The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-07
Bills PASSED By
THE'TW0 HOUSES
Legislation Put Through by
Forty.Sixth Assembly.
RUSH AT ELEVENTH HOUR

Measures Are Sent TO the Governor
For His Approval--commission &c
Manage Charitable Institutions oI
the State is One Of the Last Propo
sltIons to Be Favorabiy Voted On.
The Forty-sixth general assembly
made great progress with bills after
breaking the senatorial deadlock. One
| OF the last measures to get through
provides for commission to govern
the states charitable institutions. The
following bills passed both senate and
house:
The Busse bond bills, which we're
passed. are a series of twelve. number.
ed house bills Co. 20, II. -. rs. "a. Is,
rs. n, 293. 294 and 600. They make
possible an increase OF $4,000 900 In
the bonded indebtedness of the city of
Chicago, and a proportionate increase
In the bonded Indebtedness OF all other
municipalities in the state by the de-
vice of arriving at the assessed valu-
alton of property for taxing purposes
instead of Ave and making a cores.
ponding reduction In the tax rate. so
that while the bonding power Is in.
creased. the taxes are left al practi
eally their present figure.
House bin 600 excerpts the sanitary
district from the increase in bonded in.
debtedness The referendum bill APP
plies to all bond Issues.
For Earthquake Sufferers.
s. b. Is. tGlackin). Appropriating
sl0,000-for the relief of the Italian
earthquake sufferers.
s. B. 81. tPemberton). Appropri-
ating $4,000 for the committee ex.
penses of the Forty-Sixth general as
sembly.
s. B. 234. (Curtls). Appropriatlng
for emergency needs Of the Elgin asy-
lum $4,000 for maintenance of tuber,
cular hospital and cottages, and $4,000
for psyehopathic hospital at Kanka.
kee
H B. 10. (Shanahan, by request)
Appropriating $1,000 for the running
expenses of the supreme court build
ing.
II, r, III. tChiperfeld) ApproprI-
ating 1858 for transport of gunboat
Nashville from Boston to Chicago for
the Illinois naval reserves
Fl. p. 244. (Chiperfeld). Approprl.
sting $4,000 for committee expenses
on investigation of submerged lands
Tax Law Commission.
Fl, B. POS (Shanahan, by request)
Creating commission to investigate
taxation and to report on revising and
amending tax laws and appropriating
$4,000 for expenses OF commission to
be composed of seven persons.
II. B. 10. Wright. Providing for
the expenditure of not more than $50
for the burial expenses OF INDECENT de-
ceased soldiers and sailors of the civil
war. Spanish-American war and the
Philippine Instruction
s. B. sol. (By committeel. Making
The appropriations for the state normal
schools as follows: Northern Illinois
Normal at DeKalb s2O.S12.50: East
ern Normal at Charleston, Sl2.500:
State Normal at Normal 5000:
Western Normal at Macomb. Sl3,500;
Southern Normal at Carbondale.
sIl14, and for training school at the
DeKalb Normal, $4,000.
s b. 1877. Funk. Appropriating
SIS, 900 annually for the Illinois farm.
ers institute.
S. b. sci (By Hurburgh). APP
1926 to pay the expenses
u the state industrial commission.
S B. sci (By Hurburgh) APP
ng an emergency appropriation OF SIS.
NO with which TO meet the deficiency |
n the fund for paying the expenses Of |
fugitives from justice.
For Sanitary Districts.
Fl. B. l65. (Wright. Providing that |
may purchase and hold real |
state for the erection OF sanatoriums /
or the treatment of tuberculosis pa. |
tents and shall have power to build
md maintain such sanatoriums.
~ the governor April &c. a law.
II. b. 2i5. (FlannIgenD. Legalizlng
ne organization OF sanitary districts
n cases where a part OF the district
vas within a city under city election
aw but the election by which the san
tarY district was organized was not
Ield under the city law but by the d.
ection Of the county court
II. B. 517. McMackin). Providing
hat the question OF raising additional
axes for building county court houses
nay be submitted to a vote at the
judicial election this year.
s. B. 9. Potter. Making Oct. IL
n each year a legal holiday to be
nown as Columbus day.
S. b. AZ. (PembertonD. Raising the
slary of the state superintendent OF
Insurance to 5000 a year.
8. b. 149. (FunkD Permitting town.
hip insurance companies to issue pol.
les for $4,000 on a single risk in place
{ the present limitations Of $500.
S. D. 1879 (Glackiu). Providing fof
be establishment OF tuberculosis sani-
1riums In cities and authorizing the
svying Of a tax of one mill.
s. b 367 daley. by requestD. Mod
m WoOdmen bill. authorizing frater-
al societies to erect and operate hos
ltals agylums and eanffarluna not