MICHIGAN. 



MINNESOTA. 



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ployees must be approved by the directors. Loan 

 associations are to report quarterly to the Bank 

 Commissioner. Loans or deposits of insolvent 

 associations are a lien upon the assets. 



It was directed that such university and pri- 

 mary school lands as are still unsold shall be 

 withdrawn from the market, newly appraised, and 

 restored. 



The principal acts relating to education were.: 

 Providing for the better support of teachers' in- 

 stitutes; raising the State tax for the university 

 from one sixth to one fourth of a mill; providing 

 for an additional normal school at Marquette; 

 changing the name of the Michigan State Normal 

 School to the Michigan State Normal College; 

 repealing the uniform text-book law of 1897; 

 providing for the incorporation of associations 

 for establishing loan funds for the benefit of stu- 

 dents of the State, to assist them in attending 

 the various State educational institutions; pro- 

 viding for the establishment of day schools for 

 the deaf. 



For regulating the practice of medicine a board 

 of registration was created, to be composed of 

 10 physicians 5 allopathic, 2 homeopathic, 2 

 eclectic, and 1 physio-medic. They are to en- 

 force the law requiring registration on presenta- 

 tion of diplomas from approved medical schools 

 or on examination. Foreign certificates granted 

 under similar conditions will be received only in 

 cases where the State or county issuing them 

 extends the same privileges to holders of Michi- 

 gan certificates. Provision was also made for 

 the licensing of veterinarians, and an act was 

 passed giving the bodies of Kent County paupers 

 to the Grand Rap ids Medical College for dissection. 



A State board of horseshoers' examiners was 

 created; a State board of barbers' examiners; a 

 permanent forestry commission; a commission 

 for the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 

 Exposition; and a State library commission of 

 four members. 



Acts were passed requiring the labeling of all 

 gasoline, benzine, and naphtha sold at retail; 

 providing for the inspection of illuminating oils; 

 prohibiting the use of the products of petroleum 

 for illuminating which have been adulterated or 

 which will emit a combustible vapor at a tem- 

 perature less than 121 F., but permitting the 

 use of gasoline lamps approved by the State Oil 

 Inspector. 



Other measures were : 



Reducing the legal rate of interest from 6 to 

 5 per cent., and the contract rate from 8 to 7. 



For reorganizing the militia. 



To protect side paths from injury. 



Providing that in divorce cases courts of record 

 may punish refusals to pay alimony. 



Providing that a wife may dispose of her rights 

 in her husband's lands at the age of eighteen, 

 instead of at twenty-one. 



Providing that private files in cases where it 

 is deemed best by the probate judge to keep se- 

 cret the date of a marriage shall be open to in- 

 spection only on the order of the circuit or Su- 

 preme Court, made on the request of the person 

 so married or when necessary to protect property 

 rights. 



Constituting the making of false statements in 

 advertisements a misdemeanor. 



Making it a felony to advocate polygamy. 



Providing for ten days' notice to pledger before 

 sale of collateral securities. 



Making claims against railways for labor re- 

 maining unpaid ten days after being presented 

 liens upon all property; also claims for personal 

 injuries or death. 



Limiting the time for action on account of per- 

 sonal injuries to three years. 



Among bills vetoed was one providing a bounty 

 of one half a cent a pound on beet .sugar, on the 

 ground that there was no limit to the amount 

 any factory could receive; it was estimated that 

 if the factories now built and those; in process of 

 construction should be run to their full capacity 

 they could draw, at the rate named, $450,000 a 

 year from the State treasury. There is a law of 

 1897 under which, if its validity is sustained, 

 manufacturers may claim a bounty of one cent 

 a pound. In September, October, and November, 

 according to reports of companies, 9,855,555 

 pounds of sugar were made. 



A bill making it a misdemeanor for one not 

 a member of the Grand Army of the Republic 

 to wear the button of the order was vetoed, on 

 the ground that the bill sought to make the 

 Legislature a collection agency for army posts, 

 that the buttons are made from captured can- 

 non, and that all Union soldiers who risked their 

 lives should have a right to wear them. 



A bill that passed the Senate and failed in the 

 House by the lack of only one vote was one 

 allowing any city to adopt the single-tax plan 

 by vote after petition of 20 per cent, of the tax- 

 payers. 



The object of the special session of the Legisla- 

 ture, which began Dec. 18, was stated in the call 

 to be " to consider the submission of an amend- 

 ment or amendments to the Constitution which 

 will permit the enactment of laws that will pro- 

 vide for the equal taxation of all property by 

 the assessment of the same at its cash value, and 

 such other matters as shall be submitted by spe- 

 cial message." 



Political. An election was held in April for a 

 justice of the Supreme Court and two regents 

 of the university. The Republicans nominated 

 Claudius B. Grant for Justice and H. S. Dean 

 and Eli R. Sutton for Regents. Thomas E. Bark- 

 worth was the Democratic candidate for Justice 

 and E. F. Legendre and Stanley E. Parkhill for 

 Regents. The last named is a Populist. The 

 Populists who did not unite with the Democrats 

 nominated John M. Harris for Justice, the Pro- 

 hibitionists named Frank B. Clark, and the So- 

 cialists George A. Eastman. The Republican 

 candidates were elected, Justice Grant having a 

 plurality of 51,346. 



Two proposed constitutional amendments were 

 adopted by vote at this election: Providing that 

 counties may incur road and bridge debts of half 

 of 1 per cent, of valuation without the vote of 

 the people, and allowing the Legislature to abol- 

 ish the powers of township commissioners and 

 overseers of highways ; permitting the Legislature 

 to provide additional circuit judges in St. Clair 

 County. Two others that were proposed were 

 rejected: Requiring the Legislature to provide 

 a State printing and binding establishment at the 

 capital; creating an intermediate court between 

 the circuit and Supreme Courts to have such 

 jurisdiction as might be prescribed by law. 



MINNESOTA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 11, 1858; area, 83,365 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 172.023 in 1860; 439,706 

 in 1870; 780,773 in 1880; and 1,301,826 in 1890. 

 By the State census of 1895 it was 1,573,350. 

 Capital, St. Paul. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1899: Governor, John Lind; Lieuten- 

 ant Governor, Lyndon A. Smith; Secretary of 

 State, Albert Berg; Auditor, Robert C. Dunn; 

 Treasurer, August T. Koerner; Attorney-General, 



