Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-12-15
PREPARING NEW LAWS.

-Four weeks from last Wednesday tn,
Forty-sccond General Assembly will
meet in Springfield. Mcmbcrs-clcct of
the Legislature say they look for long
session. because a United States Sem.
tor Is to he elected. and because the
Senatorial and Congressional districts
Will be reapportioncd.
They also say that the session will be
prolific of gas. strcct.railway. sanitary
district. revenue. warehouse. racetrack.
primary-electlon. municipal-Ownership
police. stock yards. sugar-bect bounty.
pure-fOOd, good-roatls and Chicago bills.
Several men will 90 to Springfield
with resolutions calling for a constitu.
tional convention, and in some parts of
the state there Is n desire to hold Off
senatorial reapportionment until after
constitutional convention has had an
opportunity to limit the representation
or Cook County In the Legislature to
seventeen Senators and hfty-onc Rep.
resentatives.
The big Increase in population of
COOK County entities this county to
four or five additional Senatorial dis
tricts. 1t now has fifteen districts
ana any new apportionmenf made by
the Forty-scconl General Assembly
VII give 1t nineteen or twenty Scna.
torlal districts.
Many OF the country members see n
source Of danger In giving Cook Coup.
~ twenty out of the ffty.One Scna.
torlal districts. They declare It will be
better TO make u new apportiOnment
after u new constitution has been
adopted. which will limit Cook County
to seventeen districts.
One Of the hottest fights scheduled
to come before the Legislature will be
made. II IN said. by the Board of Trade
upon the warehouscmcn. The Chicago
Board OF Trade. IL Is said. will seek to
repeal that section of the warehouse
law which gives the owners of cleyn.
tors the right to deal In grain stored I'm
their elevators. The elevator men, Il
Is said. will fight this bill to the finish,
ana claim they will have the backing of
the country members.
Clayton Il. Crafts, II IL said. IL draft.
ing bill for an act to take the place of
the present primary-elcctiOn law. The
Crafts bill. 1t Is said. provides for the
nomination OF candidates by the direct
vote OF electors without the intcrvcn.
tlOn of a convention.
"A Third Ward attorney also Is draft
Ing similar bill for some Cook County
member of the Legislature, and several
members are drawing up amendments
to the present primary election law,
which will provide for the opening of |
polls at o'clock In the morning and
the closing at % o'clock In the evening,
Another bill amends the law so as TO |
give special registration day for n
primary election.
Half a dozen Democratic members
VIII Introduce bills giving munIclpali-
lies the right to own ana operate water
works, elcctric.light plants, gas plants
ihd street railways. Several Republic
AN members want to be first with n
Dill to repeal the Case garnlshment act.
The new revenue law will be attacked
III along the line. 1t IL said that tax.
'ayers In the country want the law
'mended so as to limit the power of the
boards or review. A Chicago member
u the next Legislature said this week:
THE outlook for good things in
springfield next year Is bright. We
nay not have to walk back home this
Inc, as we did two years ago."