Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-02-11
CONSTITUTIONAL COYvEN-,
TEON.

this fearful crises
CONSTITUTIONAL COyvEN--
THON.
Special Dispatchesto the Chicago Times.
Springfield H.. Feb 4.
The report Of the Judiciary Committee
Of the Constitutional Conven has been pre-.
pared, and it is understood that the follow
ing are its principal features:
Five Judges Of the Supreme Court are
To he electe, bv the people for terms of
uine years They are to receive a salary
of 50 900 per annum. Courts are to be held
at Chicago, Ottawa, Peoria, Sprinefi and
Mount Vernon
Circuit Judges are to receive $4,000 per
annum.
Cook county is to have four Judges, who
will receive $500 additional in fees.
A Recorder Of Deeds, and IN additional
County Clerk, are provided for all counties
with population Of over 35 900.
This divides the perquisitas OF Circuit
and County Courts of Cook county.
Grand Juries are to he abolished, except
in cases of felony
- An Attorney General is provided for, to
! be elected for four years. and receive sal
ary of 50 500, and such fees "a NAV be es>
! tablished by the Legislature
| A uniform tax is to be levied on all civil
| suits, Of twenty-five cents in Justices
Courts, fifty cents in County Courts, and
! one dollar in Circuit Courts The money
| thus raised is to go towards paying the sal
| aries If the Judges
The report aholishfs the Rec orders and
| Superior Courts If Co"k county.
The report of the Cnmmttee on Exeeu-
| tive DEPARTMENT provides tor an Attorney
! General M a salary e 50 OG0
A execnrive officers are to bold Office
| Tor a term ur years, and vacancies hv
! death or otherwise are t. be filed by The
! Governor.
The Governor is to receive a salary Of
! So 600 per annum. and all other State fiji
! GERS 50 600 per aunum, and no other per-
| quistes whatever.
The Governor is to be er>OficO. Fund
| Comm ssIdner and State Canal Trustee
! A vote Of two-thirds of tn Legislature
| is requisite To pass bill over the veto %.
! the Governor
The Governor is to file his objections TO
bill with the Secretary of State ten DAYS
after the adjournment of the Legislature,
! otherwise the same shall become n law.
| The report provides for the establishment
| Of Bureau OF Statistics, in the Office Of
tue Secretary of State.
! Springfield, Feh. s.
/ The Auditor reported to the convention
| that the total legal expresses of the State,
! since the adoption OF the present consttu-
ton, has been 50 Geo, of which $3.50 was
| incurred in 1851
The Treasurer, Mr. Cutler. sent in lbrg
communication in reply to the resolution 4
! inquiry as to the issue Cf war bonds
/ Among other statements Ia il is that there
| was a combination of Chicago wild cat
! bankers to compel the sale of Illinois bonds
! last summer at seventy five cents 1t also
| contends that the charge made of an over
Issue of bonds has had destructive infiu-
| ence of our State credit in New York
The report Of the Judiciary Committee
was made by Mr.. Manning this morning
! The report, as agreed on. cleans out every
person occupying OF nnected with Judi.
cial Office in the State.
MIR Fuller sent NJ u resolution of inquiry
| rs to what banks had made demands for
an issue Of notes since the meeting of this
convention. and what deCauiting collectors
had ,aid ur
Mr.. SinpSon fFered resolution tia,
volunteers should be allowed to vote on tins
! constitution, at the election upon its accep-
! tarce. wherever they are
The convention went into committee Of
! the whole, aud Mr. Thornton made an ar
! gnment, citing numerous authorities, sus-
| tanning the vested rights of the banks now
| in existence, and against Mr. Wentworth :
| amendment to the first section of the tenth
article. He was followed by NJ: Orme, on
| the same side
Mr. Miller supported Mr.. Wentworth's
amendments
1t was adop,ed-ayas 35, nays Ct,
| Mr.. Wentworth offered another amend
ment. preventing barking corporations
making an assignment, and giving prefer
ence TO creditors also to prevent the stock
holders Of a bank from making assignments
to the bank. Unanimously adopted.
Springfield, III Feb 6.
| The Army Auditing Board sent COM
munication To the convention, in reply to
n resolution of the convention. stating that
since the 10Th inst the Board had audited
two hundred and forty seven thousand dol
lars. and that no accounts have been fled
! of goods purchased by Martin II CasseIl
| Mr.. Ross of Fulton. introduced resc>
luton proposing that this convention
should, by organic law. exclude notes less
than twenty dollars shall be excluded after
1864 all less than fifty dollars after 1865.
and that all raper money Should be atol-
ished after 1866.
The convention went into committee of
the whole on the sixth section of the third
| article If the constitution. but, unable to
! do anything, the committee rose. and then
! by the pressure of the previous question,
moving to reconsider and lay that motion
| on the table. tie conventions fixed upln
thirty three Senators and ninety nine Rer
resentatives to compose the General As
semhly of Illinois.
This is the only move the convention has
made which it cannot recede from.
THE Auditor communicated renlv TO
Mr. Fuller's resolution introduced yester>
| day. No call has been made by any bank
er for move notes or bills George Newton
and Elijah NJ Halves have flled rertii-
Gates Of al aria:ion with cari,nl If $50
600. to establish the Illinois SAVINGS Bank.
Defaulting collectors have paid I'm to the
ex'ent of S45 .T0S Eleven suits are now
pending to recover from defaultinc ColIec-
tors in so many counties. Judgments have
been rendered in the Supreme Court AGAINST
Collectors in Ogle. Dupage, Kendall, and
Coles counties. All this has been done
since the meeting of the convention.
The convention went into committee of
the whole. on the report on banking. Mr..
Ficklin. having tie floor, made radical
! aDti-bank speech.