Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-16
Legislative Conference
Committee Dodging
Primary Law.
UNABLE TO SEE WAY
Looks as Though the 1906
Measure Would be Adopted
With Some Amendments.

Springfield, H., JAN 16.-(Argus
Special THE joint conference COM
mittee on the primary election law
met this morning and again dead
locked. Senator Helm moved that the
committee take up the original Oglesby
bill with the recommendations of the
first conference committee and strike
out the emergency clause, change the
dates for, the primaries until after
July and put in the McGoorty amend
ment for the voting for the number of
candidates for the legislature which
the voters desired to have maintained
and make this the report of the com.
mittee.
This motion was lost by the follow.
ing vote:
Senate-Ayes, Berry, Helm, Lund
berg, Hamilton, Acton. Nays, Cruik
shank.
House, Aye, Daugherty. Nays, Chip
erfield, Pogue, Shanahan, Kittleman
Browne. Not voting, Behrens.
Use 1906 bill ns Model.
| Iutll HIoNcu tudI lilt CO1ll
mittee frame bill on the law of 190t
which was declared unconstitutiona
by the supreme court, leaving ou
those sections which were declared
unconstitutional, but as the hour hat
come for the legislature to meet the
postponement of the proposition wa!
heard until 2 o'clock this afternoon
l NHaD Dol Np IN
linstructing the house conferees to re
port out the original Oglesby bill will
the changes suggested by Senate
Helm this morning in the conference
committee was declared out of orde
by Speaker Shurtleff.
There is a tentative agreement il
the conference committee to repor
out the 1906 bill with amendments.
Day Spent i'm Vain.
Springfield, Ill.,, Jan. 16.-An all-da
: discussion of the primary question b.
the members of the new conferenc
committee yesterday resulted in notf
| ing. Careful canvasses of both house
Ihave been made with a view to deter
mining what the chances are for pr
lmary bills of different form, and unles
the house section of the committe
. shows a more reasonable spirit of cor
, cession. the Oglesby bill, as amende
by the first conference committee, an
: without the emergency clause. will b
! introduced in the senate at a late Sc!
sion and rushed through that body.
1
: situation say they believe such a bi
can command n votes in the house.
Skips One Election.
If any direct plurality bill is pt
through without the emergency claus
it will not become effective until afte
l the national convention. The obje
tions raised to the original Oglesb
: bill by the Cannon people will be larg
ly removed, for it will be four yeal
before the next national conventio
= delegates are to be selected, and
the meantime this section could
/ stricken out by future assembly.
McEwen Leader Attacks Deneen.
A personal attack ON Governor d
" neen was made from the floor of Il
. house yesterday afternoon, by Repr
g sentative Kenny, one of Judge M
:. Ewen's campaign managers. He ca
+. ed up in the house the state depos
-. bill which passed the senate befo
!. the holiday session. The measure pr
# vides for $4,000. appropriation to me
the cost of surety bond for the sta
$. treasurer and also/provides, that Il
n interest on state funds shall revert
n the state.
- In laying the matter before the hou