The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.


10 enable that city to collect her city taxes
the payment of which, for the last two or
three years, has been resisted on the ground
of irregularlty IN the assessment. The bill
proposes to jump the difficulty by providing
that hereafter Ne deeds mortgages or other
; couvcyanccs shall be put upon record unless
accompanied by "A receipt in full for all taxes
up TO the date Of such conveyance.
On the same day Cullom sent to the senate
his nominations for pententiary commission
ers, rs follows: Robert W. DuOny, OF Clark
county Samuel II. Jones, of Sangamo, and
Alfred w. Jones, of Joe Davless. Also his
nominations for State Board of Education, as
follows b. &. Root of Perry county; f. l..
Wells, OF Ogle, and J. c. Knickerbocker, of
Cook, present incumbents; and John ID. Ca.
ton, of Cook, vice N. E. Worthington, of PEG.
ria, and II. l.. Boltwood, of Bureau, vice
George G. Clark, of Cook, resigned.
All the penltentiary commissioners and all
the nominees tor Board of Education but one
being republicans, the democratic majority
IN the senate show a stubborn disposition not
to confirm the appointments, insisting that at
least one-third of all the officers 50 appointed
shall be democrats.
The house on the 9th passed half a dozen
of bills First, the two Kehoe bills, which
had already passed the senate, fixing the time
and manner of holding township and city
elections. The bills were so amended by the
| han hat boyc hou afTa ,t,;, 10 IS
Chicago. The senate has concurred in the
house amendments and the bills have become
laws. Other bills passed by the house were
A bill to secure the wages OF laborers-by
which railroads and contractors must pay
their laborers in preference to all other
claims.
A bill prohibiting divorce sbysters from
advertising their nefarious business.
~ bill to protect reversionary sub-lessees.
A bill TO prevent and punish the crime of
seduction.
A bill authorizing attorneys to act as
judges.
A bill releasing witnesses from criminal
liability and compelling them to testify when
the evidence would criminate themselves.
A bill making it burglary to enter build
ing, the doors and windows being open, with
intent to commit crime.
The two last named have also passed the
senate.
The senate also on Tuesday passed Trues
dale's resolution to facilitate the matter of
amending the constitution.
Among the resolutions offered and pending
in both houses is one urging the appointment
ofJudge Drummond to the supreme bench in
place of Judge Davis.
Mr.. Morgan caused some surprise IN the
senate on Tuesday by offering resolution
proposing to appoint committee to invcsti-
gate the recent acquittal of Sullivan by a
Chicago jury!
A monster petition was presented in the
house on Tuesday by the Ladies National
Temperance Union, asking the passage of
law prohibiting the licensing of the sale of
liquor in any city, town or village without
the consent of majority Of the legal voters
and majority of all females oyer IS years
of age. Mrs. Frye, after sharp objection by
Mr. Harrington, was allowed to maze so
minutes speech to the house in support of
the objects of the petition.
The senate on Wednesday passed bill 10
amend the general law for the incorporation
of cities and villages in the state 10 the fol-
lowing effect:
AT the general election held in 1877 and
biennially thereafter, a mayor, a city clerk, IA
city attorney, and city treasurer shall be
elected IN each city; provided that no person
shall be elected to the office Of city treasurer
for two terms in succession.
The senate then went into secret session
and spent the balance of the day in hot
discussion over Beveridge's appointments for
trustees and officers of the state charities,
ending In vote of 90 to "a ag'on,t their
confirmation.
The house, on the same day, adopted the
senate resolution for the investigation OF the
South Park job in Chicago.
Also a resolution inviting Henry Ward
Beecher on Thursday morning to open the
house with prayer, but he failed to put in an
appearance.
The senate on Thursday passed the house
resolution to submit 10 the voters of the state
at the mex, election constitutional amend
ment rs follows:
The general assembly may pass laws per-
hitting the owners of lands to construct
drains, bitches, and levees for agricultural
sanitary, or mining purposes across the lands
of others, and vest the corporate authorities
thereof with power to construct and maintain
levees, drains, and bitches, aud to keep IN
repair all drains, bitches, and levees hereto
constructed under the laws Of this state, by
SPECIAL assessments upon tie property bene
fitted thereby.
At last the combination between the two
great rival telegraph companies of the coun-
try-the Atlantic and Pacific and the Western