a pride, we recommend that some steps be taken looking to a co-operation on the part of the State with the citizens now having the matter in charge, to the end that the State may have its proper place and part in the celebration, and we would recommend that there be an appropriation made by the State to insure its participation, and that the Governor be requested to appoint such committees of citizens or officers as his judg ment dictates, who will confer and co-operate with those already appointed by other bodies and now working upon the celebration. J. O. MURFIN, H. M. HIGH, GAD SMITH. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. The question being on concurring in the recommendations of the special committee, Mr. Murfin offered the following concurrent resolution: Concurrent resolution relative to the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the City of Detroit, providing for a participation on behalf of the State in the said anniversary and appropriating money therefor. Whereas, The 24th day of July next will mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the City of Detroit, the leading city of this State and one of the first cities founded in the United States; and Whereas, It is proposed by many public spirited and public minded citizens throughout our State to in some manner commemorate this important and interesting event, which seems a very fitting thing to do in view of the history of the city itself and of our State and of the great northwest territory, of which it was practically the beginning; and Whereas, Arrangements are already under way to provide for a celebration and the ultimate erection of a permanent memorial to commemorate the occasion, and the event being not of mere local significance, but an occasion which interests not alone our State but other states, as is evidenced by the fact that the Governors of several other states will participate in the occasion; Therefore be it resolved by the Senate (the House concurring), That the State should take its proper part in the event, and that to insure proper participation by the State in the occasion the Governor is requested to appoint such committee or committees, commission or commissions as in his judgment the circumstances may warrant, made up from any sources whatsoever that he may see fit, whose duty it shall be to confer and co-operate with those citizens and officers already having the matter in hand, in order that the State may be an active participant in the occasion; and be it further Resolved, That for the purpose of paying the State's share in the expenses incident to the celebration and the erection of a permanent memorial to commemorate the occasion, there is hereby appropriated the sum of $25,000, and the Auditor General is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant on the State Treasurer, in favor of the City Treasurer of the City of Detroit, for the sum of $25,000, to be payable and paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated, which said sum when so drawn shall be used not for the benefit of the City of Detroit or any of its inhabitants, but solely and specifically for the purposes herein before set forth, in which we deem the State to be as much interested as any other person or body. The question being on the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Murfin moved that the concurrent resolution be referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations. The motion prevailed. MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE. The following message from the House was received and read: · To the President of the Senate: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Sir-I am instructed by the House to retransmit in accordance with the request of the Senate the following bill: House bill No. 574, entitled A bill to amend sections 2 and 3 of Act No. 400 of the Local Acts of the State of Michigan for the year 1899, entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of a salary to certain township officers in the Township of Springwells in the County of Wayne, and to fix the salaries thereof." Very respectfully, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. Goodell moved to suspend rule 36, limiting the time within which a motion to reconsider a vote may be made. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the Senators elect voting therefor. Mr. Goodell then moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate, on April 17, ordered the above named bill to take immediate effect. The motion prevailed. The question being on the motion that the bill be ordered to take immediate effect, The motion did not prevail, two-thirds of all the Senators elect not voting therefor. Mr. Goodell then moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate, on April 17, passed the above named bill. The motion prevailed, a majority of all the Senators elect voting therefor. The question being on the passage of the bill, Mr. Goodell moved that the bill be laid on the table. The motion prevailed. 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 retransmit, in accordance with the request of the Senate, the following bill: House bill No. 372 (file No. 159), By Mr. Corwin, entitled A bill to amend section 10 of chapter 11 of Act 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," approved June 8, 1897. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. Murfin moved to suspend rule 36, limiting the time within which a motion to reconsider a vote may be made. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the Senators elect voting therefor. Mr. Murfin then moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate, on April 16, ordered the above named bill to take immediate effect. The motion prevailed. The question being on the motion that the bill be ordered to take immediate effect, The motion did not prevail, two-thirds of all the Senators elect not voting therefor. Mr. Murfin moved that the bill be ordered to take effect June 1, 1901. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the Senators elect voting therefor. The following message from the House was also received and read: To the President of the Senate: A bill to amend section 6 of Act No. 211 of the Public Acts of 1893, approved June 2, 1893, being an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of a Dairy and Food Commissioner, and to define his powers and duties and fix his compensation," being compiler's section 4978 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act 268 of the Public Acts of 1899, approved June 23, 1899, and entitled "An Act to amend sections 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 of Act No. 211 of the Session Laws of 1893," approved June 2, 1893, entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of a Dairy and Food Commissioner, and to define his powers and duties and fix his compensation," as amended by Act No. 245 of the Session Laws of 1895, approved June 1, 1895, as further amended by Act No. 154 of the Session Laws of 1897, approved May 24, 1897, being sections 4978, 4979, 4981, 4983 and 4984 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; 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, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was read a first and second time by its title and referred to the Committee on Public Health. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 2, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to transmit the following bill: A bill to repeal sections 20, 25, 41 and 42, and to amend section 55 of Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1887, as amended, entitled "An Act |