People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — WANT CONVICTS TO BUILD IT. [ARTICLE]

WANT CONVICTS TO BUILD IT.

Resolution In Illinois Hoase for a Ship Canal to the Mississippi, Springfield, 111., April 30.—The house convened at 5 o’clock last evening, with forty members present. Mr Hallock, by unanimous consent, introduced the following resolution, which was referred to the committee on penal and reformatory institutions: "Resolved, That it la the sense of this thirty-ninth general assembly that the state of Illnois should proceed to complete a waterway or ship canal (by the use of the labor of all able-bodied convicts) from Lockport to La Salle.” On motion of Mr. Callahan his bill providing for the speedy trial of election contests was made a special order for this morning. Mr. Snedeker.s bill to provide for the creation of free employment bureaus was made a special order for this morning. Mr. Cody introduced a bill to prevent any fire insurance company from doing business in this state under any other than its own corporate name, or from issuing joint policies. The following bills were advanced to third reading. Lowenthal’s bill in relation to the selection of the judges of the superior court of Cook county; Needles’ bill to legalise the proceedings of two terms of the Clay county circuit; Dudley’s bill limiting to two years the time which a boy may be kept in a training school; Shanahan's bill amending the cilvil service act; Selby's bill giving coal miners a lien upon the property of the owner for wages earned. In the senate only half a dosen members were present. Mr. Hunt Introduced a bill similar to the measure pending in the house revising the law governing the state board of live stock commissioners. Under the existing statute the board has experienced difficulty in enforcing quarantines and seizing condemned cattle for destruction. Mr. Hunt's bill is designed to correct this by giving the commissioner police power to enforce either rule. It also fully defines all the known diseases the presence of which warrants the establishment of a quarantine. Senator Barnes offered a resolution calling for the appointment of five senators for the purpose of investigating the so-called school book trust and school furniture trust doing business in Chicago. A similar resolution was offered at the two previous sessions of the legislature.