People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — BILLS GO UP A STEP. [ARTICLE]

BILLS GO UP A STEP.

Short Session at Springfield of Senate and Home. Springfield, 111., April 23.—Among the bills advanced yesterday was Mr. CalI lahan’s important bill to provide for the , speedy determination of contested elec- , tion cases, which was called up out of Its order in the house by Mr. Lowenthal ' of Cook, and was advanced to third | reading. Among those advanced in the I senate was Senator Littler's, repealing 1 that portion of the law In regard to 1 court practice which provides that the j Supreme court shall re-examine cases j brought to it by appeal or writ of error , as to questions of law only and no asj slgnment of error shall be allowed which shall call in question the determination ! of the inferior or Appellate court on i controverted questions, in fact in any J case excepting those enumerated in the i law. , The house advanced to second readj ing all the house bills on first reading and then proceeded to senate bills on ’ first reading. All on the calendar, thlr- | ty-eight in number, were read and re- ; ferred to the appropriate committees. ! Among the senate bills thus advanced . were the following: Berry’s bill to pre- ! vent the wrongful taking of news dispatches from the telegraph or telephone j wires; bill authorizing form drainage i districts to issue bonds; the ninety-day pool selling bill; the bill fixing the compensation of members of the general assembly at ?800 for each regular session. The house adjourned to 9 o'clock this morning.