By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs, to whom was referred A joint resolution for the relief of Fred L. Wait, member of Company F, First Infantry, Michigan National Guard; 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 joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations. By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution No. 94, entitled A joint resolution for the relief of Henry M. Kingsley; 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 joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: The Committee on Finance and Appropriations, to whom was referred House bill No. 598 (file No. 290), entitled A bill to provide a tax to meet the amounts disbursed by the State at the several asylums for the support of patients under the several laws relating thereto; 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. CHARLES SMITH, Chairman. The report was accepted and the committee discharged. on the general order. The Senate then resumed the order of 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 return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 358, entitled A bill to revise and amend the charter of the City of Saginaw, as revised and amended by Act No. 465 of Local Acts of 1897, approved June 2, 1897, as further revised and amended by Act No. 431 of Local Acts of 1899, approved June 1, 1899, and Acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act; In the passage of which the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect has ordered the same to take immediate effect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: To the President of the Senate: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 532 (file No. 197), entitled A bill to amend sections 4, 5, 11 and 12 of Act 211, Public Acts of 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 245 of the Public Acts of 1895, approved June 1, 1895, as further amended by Act 154 of the Public Acts of 1897, approved May 24, 1897, and as further amended by Act 268 of the Public Acts of 1899, approved June 23, 1899, being sections 4976, 4977, 4983 and 4984 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; In the passage of which the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect has ordered the same to take immediate effect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 253 (file No. 189), entitled A bill making appropriations for the State House of Correction and Branch Prison, Upper Peninsula, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and to provide for a tax to meet the same; In the passage of which the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect has ordered the same to take immediate effect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 415, entitled A bill to amend section 35 of chapter 17, section 1 of chapter 21 of Act No. 390 of the Local Acts of 1885, entitled "An Act to amend and revise the charter of the City of Port Huron," approved June 17, 1885, and the amendments thereto and to add one new section thereto to stand as section 32 of chapter 15; In the passage of which the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect has ordered the same to take immediate effect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 149 (file No. 193), entitled A bill to authorize the State Board of Health to determine the qualifications of, and issue licenses to persons engaged in preparing for burial or transportation human bodies dead of infectious or contagious diseases; In the passage of which the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 237 (file No. 132), entitled A bill to provide for the service of processes, notices and writings upon all corporations owning or operating electric railways in the State of Michigan; And to inform the Senate that the House has amended the same as follows: 1. By inserting in line 3 of section 1 after the second word "any" the word "interurban." 2. By inserting in line 11 of section 1 after the word "existence" the words "And provided further, That the provisions for service upon conductors of electric railways shall not apply to conductors on electric railways operating within the limits of incorporated cities;" In the passage of which, as thus amended, the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The question being on concurring in the amendments made to the bill by the House, Mr. Moore moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Banks and Corporations. The motion prevailed. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 562, entitled A bill to amend sections 1 and 5 of Act No. 372 of the Local Acts of 1893, entitled "An Act to provide for placing on the retired list on reduced pay members of the metropolitan police force of the City of Detroit, who shall have become disabled or incapacitated while in active performance of official duty, and members of said force and persons in the employ of the police board of the City of Detroit who after 25 years of faithful continuous service shall have become permanently incapacitated from performing regular or active duty," as amended by Act No. 440 of the Local Acts of 1895, approved May 24, 1895; And to inform the Senate that the House has amended the same as follows: By striking out of lines 1 and 2 of page 2 the words "six hundred" and the figures "50" and inserting in lieu thereof respectively the words "four hundred and eight" and the figures "40;" In the passage of which, as thus amended, the House has concurred by a majority vote of all the members elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect has ordered the same to take effect June 1, 1901. Very respectfully, LEWIS M. MILLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The question being on concurring in the amendments made to the bill by the House, The amendments were concurred in, a majority of all the Senators elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: The bill was then referred to the Secretary for printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Lansing, May 23, 1901. To the President of the Senate: Sir-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 371 (file No. 192), entitled A bill to provide for taking the census of this State for the year 1904, and once every ten years thereafter; And to inform the Senate that the House has amended the same as follows: 1. By striking out of line 5 of section 2 the word "eighteen" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "fifteen." 2. By striking out section 2 all after the word "act" in line 8 and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Provided, That said division of |