The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-29
Constitutional Convention.
RESOLUTION TO ADJOURN TO CHI.
CAG0--RAILR0AD TAXES--TRE
CAkALL QUESTION.
PRINCE ARTHUR.
Russian JeWs--Counterfeit Mon
ey--A New Epidemic--
Striking English Op-
eratfOnS.
MARkETS--GOLD I.2l l-2.
Constitutional Convention.
PRINCE ARTHUR.


SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 28.-Ths Convention
met at ten o'clock.
Mr.. Haipes, Of Lake, rose to disclaim hav
ing introduced any resolution compelling
white and colored children to attend school
together.
A resolution allowing Committee Clerks
six dollars per day, was passed; also reso
luton REQ ouesting the Auditor to make q de.
tailsd statemsnt of standing and general ap
propriations made since 1860.
The following resolutions we're introduced
and referred: To provide for allowing pris
oners' counsel in all criminal cases to close
the arguments before the jury; to prohibi,
private property from being taken for pub
tic use without compensation in money
being made therefor; to prevent Railroads
from increasing their capital stock beyond
the amount required for keeping their roads
ETC., IN operation.
| Mr.. SNYDER introduced q resolution that q
select committee of three be appointed to
! correspond with the City Council of Chicago
relative to obtaining q Hall In that city for
the accommodation Of the Convention. He
thought that the bad whisky here would kill
all Democratic delegates and bad water slav
the Republicans.
| Mr.. Hay, from the Committee on Rese-
nue., reported an article for adoption which
provides that all money received from the
illinois Central railroad shall be paid into
| the State Treasury, and the Legislature
shall never release tha, road from the pay
men. thereof. The Legislature shall pro
vide such further revenue as may be needed
by levying tax by valuation, 80 that all
persons pay tax in equal proportion to the
value of their property and shall have pow
er to tax all tradesmen, telegraph, express
and mining interests, and such other busi-
ness objects as it may deem proper, and
may exempt from taxation church, school
property, etc, only BY general law That
in all sales for non payment of tax the time
of REDEEM ption shall be two years, returns to
be made to some general officer having
authority TO receive taxes at the sales made
for taxes, and the legislature may provide
that applications for judgement be uniform
throughout the State, and reasonable notice
shall be given TO persons interested of such
applications and time Of redemption. The
Legislature shall have no power to release
any city or town from their share of State
taxes and no commutation of such taxes
shall be made under any circumstances.
All taxes shall be paid into the State Treas
ury. All appropriations for State revenue
shall be q revenue fund, contained in the
State Treasury, and no appropriation from
any particular district shall ever be made
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed
At ii o'clock the Convention went into
Committee of the Whole on the report of the
Comittee on Canals and Canal Lands, Mr..
Turner in the chair.
Mr.. Medill presented q very elaborate ar
gunner nj in favor of the report, and produced
q long array of figures in support of his ar
gumen,. He was very enthusiastic over the
usefulness, profit and benefit of canals to the
State, and thought they would be source
of much benefit to the State.
Mr.. Cary said he hoped if Mr.. Medill had
tried to hum bug the people through the 2ri-
6une, on the canal question, he would not
attempt to humbug this Convention. He
though, the only way the people Of the State
could reap any benefit from the canal. was
to make it sufficiently large 10 let ships pass
through, and he though; that might be &C.
complished in q better and cheaper manner.
He was neither for or against the article, bu,
wanted the best interests of the people to be
consulted in 80 importants matter.
Mr.. Bromwell followed in a speech of
much force. He urged tha. the interests
of the State should be guarded, and he pro-
tested strongly against ever allowing any
body of capitalists to grasp our canal i'm
provements and reap the great benefits re
sulting therefrom.
At one o'clock and five minutes the com
nittee rose and reported. The Convention
then adjourned till to morrow.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Bills were intro
duced and referred as follows:
By Mr.. ketchum, for the better organizs-
ton of the medical department of the
navy.
By Mr.. Wilson, of Minnesota, 10 preserve
the navigation of the Mississippi at or near
the Falls of St Anthony.
To create q second judicial district in
Wisconsin, and third district in Michigan;
the latter to comprise the nine counties in
the Upper Peninsula and the court thereof
to be located at Houghton. The project to
establish third judicial distric, in Illinois
with headquarters at Peoria or Galesburg is
| not being pressed.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-The Pail Mall Gazette
states that negotiations on the Alabama
| claims question have been suspended.
Lands bnlonging to the estate Of the late
George Peabody, which we're recently seized
by officers OF the Crown have been released
by order of the government
The cotton spinners in the factories at
Wigan and Lancaster are on q strike, and
3 1000 are idle.
New YORK, Jan. 29.-The friends of Rev.
Horace Cooke give it cut that he is in an
insane asylum.
The British residents Of this city are pre-
| pairing an address of welcome to Prince
| Arthur.
| Reports from St. Petersburg indicate that
| the Emperor has become more liked than
ever in his dislike to the unhappy Jews IN
! his dominions.
Long Island is at present besieged BY
Mormons priests and elders who hold power
full revivsls almost nightly, and it Is said
with good effect, as number of converts are
announced.
Another attemp. to food the city with
spurious fifty cent currency has just been
frustrated, and a clue obtained that may re
sui, in the detection of number Of dealers.
! A new disease. a stranger heretofore to
this country, has broken out in this city. 1t
is called the "relapsing fever" and has been
quite common in Europe. Though the fever
is very violent in its sympto rs, it is not
attended with great mortality. Several
cases have been detected in the hospitals.