The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-03
SPECIAL SESSION
HAS ADJOURNED
HALLS OF ILLINOIS STATE CAPT.
ToL DESERTED LAST NIGHT
AT 8 O'CLOCK.
COMMISSION FORM BILL
Goes to Governor For Signature
Lorimer Deep Waterway plan
Gets Setback in
the Senate.
Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The bulletin.
Springfield, H.. March 2.--The bill
enabling cities to adopt the commits
sion form of government, alter tor
tuoas legal battle in the senate today
goes to Gov. Deneen for his sigma
ture The senate this nodn recedea
from It's amendments which left the
house bill passed By that body. The
bin as II goes to the governor con-
tains seventy-iive per cent recall
In the house this morning Foster
moved to reconsider the vote by
which the bill failed To carry yester-
day with the. conference committee
amendments. Kleeman moved to table
Fosters motion. but his motion was
lost, receiving II votes to II against.
Fosters motion to reconsider was
carried by vote of "a to 5, lacking
three votes of enough to pass the
|amended bill
Harry w. Wilson, of Springfield,
whose absence from the house yester-
day afternoon. Mas the cause~.orT the
bill failins''Vo pass, .it~receiying Il;
votes .Qfs'within one on Il majority Of
thetstouse, then moved the appoint.
pfent Of a second conference commit
Tee. His motion was adopted and
Shanahan, Who presided, appointed
German, Behrens. Chipertield Poul-
ton and Finger theshouse conferees
When this action became known
| in the senate a conference Of the
| friends Of the bill was held>and It was
decided that the senate would recede
4 from their amndmnts and That the
bill as passed by the house shotid 30
to the governor for his signature. &C.
cordingly aster preliminary fi9At'
! led by Carter against the bill thA
lrules Of the senate we've Suspended
and the senate reeonsidered the vote
by which it refused to accede 10 the
house amendments, and then voted to
recede from it's own amendments
| Lieutenant-Governo Ogiesby then
decIared the bin as passed by the
house passed by the senate.
Setback For Lorimer
The senate this morning put n
spoke in Lorimers deep waterway
Iplan when a joint resolution to APP
point committee Of two from each
house. the attorney general TO be a
fifth member, to 20 to Washington
and confer with the federal authori-
| ties regarding the deep waterway, am
report not later than January u, 1911,
came UP and it refused TO concur in
the resolution, which had passed the
house,
The house passed the bill appro-
priating $4,000 TO permit Governor
Deneen to take the Economy Light
and Power Company case 10 the
United States supreme court, and
the senate concurred in the houses
atcion, the house having cut the sem
ate appropriation OF $4,000.
! The house passed the senate bill,
providing for the removal OF obstruc-
tions from the DesPlaines river and
for a movable bridge at Ruby street
In Joliet
Both houses adjourned sine die at
o'clock tonight
Money Not Available.
| There will be no funds available
to prosecute the appeal by the state
of the Economy Light aud Power
Company case from the supreme
court OF the United States, until tn
Legislature meets in regular sessio
next January and makes an appn
priation. The attorney general ha
no funds with which TO prosecute the
appeal, and owing to the failure OF
the general assembly to pass at the
special session, which closed today.
the bin making the appropriation for
prosecuting the appeal by two
thirds vote. the money will not be
appropriated. Lieut. Governor John
/ G. oglesby secured an opinion from
Attorney General Stead today that
the constitution of the state pro-
vides that no appropriation in
creasing the aggregate Of the appro-
priations made for ordinary and con.
tingent expenses at the regular ses-
sion OF the legislature can be made
without two-thirds vote Of the
members elected to each house.
Lieut.. Governor Oglesby endorsed
lon the back OF the bill. which passed
/ the senate an appropriation of the
money for the prosecution Of the ap-
peal OF the Econopy case 70 the slf-
lpreme court that the bill had III
ceiyed twenty-six votes or a bare ma
jority OK the senate. On its passage
and twenty seven votes when the
senate today concurrea in the house