Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-29

LoWden Tor ilnal action. The bill. i
It's present form. in legislative vel
hacular, has every hole plugged
against Indicating in Illinois Ever
stock proposition before being Above
TO get onto the market, must first b
passed upon by the Secretary of Stat
and every proposer with bundle o
blue-sky certificates in his possession
must first carry that officials O. X
before he can go forth among tn
'peepul' and sell any of EN-.
Thirty Become Laws.
The governor signed twenty bill
late yesterday and allowed half a
many to become laws without his sig
nature. l.owden and his advisor
worked late into the night in an ei
tort to dispose of the hundred or S,
remaining bills by noon today, whel
the legislature returns to receire vet,
measures and take up the sine die ad
Journment
Appropriations bills are oceupyip.
the most of the governors time. Sen
ator Curtis and Representative Smej
kal, chairmen of the appropriations
committee Of the two houses; Speaker
Shanahan. O H. Wright, the new di
rector OF finance, and Joseph c. Mason
administrative auditor are consulting
with the governor on appropriation
matters.
1t seems probable that the governor
will be unable to reduce the appro
priations by 100000, as he had
hoped.
Senator Etteson has asked to be
heard in behalf of the jackson. Birth
of Nation bill, prohibiting the ex
hibition of pictures tending to incite
race hatred, which the governor is
disposed to veto
United States District Attorney
Clyne, Of Chicago, joined with Chief
ochuettler and States Attorney
! Hoyne in a request to veto the third
degree bill.
The governor signed the DALEY
school book bill against which OBJ
/ Jections had been raised. This meas.
ure requires textbooks to be listed
with the state superintendent of pub.
lie instruction with a price list and
prohibits the changing of textbooks
within five years
Among other bills signed were the
| folio wing:
Extending civil service to the Chi.
cago municipal tuberculosis sanitar-
ium.
ADpropriatng $4,000 for the tor
nado sufferers Of Mattoon and Charles
ton.
Appropriating 81 1876 600 for federal
post roads, the federal government
furnishing an equal amount
Providing for the levying Of $40
V0o,V0o IN taxes for the maintenance
OF the state government.
Providing fine of 5000 for any per.
son tampering with motor vehicle
standing at a curb,
permitting the issuance Of antici-
patory warrants by school boards
Making 1t felony to obtain credit
by fraud.
GIVING Chicago title to strip of
iand along Lake Calumet
Authorizing the transfer bv town.
Ships TO counties of funds for hard
road construction.
Bllls allowed to become laws. with
out the signature Of the governor, in
cluded the following.
Changing the practice in the Mn.
nicipal Court of Chicago in relation
TO bail and other matters.
Providing for state licensing NJ
coid storage warehouses and limiting
OF periods during which food NAV he
stored. as means of cutting down
the high cost OF living.
permitting cities to buy water sun.
ply from adjoining sanitary districts.
permitting cities to abandon the
commission form Of government after
TWO instead of three years trial \
hiving any person the right to kin
unlicensed and untageed dogs
Prohibiting corporations from nrac.
tcing law
Permitting the sale of ffty.six acres
OF submerged land in South Chicago
TO the lroquois Iron Company
PROVIDING for semi.annual instead
81 annual payments of personal prom.
erty taxes In downstate counties,
Governor Lowden Is expected ia
announce several appointments before
the end OF the week. as the new adj. 4
ministrative code becomes effective
July |. /
u Is reported that former Attorney
General J.. j. Lucey will be appoint. |
ed as Democratic member of tho
utilities commission, succeeding Owen
Z. Thompson. Walter A. shaw Of
Chicago, the other Democratic mem. /
Der, and Frank II. Funk, of Blooming.
ton, Republican, who was appointed