21 Jan 1875
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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1875
Page
1
The article notes no winter passage for a territorial government bill for the Indian Territory unless it concerns a U S court. multiple private interests block consensus. Eight to ten bills are under consideration in six committees across both chambers, including Indian affairs territories and judiciary.
The Illinois Senate and House opened with numerous bills. Key items include a $182,500 appropriation to finish the Southern Insane Asylum at Anna and its waterworks, a sine die adjournment set for February 20 1875, and licensing reforms for dramshops. House proposals include $800,000 for the new Statehouse and tax/registry changes.
The Illinois House adjourned after outlining bills on taxes pharmacy dramshops and education. A special five member committee was authorized to probe state house funding and contractor payments with a report due in twenty days. Senate committees listed their chairs as sessions resumed with messages on revenue and public charities.
The piece comments on a California led bill to grant 900 square miles of Alaska timber land to a California company for shipbuilding aid. It warns privatizing public domain risks, notes timber types, government surveying costs, and questions the policy and shipbuilding impact.
A Belfast shoe factory owner turns leather shavings into edible pancakes used as inner heel lifts. Alma House began at four cents each, later sole a contract for exclusive manufacture, now employs six women producing 800 to 400 a day while workers endure paste up to their elbows. A Danbury man notes a ship may stand on a tack all night but an hour and a half suffices.
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