Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-27
House Passes Resolution
but is Scored by Lieu
tenant Governor.
LAW MAKERS CLASH
House Kills Conference Report
on 0gIesby Bill---DeadIock
Over Adjournment.

Springfield, H., Nov. 27.-(Argus
Special. 1.-The session cf the senate
this morning was characterized by an
attack on the canal commissioners by
Lieutenant Governor Sherman, and a
personal assault on Senator Hanson of
Decatur by Representative Shanahan
of Chicago The two belligerents sub
sequently apologized.
Ordered Contract Abrogated.
The house passed a joint resolution
ordering the canal commissioners to
abrogate the contract now held by the
Economy Light & Power company and
to destroy the dam the company is
erecting at Dresden Heights, and the
resolution has gone to the senate for
its concurrence
Sherman Objects.
Lieutenant Governor Sherman de-
clared he was opposed to the passage
of the resolution in its present form;
that the present canal commissioners
were the very fellows who had made
the contract, and he believed there
should be a new commission before
any such action was taken, as provid-
ed for in the resolution. Senator Dun
lap moved to concur in the house res
olution, but on motion of Senator
James action on the resolution was
postponed.
At Outs Over Adjournment.
Tho 70
house resolution taking recess from
today to Jan. Ia, and substituted Dec
1S as the date for taking recess. The
house refused to concur in the senate
amendment to the resolution, and the
senate in turn refused to recede, so
both houses adjourned, the house to
o'clock tomorrow evening, and the
senate to IL o'clock, noon, Friday.
Names COnferees.
Speaker Shurtleff appointed Messrs.
Chiperfield. Kittleman. Behrens, Hogue.
Shanahan, Browne and Daugherty as
the new house conferees on the pri-
mary election bill.
Lieutenant Governor Sherman did
not appoint the senate conferees to-
day, saying that few of the senators
were present and he desired to confer
with representatives of the conflicting
interests in the senate before making
the appointments.
Refuses to Adopt Report.
Springfield, H., Nov. 27.-By a vote
of 81 to SO the house last night refused
to adopt the report of the joint con
ference on the Oglesby direct primary
bill. The measure now goes to an
other conference, which will have tc
face the task of drafting a bill that
will satisfy the democrats and prove
acceptable to the republicans regard
less of how it operates on Uncle Joe
Cannon's presidential candidacy.
The failure of the report to pass is
attributable directly to the work of the
senate and indirectly to the hostilities
of many of the republican house mem
bers to the direct primary idea. Wher
the report struggled out of conference
yesterday morning the presidential
electors and national delegates haC
been stricken out, and a convention
system had been inserted which ap
parently was satisfactory so far as /
went
Advisory Vote Last.
The conferees, however, had failet
to put in provision giving elector
the right to cast an advisory vote OF
president, and, although the democrat
in caucus yesterday afternoon decide,
to support the measure as party ur
der protest, the omission proved sufI
cient to divert many votes that other
wise might have been counted in tn
affirmative.
The detection on the part of tn
democrats, added to the adverse O
silent" vote of republican member
who were against the measure, cut tn
poll down to a point far below tn
two-thirds majority of 102 votes neee'
sary to adopt the report, and in col
sequence the work now has to be don
over again.
Hot Fight I'm House.
The spectacular feature of the nigf
session of the house was contribute
by the democrats. In an early caucu
the minority had decided to supper
the measure as it emanated from tn
Joint conference. The democrats too
the ground that the demand for pr
mary legislation is so intense that
was the sheer duty of the minority
overlook the manner in which the
pet sections had been cut out of tt