People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

Work Being Rushed in the Closing Days of the Session. Springfield, Ill., June 12. .—Senator Crawford called up his bill providing for the payment of 5 per centum per annum on municipal warants drawn in anticipation of the tax levy, and it was passed. The governor sent a list of his appointments since the adjournment of the thirty-eighth general assembly and asked their confirmation. Senator Hunter called up the house bill providing for taxation oi the unsold land of the Illinois Central railroad. The bill was then sent to the judiciary committee. House bills advanced were: The bill allowing town authorities to condemn gravel pits to improve roads; limiting the time boys shall be kept in training schools. The house bill compelling the placing of flags on public buildings was referred to the committee on military affairs. The house bill regulating the sale of convict-made goods of other states was advanced to second reading. Consideration of the governor’s veto messages on Crawford’s two bills and Wells' convict cigar bill was postponed. The bill providing for the regulation of department stores passed by a vote of 28 yeas to 11 nays. Mr. Salomon then moved to reconsider the vote by which his bill classifying goods was defeated, which prevailed by a vote of 30 yeas to 8 nays. Senator Kingsbury’s motion to reconsider the vote by which his bill providing for the appointment of food inspectors failed to pass, which was a special order, was defeated. The house arbitration bill on second reading was then reached and the several amendments of the committee were concurred in. The house libel bill passed by a vote of 36 yeas to 2 nays. The house bill authorizing drainage districts to issue bonds passed. The hnvw reconsidered and passed Ben y’s bll a'< wing railroad corporations of anptner state to purchase leased lines in this state, providing that nothing in the act shall operate to authorize the consolidation of parallel lines. Mr. Miller of Cook called up the Torrens land bill on second reading. Several amendments were voted down. The bill was then advanced to third reading and was made a special order for tomorrow morning.