The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-13
THE CONVENTION.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS,


1fany expressions in the following re.
view of Wednesdays proceedings of the
Constitutional Convention, shall be es-
teemej harsh, the reader will please re-
member that we copy from the Chicago
Tribme--a paper that has the habit of
dealing extensively in matters it don like.
and of speaking of them exactly as it
! pleases:
THE QUINCY TAX JOB.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May ll.--Mr. Peirce
this morning, made an attempt TO have the
Committee on Revision and Adjustment
INSTRUCTED to strike out the section intro
duced on Monday, by Mr.. Browning, and
passed, by which the city Of Quincy would
be enabled to get $500 900 out Of the State
Treasury to enable her to pay n subscrip-
ton toa Missouri Railroad, made year
before the tax-stealing law was passed, but
his resolution failed of getting a majority
vote.
THE SCHEDULE REPORT.
After disposing of the above matters,
the report Of the Committee Of the whole
on the schedule was taken up. The
amendments offered by Mr.. Browning,
yesterday, to the eighth section and
adopted, providing for cumulative voting
in election, the Circuit Judges of Cook
County at the first election, was noncon-
Cured in, and the section rs originally
reported restored. That provides that no
person shall vote for more than two
Judges of the three to DO elected. After
acting 1pon all the amendments, the con-
vention took up the schedule for final
adoption. When the ninth section was
reached, motion was made on the Demo-
cratic side TO insert the suffrage article ms
one TO be submitted 10 n separate vote of
the people, and it was declared carried by
one majority. On looking over the tally
list after adjournment, Il was discovered
that instead Of there being one majority
for the proposition, the vote was tie.
When the convention came together in
the afternoon, the President gave his cast
ing vote in the negative, and the PROPOSE.
ton was defeated. Several Republicans
voted in favor Of the separate submission.
The end of the report was reached about
4 oclock, and II was sent to the Committee
on Revision and Adjustment. The Com
nittee on Revision then made an additional
report, and IL was ordered TO be enrolled.
COMPLETION OF THE WORK.
All the articles of the constitution have
now been ordered TO be enrolled, EXCEPT
the schedule, which IL now in the hands Of
the Committee of Revision and Adjust
ment, and will be reported for enroll
ment in the morning. The constitution.
after being enrolled, will have TO be read
20 the convention, receive the signatures Of
he members, and that will DO the end. |
All this will be completed by Friday noon. |
The following are sections reported by |
Mr.. Ross, from the Finance Committee:
SECTION. That until the year 1875 the |
state taxes shall not exceed IS cents per
800, and thereafter shall not exceed so
,ents per $lOO, unless authorized By vote
II the electors of the State.
SEC. 2. County authorities shall never
'ssess taxes the aggregate of which shall
xceed rs cents per 500 vlauation, except
or the payment Of indebtedness existing
4 the adoption Of this constitution, unless
authorized bya vote of the people Of the
country.
The first section was rejected and the
econd adopted.
SOUTHERN INSANE ASYLUM.
The Commissioners ofthe Southern In.
sne Asylum, having had the plan. for
heir building so TN odif.d as TO bring the
ost for erection, etc, within the appropri-
ton made by the last Legislature, the
Governor to-day approved them. After
ivertising sixty days for proposals, the
ork will commence.