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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1915, 10:00 O'CLOCK A. M.

The House met pursuant to adjournment,

The Speaker in the chair.

Prayer by the Rev. H. V. Davis.

The Journal of Thursday, February 18, was being read, when, on motion of Mr. McGloon, the further reading of the same was dispensed with, and it was ordered to stand approved.

A message from the Governor by William L. Sullivan, Secretary to the Governor:

Mr. Speaker—I am directed by the Governor to lay before the House of Representatives the following communication:

STATE OF ILLINOIS. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SPRINGFIELD, March 2, 1915.

Gentlemen of the Forty-ninth General Assembly:

Owing to many trustworthy representations made to me by stock-raisers and others cognizant of the facts, in relation to the financial distress of stock-raisers resulting from the slaughter of animals made necessary by the foot and mouth epidemic, I would respectfully recommend that the Legislature take prompt action in the way of making emergency appropriations to compensate all stock-raisers in the State of Illinois to the amount of one-half of the appraised value of their slaughtered stock; the Federal Government now being engaged in compensating for the other half. If possible, this appropriation should be made with an emergency clause so as to take effect at the earliest possible moment.

Very respectfully,

E. F. DUNNE, Governor.

The foregoing message was received and ordered placed on file. A message from the Governor by William L. Sullivan, Secretary to the Governor:

Mr. Speaker-I am directed by the Governor to lay before the House of Representatives the following communication:

STATE OF ILLINOIS. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SPRINGFIELD, March 2, 1915.

Gentlemen of the Forty-ninth General Assembly:

One great embarrassment attendant upon the honest effort of a State Legislature to give to the people remedial legislation has been the insidious influence of the corrupt lobbyist.

Always the servile hireling of the concealed master, he sits near the seats of the members and in the committee rooms during the sessions of the committees and endeavors to poison at its source what would otherwise be the honestly expressed will of the people's representatives.

It has been said in the past that Illinois was not free from this scourge. I have proposed several remedial measures to the present Legislature and many other meritorious measures will be considered during the session. We should not sit quietly by and permit bills, designed to give relief to the people, to be changed, modified, rendered impotent or nullified by the machinations of undisclosed persons and influences, if it is in our power to prevent it.

Such persons and influences should come out in the open and show their colors, where all men can see them and know for what they stand. Honest

men and measures will announce themselves and be welcome, but the subsidized and professional lobbyist, intent on defeating the will of the people by endeavoring to corrupt the weak and to circumvent the strong, should be driven from the State House.

In my judgment, no one, not a member of this General Assembly, should be admitted to the floor of either House or the committee rooms thereof, the cloak rooms, the corridors or any other part of the State House adjacent to the legislative chambers, for the purpose of advocating, amending or opposing any bill, resolution or measure, pending in either House of the General Assembly, unless such person shall first register his name and address with the Secretary of State and the Secretary or Clerk of each House of the General Assembly.

Such person, in addition to his name and address, should be required to certify in writing if he is employed by any person, firm or corporation; and if so, the name and address of each employer, and what compensation he has received or is to receive, if any. He should further be required to state in writing the bills, acts, measures or resolutions he is interested in and what the nature of his interest may be. Such registration and other information should be spread upon the records of the House or Senate and published in the Journal of its proceedings, and no person, not a member of either House of the General Assembly and not so registered, should be permitted to discuss any measure, bill, act or resolution so pending before any committee or with any member of either House. In any resolution covering this matter that is adopted by either House, however, nothing therein contained should apply to any person or persons invited by either House or any committee thereof to appear before such House or any of its committees for the purpose of furnishing information or data desired by either House or any such committees, on any matter pending before either House or any of its committees, provided the name and address of any such person, so invited and appearing before any committee of either House, shall be reported to the Clerk (or Secretary) of either House by the chairman of such committees and published in the daily Journal of its proceedings.

Neither should any resolution adopted by either House concerning this matter apply to any State officer or department head appearing before the various committees, relative to the work of their departments.

Respectfully,

E. F. DUNNE, Governor.

The foregoing message was received and ordered placed on file. Mr. DeYoung, from the special committee heretofore appointed to determine the result of the election for member of the House of Representatives in the State of Illinois for the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District, submitted the following report and moved its adoption:

IN THE FORTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

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In the matter of the determination ofthe result of the election for Representative in the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois from the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District of said State.

Report of Committe.

To the Honorable David E. Shanahan, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois:

We, the undersigned, the committee appointed by you to determine whether E. Walter Green or Robert Howard was elected a Representative in the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois from the Thirtyfourth Senatorial District of said State, at the general election held on the third day of November, A. D. 1914, respectfully submit the following report:

The counties of Clark, Coles and Douglas constitute the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District of the State of Illinois, and your committee caused to

appear before it, in the State Capitol, the county clerks of the aforesaid counties with all the ballots cast at, the papers and documents pertaining to, and the returns of, said election in said Senatorial District, with other witnesses. Oral evidence on the question of the custody and preservation of the ballots cast was heard by your committee and it was found that the same had been properly preserved and that they constituted the best evidence of the result of the election.

Your committee then recounted all the ballots cast in said Senatorial District, at said election held on November 3, 1914, for E. Walter Green and Robert Howard for members of, or Representatives in, the General Assembly of Illinois, and from such recount finds:

That the total number of votes cast for E. Walter Green was eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-one and one-half (11,351).

That the total number of votes cast for Robert Howard was eleven thousand and seventy-two (11,072).

That the said E. Walter Green received, at said election, two hundred seventy-nine and one-half (279) more votes than did said Robert Howard, and that the said E. Walter Green, and not the said Robert Howard, was duly elected at said election, a member of the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, from the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District of said State.

Your committee does, therefore, recommend that the said E. Walter Green, and not the said Robert Howard, be declared to have been elected, at said election, a member of the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, from the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District of said State, and that he, the said E. Walter Green, is entitled to and should be given, a seat in the House of Representatives of said General Assembly for or from said Senatorial District.

The tally-lists or sheets prepared by the Clerks of your Committee submitted herewith, are made a part of this report.

Dated, Springfield, Ill., March 1, 1915.

Respectfully submitted,

FREDERICK R. DEYOUNG, Chairman;
ARTHUR ROE,

W. J. GRAHAM,

JAMES C. HARVEY,

JNO. S. BURNS,

Committee of the General Assembly to determine the result of aforesaid election for Representative in the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District of Illinois.

The question being on the adoption of the report of the committee, a call of the roll was had, resulting as follows: Yeas, 114; nays, 0. Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs.

Atwood

Barker

Basel

Benson

Bentley

Bippus

Boyd

Donlan

Hruby
Hubbard

Brewer

Brinkman

Brown, W. M.

Burns

Burres

Drake

Dudgeon

Elliott

Ellis

Farrell
Felts

Festerling

Fieldstack

Flagg

Frankhauser

Gardner

Gorman

Huston

Igoe

Jackson

Kane

Kasserman

Kessinger

Lantz

Leech

LePage

Lyle

Lynch

Lyon

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Butler

Buxton

Campbell

Cooper

Gregory

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Graham, T. E.

Graham, W. J.

Madsen

Mason
Maucker

Roe, A.

Rostenkowski

Tuttle

Vickers

Rothschild

Vursell

Rowe, W.

Watson

Scanlan

Weber

West

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McCabe

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McCormick

Meents

Morrasy

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Present and not voting: Mr.

Lipshulch

And the report of the committee was adopted.

Total-1.

On motion of Mr. Hubbard, a unanimous vote of thanks was extended to the Special Committee on Elections for the competent, expeditious and efficient manner in which they have performed the duties assigned them.

Mr. DeYoung offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:

ROUSE RESOLUTION No. 23.

Resolved, That a committee of three members be appointed by the Speaker, to wait upon James H. Creighton, Judge of the Circuit Court, and request him to administer the oath of office to Hon. E. Walter Green, a member-elect of this House.

And the resolution was adopted.

The Speaker thereupon appointed as such committee Messrs. DeYoung, Drake and Purdunn.

Mr. DeYoung, from the committee heretofore appointed to wait upon Judge Creighton and request him to administer the oath of office to Hon. E. Walter Green, announced that Judge Creighton of the Circuit. Court was present and ready to perform that duty.

Whereupon, the oath was administered to Hon. E. Walter Green, member-elect, and the Clerk directed to place his name on the roll as a member of the House.

By unanimous consent, the attention of the House was called to the absence of Messrs. Mitchell, Murphy and Wood on account of sickness. Mr. Smejkal asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the House to be absent from the session Wednesday, March 3, for the purpose of attending the funeral of his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles Puf, in Chicago, Illinois.

The Speaker laid before the House the following report of the Committee on Rules, to wit:

HOUSE RULES.

FORTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

MEMBERS.

1. No member shall absent himself from the sessions of the House unless he have leave or be sick, or his absence be unavoidable. A majority of the House shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, or for less time than one day.

2. No member shall name another member present in debate.

3. No smoking shall be allowed in the hall, lobbies or galleries of the House.

4. No person shall be allowed to use the Representative hall for the purpose of a public lecture.

5. No person, other than members and officers of the General Assembly, the elected State Officers, the Secretary to the Governor and the judges of the Supreme Court, shall be entitled to remain on the floor of the House while it is in session. Representatives of the Press while the House is in Session shall have access to the galleries and places allotted to them by the Speaker.

THE SPEAKER.

6. The Speaker shall take the chair every day at precisely the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall imme

diately call the members to order and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the Journal of the preceding day to be read.

7. He shall preserve decorum and order and for that purpose the Officers and employees of the House shall be under his direction; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House by any two members on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.

8. He shall rise to put a question, but may state it sitting.

9. The Speaker shall examine and correct the Journal before it is read; and the same shall be printed and upon the desks of members before the same can be approved; he shall have general direction of the hall; he shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond five days after adjournment.

10. All acts, addresses and joint resolutions shall be signed by the Speaker; and all writs, warrants and subpoenas issued by order of the House shall be under his hand and seal, and attested by the Clerk.

11. In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct on the floor of the House, in the lobby or galleries, by the spectators, the Speaker or Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House, shall have power to order the floor of the House, the lobby or galleries to be cleared of spectators, and for that purpose the officers and employees of the House shall be under the orders and direction of the Speaker or Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House, as the case may be.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

12. The following shall be the daily order of business in the House:

1. Reading of the Journal.

2. Petitions.

3. Reports from standing committees.

4. Reports from select committees.

5. Messages on the Speaker's desk.

6. Consideration of measures in Committee of the Whole House.

7. Introduction of bills.

8. House bills on first reading

9. House bills on second reading. 10. House bills on third reading.

11. Senate bills on third reading.
12. Senate bills on second reading.
13. Senate bills on first reading.
14. Senate messages other than bills.
15. Resolutions.

The Clerk, under the direction of the Speaker, shall publish a daily calendar and cause it to be placed on the desks of members before the convening of the House, showing all special orders of the day and all bills before the House in their proper order of reading.

Bills shall appear upon the calendar in the order in which they are reported, unless otherwise directed by the House, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk to cause the calendar to be so printed.

The above order of business may be changed at any time upon the motion of any member supported by four additional members arising in their seats and joining in said motion, by an affirmative vote of seventy-seven memters. Any bill or resolution may be considered out of its order under any order of business by a like motion supported as aforesaid and the affirmative vote of seventy-seven members; provided, however, that upon the completion of the business under the order of business or under the item to which the change has been made, the House shall return to the regular order of busi

ness.

Upon motion supported as above and upon an affirmative vote of seventyseven members, the House may likewise revert to any order of business already passed or to any item under any order of business already passed.

The Rules Committee may report a special order for the day, which special order shall take the place of the regular order and shall be shown on the daily calendar, but the special order so reported may be suspended,

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