By unanimous consent, the President of the Senate presented a report from Judge Walls, of the Third Judicial Circuit of this State, of the number of days he had held court in Clinton, Marion, Perry, Randolph and Washington counties.

Which was ordered referred to the committee on judicial department.

By unanimous consent, Mr. Shutt called up House Bill No. 96, being a bill for "An act to provide for the necessary expenses of the State government, incurred or to be incurred, and now unprovided for until the first day of July, 1887."

Which, by unanimous consent, was taken up for consideration and read at large a first time, and

On motion of Mr. Shutt, was referred to the committee on appropriations.

Mr. Cochran asked to have 500 copies of the resolution introduced by him February 16, 1887, relating to convict labor, printed.

There being no objection it was so ordered.

Mr. Crawford moved that when the Senate adjourns it adjourn to meet at 1:45 o'clock P. M. to-morrow.

Which motion prevailed.

At 5:10 o'clock P. M., on motion of Mr. Thompson, the Senate adjourned.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1887-1:45 O'CLOCK P. M.

Senate met, pursuant to adjournment.

Hon. John C. Smith, President of the Senate, presiding.
Prayer by the Rev. D. S. Johnson.

The journal of yesterday was being read, when, on motion of Mr. Thompson, the further reading of the same was dispensed with and it was ordered to stand approved.

By unanimous consent, Mr. Adams presented the following resolution, which, by unanimous consent, was taken up for consideration, read, and adopted by a rising vote, viz.:

WHEREAS, We have learned with profound sorrow of the death of the Hon. Alfred Brown, a member of the present General Assembly, which occurred in the city of Springfield on Monday, February 21, 1887; therefore, be it

Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Brown the State of Illinois has lost a citizen whose public and private virtues adorn a well-spent life, and which are worthy the strictest emulation; the House of Representatives an intelligent, industrious and honorable member, and the Forty-fourth Senatorial district a representative who had the confidence and respect of the entire people to an eminent degree.

Resolved, That we tender to the stricken family of the deceased the assurance of our keenest sympathy in this, the hour of their great bereavement.

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the journals of the Senate, and a copy, duly attested, be forwarded to the family of the deceased.

Resolved, That a committee of three members of the Senate be appointed to attend the funeral and accompany the remains to their final resting place.

In accordance with the foregoing resolution, the President appointed, to attend the funeral of the deceased member on the part of the Senate, to-wit: Messrs. Adams, Organ and Chapman.

By unanimous consent, Mr. Hogan called up the following preamble and joint resolution, received from the House February 8, 1887, which was read, viz.:

WHEREAS, This legislature has appropriated the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the erection of a suitable monument in honor of the deceased great statesman and patriotic soldier, John A. Logan; and

WHEREAS, The City of Springfield, as the Capital of the State, is one of the most accessible and proper places for the location of such a monument; and

WHEREAS, The people south of Springfield have been near neighbors to the lamented statesman and patriotic soldier, and have a better accommodation to visit such monument at the State Capital than at any other place further north; therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein. That the State House Commissioners are hereby authorized to offer, on behalf of the State, a suitable site on the Capitol grounds, free of charge, for the erection of such a monument, if the bereaved widow of the deceased should see it proper and in conformity with her desires to select such a site; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State is hereby instructed to forward a copy of this preamble and joint resolution to Mrs. John A. Logan.

The question being, "Shall the foregoing preamble and joint resolution be concurred in?" it was decided in the affirmative.

Ordered that the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Mr. Berggren, from the committee on engrossed and enrolled bills, reports that a bill of the following title has been correctly engrossed, and is returned herewith, to-wit:

Senate Bill No. 169, a bill for "An act to amend section one (1) of an act entitled 'An act enabling school districts acting under special charters, to hold elections for the election of school directors and members of boards of education at the time provided for the election of school directors under the school laws of this State."

Mr. Berggren, from the joint committee on enrolled bills, reports that a bill of the following title has been correctly enrolled, and on the 22d day of February, 1887, laid before the Governor for his approval, to-wit:

Senate Bill No. 148, a bill for "An act to appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars to pay the necessary expenses of holding joint memorial services to be held in the hall of the House of Representatives on the 22d day of February, 1887.”

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS.

Mr. Berggren presented a petition requesting the elimination from the proposed militia bill of the clause forbidding the carrying of arms by the independent military companies licensed by the Governor. Which, on motion of Mr. Berggren, was referred to the committee on military.

Mr. Pearson presented a petition from citizens of McDonough county, in favor of the act designed to amend the act of 1885, in relation to horse thief detective companies.

Which, on motion of Mr. Pearson, was referred to the committee on agriculture and drainage.

Mr. Adams presented a petition from legal voters of Wayne county, favoring the enactment of the county option law, giving counties the right to prohibit by a majority vote the sale of intoxicating liquors, etc.

Which, on motion of Mr. Adams, was referred to the committee on license and miscellany.

SPECIAL ORDER.

The hour of 2 o'clock P. M. having arrived, it being the time specified for the meeting of the two Houses in the hall of the House of Representatives, for the purpose of holding joint memorial exercises commemorative of the life and public services of the deceased statesmen, Judge David Davis and General John A. Logan.

The Senate, preceded by the President of the Senate and the Secretary thereof, proceeded to the hall of the House of Representatives.

JOINT MEMORIAL EXERCISES.

The joint assembly having convened by joint resolution for the purpose of holding memorial services in honor of our deceased distinguished citizens, Judge David Davis and Gen. John A. Logan, by request of the committee on arrangements, the Speaker presented to the members of the General Assembly and the vast audience assembled, as President of the occasion, his excellency, Governor Richard J. Oglesby, who, taking the chair, addressed the assembly as follows:

Mr. Speaker and Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

The impressive ceremonies provided for and inaugurated by your deliberative bodies for this day are of unusual significance and gravity. It is seldom that the great deliberative body of a State --the law-making power of a State-will go aside from the rigorous calls of duty impending forever upon it, to prepare for extraordinary occasions.

Nothing less than the lives of two distinguished citizens could have ever lured the General Assembly of the State of Illinois to have taken this unusual and extraordinary step. The lives of two distinguished citizens of our own State: One of them distinguished in the civil and professional walk of life-the other in the civil and military. What a lesson of encouragement, gentlemen, may I venture to suggest, the gravity of this day's proceeding inaugurates for the youth of our country? What an example? How elevating the effect? That without regard to wealth, without regard to poverty, the General Assembly of the State of Illinois feels justified in setting aside the day of the birth of the Father of Our Country in which to hold memorial services over the lives and death of two of its citizens.

Young men of our country may well understand that great citizenship in our lives is the result of the efforts of the man himself, and these, struggling from obscurity up the highways of life, an honorable and noble career is crowned with universal respect and gratitude. To do them shows to this world that noble deeds eclipse all other deeds of life.

The gentlemen selected by the committee of arrangements, under your direction, have fitly chosen. as worthily adapted to the occasion, two distinguished citizens of our State, who will deliver the chief addresses upon this occasion, both of them well known to all of you and to the entire people, who shall speak as they see fit of the lives, the conduct, the manhood, the youth, the history, and all there was of Gen. John A. Logan and Judge David Davis.

It is not my province, gentlemen, to detain you many moments. I thank you, or through your direction, the committee of arrangements, for the honor assigned to me for this day's worthy observance. Remember, young men, remember fellow citizens, that the precedents of this day are to be perpetuated in the legislative annals of our State.

The Reverend Dr. Wines offered the following prayer:

O God, Thou alone art great. In the presence of death how vain are man and all his works. Our life is but a vapor. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are three score years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. May we do with our might that which our hands find to do, for there is neither wisdom nor knowledge nor device in the grave whereunto we hasten. Grant unto us, faith and patience that we may be followers of Thy servants who have gone before us unto judgment, as they were followers of Thee. Comfort the hearts of those whom they have left bereft and desolate. Give unto them and ns we beseech Thee, an abundant entrance unto Thy heavenly kingdom, and this we beg through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Anthem, "Jesus, Savior of my soul," by the Quincy quartette.

The President presented Judge Lawrence Weldon, of Bloomington, who delivered the following address on the life and public services of Judge David Davis:

Mr. President, Senators, Representatives, Ladies and Gentlemen:

In the capitol, on the birthday of Washington, at the instance of the representatives of the people, we meet to commemorate, with appropriate thought and ceremony, the lives and characters of two distinguished citizens of Illinois. Names more than illustrious; lives above reproach; honor unsullied; duty performed; greatness achieved. Standing within reach of the tomb of Lincoln, on this day of liberty, dedicated anew to the memory of public virtue, I trust no word of mine will be unworthy of the hallowed associations which surround us.

The jurist, the statesman and the soldier, combined in the career of the illustrious dead, and almost hand in hand, they passed to the domain of history. It is meet that a Commonwealth dis

tinguished by their services, blessed by their labors, and honored in their glory, should bear this memorial in token of their memory. Judge Davis and General Logan as statesmen had many.virtues in common; and conspicuously above them all, was their love of country. That inspiration,that thought, blended them into a beautiful brotherhood. Let it not be said in the presence of this triumph, that the good that great men do, in an age of justice, is buried with them. The mantle of charity covers the lifeless form, truth guards the grave; and naught but a sweet recollection of their services fills the minds and hearts of their people.

"Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids,

Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall."

In the morning of the 26th of June last, as nature was teeming with life, and joyous in the music of summer, at a home made beautiful by his toil and his taste, in the city of Bloomington, Judge Davis passed that mysterions change called death. At the time of his decease, though retired from public life, a nation and a people-men of all creeds, and of all parties-anxiously hoped his restoration to health and vigor. In the night preceding his death, as the gloom of the grave seemed to gather, the great dailies of distant cities stopped the wheels of printing presses, that they might be the first to announce in leaded lines of national bereavement, "Judge Davis is dead. As a public man, he filled no ordinary space in the affection of the people; and in the sympathy of personal friendship, throughout the length and breadth of a land and country, made better and happier by the goodness and greatness of his character.

The sad duty which I perform to-day is the discharge of an obligation, incumbent upon me by a friendship, kindness and association, extending through a period of a third of a century; and during all of that time, I am permitted to say, "He was my friend, faithful and just to me." Under the forms of other civilizations the memory of the dead was so sacred, that only those who were connected with the deceased by the kindred of blood, were permitted to speak in their praise; but under a better and higher development, the ties of friendship, the bonds of social affiliation, and the fadeless memory of individual virtues, fit men for the delicate trust, confided to me, by the compliment of your invitation. Emotions beyond my control would not permit me to disregard the invitation of the representative of the people to join in bringing to his memory the grateful recollections of personal friendship, and popular appreciation.

His professional and public life embraces a full round period of a half century, during which, the State of his adoption, and the Nation of his nativity, developed and strengthened beyond the fabulons story of history. He lived in a prolific age, restless of tradition and restraint; and grasping for achievement in the moral, poiitical and material condition of man. Born of an ancestry, whose residence was coeval with the colonial age, of one of the middle Atlantic States, he inherited a proud consciousness of American citizenship. The term American is not used in the limited partisan sense; but in the widest range of its signification. While he was willing to mix creeds and nationalities, in the great problem of American liberty, he believed in the leaven of revolutionary virtue, which marked and identified our system of transatlantic society. Except a railroad trip, in the province of Canada, he never went beyond the domain of his native land. He was an embodiment of a love of country, glorying in its form of society and government, delighted with the vastness and superiority of its landscape and sunshine, proud of its achievements in the material and moral resources of a great people, and rejoicing in the hope that a splendid destiny was reserved for us, as a power among the nations of the world.

Born in the state of Maryland, educated in Ohio and Massachusetts, when scarcely twenty-one years old, he left the scenes of childhood and youth, to share in that great future which awaited the State of his adoption. At the time he sought his home in the west as a very young man, he traversed the breadth of nearly five States, then in their comparative infancy, that he might grow with the growth, and stengthen with the strength, of that commonwealth which has so honored him by its confidence, and whose history his name has enriched in the example of a great character.

The partiality of a friendship and admiration never interrupted, will not, I trust, on this occa-i sion, carry me beyond the bounds of honest praise and appropriate eulogy. It is difficult to deal with the elements of such a character-to be just to the memory of the dead and yet to avoid what might be regarded as extravagant commendation. The cup of merited praise may be filled, not from the heart and hand of personal friendship, but from the recollection and appreciation of those qualities which mark the public and private life of the man. Nature and education had fitted him for the profession of the law; and it is true to say, among the many lawyers and judges who have graced our national history, none have had a higher regard for the American bar than Judge Davis. The graces of personal accomplishment and the noble manhood, developed by a high sense of professional duty, was to him among the greatest acquirements of social life.

In his admirable eulogy on Major Stuart, delivered before the State Bar Association, less than six months before his death, he said: "The man who seeks posthumous reputation can not acquire it by the labors of a lifetime practicing law. To be at the head of the Americrn bar is, in my judg ment, a higher honor than any political preferment." The true lawyer he admired, not only by an affirmative affection for his character as such, but by an abhorrent dislike for the meanness and shortcoming of the unprofessional. After having served his country upon the bench of the State, in the Supreme Court of the United States, and stood within one life of the highest civil position on earth, he accepted the presidency of the State Bar Association with all the enthusiasm of middle manhood, grateful to the lawyers for a compliment so delicate and distinguished.

While Judge Davis filled some of the most responsible positions in the political councils of his country, his name and fame will endure in the crystalized form of an eminent jurist. He was the recipient, in early and mature life, of popular favor in the field of politics; but his ambition and his taste followed the glory of the ermine, which in the highest walks of judicial life he has so worthily He came to the field of his labors and hope when scarcely of age, but fully equipped by mental discipline to understand and appreciate the deep philosophy of that system and science which had been the growth of civilized centuries.

worn.

Aside from the death of his father, his condition in life was most favorable for the early education and formation of that character which in after years bore the triple fruit of wealth, honor and success. He was not borne down by the privations of poverty, nor was he enervated by the expecta