Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-01
ILLINOIS Senate MUT|LATES AND
PASSES OCLESBY PRIMARY BILL
All Provisions amperng Vaccinations of Politicians Are Cut
Out Through Efforts of Cannon and Others--HOuse
May Not Act Further

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election of party committeeman.
Eliminating the restriction Y ch would
have prevented voter changing his
politics as often as he might see tit for
purposes OF primary elections.
Eliminating the provision which
would have allowed the voters to de-
termine how many caudidates for the
legislature should be nominated by
their party and giving this power to
the senatorial committees.
| Speaker Cannon Gets His.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon wanted
the first amendment to aid his presi
dental campaign. and he got it.
The party bosses wanted the SECOND
amendment to keep outsiders from
! "butting in on matters of organization
which do not concern them. and they
got it.
! Politicians who realize the value Of
a free. Independent and floating vote
which will be republican one minute
and democratic the next. as the pa
triotic needs of the politicians NAV
require, wanted the third. and they
got it.
Senate Remembers self.
The senate itself wanted the fourth,
and it got it. Something had to be
done to make the measure unaccepta-
BILE in the house. The senate leaders
| knew that a compromise on the ques.
ton of legislative nominations was
what made the passage of the Oglesbv
bill in the house possible. They threw
out the provision which the republi
cans in the house had accepted from
the democrats in order to pass the
measure If the house accepts that
bill now the senate will have no fur.
ther faith in human nature. 1t will
become pessimistic.
Berry wouldn't Hurt Cause.
Senator Berry. who is the great and
good friend of primary legislation. of.
fered the last mentioned amendment
He also offered the one which we,-
comes nonpartisanship i'll party pri
maries Mr.. Berry is the great an /
good friend of direct primaries. ana
would do nothing to injure the cause
to which ne has been devoted for as
many as three weeks.
House May RetnIiate.
The house may not even reaSsemble
to consider the amended bill. Speaker
Shurtleff is said to have decided that
in case the senate amended the meas
ure seriously he would not call the
house members back, but would vote
a noncOncurrence under the gavel and
send the measure back TO the senate
In such a case if the senate did not
recede from its amendments he would
appoint the house members of the con
ference committee and would not ca
the house members back until the
committee had a report ready to make
Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Y
Sherman helped Mr. Cannon to Sc
cure what he wanted by not permit
ting a roll call on the amendment pro
posing to take national politics out o
: the bill. He gaveled the amendments
: through. ignoring the demands for rol
l calls. On all other questions he wa,
i as good as his word and gave ro'
! call whatever demanded. but on thi
! proposition of national politics his per
sonal opinion ran so strongly agains
the bill that he refused to allow th
n calling of the roll.
How the Senator's Voted.
This roll call on Senator Berry
: amendment, the most important {
: the session. as it spelled the bill
death, was as follows:
Yeas-Acton, Baker, Barr, Berry
G Broderick. Brown. Chafee Ciarh
lCruikshank. Curtis. Evans. Gardner
Ie' Hall Houser. Humphrey, Hurburgi