Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-03
THROUGH SENATE
Bill Regulating Divorce Meets
With Little Opposi-
ton.
MONEY TO BUILD ROADS
Variety of Measures Are Rushed
Through Both Houses of Leg
isIature.
TO BUILD ROADS

Springfield, H., May 3.-The senate
yesterday by a vote of 26 to IA, re
ceded from its amendment to house bill
sent it to the governor unamended.
The bill forbids both parties to a suit
to remarry within a year.
The first of the house good roads
bills (No. GID was passed 85 to 81.
The bill appropriates $4,000 a year
for the expenses of a highway commits
sion of three members to be appointed
by the governor for six-year terms
without compensation, to carry on ex-
perimental work in road building and
investigate materials and cost of con-
struction and maintenance throughout
the state.
COmerfOrd Refuses Salary.
Frank D. Comerford sent to the
house a communication declining to
accept $1,O5O as a new member, to
which he had been declared entitled.
The house killed house bill 375,
known as the "Partello claim" by
vote of 67 to AS Mr.. Shanahan, of
Cook, fought the bill from the first,
both in the appropriation commission
and on the floor of the house. The bill
appropriated $4,000 in payment of a
claim of William Il. Particle for work
done at Pontiac in 1892 under a state
contract
The house passed. IS to SO, the SEN
ate bill authorizing the construction of
a supreme court building in Spring
field to cost s35O,OOO and appropriating
S150.OOO to begin the work.
Measures Voted by House.
Other bills passed by the house were
as follows:
House bill 3S3 dgeon)-Amend-
ment to convict labor law Provides
that 40 per cent of the prisoners may
be employed in the manufacture of
goods to be sold elsewhere than to
state institutions.
House bill 35S (CampbelD-Abo
ing the indeterminate sentence act
provides that no person shall be i'm
prisoned longer than the term provided
by the jury.
House bill 3O3 Surely)-Author-
izing judges to suspend sentences for
two years or as long as good behavior
continues of persons convicted of
crime
House bill 637 (BreidD-Fixing a |
maximum pension fund of SIS for mem
bers of the Chicago fire department;
increases the pension of the rank and |
file, but decreases that of officials re-
firing on large salaries.
Bills Passed by senate.
The senate passed the following |
bills:
House bill 489 (Hearn) |
county board Of review to complete |
their work by the first Monday in Sep |
tember and the state board of equaliza- |
ton by Nov. Is; fixes salaries of equal |
izers at $3.50 a session.
House bill 649--Making the salaries |
Of public employees subject to garnish- |
ment
Senate bill 457 (Gardner)-Increas-
ing the salaries of supreme court JUS |
tees from $1,000 to $4,000 a year and |
Of their assistants from $4,000 TO SAL
300; yeas 26. nays IS.
Senate bill 156 (Gardner)-Provid-l |
ing that half of the inheritance tax
shall be paid into the state treasury |
and half into the county treasury; yeas |
sc. nays 4.
Senate bill 492 (HalD-Giving boards |
Of local improvement the right to make |
supplementary assessments. The bill |
was sent to the house, where an iden- |
tical bill was killed in judiciary com |
mittee 10 days ago.