Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-19
New Bills in semitic.

New Bills in Senate.
Representative Smejkal yesterday
introduced in the Illinois senate a
deep waterway bill, to cover plans of
internal improvement commission with
some notifications, and relief bill, Civ
ing the Illinois Steel company the priv
ilege of paying for made lands at
South Chicago; by Senator Billings,
Chicago Der association bill, regula-
ting real estate and building corpora
lions; by Dunlap, for the payment of
actual expenses" 10 circuit judge
holding court outside his own district;
by Hall appropriating $1,000 for Frank
Giroux son of Ben GirouX, Chicago
who was badly burned while at the
asylum for the feeble minded at Lin
coin; by Funk, fixing the recompense
of trustees of state institutions at $40
lper day; by Funk, for the licensing of
stations; by Broderick, for the regula-
; ton of pawn brokers; by Daley, to
prevent the sale of impure turpentine;
| by Daley, regulating the manufacture
and sale of paint; by Hurbursh, Civ
ing to cities and villages the power
to erect gas works and heating and
power plants and to sell electricity,
! heat and power; by Olson, authoriz-
| ing city councils to specify the places
of deposit of city funds; by Bailey, au-
thoriZing township trustees to furnish
necessary blank books, notebooks and
papers to justices of the peace, and
senate bill 2S9 by Bailey, authorizing
the payment of expenses thus incur
red; by Humphrey, prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of trading
stamps; by Barr, appropriating $4,000
per year for field men for the state
water survey and 5000 per year for the
publication of the reports of the sur
jveys. 4
| The senate passed Senator Billings
bill IS. B. 99), providing for the adj
'ministration of the estate of person
missing seven years and believed to
be dead.
Proceedings In the House.
Representative Cermak introduced
his bills for open Sunday" in Chi
athletic clubs, ETC. Other bills intro
duced were: By Hollenbeck, provid-
ing that switches leading to tracks
where cars are being repaired be kept
locked while the repairs are being
made; by Lantz, prohibiting the man
hibiting minors from using cigarets
by Parker, appropriating $4,000 for
the expenses of the Illinois state pen
itentiary at Joliet; by Perkins, pro
hibiting trade discrimination in petro
leum or its products; by Poulton, pro
made lands on lake shore by Illinois
Steel company on satisfactory pay
/ ment: by Price, eXempting $1,000 from
real estate assessment of veterans aaC
exempting $500 from their personal
property assessment; by Seaman. pro
hibiting the collection of second hant
bottles and jars and prohibiting ths
sale of goods in such-bottles or jars
by Flannigen, giving accident insur
ance corporations on the assessment
4 plan the right to insure against sick
4 ness, and to provide for funeral ben
tefits; by Flannigen fixing the salaries
/ to be paid to election commissioner
and their clerks; by Pierson, provid
i ing for the election of full boards o
trustees in newly incorporated town
Hand villages; by Smejkal, deep water
way bill following plan of the interna
Improvement commission by F. w
-. Shepherd, providing for the establish
: ment of county textbook commissions
Thy Terrill. appropriating $4,000
liyear for the establishment and mair
IItenance of the department of ceramic
in the university; by White, prohil
lifting trespass by survey for rairoa
rights; by G. e. Wilson, prohibitin
II the sale or distribution of liquor nea
any soldiers or sailors home in tn
state; by Reynolds, amending tn
court act by providing that count
T. boards shall have the power to pa
the actual expenses of judges holdin
court outside of their regular circuit
or districts: by Carter, amending tn
lischool laws by giving to directors
consolidated school districts the powt
to provide conveyance for pupils
and from school, by Mclaughlin, pr
viding regulations for the distribute
OF the police. pension fund in cite
where the police pension fund hs
been established; by judiciary commi
tee, substituted for Troyer bill (H.
$50, doing away with the indetermi
ate sentence provision in the crimin
code. and giving Ito the judge and tt
| jury the right to Fix the term of punis
ment.
South Rock Island Democrats.
4 Democrats ofsouth Rock Island a,