Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-30
WATERWAY BILL IS
SIGNED BY lOWDEN;;
NOW BECOMES LAW
$40 ,ooo 600 PROPOSITION RECEIVES
GOVERNOR OFFICIAL o. e.
BECOMES EFFECTIVE TOMoR-
ROW.

ROW.
Springfield, H., June Ex-Governor
Lowden yesterday affixed his siGnatur"
to the deep waterway bill, legalizlns
the 500 900, 900 appropriation and CIV
ing TO Illinois what is indisputabl;
proven by all authorities to be the
only practical and successful means OF
rehabilitating the Illinois River, trans
ferrine it from a nonnaVigable stream
over a sixty-mile length into a prac-
teal useable and thoroughly accept
able water course for big boat traffic
incidentally, during a busy day Of
signing bills the governor d, n. d the
500. 000, 600 bond issue for good roads
Other bills signed by him were:
Sixty-nine tax revision bills, one in.
creasing downstate municipal taxes 10
81 with a referendum clause compel
ing vote on the increase; the
Glackin bond increase bin for Chicago
and the bin fixing Chicago's rate at
81 IL, also a referendum.
The Glackin "zoning bill" permit
ting the city council to outline resi-
dence and industrial districts and to
segregate each within the limits pre-
scribed.
Senator Barbours senate bill, per
hitting South Park and Lincoln Park
districts to issue bonds for improve
ments connecting the two districts,
also the Barbour bill providing for
issuance of Lincoln Park bands,
The Roos bill. giving the presiden;
Of forest preserve district right to veto
on board action.
Senator Swifts bill, enlarging tn
limits of the north shore sanitary dis
trict.
Amends Court Act
House bill No. 69l amending metro
politan court act; fixing salaries OF
GlSEh anu Ddiiiil at SpfVV'. NlN 'li'
became law without the governors
signature.
Other important bills written into
the law by the governor We're:
The Austin anti-high school frater.
nifty bill
Senator Sadler's bill appropriatins
$4,000 for enforcement of the search
and seizure act to the attorney gen
erals office.
Representative smeikal's Judges
pension" bill.
The Gregory measure appropriating
100000 for stamping out tuberculosis
in cattle.
Big Appropriations.
Big appropriation measures ap.
proved were:
Twenty million in the so.called tax
. levy" bill
Fourteen million in general revenue
and six million in school distributabe
fund.
One million and a quarter for the
Joliet penitentiary.
Twelve million to meet a similar
federal appropriation for federal
aid" roads and $1,l17252 which was
reapportionel for the same purpose.
Other bills carrying appropriations
approved by the governor provided
for $500 900 for the upkeep of stare
roads and $35 900 each for monuments
at Springfield of former Governors
Palmer and Yates.
Governor Lowden worked practically
all through the night and was at the
executive Offices early Sunday
Ont of the ACT bills passed by the
legislature he still has about seventy
measures to pass on before the legis-
lamre reconvenes for final adjourn
ment today
Most important Approved
Some veto measures will 80 to the
assembly today, but the most impor-
tant bills have been acted on. Among
those remaining to be acted on is the
boxing bill. The governor has as yet
indicated in no way what his action
viii be.
Other bills of interest other than
those outlined above which were
signed yesterday were:
The McCabe free textbook bill.
The Thomson measure requiring
that state funds be let at public bill
ding.
The Volz corOner's bill leaving the
holding of autopsies to discretion OF
cor0ners and permitting them to sign
ddeath certificates on their judgment
The Thon bill forbidding keeping OF
feeble-mnded in county almshouses.
The Barbour inheritance tax law.
The Buck primary revision bill
The Young measure regulating the
practice of dental hygiene.
What the average woman thinks she
would do if she had plenty OF money
Is nothing in comparison to what she
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