Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-12

+ ton. Apmadoc. King, Brady. Eoladay
Wilson (George), Glade. StayInayer
Stearns, Murray, Lantz. Wilson (R
/ G., Mcconnell. Tippit, Browne.
Senate in n Fight.
Springfield. Ill, Jan 12.-Following
the submission to the senate last night
of the new administration primary
bill, which is the OgIesby bill amended
in tho effort to meet the constitutional
objection, which was advanced to sec
ond reading, the senate became in
voIved in bitter fight over the water
way legislation.
The Schmitt bill, which is a water
power bill, was, after two hours of
hot debate, advanced to third reading
after an unsuccessful attempt had
been made to strike out the enacting
clause.
Preceding the fight over the water
way Governor Deneen sent a special
message to the senate in which he
asked the general assembly to COM
pei the sanitary district of Chicago
to open the lock between its water
power plant at Lockport and the old
state canal so that shippers could
Aave-the -ldvaHtage-~essslsa ~faeifi--
ties in the "tadpole" ditch.
This was provided in the amend
ment in the sanitary act under which
the water power plant was construct
ed, but it has never been complied
with.
OEiesby Bill Amended.
The new administration primary
bill is merely the old Oglesby bill!
amended in the sections referring to
registration and the manner of deter
mining the number of candidates to
be nominated for the lower house of
the general assembly.
The amended registration section
now provides that voters who would
be legal voters on election day and
who fail to register on registration
days can make an affidavit as to their
qualifications and swear in their votes.
This, it is claimed by the administra-
ton leaders, covers the objections rails
ed in the supreme court ruling when
the Oglesby law was declared uncon-
stitutional
Voters Fix Number.
The amended section relating to nom
nations for the legislature provides
that the senatorial committee may
suggest" the number to be nomina-
ted, but that the voters shall deter
mine how many candidates shall be
placed in nomination by expressing
their preference in the primary. 1t
also provides that they may cumuiate
their votes in the primary, the same
as in the general election.
The bill was finally agreed upon in
the senate committee Fast night Sena-
tor Humphrey wanted to submit a mi
bill, but he was voted down in the
committee and made no protest when
the bill finally reached the senate at
the night session.
SufTrnGfsts' Bill In.
Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulIoch
brought a woman's suffrage bill here
and caused 1t to be introduced in both
houses on behalf of the Illinois Equal
Suffrage association Senator Bailey
of Danville offered it in the senate
and Richard T. Hagen of Chicago pre-
sented 1t in the house
Vote $4,000 Gift to Cherry Sufferers.
The senate committee on appropria-
tions yesterday afternoon agreed to a
bill appropriating $4,000 for the re-
lief Of the sufferers at the Cherry
mine disaster. The committee bill is
a compromise between different ele-
ments and provides that the money
shall be expended under the direction
of the state board of administration of
public charities, of which Lawrence
Y. Sherman is the head
The house committee at the same
time was in a stiff argument. in which
many charges and cross charges were
made as to what had happened in the
way of relief at Cherry.