The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-01
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

Il Having SOt NANNY ONcI 'hc ''''N'' va Wv
grand free lunch iamborce OF the last TWO
weeks among thc state institutions and tht
social evil haunts of st Louis, our state legis
lators have buckled down to work during the
Hast few DAYS with to,erablc carncStneSs.
The senate committee on canal lands, aitci
virtually agreeing TO recommend IN appro-
Ipyiation OF 100000 a- u contingent fund To
the canal postponed the matter for two weeks
/ The house committee agree 10 vote SSo,OOO d
wear to the canal. Nj Whiting is engineering
The matter in the senate and Mr. Chase IN the
house.
Mr.. Crookcr presented Il bill in the house
ON Tuesday and Mr. Lewis like bill in the
| senate onW Wednesday to enable deputy recorders
topcrtorm the duties OF the Office in case Of the
death or resignation Of the recorder The
| bills are Of course intended to meet the diff
Guilty that In, arisen in this county through
| the death Of Recorder Bernhard, II will take
a week TO ret either bill through both houses
/ Mr.. Crookcrs fish bill was ordered to the
| third reading in the house on Tuesday and
by this time has probably passed that body
| It prohibits the taking of game fish by any
means but hook and line from February 10Th
to June 18th, under penalties ranging from
So TO 800, and to 30 days imprisonment for
nOn-payment of fines.
Kuykendalls fees and salaries bill was
fayorably reported to the senate on saturday,
Ii reduces the Governors salary from $1,000
/ % A.
urcr and Attorney General to $4,000; Circuit
Judges to $4,000; and reduces all Circuit
Clerks, County Clerks, Recorders, and Sher-
IFS fees, &c, from % to so per cent
The senate laid on the table the resolution
asking congress to reduce the Presidents sal
airy to $4,000; but passed the resolution
thanking congress for passing the anti-Chlnesc
tcmigration bill, by vote Of 20 to IS. Mr.,
Artley, the communist senator from Chicago,
made a regular Observation-Disclosures speech IN
support of the resolution, declaring that the
working.men were determined 10 have their
rights" whatever he may mean by that, land
if they cannot obtain them peaceably they
will obtain them at the lannon's mouth and
amid the smoke of civil war"
The JOINT committee to revise the revenue
law was appointed on Saturday, but it is not
| likely they will be able to do more than re
commend few amendments to the law al this
session.
! Quite number of bills have been pushed
forward to a third reading and each day few
pass one house or the other, though most OF
them are OF trivial mportance-proposng to
amend without improving some section OF
chapter of the revised statues Among the
bills that have passed the senate are the fol
loving:
To amend section 30 OF the Justice Of the
Peace Act so As To provide for changes OF
venue.
To amend the act in relation to clerks OF
courts.
To regulate the manner Of applying foi
pardons.
| To appropriate S25, 700 to Wabash county
rebuild court house destroyed by the tornado
at Mt. Carmel two years ago.
To consolidate the several grand divisions
!
Springfield. THE act contains sections, and
provides that the present clerks of the several
divisions shall remove all their records and
papers to Springfield on or before next Sep
tember but shall continue to perform their
duties there the same as if no consolidation
had taken place until the expiration Of their
respective terms of office. After that there is
to be but one supreme court clerk. The court
honses and libraries Of the northern and
southern grand divisions are to remain toI
the use Of the appellate courts)
The house has passed the following among
other bills:
! TO punish debtors or other parties for con
cealng property levied upon.
To furthcre define the crime of larceny.
To amend the Justice and Constable's act
| To amend the replevn law.
To amend the punishment law $50 as to en-
cmpt wages To amount or $500
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