The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-02
CAPTAIN EADs.
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
THE SENATE.

| SPRlNGFIELD, lis, April 30.-The
special order this morning in the senate
was Mr.. Hardman's joint resolution pro-
viding that proposition be submitted to
the people at the general election in 1880
whether the state normal universities at
Normal and Carbondale shall or shall not
| be continued as stare institutions.
Mr. Hamilton took the floor and ad-
dressed the senate in opposition to the
adoption of the resolution. He didn't
think the people desired to vote on the
proposition, from the fact that no petition
had been presented to the general assembly
praying for the privilege. He gave very
| full history connected with the location of
the normal school at Normal, and held
| that, for valuable consideration it had
| there been located, with the contract that
it should there forever stand, the glory of
the state, against which ignorance and su-
perstition should not prevail. The propo-
sition was to ask the people to do what the
general assembly was lacking in courage
to do by enactment He thought the peo-
pie of Illinois would be opposed to going,
back upon their contracts and solemn obi
cations made by delegated representatives
twenty years ago.
| Mr.. Herdman said that he had introduced
the resolution in the interest of economy.
He held that the university at Normal in
its inception was foisted upon the State
through fraud.
Mr. Hamilton presented q substitute re-
citing that, whereas the State Normal
schools were good ones and the pride of
the State, therefore they should be literally
maintained, or words to that effect. The
substitute was defeated by a vote of: Yeas
10; nays, 50.
The question then required on the orig
inal resolution, which was adopted by
vote Of 81 to Is.
Mr.. Herman at once offered a motion to
reconsider the vote by which the resolution
was adopted This move was made that
the Champaign Industrial University
might be included. The motion, however,
was lald on the table.
Senate bill 103, providing for the pro-
lection of bank depositors, was read a third
time. The bill provides that when depos-
its shall be lost to the dcpositor, the bank,
broker or officer so receiving such deposit
shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
in sum double the amount embezzled and
and fraudulently taken, and may be i'm
prisoned in the state penitentiary not less
than one nor more than three years. The
bill was passed.
The Kuykendall fee and salary bill, sec,
was then read third time.
Mr.. Dement, moved to refer the bill to
the judiciary committee,
This motion aroused Mr.. KuykendalI,
who earnestly protested against such dis
position. He was sure that nineteenth of
the people of the state who paid taxes
wanted the bill to become a law.
Mr.. Gallon opposed the reference, and
thought the bill ought to pass.
The motion to refer was lost.
The bill was then put upon its passage,
and was carried through by a vote OF
80 to 6.
The senate closed its business by passing
Its bill taxing telegraph companies per
cent. on their gross receipts.
THE HOUSE.
The house to-day industrously read all
the senate bills before it second time, and
ordered them all but one to third reading
House bill 1877, appropriating $4,000 for
incidental expenses Of the Chester pcuiten-
tiary up to July 1, 1870, was ordered to
third reading.
The house passed its day by passing its
bills compelling railroad trains to stop at
county seats and changing the name Of tho
Illinois Industrial university to the Univer-
o;,y or TlI;,n;s