The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-25
[: LONG SESSION. !.
COMES TO END
ILLINOIS SOLONS BREAK ALL RE.
CORDS FOR THIS AND OTHER
STATES.
MAYORS BILLS FAILED!
First Measure Defe ated and Other
Two Depended Upon lt--Fervent
Amens When Speakers Gavei
Fell.

Springfield, H.. May 24.-After a
session lasting exactly sixteen and
one half months, unequaled in the his
tory of lawmakers of this or any other
Estate in the Union. the Forty-tifth gen
ieral assembly is no more, having adj
tjourned sine die yesterday at noon.
| The closing scenes were not marked
| by the riotous performances which Us
Iually attend the passing of the life OF
a session, mad about the only features
were a few feryent amens, when
Speaker Shurtleff announced that the
long agony was over, while few
members oined in singing praise God
from Whom All Blessings Flow
The senate met at 10 o'clock, and
latter brief session took recess.
while the house voted on the first OF
the mayor bills. When 1t became eyi'
dent to the upper body that the may
ors measures were doomed to defeat,
the senate again reconvened and
adpoted the amended joint sine die
resolution providing for adjournment.
on May %. and the members OF that
body prepared to leave for home.
oratory During Roll Call.
In the house the roll was being
called on the passage OF the first of
the mayors revenue bills, upon the
result of which depended the other
two. as the three measures were fran
cd to work together There was plenty
Of oratory dispersed throughout the
roll call. Representative Hill OF Cook
county stood sponsor for the meas
ures. while the downstate members
took occasion in explaining their votes
to bitterly denounce the proposed
proposition.
Among those who spoke against the
measure were Representative Allen
of Vermilion County and Representa-
| tive Blair of Jefferson County. The
Chicago contingent, which has been
active in support of the measures,
waited until Representative ShanahanI
of Cook County, who was presiding,
announced the vote as being So ayes
to 81 noes, and declared that the bill
had failed to pass, and then quietly
hiad themselves to the railroad sta
tions, bound for the city on the lake
to devise some other means by which
they might raise revenues
How They Voted.
Those voting for the passage of the
mayors revenue bill We're:
OF the Cook County members, two
of them. Mckinley and Wilson, both
Democrats, voted against the bill
while three of them, Apmadoc. Kittle-
man and Zaabel, all Republicans, did
not vote.
Early in the session of both houses
this morning the message of Gov. De
neen, in reply TO the citicisms heaped
upon the state administration relative
to the conduct and the management
of the state charitable institutions,
was presented, and in both branches
was ordered received and filed
&fter the house had disposed of the
mayors bill it took up and passed, by
a vote of SO yeas to nay, Senate Bill
No Gl0, amending the law creating a
Bureau of Labor and Statistics, and
making it the duty of every employed
of labor in the state to afford the state
commissioners OF labor or their rep
resentatives every facility for pro.
curing statistics of the wages and con
buttons of their employees for the pur.
pose of compiling and publishing sta. |
tistics of labor and social and indus |
trial conditions within the state as re,
CURED by the law. This was the last
bill that had chance before the now |
defunct body.