words "per centum," and in the second line by striking out the word "pay," and inserting the word "salary;" and by adding to said section the words "provided no such member shall be compelled to pay more than two dollars per month from his salary.' Amend secion 2 by striking out all after the figure "2," and insert the following: "The president of the board of trustees, the comptroller, the city, village or town clerk, the superintendent, or chief officer, or in his absence or inability to act, then the officer next in authority to him of the police department, the city, village or town treasurer and the city, village or town attorney, of such city, village or town, shall ex-officio be and constitute a board of commissioners, to provide for the disbursement of said fund or funds, and designate the beneficiaries thereof as herein directed, which board shall be known as the board of police pension fund commissioners of such city, village or town." Amend section 3, by striking out all after the figure "3," and insert the following: "Whenever any person, at the taking effect of this act. or thereafter, shall have been duly appointed and sworn, and have served for the period of twenty years or more, upon the regularly constituted police force of any such city, village or town of this State, which now is or hereafter may be subject to the provisions of this act, said board shall order and direct that such person shall after becoming fifty years of age and his services upon such police force shall have ceased, be paid from such fuud, a yearly pension, equal to one-half the amount of the salary attached to the rank which he may have held on said police force for one year next preceding the expiration of said term of twenty years.” Amend section 4, by striking out of the third line the words "as mentally incapacitated or," and by inserting in the same line after the word "while," the word "in." Amend section 9, by adding to the same after the last word thereof, the words, "and that no pension or allowance provided for in this act shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per yeas." And the question being, "Shall the foregoing amendments be adopted?" it was decided in the affirmative. The question then being, "Shall the foregoing bill, as amended, be ordered engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. A message from the Governor, by H. J. Caldwell, Private Secretary: Mr. President: I am directed by the Governor to lay before the Senate the following communication: STATE OF ILLINOIS, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, To the Honorable, the Senate: I hereby nominate and appoint as public administrator of McLean county, Sam Welty; to succeed William H. Whitehead, resigned. W. H. Brittin, public administrator of DeWitt county, to succeed John J. McGraw, term expired. John L. Donavan, of Iroquois county, trustee of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, to succeed himself. And respectfully ask the concurrence of the Senate therein. R. J. OGLESBY. READING BILLS OF THE SENATE THE THIRD TIME. Senate Bill No. 91, for "An act making an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the State Laboratory of Natural History, for the improvement of the library thereof, and for the expenses of the State Entomologist's office," having been printed was read at large a third time. And the question being "Shall this bill pass?" it was decided in the affirmative: Yeas, 29; nays, 8. Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs. Bacon of Edgar, Bell, Berggren, Chapman, Crawford, Curtiss, Evans, Funk, Garrity, Gibbs, Greenwood, Hadley, Hogan, Humphrey, Knopf, Leman, McGrath, Monahan, Organ, Pearson, Reavill, Reinhardt, Shutt, Southworth, Strattan, Thompson, Washburn, Wheeler, Yost.-29. Those voting in the negative are: Messrs. Bacon of Will, Burke, Cantwell, Darnell, Hill, Seiter, Stephenson, Streeter-8. Ordered that the title be as aforesaid, and that the secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof and ask their concurrence therein. Senate Bill No. 22, for "An act to authorize the corporate authorities of towns having an indebtedness heretofore created, to pay the cost of procuring lands for public parks in such towns, to issue and sell bonds, to pay and refund such indebtedness,' having been printed, was read at large a third time. And the question being, "Shall this bill pass?" it was decided in the affirmative: Yeas, 41; nays, 1. Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs. Adams, Bacon of Edgar, Bacon of Will, Bell, Cantwell, Chapman, Cochran, Crawford, Curtiss, Dean, Evans, Forman, Funk, Garrity, Gibbs, Greenwood, Hadley, Higgins, Hill, Hogan, Humphrey, Johns, Johnson, Knopf, Leman, McGrath, Monahan, Organ, Pearson, Reavill, Reinhardt, Seiter, Shutt, Southworth, Stephenson, Strattan, Streeter, Sumner, Washburn, Wheeler, Yost-41. Mr. Darnell voted in the negative. Ordered that the title be as aforesaid, and that the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof, and ask their concurrence therein. Senator Eckhart was granted a leave of absence for an indefinite period, on account of sickness in the family. By unanimous consent, Mr. Southworth offered the following resolution, which was read, viz.: Be it Resolved by the Senate, that the following named persons are hereby appointed pages of the Senate, to serve from and after this date, viz.: Charles Davis, Walter Walch, William Lyons, Albert Roderick, John Martin, and Harry Early. Mr. Southworth moved, that the rules be suspended in order that the foregoing resolution might be taken up for immediate consideration. And the yeas and nays being demanded, it was decided in the negative by the following vote, viz.: Yeas, 25; nays, 16. Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs. Bell, Burke, Cantwell, Cochran, Darnell, Dean, Forman, Garrity, Higgins, Hill, Humph rey, Knopf, Leman, McGrath, Monahan, Orendorf, Organ, Reavill, Seiter, Shutt, Southworth Stephenson, Strattan, Streeter, Washburn-25. Those voting in the negative are: Messrs. Bacon of Will, Berggren, Chapman, Curtiss, Evans, Funk, Gibbs, Gore, Greenwood, Hadley, Hogan, Johns, Pearson, Reinhardt, Sumner, Wheeler-16. And the motion having failed to receive a two-thirds vote was laid on the table for one day under rule 40. At 12:35 o'clock P. M., Mr. Gibbs moved that the Senate do now adjourn. And the yeas and nays being demanded the in the affirmative by the following vote, viz.: Those voting in the affirmative are: motion was decided Yeas, 30; nays, 15. Messrs. Berggren, Cantwell, Crawford, Curtiss, Darnell, Dean, Evans, Forman, Funk, Garrity, Gibbs Gore, Greenwood, Hadley, Higgins, Hogan, Johus, Johnson, Leman, McGrath, Orendorf, Reavill, Reinhardt, Seiter, Shutt, Southworth, Stephenson, Strattan, Thompson, Wheeler-30. Those voting in the negative are: Messrs. Adams, Bacon of Edgar, Bacon of Will, Bell, Burke, Cochran, Hill, Humphrey, Knopf Monahan, Organ, Pearson, Streeter, Sumner, Washburn-15. And the President announced the Senate adjourned till to-morrow morning at the usual hour. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1887-10 O'CLOCK A. M. The Senate met, pursuant to adjournment. Hon. John C. Smith, President of the Senate, presiding. Prayer by the Chaplain. The journal of yesterday was being read, when, on motion of Mr. Reinhardt, the further reading of the same was dispensed with, and it was ordered to stand approved. SPECIAL ORDER. The reading of the journal having been completed, the President of the Senate announced it as the time for the special order, being the further consideration of Senate Bill No. 146, being a bill for "An act to amend sections one (1) and three (3) of an act entitled 'an act to provide for fees of clerks of Probate Courts in counties of the third class,' approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879," which had been read a second time March 1, 1887. Whereupon Mr. Crawford offered the following amendment, viz.: Amend by striking out all of section one, after the word "court" in line 77 of the printed bill, and insert the following: "Shall remit and release to such estate all of the costs herein provided for." And the question being, "Shall the foregoing amendment be adopted?" it was decided in the affirmative. And the question now being, "Shall the foregoing bill as amended be engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative. The President of the Senate submitted the following report from Judge Collins, viz.: CHICAGO, MARCH 9, 1887. To the President of the Senate of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly of Illinois: Sir, I beg leave to report that during the two years, begining on December 31, 1884, and ending on December 31, 1886, I have held court in the Cook county circuit court three hundred and fifty-five days; in the criminal court of Cook county, one hundred and forty-three days; total number of days of holding court in Cook county, four hundred and ninety-eight. Respectfully submitted, L. C. COLLINS, JR. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Mr. Torrance, from the committee on State charitable institutions, to which was referred a bill, Senate Bill No. 149, for "An act making appropriations to the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville," reported the same back with amendments thereto, and recommended that the amendments be adopted, and that the bill as amended do pass, and that it be referred to the committee on appropriations. The report of the committee was concurred in, and it was ordered referred to the committee on appropriations. Mr. Torrance, from the committee on State charitable institutions, to which was referred a bill, Senate Bill No. 186, for "An act making appropriations to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal," reported the same back with amendments thereto, and recommended that the amendments be adopted, and that the bill as amended do pass, and that it be referred to the committee on appropriations. The report of the committee was concurred in, and it was dered referred to the committee on appropriations. or Mr. Crawford, from the committee on judiciary, to which was referred a bill, Senate Bill No. 61, for "An act to regulate the practice of cases of misnomer in criminal proceedings," reported the same back with the recommendation that the bill do pass. The report of the committee was concurred in, and the bill was ordered to a second reading and to be printed. Mr. Curtiss, from the committee on appropriations, reported the following resolution on behalf of said committee, and On motion of Mr. Curtiss, the ruses were suspended and it was taken up for consideration and read, viz: Resolved, That the committee on appropriations be, and it is hereby authorized and empowered, to appoint a sub-committee consisting of five of its members to investigate and report the facts with its conclusions upon all questions relating to the subject of letting the contract for State printing, and the cause of the large increase of the appropriation required to pay for State printing for the next two years, and that said sub-committee is hereby given power and authority to bring before it persons and papers, and is also authorized to employ a stenographer and necessary clerks. And the question being, "Shall the foregoing resolution be adopted?" it was decided in the affirmative. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Mr. Bacon of Will, introduced a bill, Senate Bill No. 319, for "An act making appropriations for repairs and improvements in the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet," and |
