Year: 1871

With the thermometer marking 1895
in the shade, as it has done to-day, it would
not be wonderful IL some members Of tn,
present General Assembly should not only
sigh for, but vote for the high bluffs ant
cool lake breezes which the Peoria men art
continually making prominent reasons fol
the removal Of the State capital, and still
their cause does not gain at all. II i
true that the


CHICAGO TIMES


tries every day to persuade the Democrac,
and all the rest Of mankind, that it is th
part OF wisdom to defer the appropriation
and submit the question of removal to tn
people. But the Democratic mem bers
always ready TO obey tho will of the
people, are able to see through the flimsy
pretext of letting the people rule, desire
to defeat the wishes of the people of Illi-
nois, us those wishes are sure to be by the
time the building Of the State capital shall
be accomplished. In the few years that
must elapse before this end is attained,


SOUTHERN ILLINOIS


will have grown sufficiently to mako
Springfield the center of population, and
the members from Egypt are unanimous
in endeavoring to facilitate the building,
ard secure its completion ut the earliest
practical period, both on account of the
economy of SO doing and for the purpose
of forever preventing the capital from
being located at any greater distance from
the growing portion Of the State.


THE STATE HOUSE APPROPRIATION BILL,
Senate bill No. 2, being under consider
alton in the senate this morning, senator
Kerr, Of Peoria, moved to amend by ad-
ding section, submitting the appropria-
tion to the people at the general election
next November, and providing that the
bill should go into effect on the first day
of January 1872, If it received majority
vote. He made II rambling speech of
about three-quarters of an hour in length,
in which he endeavored to show that to
vote against the amendment would be to
vote against the people.


Senator Sto we Of Sangamon replied about
fifteen minutes when the dinner hour ar
rived and the senate adjourned, max
ing the hill the special order for to-mor-
row at ten o'clock.


THE PENITENTiARY MILL
is also up ON its second reading in the sem
ate. 1t is nm exact copy of
the bill passed by the senate
at the regular session, aid will, like that
bill, be opposed by the Democrats, be-
cause it does not contain such provisions
as will make the leasing of the convict
labor certainty.


NO GENERAL REVENUE BILL
will be passed at this session, but bill
providing for n return of delinquent taxes
by collectors and sheriffs to the county
treasurer, and the completion of the work
by him. 1t is held that under the new
constitution no judgments can be lawfully
rendered until the bill is passed.


Both houses adjourned yesterday after
noon on account Of Decoration day, and
this afternoon on account of the cere
monies attending the removal Of the re-
mains Of the late Gov. A. II. Bissell from
the old cemetery where the State has
erected an elegant marble monument at
an expense Of fve thousand dollars.


GOVERNOR PALMER


delivered biographical eulogy, in which
he had the bad taste to defend Gov. Bis
sells acceptance Of challenge 10 fight a
duel, by claiming that the challenge was
one of the first steps of the rebellion, that
it was really defiance of the whole
North, and that Gov. Bssell acted the
part Of a patriot in thus showing himself
ready TO fight for his country. Gov.
Palmer seemed to forget that at the time
the challenge was given he was himself
acting politically with the challenger, and
was liable TO be chosen as second on that
side. The whole argument in relation to
the duel, was an ill-timed attempt to pet
tifog for the radical party under the fimsy
pretence Of clearing Gov. Bissell from the
stigma attached to dueling.


ELI MOVES.