People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — REFORM WINS. [ARTICLE]

REFORM WINS.

Chicago Civil Service Bill I’aKsed by the Illinois Legislature. Springfield, HL, March 20.—Civil service reform in Chicago Is now assured. The senate passed the Shanahan bill this morning by a vote of 38 to 10, and it is now in the hands of Gov, Altgelc l , who has promised to sign it. The house defeated the resolution calling for a constitutional convention by a vote of 93 yeas to 45 nays. For lack of a twothirds vote, the resolution was lost. No motion was made to reconsider the vote and save the resolution, and so far as this legislature is concerned, there is no hope of obtaining a reform of the present constitution. The Torrens land transfer bill, with slight amendment, was advanced to a third reading in the senate. The amendment made today leaves the adoption of the system optional with counties of the first and second class. Senator Wall’s bill fixing his compensation of members of the general assembly was amended by reducing the amount from SI,OOO to SBOO per session, and advanced to third reading. Representative Snedeker introduced in the house a bill to establish in every city of 10,000 inhabitants and over and i at every county seat in the state a free I public employment office or bureau. Ey I establishing in every county seat a bureau of employment Mr. Snedeker expects to draw from the cities the thousands who now go there annually in search of work.