Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-26
LEGISLATORS WANT
MORE PAY; WOULD
RAISE It TO $1,000
CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE PRE-
SCENTS BILL INCREASING SAL
AIRY FROM $500 AS NOW FIXED
nv LAW TO HIGHER MARK,

Springfield. Ill, April 26.-I!ard
worked legislators who come to
Springfield two and three days a
week for three or four months every
two years are not receiving large
enough salary. Senator Patrick j.
Carroll of Chicago would raise the
stipend from $500 to $4,000. He
has introduced a bill in the senate
proyiding that members of the gem
eral assembly elected in 1920 and
thereafter shall receive for the per-
iod for which they are elected $4,000
instead of $3.50 as at present.
Several other interesting bills have
been introduced in the senate, Here
they are:
BY Sadler-Provides that hereafter
no person over y years of age shall
be sentenced by any court or Judge
to serve as a prisoner in the Illinois
state reformatory.
By Campbell Making robbery pun
ishable by death where the robber is
armed with a dangerous weapon with
intent If resisted to kill or main, or
being so armed he wounds or strikes
anyone.
BY Bailey--An act to prevent fraud
in the practice of law This law
would prohibit any one living in the
state for two months, who has not
been regularly licensed to practice
law to hold himself out as an attor
ney or solicitor in chancery. 1t pro-
vides a penalty of from s25 to $500
or a county Jail Imprisonment. The
cffense would be a misdemeanor.
sBy Clark-Enables the sanitary dis
trict of Chicago the right to develop,
lease, purchase and sell water power
or electrical energy rendered avail
able by the Illinois waterway in the
Desplaines river.
sBy Dunlap-Makes an appropriation
for the Illinois state police. 1t pro
vides $375,000 for the first year, be-
ginning July t. 1919, and $4,000 for
the second year, beginning July l.,
1920
BY Turnbaugh-Ths bill is known
as the dry cleaning law of Illinois,
1t provides that all cleaning or dye,
ing establishments where more than
two quarts of inflammable volatile
substance Is kept must come under
the jurisdiction Of the department of
trade and commerce. 1t further pro-
vides that an inspection fee of $40
ID required and that buildings used
for this purpose must not be over one
story high and either brick or &C.
ment construction. The law further
provides a penalty of from $40 to $500
or jail Imprisonment for violation.
BY Curtis-Making IAN appropria-
ton Of $1,290,000 to the penitentiary
commission for the new state peni-
Tertiary and new Illinois asylum for
the criminal insane at or near Joliet
"A similar bill has been introduced in
the house
Among recently introduced bills in
the house are:
.,By j. wv. Ryan-Requkes street
railway companies and elevated rail
road companies to provide their mo-
tor cars with devices of mechanical
means to clean sleet, rain and snow
from the motormans windows.
BY Vickers~-Prohibts the dampen-
ing Of articles in a laundry in the
process of laundering or ironing by
blowing, splitting or expectorating
thereon from the employees mouth.
By Mtichell-Pr0vides for the reg
istration of persons owning or rent
ing or suing safety deposit boxes in
banks.
BY Shearer-Permitting justices of
the supreme court only to wear robes
during court session and imposing
a. fine Of $3.50 upon any judge of
court of record other than the SUI
preme court, violating the law.