Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-01-21
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEX.
TEON
Special Dispatches to the Chicago Times.
SnrinyfieId III Ian II

Dubois, Au iItor Of Public Accounts, in |
response 10 resolution calling for state
IDent OF the banks in the State now in pru |
cess of liquidation.
GA motion of Mr.. Orme, the Auditor,
Secretary If State, and Treasurer were re-
quested to furnish II statement of their re-
spsctiye fees, emUluments of office and sail
aries tor each of the two past years. under
the laws Of this State.
Propositions to amend the constitution
being in order, the following were submit
ted ana referred TO the appropriate commit
tees:
To abolish Grand Jniies
To make II imperative on the Legislature
- provide tue necessary means by taxation
or otherwise for lacing q common scho,l
education within the reach of all the chill
dren Of The State.
To levy & poll or capitulaticu tax Of rot
more than one dollar and not less than fifty
cents on each legal voter in the State.
To prohibit the General Assembly from
passing any law incorporating banks IN the
5 ale @! Illinois also the circulation of
bank notes of other State.
To prohibit ihe General Assembly from
establishing courts of inferior jurisdiction
to Circuit Courts, except that Of Justice Of
the Peace.
To prohibit the General Assemll y from
reducing or extinguishing, in whole or in
part, the Indebtedness, obligation, or lia-
6iiity to the State of any past. present. or
future rfhcer o. corporation, their sureties,
or nf any other person whomsoever.
To provide for the Office of Attorney Gen.
eral.
To provide that the Supreme Court sha II
consist OF five Judges. who shall severally
hold their offices for the term of ten wears.
each to receive a larry not exceeding ST.
500 per anuum. To divide the State into
five grand divisions, and that one of the
judges be chosen in each division.
To abolish the present system Of voting
by ballot, and return to the system of pira
roce voting
To elect Sheriffs for term of two years.
and rendering them illegible for more than
two consecutive terms
To limit the Judicial circuits so that there
shalt not be more than fifteen in the State
the Judges not to receive more than
81 5OO per annum.
10 increase the members of the House of
Representatives. to one hundred, and If the
Senate TO forty.
A
semi ly to seventy days.
To restrict the jurisdiction of Grand Ju-
RES In cases OF felony.
To create Courts of Common Pleas in the
| several counties of the State.
To prohibit the General Assembly from
passing acts of specinl Incorporation.
10 provide for the election of a States
Attorney IN each county, TO be elected by
the people.
To provide for House of Correction and
Reform for juvenile Offenders, Migrants.
and dlsorderly persons, in the several coun
ties of the State.
10 provide for the publishing and dis
tribution OF all laws throughout the couns
ties OF the State before they shall take eff
! feet.
To impose tax on all civil suits brought
IN Circuit and inferior courts, to be advan
ced by the plaintiff, and finally taxed
against the party against whose Judgment
shall be rendered said tax to constitute a
fund to be applied towards the payment of
salaries OF Judges and other expenses of
courts.
To make the township organization law
Uniform 10 all the counties, or abolish it
entirely.
To remove all free negroes or mulattoes
from any county by a two-third vote of the
people of said county, and to pay them a
lair value for real estate and such other
property as they cannot carry with them.
10 give laborers such prior liens as will
enectua'ly secure them against all chances
OF losing their wages.
10 prohibit the passage of any law the
TAXING effect OF which shall be made to de-
pend upon any authority except as provid-
ed IN the constitution.
10 provide that all persons of sound
mind may be competent witnesses in all
civil cases
Messrs. A E. Draper, W. II. Drapier.
and l.. l.. Walridge were sworn as official
reporters Of the convention.
Springfield, III Jan. II.
Mr.. Allen, of Williamson, chairman of
the Commi,tee on Elections this morning
reported adversely t. the claim of Mr..
Dwyer, who contests the seatof NJ. O'Mel
veny the member from the Eighth District
on the ground that Mr. O'Melveny is con-
sttutlonally Ineligible, having been Cir
cult Judge less than one year before the
election. The report was accepted and the
committee discharged from further consid>
Grafton of the subject.
Mr.. Richmond, of Schuyler, offered the
following resolutions:
ReSotred, That we hail with undissem-
bled satisfaction the welcome intelligence
OF the recent change in the War Depart.
ment by the appointment in place of Simon
Cameron, of L. NJ. Stanton as Secretary of
War; aud cannot but regard the act as in>
dIcative Of the determination of the admin
lstration Of the general government TO sun
press the present rebellion by vigorous, en-.
erge:ic, and constitutional means. and to
restore the supremacy of the constitution
throughout the hole extent of our once
happy and united Republic.
Resolred. That, so long as the admins
traton shall pursue conservative and con-
sututional course, in such of its endeavors
we pledge to 1t our cordial and Jealous SUP.
port, believing as we do that such a course
will inspire confidence throughout the whole
country, and that this desired result will
be attained.
These resolutions were referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations.
The Committee on the Executive Depart,
ment were instructed to inquire into the
exPedieucy of electiug Governor once in
two years.
The Stats Zeitang and Tagliche Union
have been selected to publish the proceed
ings Of the Constitutional Convention in
German.
The Secretary of State reports the cost
0, the Supreme Court reports at SIS ner
volume, amounting in ten years to $40 los.
This will give Long John" beautiful
opportunity to pitch into Peck
In committee of the whole, article three
of the constitution was amended so as 70
provide for 80 Senators and 100 Represen-
tativos, and this number is not to be in
creased until the State has population of
three millions also, that no Representative
shall be President of a banking or railroad
corporation.
No more changes will be made 10 the
constitution taan are positively necessary.
The convention Is conservative in its char
aeter: 1t is now making visible progress in
tha DISMISSAL of hnsina.s