, 1881-04-13
HOUSE..

Hpeetat Dlspafth to The Chicago Tribune.
Spn1SdFIEI.n, ILL.,, April 1o.-The calendar
this morning showed up seventy blls OIL Sec
onGi rcatllng, seyenty-nlne OH third readlng,
three on first reading, aud eighteen which
Ind been temporarily postponed. But tho
)I1ouse was full, numerically speaking, Of
coursc,-and got down to business without
delay.
The bill providing for tho assignment Of
Appellate Court Judges, pending when the
House adjourned yesterday, WIS first taken
up. Under the present law these Judges ara
assigned by tho Supreme Court at will. The
bill unt'er consideratlon'provdes TINT "'cho
Judges assigned to tho First District shalt be
Circuit Judges from the Second Distrfgt;
that the Judges assigned to tina Second Dis
trict shall be Circuit Judges from tho First
District; that tho Judges assigned to tic
tho Fourth District; and tint tic Judges Ms.
signed to tho Fourth District shall bo
Circuit Judges from the Third District"
The professed object Of tho bill Is to prevent
tho trial by I'll Appellate Court judge OF a
case which ho Inns been called upon to try III
Ills capacity lis Circuit Judge. The objcc-
tton to tho bill. as urged by
TIE COOK COUNTY MEstDERs,
was that 1t would draw away three Circuit
Court Judges from Cook every three years
n,ltl retard business III Court which ~ nj
ready a year behind OIL It's docket. rho Bill
itself. rs we'll rs committee amendment
striking out tho quoted proylso and inserting
In lieu tic words, "Sald Judges shall not be
assigned to duty In tlio Appellate Court OF
the same district In which he or they reside"
occasioned no littlo discussion.
Mann, OF Vermillon, said 1t would bo n
hardship to tho Appellate Court Judges,
many of them old n,e,, to remove thon from
their homes and lnt0 another district, iii or
der 10 meet the object aimed Mt by tho bill,
andht the sat,,e tfnle to provel,t such u lard
shin rs this, ).e offered tho following substi-
tuta for th8 quoted proyjso III tho bill:
I,rovtie.i, THAT any appeal taken or writ OF or
ror prosecuted ff1'1n tho lnal order, Judgment,
oF eaia Anncjnfe { 1os shai On ,o muton NJ Of
either party. bo iaken to Or prosecuted from tho
Appc''ate C''use N an ADJOINING district
Inc ophoSioas conin1ltseo alaeitalnant wMs tSs
lost, slal|ifs SUBSTITUTE aaopteo' ana tae olil
! THE Hc,foor. LAW.
The remainder OF the morning and q good
pnrt nf tfo nftarnoon ansslon was spent in
,,"i.or,ng ~ tho solooi law t,'o nnrtjcnlor
instrument used In tlle process being b'!l by
Peters, of rlatt, ab0utts long rs the moral law.
| After being discussed a,,d alnedcd for hours
tt,a lin ,vo. ahnvn,J niorg n t,,ir,i rea,Itr,
ane w. N1s 7'm''e'. rio"s ~ tnuu lca'is'
Ihe ehahges II Mskes ~ .no pleseht !aw.
| outside OF q number OF details tllAt nobody
cures particularly about, are very few
| nud st,Dulo. II mnlps tha school vea,
" ".'a ni'i' 1.,,.. or t,,st"n5 ~ n,tn,ar ~.
VIZ sats .,,s.s,"." n,,e,,",,,~ .na1,
-, ~ ,is,a ~. ',ata ;,e+oo% ~ ~, o,,ti",,
oouhufy ill,es oh fote lnStoau VI ny pelt!o1t1
and sl'np'lics tho secelon which presctibes
the dutlus of Trustees. The question uf MP
| uortlo,1inp tle sclool fund on tho basis Of
scl,nol attendnnca. instead at as now hv tle
census Of minors, roused the rural portion oi
tho House, alld the result was that the new
tangled schema wus knocked ont, and the
Iu WIZ " -, npu."p'a'." a',.' ~ "0ae'oAo''' VI
tlle oas's ol INC seHoo! age.
| CANAL coMrAa1E8.
Parish, of Cook, obtained unanimous lenvl
In Jntrot1nru A bill which nroyIdet
w., w., .,,n ,'s,,,, .,,o,i,o,,s ~ nr,,,,,,,,n
| Tim FIR tnn incnrmrntfnn of IN
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