People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

Minor Proceedings of the Vpper and IzOwer Hnnxe* Condensed. • Springfield, 111., Feb. 7. —In the senate a letter written to the secretary of the senate by Vice-President Stevenson thanking the members for their resolution of sympathy on the death of his daughter was read. Senator Munroe introduced a bill providing for an increase of the school inspectors of Joliet from six to seven. It was advanced to second reading. The following bills were advanced to. third reading: Mussett—Appropriating $4,000 in aid of Illinois State Horticultural society. Littler—Providing for pavement of streets on which state property abutts in Springfield. HuntAppropriating SI,OOO per annum in aid of the Illinois Dairymen's Association. The senate then went into executive session on mo'iOn of Senator Johnson for the purpose of considering the nominations make by Gov. Altgeld of Oscar O. Baines to the state board of health, instead of James McFatrich, resigned, and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, to succeed John H. Bryant as member of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois. The nominations were confirmed. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill in the house calling for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the erection of an eastern Illinois state normal school. While no place is mentioned, it is said the author of the bill will endeavor to have it located at Mattoon. The bill to amend the divorce law so as to make Incurable insanity ground for divorce, came up in second reading. The bill was' introduced by Mr. White of Whiteside. Mr. McLaughlin of LaSalle moved to strike out the enacting clause. The author of the bill made a vigorous speech against the motion and in support of the bill. The b ill was o rdered to third reading.