The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-02-23
Illinois Legislature.

in session, and will not, probably, adjourn
before Monday. The members seem TO
be working like troopers. Last Saturday
over 200 bills passed the House, and that
body was in session until II o'clock at
night, entrenching on the Sabbath.
Among the most important bills Gin this
region) which has passed the legislature,
was the bill passed on Tuesday, to pay the
claims awarded by the judges Of the SUI
preme Court several years ago arising out
OF the Thornton canal loan. The loan was
negotiated in 1910 at II per cent. discount,
the contractors standing the discount !
The bill is to reimburse to the contractors
that II per cent. The claim amounts to
about $4,000, for which the claimants
get State bonds
The Bank bill which passed the House
last Wednesday, passed the Senate on Fri
day. 4 synopsis of its provisions is given
on our first page. Hackers new bank law,
authorizing banks on the plan of the State
Bank of Indiana, has also passed. A bill
to receive the money of Illinois banks,
based on Illinois bonds, for taxes was de-
| feated
The Congressional apportionment bill,
as passed 10y the House, has pa sed the
Senate. The militia bill hangs fire in the
| Senate
Senator Mack, after all his high preten-
| sons of reducing the taxes to mill af-
ter selling the two mill fund introduced
on Monday a bill in the Senate TO raise
more mills on the dollar to pay interest
on the State debt, but the bill failed to
pass The enormous appropriations Of the
present session leave it manifest that with
a mill tax the treasury will be swamped
i'll less than year
The Senate bill, containing such extra
ordinary provisions in reference to voting
at elections hereafter, has passed the
House Among other provisions is one
that requires residence of sixty days in
the district before voter can vote
This Is ralpaJly contrary to the Constitu-
ton which requires only acttal resi5esce in
the district, if the voter has previously re-
sized long enough in the State.
y bill requiring estray notices to be pup
lished in papers in the county where es-
trays are taken up as we'll as at Springfield,
has passed tse House.
The bill to amend the School Law, has
passed. It provides, among other things,
for paying School Commissioners 81 30 per
day for services in visiting the schools in
their counties.
On Saturday q dispatch was received by
Gov. Yates, from three OF our peace COM
mss:ouers at Washin -ton. recommending
that the State guarantee L. s, bonds to
the amount Of the surplus revenue re-
ceived Of the l. ). in lS36-S3335 G0O-and
Gov. Yates sent it to the Senate and
House, recommending the subject to their
favorable consideration. \ bill was at
once got up by the finance committee and
passed So that now Iliiuois-whose
bonds few years ago were worth bat so
cts, on the dollar, while L. :. bonds were
worth 130-row goes Uncle Sans security
for . small loan Of less than half q million
An appropriation Of s2S6,Sl5, TO cent?
nue. the construction of the penitentiary
at Joliet, passed the House on Monday
No wonder taxes must DO E~i-~d.
Resolutions have passed the Senate con
curing in the cal! Of : convention OF the
, States to amend the Constitution Of the
, United States
\ bill has passed erecting the Chicago
Alton < St Louis T. T. Co into new
corporation, under he name OF The a Chi
cago 4 alton T. L. Co" The bill is said
to be salts acto,y to all parties interested
and provides for paying all arrearages to
employees and floating debts.
The Pike County Railroad bill, for a,
least ten years a subject Of earnest coaten
, ton in our legislature, has finally passed
= both houses. Itauthor.zes railroad from
, Naples to Hannibal, thus cutting oil! Quin
cy from the great route to St. Joseph, &c.
, The House on Monday passed bill ap
! propliating 5000 for the relief of the
| Kansas sufferers
Resolutions endorsing Kellogg, and 4" il
report says true" the Hon. :. T. Logan, as
| good fellows" were offered in the House
on Saturday night by Hacker, dem but
, not pressed 70 q vote.
a bill has passed requiring young law
, yers to have studied at least two years be-
fore they can be admitted to the bar
The House on Thursday unanimously
, passed bill "to protect the public Urea
, sury." The object Of the bill, as stated by
the republicans who introduced it was, to
, allow the grand jury to take another hitch
/ al Gov. Mat:eson. As the republicans had
freely charged before the election that the
democrats intended to release Gov Matte
son from the payment Of the bonds he re.
ceiyed for the fraudulent scrip, this bill
, was expected to furnished sort of justii-
caticn of that charge, on the assumption
that it would provoke opposition from the
democratic members. They however, fell
into no such trap, They said simply, if a
new grand jury can get at facts in that
, matter which have eluded the search of 8
5 legislative committee for two years and q
> former grand jury, let them go ahead
The appropriations of the present ses
sion already reach over 81 100000, and by
its close will have reached about 81 ,300
: Coo Add to this sum the interest on the
State debt for the next two years, about
81 100000, and there will be S2,50e,0 600 to
provide for during the next two years
The = mill fund, Central Railroad fund
f and proceeds of the new ] mill tax will
2 not come within half million of this