The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-03-13
FROM sPRINGrIELD.


IhE -CUNSTiFUTDNAl. ANENDMRNT.F ~
A certified copy Of the negro suffrage constr
tetional amendment adopted by congress- was
sent to the Illinos Senate by Gov. Palmer on
Friday last. Immediately Mt. Mum moved >
suspension of the rules to take it up The vote
stood II TOT. Lieut.. Gov. Dougherty decided
the rules to be .suspendeds Mr.. Eplsr said, as
BY the rules Of the Senate IL required three
fourths vote to suspend the rules. he must appeal
from the decision Of the chair. Tho 1T. Cover
nor refused to entertain the appeal Then Mr..
Epler made motion, which ia always in order,
to refer the subject to the Judiciary COMMITTEES.
This motion tho chair also refused to entertain.
Then the previous question was ordered, and in
this illegal, violent way, the constitutional
amendment was ratified By the Illinois Se,at.
1t was sent to the House ut once, aud there .lso.
the rules were suspended to take il up. Before
the previous question was sprung, however. Mr.
Woodson 70 republican, got 10 Q resolution to
snbnait the question first to vote Of tho people
This was tabled--the gag riyidiy applied. and
the ratification resolution was also forced through
the honse without debate Dsanisen, = republi.
can, voting sgsinst it, and Wosdson and Cook.
republicans, voting Hrst to submit the MISTER to
vote Of the people, but finally voting for the
ratification. The manner in which the whsls
thing was rushed through, in contempt Of the
rules and without permitting word Of debate,
was in the highest degree disgrscsful
TIN PKNIrENrrARr e.
The bill justly called the "penissntisry swim.
de- which had passed the senate ON the 18th.
passed the hsuse on the 10th, and ID now 4 Law.
It appropriates 100000 to the support Of the
prison, $4,000 to pay the debt due the dsfunct
lll'n"i' Notwithstanding Company, and 5000 for
one years interest thereon. This bill passed both
houses BY strict party vote, in the fsoe OF
proposition from fsspsnsbls parties, aud Offering
any security, TO- lSsss the psaitsneisry for two
years, and not saly run 1t without expense to
the atste, but to pay bonus Of 5000 Tor tho
privilege. The real motive for this outrage il I.
keep in the pay Of the state a dozen or tv. Of
seedy Republican politicians the pretended OK.
cnse is, that the treatment of the co.viots. vb..
the penitentiary is run by the STATE ia better
than when>run by lessees. Unfortanatsly the
commissioners themselves dissipste thi. pre,enOe
by their report. showing that more prisoners IN
proportion tcthe number confined disS. more A.
capped, fewer were captured, and 10 short, that
the discipline Of the prison was iuanitsly wor,.
since it has beea run By the state thas it "a.
ever before. The whole buAiaess is . dirty. RI.
oally steal, and ought to kill the party that ...c.
tions it.
THE STATE HOUSE.
The termination Of the fight over the suuro.
pristion to continue the work on the new state
house shows that, like the psnitsntiafy b.si.ess
that too was intended from the beginning Of the
session to be another moastrous svindle. Tn.
whole hue and ory attempted to be gotten IN
against the old commissioners was shan, 70 di.
vert attention from the msditated swiudle in the
new arrangement Of the business which il A..
complished BY ths so-called Sapp bill. This bill
dismisscs the present commissioners and .y,n.
over the state house to three new commissioners.
whc are to call to their aid new srchitsct. &c.
and go on and complete tho state house n. a coat
not to exceed sS,000OOO. $65O0OO are givsn
70 :
them to expend in the mex, two years, and thsv
are required to build the structure of Joliet
stone, to be cut and prepared BY the penitent
convicts 1t is thus, IS simple marriage Of the
two big swindles. If the penitsntiary manage
msnt for the aert two years costs $500, 900, the
excuse will he the state house il half a million
is wasted on the state house, the excuse is the
law compelling the commissioners to take peni-
Tertiary stone
THE ROCK ISLAND X. n. swISDLF.
This swindlc, Of which We gave some sccount
in our last, IN noting its passage through tho
house, has become a law. In the frat place, IL
robs the stockholders Of the eastern branch Of tho
road of their property tor the benefit Of the
branch west OF Rock Island, the excuse for which
10, that otherwise the means could not b. prc-
cured to prosecute the road to Omaha. Tho real
object however, il to perpttuate the Wall street
ring in the control Of Che Nsrth western 10 ana.
bic it to soil its stock and buy Up the rosds In
Wisconsin, and Minnesota: to opes the dsors for
. coalition betwssn the Northw sstera and Rock
IslAsd railroads; sad to bring under the control
Of one little ring sbosk III .hs railroads u the
northwest. eNsff' y, vow p
FULLKR's RAlIn0AD DTLyAr y ,,N@1
This bill, which hns vsdssepus iin.~nsr.h,s
changes siacs ia arSsintscdastioa, Aaslly posed
The heuss thssirk prsviously passsd TIE sssatss
onths 10th. II ga 60. shrousk ~ bssgsi.