Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-12-10

members. of the General Assembly.
1t takes three years to outlaw a |
felony. and the three years which |
would outlaw these Gas Trust ana |
Elevator Trust fclonies will not he up |
before 1900.
SO that there Is plenty of time for
the committee to meet and bring In Its
report and for the grand jury to indtct
the le gal and other bribers and TO start
them for Joliet before two of the three
years are over with.
The widely discussed new legislation
which the Illinois General Assembly Is
expected to enact at its coming session
Is already taking tangible form. New
bills are under discussion everywhere.
LEGISLATORS from the Wisconsin line 10
Cairo are hard at work drafting meas
ures creating new laws or changing
those now on the statute books.
Three members of the House and one
Senator have resolutions already pre-
pared for a committee TO investigate
and report on the iniquity connected
with the passage of the Gas Frontage
and Consolidation hill.
Six Senators and fifteen members of
the House are prepared to commence
the same sort of n movement IN rela-
ton to the Elevator bill.
A number of members say that they
will introduce repeating bills for both
these measures. Some are keeping
their measures q secret. while Others
have completed the bills they will in
troducc and have announced their pur-
npts S.,n-
ator J M. Hamilton Is hard ut work on
measure to provide an Industrial
school for juvenile offenders. He
wishes to do away with the necessity
of shutting up boys whose offenscs are
but minor ones with hardened crlm-
inals. and to provide an institution
where they may he reclaimed ana de-
veloped into good citizens.
II have other important measures tn
Introduce" said senator Hamilton.
but aside from the bill already men.
toned I shall devote my energies Ia
trying to prevent unwlsc, unfair ana
corrupt legislation"
Representative Pinkncy l.. McNabb.
Democrat. of McIcansboro. finds many
flaws In the present statutes nnd In.
tends to try ana rectify no less than
seven of them. Mr.. McNabb's cOrrcc-
tive efforts range from the dog license
and sheep law to the school law In ref
erencc to books. The bills which he
will introduce at the coming session
will include amendments 10 the fish
law. the game law. the exemption law.
the dog license and sheep law, the law
referring to fees and salaries, the Grim.
inal law, and the school law. Repre-
sentative McNabb lives In the Forty
sixth District.
4 resolution for constitutional
amendment will be introduced by Du
Fay A. Fuller Of Belviderc. Mr. Full
Ter Is a Republican Representative
from the Third District. In addition
to the resolution Representative Fuller
Is preparing and expects to introduce
n bill In the interests of pure food leg
islation. This measure, however, has
not been completed
Speaking OF the proposed changes In
existing State laws Representative
Thomas Zinn of Farina says:
II will Introduce an amendment to
the State banking laws reducing the
minimum capital to $4,000. Every
town In the State having n population
of 400 people or more needs bank
and will get one If the minimum cap
ital Is reduced to a reasonable figure"
The question Of free text books In
the public schools Is absorbing the at
tentlon Of Representative q. j. Page
of the Flfty.frst District. Mr.. Page
lives in Metropolis.
The one measure ! shall Introduce
and push." he said. Twill be n textbook
law giving free text boks and supplies
20 our public schools, covering the
common school course"
According 10 his plans, these books
are to be sold TO the various school
boards at II reasonable price under
stipulated contracts supplied by the
State Superintendent. by the terms of
the bin the book companies must give
bond for the performance OF contract,
etc.
"Thcsc are the main features he.
licyc ln," said Mr.. Page. They con-
stltutc free schools in the fullest ac-
ceptance OF that term"
A project 10 place charitable institu-
Iiou- uuutT lUe civil service law Il en-
gaglng the attention Of Representative
Charles A. PurIunn Of Marshall, For
ty-third District. Mr.. Purdunn has un.
der consideration such a hill, applying
especially 10 the attendants and other
employees receiving salaries of less than
$50 n month.
THE necessity of such law is oh
yious," declared Mr.. Purdunn. I'm
der the present system any one, no
matter how competent, If he Is suspect,
cd Of being n Democrat, Is barred from
employment In the State Institutions .
senator Nathaniel Dresser of Green
Vile Is one man who has not prepared
bill although he i not satisfied that
what Is Is right.
Il have as yet prepared no bill" said
Mr., Dresser and do not now know
that ! win. ] am Of the opinion, how,
ever that some Of 1he legislation OF
the last session should be amended N
this session. In my Judgment, the
revenue law should be amended so tha,
land will be assessed less any mOI.tgag,