The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-30
BILL GIVING TOMBSTONE MEN
RIGHT TO DEsEcRATE GRAVES
is NOT PASSED.
MEMORIALS NOT PAID


infinite patience Representative Louis
Finger. who deals Ia tombs ones in
Pekin, has & en- edging along towards
the passage of a bin giving sellers Of
tombstones a lien on the stones and
right to remove them from grave
yards. Ait every step he has been fol-
lowed persistently by Repres anta-
tive Morton D. Hull, who deals in law
in Chicago and who does not believe
in liens, whether on tombstones or
olher things.
Mr.. Finger Is a pertlnacious middle
aged man and Mr. Hull is scholar
" young man. and they have been
running c,rcFs 5 around each other for
other for month on the subject of
This measure, with the fortunes Of war
on the side of Mr. Finger until today
when. having edged his bin up 10
third reading. he made bold dash
with il towards passage.
Mr.. Hull was al his he Is In a me
ment. and as yet the house has not
passed an act which with the acqui-
scence OF the senate and governor
would permit the removal Of tomb
stones from graces.
Memorials often Not Paid For.
Mr.. Finger in stating his dash with
the bill, read a piece which he had
prepared descriptive Of the work Of
monument makers In creating beauti
ftll memorials iii bronze and marble
Witch 10 fnsn entity, he said. were
not paid for.
Mr.. Hull took un the subject with
willing enthusiasm. He spoke his
piece without reference to manu-
script
"This bin was treated as a joke in
committee and was reported out as a
Joke. but ii Is time now TO consider
1t serious ly. II means practically that
graves may be desecrated. There -
another bill in this legislature which
g.yes a horseshoer a lien in the shoes
mt on horses S. If this thing keeps
IN YOU soon will have funerals where
the horseshoer will have a lien ON the
shoes of the horses attached to the
hearse, the undgrtakers will have
lien on the coffin, and the monument
maker will have a lien on the tomb
stone.
Then probably We'll go farther
and a physician who attends at birth
will have a lien on the baby. It's a
pretty sick body polite which has to
be plastered all over with statutory
LENS and mustard plasters.'
Lindley Puts Question.
Mr.. Finger endeavored to reply, brit
liepres NATIVE Indy, the demon in
terlogation point, bohbed up.
what percentage of tombs' ones
sold are not paid for?" he asked. Mr..
Lmdley makes a specially of quese
tions. Il is popularity supposed that
an Xray photograph of Mr.. Indy $
mind at rest would show nothing but
interrogation marks.
Mr.. Zing said he did not know ex-
acfly but the trouble was not with the
little ones. The expensive ones, he
said. are the ones not paid for
Don't you sell people monuments
which you know they cannot afford?'
asked NJ. Lindly.
Mr.. Finger thought this was not
done knowingly on the part OF the
dealer.
zone man bought big stone be-
fore he was Dead" he said.
Representative Alien ch2mpioned
Mr.. Fingers cause.
There's never any trouble with a
woman who has bought tombstone
for her husband" he said. She VIII
see that it is paid for If she has to
ial, in washingto do il, but lazy,
loafue man who spends his time fish
inc chewing tobacco. and drinking
will buy a monument for his wife and
never pay for it. Such customers
should not be protected. There would
L, no desecration of graves If the
stone were removed in such cases.
when the .craichers who are after
the Allen bill get through with me
don't know whether I'll have enough
money to buv monument. but |
know thai if don't and one is put
ND and not paid for shall not care If
il is taken away"
Not enough on Roll Call.
Then the bill went to roll call. but
too much disquiet had been aroused in
the minds Of members. It could mus
fr only sixty-four votes. Too many
members refused to hear their names
when called By the clerk. and Mr..
Finger. 20 save his bin was forced 70
ask for D sponement until next We'd
nesday. At pre- cent II seems that Mr.
H-n has won ont.