The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-01-24
FROM SPRINGFIELD.
Of the Free Finder.
SrnINGrtELn, Jan. II, 1915.

SPRINGFIELD, Jan II, 1913.
Nothing Of importance lranspired ia the house
on the 9th. The morning hour was spent il
the reception Of petitions, many Of whic, prayed
f5r an increase Of taxation for the relief Of our
deb; imprisoned state, und were. too, fsom the
.ou'h. Mr.. Gregg from the finance committee,
reported He revenue bilI embrace " some 100 sec
tons, Which, upon his own notion. was read
me tiot and second lime 10y Us lille, and laid NJ.
on lhc table, and twenty five hundred copies or
dcrcd to be- rriu,,d lnr the use of tle house. The
bin was not read 10 the house on account Of is
length. II has not yet returned from the press,
bat is said to hc very able. InppeaFs from sup
Elementary bill to tLis, iUiroduccd by Mr.. Arnold,
from the same committee, that It proposes an in
crease Of taxation Of mill for the first year,
the second, the lhird, and to remain at that ever
after until our necessities admit Of reduction.
The democratic members Of the two houses met
in the evening in the senate chamber to nominate
candidate l1r public printer. Walters aud We
her received majority Of al the votes on the first
ballot and we're declared duly nominated The
vote stood for Walters aud Weber, 60 votes 4;
Zicber, Il Mckinney, 3.
On the llh, ia the house, the morning hour
was mostly spent in discussing resolution pro-
,idIng nr the publication If compilation of the
laws Of Illinois. Mr., Arnold opposed the rcsoIu
ton on account Of the expenditure it involved
Mr. Blair replied, urging the necessity Of a com
rialon Of our Iaws and after some half dozen
more speeches, the yeas aud nays were called and
the resolution adopted. fit passes tho senate, it
would be "some' 10 the advantage Of very de-
serving citizen Of this place, who has expended
much time and labor in preparing for the press
compilation Of the laws Of this state.
At two o'clock both house, me, in convention
and ratified The caucus nomination for public
ming "a!l hands" attended party at the residence
Of MIR. Walters, where the numerous guests were
received and entertained IN the style of ge-
nune western hospitality, by Mr.. Walters and
his truly interesting and accomplished lady. The
tables groancd under the choicest luxurcs Of the
land, the whole company, and particularly the la
dies, were "merry crckcts," aud Mr.. w. was
unanimously voted "prinCo Of fellow
On the 10Th, Mr. Lyons from the committee on
The judiciary, reported back to the house a reso-
luton, prohibiting any judge from sitting in the
court above in case of error from below wherein
the said Judge had before decided in the court be-
low. A motion was Immediately made 70 re-
commit with instructions to report u bill, which,
after long debate, was carried.
The afternoon was spent in discussing All
amendment offered by Mr.. Ross to the bill from
the senate repeating Internationally the Nauvoo
charter. The amendment proposes to place Nau-
VOC on the same footing with Quincy, not repeal
ing its charter, bu, cxpunging the Objectionable
features. Mr.. Collins spoke briefly in favor OF
the amendment. Mr. Dabbitt, one of the Han
cock members, spoke against it for two hours, in
il very able manner, indeed. lie argued mainly
for the retention Of the ''hobcas corpus" feature
which greatly injured his cause, lie was replied
to by Mr. Benedict, in an able and very sarcastic
speech of two hours length, after which, Mr..
Gregg having obtained the floor for tomorrow,
the house adjourned.
Jan. 10th, resolution passed the senate fixing
the 10th of February for adjournment. 1t has
has not yet been acted upon in the house. The
forenoon was spent by the house in the usual
morning business aud in discussing the judiciary
bill. The afternoon was given to a continuation
Of the discussion on the amendment to the senate
bill TO repeal the Nauvoo charter. Mr.. Gregg
made one Of his abcst speeches in favor of the
amendment No vote was come to.
The senate to-day passed resolution to go in
to the election Of Judges tomorrow, but the house
has just refused to suspend the rules to take up
the resolution. think it probable the election
will come oil some time next week.
[Our correspondent dcvo,cS the res, of his let
ter to n lcnplhcncd defence of the character of the
legislature from attacks that have been made upon
II in various quarters; but as we are somewhat
crampcd for room, aud have published number
of articles on the same subject before now, and
as IN addition to all this, we would prefer to wait
until we see what he legislature do before we say
much moro either ngnins, or in favor Of ,hem--we
have concluded to omit this portion Of the letter
Tho IN cmhers of tho senate of Ohio have i'm
posed upon themselves a poll tax Of dollar n
head for opening their daily meetings with pray
e. A good plan, but better still would bc for
the members to do their own praying.