The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-06
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
BOARD OF CHARITIES.

!. sort OF rowing committee OF lonS-laceu
4 smoothly.shaved mild.mannered pious old
s gentlemen, who are supposed to pay period
b zeal visits to the different charitable institu
l tons throughout the state, charging nothing
for their services, but having all their ex.
penses paid by the state. 1t seems, however,
2 that this board that works for nothing has
5 managed to expend $27,137.45 of the people S
money since its organization in 1869, of which
amount SIC, 62499 were absorbed IN paying
: the secretary's salary and $4,2SS for clerk
, hire. The Rev. II. X. Wines, the aforesaid
/ well paid secretary, writes the report, and it
is not strange that he is quite enthusiastic as
r to the usefulness of the board and thinks 1t
would be great public calamity to abolish
it. The house, however, in dealing with the
report, manifested a perverse spirit the other
way.
sAFEKEEPING OF PUBLIC FUNDS.
Mr. Hise, one of the Cook County represen.
tatives, cherishing probably keen remem.
brance of how Cook County lost half q mill,
ion through the operations OF treasurer Gage
in making money for the city by lending its
funds, has introduced, and is pressing bill
providing for the safekeeping of the public
funds OF towns, cities, counties and Of the
state. ltprovides, in brief that whenever the
public funds shall include $685. 900 not needed
for thirty days, the treasurer OF The city, coun.
ty or state shall invest the same in United
States bonds, which shall be again sold as
may be required. The plan is approved by a
letter written by Judge Cation. Mr.. Hse is
pressing the bill with his accustomed vgor
and will doubtless secure its passage
| INSANE ASYLUM AT ANNA.
A committee of the house has just been in
vestigating the affairs of the insane asylum a,
Anna, and has brought some rather disagree.
able facts to light. The institution is one of
those located in the town that made the high.
est bid, but afterwards lodged the payment
of the premium it offered. 1t is still uncom.
pleted. 1t is located with the utmost disre.
gard to accessibility. There is no road lead
ing to 1t. One is obliged to travel through
fore reaching it. An appropriation of 49,.
600 is now asked to build road from Anna
to the interior place. There are now about
$50 patients in the institution, who have to-
put up with the inconvenicnces afforded them
Appropriations are now asked for to com.
plete the central building, to the amount of
about 100000 The surgeon IN charge, in
reply to question propounded to him, stated
that the central building was used and occu
pied exclusively by himself and his assistants
just why surgeon and physician should
have large number of choice apartments
luxuriously furnished and set apart for his
private use at the expense of the state, is not
clearly apparent to the ordinary vision.
QUINCY COURT HOUSE.
A bill to enable the county of Adams to
raise money and locate and build new court
house, in place of rookery that served that
purpose recently burned down. bothered both
houses considerably to pass in such shape
as not to make it special law and yet to
answer the purpose. A law to fit the case
was finally passed, to apply to all counties
having less than 100000 inhabitants 1t is
possible that La Sale county may yet find
this law useful in exchanging her old rock.
cry of a court house tor new one.
RATE OF INTEREST.
The new interest bill passed by the house
en- the s6th, against which some hard things
have been said, pretends only to put into in
telligible English provision on the same
subject in the revised statues and which was
INT nded to legalized contracts for 10 per
cent. interest and the punishment with for.
fixture Of the interest," the taking of larger
rate.
BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
Senator Kehoe is engineering a new bill
through the senate on the subject of building
but so far as It's provisions have
been indicated we are unable to see in what
respect it differs from the present law on the
subject.
Bransons bill, which makes important
changes in the law for the trial of the right !
Of property and claims for exemption CT prop
erty before county courts, passed the house Q
on Wednesday.
A bill also passed the house on the same! u
lay amending the law in regard to township
companies.
On the same day Mr.. Conkrite, from the $
on appropriations, reported in IA u
'or of the passage Of the senate bill to appro- a
pirate $4,000 to complete the Douglas K
The bill to publish estray notices in local II
,apers instead OF apaper at Springfield was IL
defeated.
The senate bill TO place $4,000 at the dis
,osa of the state centennial commissioners, :
o aid them in representing this state at the ~
show at Philadelphia next year, II
vas tabled on Thursday by the house A.
The Beecher trial is beginning TO languish =,