People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — WAITING FOR A POLICY. [ARTICLE]

WAITING FOR A POLICY.

BUaoto Legislators Do Not Work Until After the Ceacnsee. Springfield, 111., June 26.— There was no work accomplished by either the house or senate to-day. adjournment being taken immediately after the journals were read. In the house Mr. Needles occupied the chair, and LieutenantGovernor Gill presided in the senate. This action was agreed upon by the leaders. There was nothing before the two bodies. It was the desire of the republicans not to do any work until after their policy had been outlined by a Joint caucus held this afternoon. Republican leaders have been busy figuring on the financial condition of the state. It is their desire to prove that the figures furnished will not hold water. Mr. Harding of Warren county, who is a wealthy banket, has been going over the figures furnished by State Treasurer Wulff. He has figured from three different estimates, and the most liberal one for the Republicans will leave the state about $550,000 short of the amount appropriated by the last General Assembly at the end of the next two years. Another set of figures shows that there will be a surplus of nearly $50,000 in the treasury at the end of the next two years. This, however, esti-mates-that there will be an income of $50,000 a year from the Coon inheritance law just passed and that these will be an increase in the amount of tax collected from corporations of $200,000 a year. It seems to be the prevailing opinion the session will be a long one and that every subject mentioned in Governor Altgeld’s proclamation will be considered.