The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-16
THE ILLINOIS CAPITAL.

SPRISGFIELD, March IA. - When the
senate convened Senator Dement, moved
that the senate bill 1874, introduced by
Senator Joslyn y be taken up on the second
reading The bill amends the act which
districts the state into penitentiary districts
the bill was then ordered to o third read.
ing.
A petition was presented from Will
county citizens praying that the habit of
saloon setting up" be prohibited by law
Referred to the committee on license
The appropriation committee returned
the bills for appropriations to the Southern
Insane asylum, the Soldiers Orphans home
the Deaf and Dumb asylum and the Chi
cago Eye and Ear infrmary, with amend
ments, and they were ordered to sccont
reading,
The bill to aid industrial schools fol
girls, prepared by the Judiciary committee
was, by a suspension of the rules, taken up
and read a second time
Senator Beck moved to amend by requir
ing counties to ,pQy SIC. per month for tbs
maintenance OF dependent girls in sucl
schools Adopted
Senator Maybourn moved 10 strike on
section three, which authorizes any respect
able person, resident for one year in any
county, to petition the county court to in.
qulre into the allcdged dependency Of any
female infant then within the county.
The senator held that it would afford q
field for busy bodies and give them an op
portunity TO interfere with the domestic
arrangements of families.
Senator Mum said that the bill require
that all the questions raised by Senate
haybourn shall be decided by II jury.
senator Johnson thought there could b
no danger from busy bodies, as the sex wa
about extinct.
Senator Maybourn sad there WAS no NJ
cesSity for the bill nor for the schools II
said the state had made ample provision
for the care and maintenance Of the poor,
Senator Ford said that the bill was tie
signed 10 furnish homes for miortunat
girls.
Senator Joslyn said he had not suppose
there could be any opposition To the bill
He thought it could DO no harm, TIL
ladies OF the state ask aid in their charM
bic efforts toward rcscung female childrc
from the path that leads toward ruin AM
disgrace. He could see no reason why tn
aid asked for in til Mill should not b
granted,
Senator Merritt spoke against the bill
He thought the state was fostering to-
many institutions Of this kind. He didn'
think the state government should become
parental,
Senator 'N,iafcrro thought the measure
| very llUUdHt buN, Ilt was W tlc VplulOI
that il the bin was for the benefit of som,
corporation or rich man, it wouldn't NEE
with q, much opposition rs does this bill
Senator Sou,hworth spoke earnestly an,
ably in favor Of the bill.
Senator Maybourn's amendment TO strik,
out section was defeated.
Senator Jones moved to amend 10y pro
viding that the transportation Of these I'm
fortunatd girls be furnished by the counties
from which they were sent. Adopted
The bill was then ordered to third
reading.
Senator Whites bill for I'm act to regu.
late charges on public sleeping and dining
cars was ordered to third reading
NEW RII.Ls,
by Senator DeLany-- Bill in regard e
mechanics and laborcrs' liens
by Senator Num- Bill for net "to pro
hibit the habi, Of treating in salcons."
| Senator Jones Bill ''to provide for N,