Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Primary Bill Will be Con-
sidered by Joint
Committee.
NOV. 26
House Demands Election of Pre-
cinct and County Commit
tees.--Deneen's Message.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov 6-(Argus Spe-
cial. l.)-Speaker Shurtleff today appoint
ed the following conference committee
on the primary election bill: Oglesby
of Logan county, Chiperfield of Fulton,
Lindley of Bond, Behrens of Macoupin,
and Shanahan of Cook, republicans;
Pattison of Stephenson, and Daugherty
of Knox, democrats.
Senator's Named.
Lieutenant Governor Sherman ap-
pointed the following as the senate
conferees: Berry of Hancock, Acton
of Vermillion, Hamilton of St. Clair,
Dunlap of Champaign, Gardner of La
Sale, and JUL of Cook, republicans,
and Burton of Macoupin, democrat.
Both houses adopted a resolution ad-
journing until Tuesday, Nov 26, and
adjourned until that date.
Chief Points of Contention.
The chief points of contention be-
tween the two bodies will be the queS-
tion of whether precinct and county
committeeman shall be elected by the
people at the primary elections or
lotherwise.
Speaker Shurtleff appointed the fol-
| lowing committee according to the
joint resolution adopted yesterday to
investigate by what authority the Illi-
nois and Michigan canal commission
leased the ground between the dam
towpath at Dresden Heights to the
Economy Light & Power company of
Joliet: Flanagan, Church, Gillespie,
Moran and Egan.
| Governor Sends a Message.
Governor Deneen sent a message to
the legislature urging it to pass bill
with an emergency clause to maintain
the present status of the Illinois and
Des PLANES rivers, and not to permit
the attaching of the vested rights OF
the state before the people have voted
on the constitutional amendment vot-
ing s20,00O,000 for the construction of
a deep waterway.
May Demand Joint Conference
Springfield, H., Nov. 6.-By unani-
lmous vote the house last evening re-
fused to concur in the amendments to
the Oglesby direct plurality primary
bill made by the senate and shot the
measure back at the senate with a
lstring attached
The string was in the shape of a
motion to the effect that if the sena-
tors do not recede from their high
handed changes a joint conference is
lasked by the house.
In this way Colonel John G. Oglesby,
who made the motion, believes the
house will have strategic advantage,
for, in a measure, it will be in the po-
sition of forcing the senate to come
over to do business on the primary
lreform question.
| May Jump Backward.
t Lieutenant Governor Sherman. Sem
!, ator Berry, and Representative Ogles-
: by and Lindy conferred during the af-
temoon, and apart from deciding that
seven members shall be appointed to
the joint conference from each house.
S dropped numerous limitations that the
u senate combine has concluded to jump
g the hurdles backward. gracefully if
: possible, if not tne other way.
L Uncle Joe Cannon came to town ear
ly in the day, but left in sorrow in the
evening on finding only a few of the
lsenate barnacles on the spot. He talk
II ed with Shurtleff and Berry, still urg-
ling the adoption of a plan that would
not force him to take his presidential
aspirations to a vote in his home state.
Many Developments of Day.
Yesterdays water power develop
r ments in the house were:
Il Governor Deneen discovers that the
s. state has the express power to remove
;. the dam at Marseilles whenever it
wishes to improve the Illinois river
for navigation.
I'll Attorney General Stead takes up the
n contract for fowage rights at Dresden
II Heights TO determine whether the Illf-
n nois and Michigan calan commission
overstepped its power in granting it
The contention is made that the con.
tract is either in perpetuity or for a
p longer term than 90 years. which
1 4 would invalidate it.
II Governor Deneen decides to start
:. injunction proceedings to stop The
work at Dresden Heights in case flow
age contract is considered ultra wire:
by the attorney general.
House adopts resolution provid;n: