The Cairo bulletin., 1909-06-01
MANY THINGS TO HARRASS THE
LEGISLATURE WHEN 1T
y MEETS THURSDAY.
LIQUOR PEOPLE ACTIVE
viii Try TO Rescue License Bill, But
Drys Say They viii Win
Waterways Bill Also
Stumbling Block.
Special to The Bulletin.


Springfield May 31.-There is all
sorts of trouble in store for the legis-
lators when they meet in this city
next Thursday Not only will the
liquor interests attempt to resuscitate
their city and village local option bill
from the senate committee on license
where it lies buried but there will
be trouble over the state board of
control bill and perhaps the deep
waterway subject will be revised Re
Rarding the saloon peoples city aud
village local optica bill however,
State superintendent Shields Of the
Anti.Saloon League not only thinks
il dead and buried but leading
senator who Is in favor of the bill
declares it cannot muster over 90
votes. Among the senators VINO are
opposed to the bill, he says, are Pot
ter and Helm.
In the opining of James X Shields
superintendent of the Illinois Anti
Saloon League the hill TO repeal the
local option law is dead AMI can only
be resuscitated by extraordinary and
unusual efforts by the liquor inter
ests. Mr. Shields IS OF tho opinion
that the hold-over session of the gen.
eral assembly is ror the purpose OF
forcing the bill out Of the committee
aud getting a record vote on the
proposition ON the part of the senate,
hut he believes that nothing can be
ACCOMPLISHED Ivy he interests which
have been backing the movement. BY
a vote of % to ~ the senate voted
against advancing the bill and VT
Shields believes that that body can
not he influenced to bring to life a
measure which he iqror interests
are fighting for.
The liquor representatives in the
senate were repeatedly assured that
when they could show enough votes
TO pass house bill CSC Il would come
out of the committee They are more
ly seeking 10 persecute some of the
friends of local optioa and also, it isl
said to put on record some of their
own friends whosc campaign ex-
penSes they had paid last fall They
never could come near passing the
bill and their movements were solely
for the purpose Of embarrassing tho
members and this without scintilla
of excuse"
In regard to the deep waterway
measure. the senate, which rejected
fbn Of b,,
tee when ii meets neX5 Thursday. }
may demand another conference as Il
has a right to do. me senator's who ,
ought to know. insist that the sen
ate will not stand for the house, or
Lorimcr bill whiCn the conference
committee agreed on.
The conferees ON the appropriation |
Hills have come To m agrt erent on 1
all the appropriation bills. excert /
thc hill appropriatinE $3.50 600 for the |
institution for the insane at Dunninc. |
Cook county, and win make a report /
on the bills next Thursday when the |
two houses meet But there is an un
expected hitch regarcing the state
board Of control hill. Secretary Pad /
dock Of the senate. discovered today .
that after the senate had adopted /
the report of the conference commit |
tee on this hill that motion was
made to reconsider. This motion the /
senate will take up next Thursday |
There are two features abort the bill /
which the senators do not like: the !
one making the state treasurer The /
sole distributor of the FUNDS. instead |
of the local treasurers. and the one |
which prevents the purchase of sup.
plies from the local merchants in the |
cities where the institutions are 10 /
Gated