Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-28
A SCORE Of BILLS
ORECE|VE LOWDEK
VETO SAYS REPORT
HIGH SCHOOL FRATERNITY LAW
WILL BE KNOCKED OUT BY
GOVERNOR WITH MANY OTHER
IRREGULAR" BILLS.

Springfield, ILL.,, June Ex-Governor
I.owden is preparing to veto at leas
twenty bills
Among them arc understood to be
the following:
Placing taxicab rates under thl
control OF the state utilities commits
sion
Abolishing high school secse' so
cieties. Rep. Benson's pet bill
Birth Of a Nation" bill, preventing
the exhibition Of pictures tending Ia
inclte race hatred
Objections TO the taxicab bill were
presented to the governor from sev-
eral sources. The attorney general
held that the bill was discriminatory
in that certain classes Of cabs were
not placed under regulation. Mem
bers OF the utilities commission pre-.
tested ON the ground that il would
entail too great an expense in carry
ing out the provisions of the act
Downstate city officials objected TO
the state wide feature of the bill
The Turnbaugh secret society bill
is substitute for one which was We.
toed a few weeks ago. The attorney
general, however. has held il TO con
tain some of the same objections
the original measure.
The Birth OF a Nation bin also
is a substitute for one vetoed some
time ago This bin has been found
to be Objectionable by the attorney
general
The Herlihy bill. aimed al tax
sharks, permitting counties to 20 into
the tax-bny.ng business, also may be
vetoed because Of legal objections.
Governor Lowden granted hearings
today on four bills to which formida
BILE opposition has arisen.
Chief OF Police Schuetter of Chi
cago. asked the governor TO veto the
third degree bin, preventing police
officers from attempting TO obtain
confessions. Senator Jewell. author
OF the bill, and Representative Lee
O'Neil Browne will appear before the
governor in its defense tomorrow.
School book dealers asked the gov
ernor TO veto the Daily bill reguat
ing the sale of textbooks. and some
insurance men asked him to veto a
bill prohibiting insurance companies
from carrying net liability on any
one risk OF more than 10 per cent
Of their paid-up capital and surplus
Judge George f. Barrett, of Chicago
appeared in support OF the Curran
bill aimed at crooked bondsmen.
Governor lowden acted on a mum
Der OF appropriation bills. He vetoed
= bill apnropriatng 5000 for tn,
paving Of streets in front Of tEa Pom
tiac rofolmatory.
Appropriation bills which were
signed included those for $500 900
Tor the University of Illinois, $1,000.
600 for state aid roads. $l,173, 799 for
roads, out of an unexpected balance.
$l9I0G0 to complete armorias. includ
ing Sl5O00O for the First Cavalry,
now the Second Artillery. $4,000 fol
the Second Infantry. at Chicago, and
$z2,0OO for the armory at Ottawa and
Tor arm0ries at Gnlesburgh ana Mon
mouth, S272 $50 Of an unexpcnded bal.
ance; $6S,2l2 for normal school
buildings. $2S.e00 for county agricul
tural advisors, and $23,AlS for the
states share Of Springfield improve
ments
Governor LoWden signed the Gurn.
6ey blll, compelling automobile driv
ers to dim their headlights when an.
preaching other cars. and providing
penalty for the possession of a
motor vehicle from which the manu-.
facturers' serial number has been re
moved.
Inc governor signed bill permit.
ting the sale OF land owned by the
state at Joliet to the Illinois Steel Co.
Two bills were allowed to become
laws without the signature of the
governor one of them requiring
judges OF city courts to be licensed
attorneys and the other relating to
the burial of INDECENT soldiers and
ralors