Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-11
Illinois to Endorse Whatever
Action May Be Taken
by President.
MESSAGE is ASSURANCE
Copy Resolution Passed by
State Legislature Wired
to White House.

Springfield, ILL.,, May IA resolu-
ton assuring President Wilson that
the people of Illinois will endorse
whatever action he may take for
maintaining the honor and dignity OF
the nation" in connection with the
torpedoing of the Lusitania, was
adopted today by the Illinois senate
The vote was 81 to 1, Senator Harding
voting against the resolution and
Senator Smith not voting Following
is the text of the resolution:
Resolved. That the senate, realiz-
ing as it does the gravity OF the sit
uation confronting President Wilson.
and regretting the great loss OF life
of American citizens by the sinking
of the Lusitania, conveys 10 him this
message OF assurance that the people
of Illinois will endorse whatever &C
ton he may deem advisable to take
for maintaining the honor and dig
nifty of the nation and the preserya-
ton of the lives of its citizens" The
resolution was offered by Senator
Compton of Macomb
A copy of the senate resolution was
telegraphed 10 President Wilson.
Child Labor Bill Advanced.
By vote of 81 to SO the house to-
day refused to kill the ShurtIeff child
labor bill by striking out the enacting
clause. The measure was up for con
sideration on second reading and was
advanced to third reading after being
slightly amended.
The Shurtleff bill requires that
children under is years of age shall
obtain school certificates before they
are permitted to work, and requires
that all children under Is years of
age shall be required TO attend school.
The existing child labor law requires
that children under 16 shall obtain
school certificates before working, and
that all children under IA shall be re
CURED to attend school.
The motion TO strike out the amend
ing clause. an action which would
have killed the bill. was made by Rep
resentative Weber of Chicago. Repre-
sentative Lee O'NeiI Browne of OF
tawa led the fighting against the
measure. He declared that this
system of maternalism is making a
nation OF sissies.''
Women Fill Galleries.
Consideration of the Shurtleff child
labor bill and the Mccormick bill lin
iting the working hours of women TO
nine in any one day, had been made
special order for today. When the
house met the galleries were filled
with women and Representatives OF
organized labor.
AT 1925 p. m. the house recessed
until O. IN. with the nine-hour bill
still under consideration. AS intro
duced by Representative Mccormick,
the bill provided for work day for
women of eight hours. The indus
trial affairs committee offered an
providing for nine-hour
day OF so hours a week.
Representative Scholes OF Peoria
offered an amendment TO the amend
ment providing that the time IN mer-
camille establishments be extended TO
81 hours a week. This amendment
was adopted. Representative Ellis
then offered another amendment eR-
GLIDING from the provisions of the Dill
manufacturing coarse
sheeting and other heavy cloths he
said the amendment would affect on
" one plant in the state. This amend
ment was adopted by a vote of II to
81 in the face of strenuous opposition.
led by the author of the bill.