Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-13
LEGISLATURE: NEAR
END Of SERVICE AS
LAW MAKING BODY
MANY BILLS, MOST OF THEM
RATED AS HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
WILL BE UP FOR FINAL DISPO.
SiTlON DURING THE PRESENT
WEEK.

Springfield IL, June 49, The fifty.
second general assembly begins the
last week of it's session today with
calendars damned aud the most i'm
portant bills still pending
The business must be completed by
next Saturday night to conform to the
law which requires ten days to be
given the governor in which to Sign
or reject bills before July !.
OF most importance are the omni.
tus bill appropriation bills, revenue
measures, Governor SmalIs utility
bill, Mayor Thompson Chicago traC-
tion district bin, the Lantz grain bills,
the Mccnts road bill tax commission
h'll, the bill amending the primary act
TO meet the views Of Governor Small
and the administration bill wipin-
cut state civil service.
There are other measures Of inn
portanCe to the state but it is genCr-
ely admitted that the foregoing VIII
get first consideration. Most of them
have passed at least one house and
have been advanced TO third reading in
the other house. 1t is expected that
by holding three sessions a day that
they will be gotten out of the way in
the prescribed time
The omnibus bill appeared in the
house Thuraday morning and provides
for appropriations experimenting $50.
100000, or l1.0O000n more than last
year. The principal items Of increa 81
are found IN the increase of 1000 O0n
to the state diStributiVe school fund
and the interest requirements to re
tirement of highway and waterway
bonds Unless large amounts arc
added to the bin on tn" floor of tn"
house or senate the state tax rate
will be raised from a. cents tC ~
cents. There are however several
administration measures still pend.
ing which, if pa"scd in the last days.
will boost the tax rate above this fig
ure, it is claimed.
The following are the principal in
crease8 over the 1919 appropriations
State distributiye school
fund 49,. .................$i .00n,o00
Interest and retirement of
highway and watcrway
bonds ...... ............ 3.OSOOCu
Secretary of state ......... d1J.00O
Auditor Of public accounts. 2T0GO0
State treasurer .......... "l.0On
Attorney general .......... $4,000
department of agriculture. $4,000
Department of labor ...... 100000
Printing and STATIONERY Of
all departments .......... 10000
Department of public wei.
fare ....... ............. 10000
Department of health ..... 100000
Department of trade and
commerce .. zoo OnO
Department of registration
and education .......... 100. GOO
Adiutant general .......... 100000
The house passed the Thompson
traction district bill Thursday with
little effort and no opposition on the
floor The administration and city
hall forces did effective work in tho
last few days to win over the down
state opponents Of the bill and the
measure slippc1 over by a vote of s.
to 81. It is believed Lv many. how
ever, that the measure will not be SO
we'll received when it appears in tho
senate and that amendments may he
tackled on to it to strip il of some of
fits objectionable features During
the last two or three weeks the son
pte has become cbstrCpcdOus and has
re- fused 10 i,uip through tho hoor as
1t has done in the earlier weeks OIL