People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — DOES LITTLE WORK. [ARTICLE]

DOES LITTLE WORK.

Presence of Silver Convention Men Call* for Adjournment of Illinois Senate. Springfield, 111., June s.—The senate this morning adjourned after less than an hour's session. It confirmed the governor's appointments and passed one, bill and advanced a number of others. The chamber was filled with visitors and delegates to the silver convention. Several committees of delegates had been assigned to the senate chamber as their meeting place and on that account an early adjournment was taken Humphreys as chairman of the com mittee on judicial department reported Schwab's resolution for a constitutional amendment. An amendment of the committee striking out all except the provision permitting three propositions instead of one to be voted on at the same time was concurred in by unanimous vote. The house bill appropriating $424,00.0 to the Champaign university was passed. Action on Anthony's mechanic’s lien bill, called up by Johns m as a special order on third reading, was postponed until to-morrow. Bills were read a first time and advanced to second reading as follows: House bill to protect labor associations in regard to their labels; house bill to regulate better administration of justice In courts of record, called up by Senator Craig, and another amending the act providing for the election of assessors. Bogardes introduced a bill to create a state board of pardons. <