Messages to the General Assembly

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Стр. 35 - ... within the control of the private parties to the controversy. No steam railroad should be permitted to cross the main tracks of another like company, nor should any electric railway be permitted to cross the tracks of a steam railway, without permission of the commission, and the commission should be authorized to make such orders, rules and regulations for the protection of all persons from injury at such crossings as it may deem necessary, apportioning the cost and expense of maintenance of...
Стр. 1 - The Governor shall, at the commencement of each session, and at the close of his term of office, give to the General Assembly information, by message, of the condition of the State, and shall recommend such measures as he shall deem expedient.
Стр. 23 - General Assembly presented on January 9, 1907. In this message he said: "Fifty years ago our school system fairly represented the best educational thought. To this has been added a mass of illconsidered, incoherent and occasionally obscure amendments, so that the school laws of Illinois now include the General School Law containing 301 sections, thirty-seven special charters, eight supplemental acts and twenty-one additional acts. Moreover, there are more than 400 court decisions construing these...
Стр. 5 - ... to residents of Illinois whenever it is not necessary to permit citizens of other states to compete in order that the best results may be obtained. The law should be amended also so that the commission may order a trial whenever it believes that improper reasons prompted the removal of an employee. The two principal political parties in their platforms declared in favor of an extension of civil service, and in view of the improvement of the public service in the state charitable institutions,...
Стр. 34 - The General Assembly shall have power, subject to the conditions and limitations hereinafter contained, to pass any law (local, special or general) providing a scheme or charter of local municipal government for the territory now or hereafter embraced within the limits of the city of Chicago.
Стр. 34 - That the party column on the ballot should be abolished ; that the names of candidates for a single office should be printed on the ballot under the designation of that office, and that it should be made impossible to vote a straight party ticket by a single mark or cross.
Стр. 18 - No corporation or stock company shall be licensed or granted a certificate of authority as the agent or representative of any life insurance company in soliciting, selling or in any manner placing life insurance policies or contracts in this State.
Стр. 38 - Association, and each of these learned bodies has a special committee charged with tte duty of urging that you take action thereon at this session. There can be no doubt of the pressing importance of this matter, particularly to Cook County. There, the administration...
Стр. 23 - ... appointed to study other school systems, comparing ours with the best in this country and elsewhere, so that the best information may be secured as to all classes of schools, country, town, primary, intermediate, high school and normal, and to frame and submit to the next General Assembly laws to unify our school system and bring our public schools up to the highest standard of efficiency. It will not require a large appropriation to accomplish this work. I recommend such an appropriation as...
Стр. 16 - The amendment of 19o3 to section 6 of the act of 1869 relating to the organization of mutual fire insurance companies provides an inadequate basis for the organization of such companies. It practically permits them to organize with...

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