The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-26

! Total. Observation-Disclosures. 81 DOL ,433
These figures are about $4,000 in excess OF
the last appropriations,
Among the bills passed during the past
week we note the following:
Senate bill to make the illinois Central
Railroad tax available for ordinary expenses
of the state government.
Senate bill by house to appropriate $1,000
for the Lincoln monument at Springfield and
$4,7lS to finish the Douglas monument at
Chicago.
| House bill TO make certain the authority Of
appellate courts to issue writs of mandsmus.
House bill requiring county clerks u have
tax books ready by the LIST of December.
Bill authorizing courts IN divorce cases to
require additional notice of the suit to be civ.
en- where they might deem necessary was
passed. Also, bill allowing women in suits
for separate maintenance to have allmony I'm.
der the order of the court, the same aS in di.
vorce cases, such right to continue where the
husband appealed the case
Bill amending section SO of the act in re.
gard to administration Of estates, by inserting
therein a provision that the court may, for
| good cause shown, IN any case require bond
and security from the surviving partner, when
ever the interests Of the estate or partnership
may require 1t.
Bill amending section Adj of the criminal
code so as to read as follows: "TLat jurIes III
all criminal cases shall be judges of the law
and the fact, and it shall be an error for a
court to qualify this section by institu,ing any
parison between court and jury as to the
jurors knowledge of law
The resolution prepared and sent in by the
Farmers Legislative club some time ago, and
which demands arevision of the schedule rale
rs fixed 10y the comm lssloners for freight and
passenger traffic, was taken up and passed.
Bill fixing the salaries of the canal commls
sioners at $1,000 year.
Bill fixing the term Of township supervisors
at three years.
Morris deadly weapon hlp.pocket bill, max
ing /, unlawful for minors to indulge in these
luxuries.
Bill requiring officers having IN their custo-
dy public funds to prepare and publish an an
nual statement Of such funds.
On Wednesday Mr. Vaughey introduced a
bill in the house requiring bridge companies
10 build approaches or guards to the draws of
bridges over navigable streams, which was or.
deIed to second reading.
When Robinson's bill appropriatIng $780,
900 year for the next two years for repairs
and improvements along the canal came up,
Pearson, of Madison moved to strike out the
last section, which provided no part of the APP
preparation, or OF other moneys In the hands
of the commissioners, should be used for the
payment Of lawyers fees IN suits to recover
the lake 'front.' property in Chicago He SAID
he was informed by one of the commissioners,
two years ago, that the state had AN interest IN
this property, and the speaker believed in the
states asserting it, and was opposed to tying
the hands of the commissioners in this way
Vaughey, of La Sale, chlmed in on the same
side, and though Mitchell suggested that the
attorney general was supposed TO be paid for
acting rs counsel TO the state, it was no use,
the provision was summary knocked out,
and the bill as amended sent 10 third read
ing.
The senate on Wednesday, after a tedious
debate, reconsldered It's resolution to adjourn
ON the 18th Of April over to next February
and laid II on the table