People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — NOT READY TO ADJOURN. [ARTICLE]

NOT READY TO ADJOURN.

Illinois Legislators Postpone Action on the Subject. Springfield, 111., May 15.—Action on the sine-die adjournment resolution has been postponed for another week. The matter came up as a special order in the house this morning, immediately after the reading of the journal. Aiken, of Franklin, at once moved to postpone action until one week from to-morrow, and the motion prevailed by an overwhelming viva voce vote. The Chicago drainage canal bill came up on thlid reading as a special order. Aiken, who moved to postpone action on the sinedie adjournment resolution, moved to postpone action on the drainage bfll. The yeas and nays were called for and the motion prevailed. Teas, 70; nays, 65. No action was taken this morning on Crawford’s two bills- vetoed by the governor. Consideration of the question as to whether the bills shall pass regardless of the executive’s veto was postponed till to-morrow immediately after the reading of the journal. The question is a privileged one and takes precedence over all others and can be called up at any time. In the senate Senator Morrison, chairman of the special committee appointed to ascertain to what extent the feeding of cattle on distillery slops is carried on in this state, made his report. It denounces the present system of slop feeding in unmeasured terms, as cruelty to the cattle and dangerous to human health.