The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-09
STATE SOLONS TO
|. RUSH MANY ACTS
TWO CENT FARE AND OPTION
BILL 70 BE FOUGHT OUT
TO A FINISH.
LABOR LOBBY WRO1HY
over HoId-up Of Their Measure and
Threaten Exposures-Graft at
Joliet Hinted at--War on
Realty Bill Urged.

! Springfield, ILL.,, April Ss-The gen
cral assembly this week starts on the
final rush in the hope OF adjourning,
sine die. month hence. The great
mass OF legislation that has been hell
beck by the Chicago Mayoralty c.ec-
/, tion In the fear that Busse's chance5
might be injured, now Is pouring
through the fumes. Beginning on
| Tuesday. the house will hold seasons
both morning and afternoon. Com
mttee meetings must be held In the
evening or between whiles. Hun
dreds Of bills will be tossed into the
waste basket
| The two.ceni passenger fare biil
lwill seek the center of the legislative
stage, both the fiat rate and the clas-
sified rate measures being on second
reading In the senate, where the ono
selected can be passed Wednesday II
advanced to third rading on Tusday.
The house which has already passed
the fiat ra.e two cent fare bill, also
| has Adkins reciprocal demutrage
Lill up to third reading and will prob
ably pass 1t this week,
Option Bill Still Up.
Local option, the most important
measure. politically. before the
lattre, mnst also be fonghl unf a
finish. The Anti.Saloon league IS
looking to the senate to pass a bill
sUch as the house maltleated, substi
Ituting the Browne bill which has net
enough support for passage and Is
hung UP on third reading. If a bill
with township and ward features
comes from the senate Ii Is Ill ely ~
pass the house despite the big boulle
lfund said to have been contrbu'ci
by the brewers and distillers TO De.
lfeat 1t.
Although I'LL Of the Important labor
Ilills are apparently dead. the labor
Ilcbby and heir friends III the boasa
Iarc at the point Of wrath where they
are likely To expose the holdup meas
nros to publicity. Representative
chiperfeid. whose bill to rcneal the
convict labor law has been killed in.
tho committee on penal and reforma.
tory affairs, has some plans to bring
the situation to the attention OF the
house.
BY queer coincidence. both labor
and the manufacturers are united for
The repeating bill. but there y some
sinister influence blocking favorable
action. Two Chicago firms buy the
Joliet penitentary's annual output Of
100000 shirts at the bare cost OF
the material % cents, as shown in
the committee hearing-and there is
deep-seated suspicion that the oppo-
sition Is not disinterested Sensa.
tlonal disclosures are threatened.
Urges War on the Realty Bill.
Representative Chester w. Church's
bill. allowing corpora ions 70 acquire
and own real estate. s scathingly az
ragned In letter from B. +. Fesscn
den. a real estate dealer of Chicago,
to Secretary w. NJ. Rossell OF the
legislative committee Of the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
While the labor lobby. of which MIR.
Rossell Is a member. hat not taken
formal action in opposition TO the
measures. il is known that the con
sensus of toilers' spokesmen Is an
tagonistic
"Such law" writes Mr.. FeSsendcn
would finally do away with dividing
real estate holdings at the end of
life. Marshall FIELDS estate would
be as nothing 10 a corporation or com
bInation of corporations gathering
lands and growing to such size as to
oyershadow all private interests.
With real estate corporations in ex-
istence. Scully would have acquired
faim after farm and the farmer would
have had a SculIy real estate c-m
pany for landlord 70 the end OF time
with such corporations in exist
ence. the six blocks in State street.
Chicago, which are the cream of the
retail district. could ben controlled by
n combination of few families In
corporation and the stock perhaps
could pass 70 foreign hoiders-kins
OF belgium the Roihschilds. E1ward
or the Kaiser
hinks LcqisiatcFS miSuHoe'St StOOe
If our Legislators will only realize
that the proposed law would change
our citizens from land owners t.
stockholders In real estate corpora
tions. think the bill vii not be con
sidercd."
The bill ihus a-raigncd was IN
troduced BY Mr. Church al the rr
quest Of the Chicago Real Estate
Board. which has adopted resolution
advocating its passage Mr. Fessrn
den is a member Of the minority tAat
this action by thu haard. In
b. legislature many Of The iead'n<
members have declared against The
proposition. and It's cnly friends sp-
pear 10 be the private Interests taat
see a chance 30 collect valuable