Illinois Senate considers electrocution bill and boards of trade reforms
Senator Thompson proposes executions by electric chair at Joliet prison with judiciary committee favoring the measure. The Agriculture Committee backs Harold Keasinger on boards of trade regulation. an exchange commission amendment shifts enforcement to a three member panel. Bids for cement contracts and milk revenue figures from Illinois farmers are noted, including Searcy's resolution urging the Constitution frigate's restoration voyage.
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Charles _ H
Thompson
Burg
Joliet
Committee On Judiciary
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Harold Keasinger
Boards of Trade
A. C. Everingham
Illinois Agricultural Association
Public Exchange Commission
A. S. Cuthbertson
Bunker Hill
Department of Agriculture
S. J. Standard
Olinois
A. J. Surratt
Agricultural Statistician
Standard
Illinois
Earl B. Searcy
Secretary of the Navy
Constitution
Farmers' Straw Destruction Grant Approved by Senate Panel
The Senate Committee on Appropriations favorably acted on Senator Norman G. Flagey’s bill to provide 7 875 dollars to farmers for straw destruction in the fight against smut. The Supreme Court reversed a judgment and remanded for retrial in the case of Elsie Sweetin, who is serving 36 years for the murder of her husband, with Rev. Lawrence Hight serving life for the same crime. The court held reversible error and that Sweetin should have had a separate trial as her attorneys requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Norman G. Flagey
Supreme Court
Elsie Sweetin
Joliet
Jefferson County
Lawrence Hight
Chester
Supreme Court upholds Chesnas death sentence in saline county
In Saline County, Joe Chesnas is condemned to die for the murder of rural mail carrier William Ansell. The Supreme Court sustained the trial court and Chesnas will hang on June 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Chesnas
Saline County
William Ansell
Supreme Court
Chesnas
John Cash
Lottie Woolard
Law actions and public works notes in Illinois
Opinion of the attorney general voids a ballot act section for its vagueness and enforcement flaws. Senator Meents reports readiness to hold daily appropriations sessions. Bridges and roads worth 348174.13 are set for eight counties Clinton Tazewell Whiteside Hancock White Randolph Perry St Clair. New Salem restoration bill proposes 50000 for Lincoln era site at Old Salem State Park south of Petersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde E. Stone
Robert Scholes
Speaker Scholes
Louis L. Emmerson
Stone
Carlstrom
Scholes
Emmerson
Supreme Court
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Clinton
Tazewell
Whiteside
Hancock
White
Randolph
Perry
St. Clair
Martin B. Lohman
Pekin
General Assembly
New Salem
Lincoln
Old Salem State Park
Petersburg
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
Illinois Sees Half-Price State and Federal Inspection Fees
Illinois announces a 50 percent cut in state and federal shipment inspection fees for fruit and vegetables, arguing the joint service boosts competitiveness and reduces delays. The federal share remains unchanged. the rest of the text notes coal output in 1926 and a sea wall project funding by railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Stanard
Illinois
Stanard
United States
State Department of Agriculture
A. D. Lewis
State Department of Mines and Minerals
West Frankfort
Bell & Zoller Mining Company
Zeigler
Wall and Sewer Works Planned by State Project
The city faces wall and levee construction funded as a state project. Sewer improvements will be required by the work, and Beardstown residents are prepared to undertake the needed changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Small
Department of Purchase and Construction
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Beardstown
Baltimore & Ohio
Sea Wall
Senator Kessinger seeks action against Armour Grain at Chicago Board
Senator Harold Kessinger proposes a resolution calling on the Chicago Board of Trade to show good faith with farmers of the Middle West and suspend Armour Grain Company officers from the Grain Marketing organization. The measure claims such a suspension would be more than a gesture if continued to include further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Kessinger
Chica Board of Trade
Armour Grain Company
Grain, Marketing Company
Chicago Board of Trade
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Division of Highways
Portland Cement
West
Hamburg
Conklin
Wasem
Happy Home
Patoka Hdw
Livesay Garage
Vernon, Illinois
Oakland and
Pontiac
David H. McClugage
John T. Joyce
Senate
Representatives of Election Commissions
State Department of Conservation
Department
Small
American Red Cross
Ilinois
St. Louis
Red Cross
Andrew S. Cuthbertson
House of Representatives
R. G. Soderstrom
Richard Meents
Ashkum
Springfield
Appropriations Committee
State Supreme Court
Lee County
New Salem Falls
Love Brothers
Globe Ler. CO
Vernon
Wm. Hutter Clothing Co
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