Having been printed, was taken up and read at large a second time, And the question being, "Shall the bill be engrossed and printed for a third reading ?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Olson, Senate Bill No. 382, a bill for "An Act providing a board to censor motion picture films and prescribing the duties and powers of the same,"

Was taken up and read at large a second time, together with the following amendment thereto (which has been printed), reported from the Committee on Judiciary and Judicial Practice, May 5, 1915:

AMENDMENT No. 1.

Amend Senate Bill No. 382 by striking out all of said bill after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

There is hereby created under the authority and supervision of the Secretary of State of Illinois, in his office, a board of censors of motion picture films, who shall be known as the "Illinois Board of Censors," and hereinafter referred to as the board. Upon the taking effect of this Act, the Secretary of the State shall appoint, with approval of the Governor, three persons, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, subject to removal by the Secretary of State for cause, who shall constitute such board. Upon the expiration of the term of each member so appointed a successor shall be appointed in like manner for a term of three years.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall furnish the board of censors with suitable office rooms, and with sufficient equipment to properly carry out the provisions of this Act. The board of censors may organize by electing one of its members as chairman, and may adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary. The board may hold meetings or transact business anywhere in the State. The Secretary of State shall select a competent person who shall act as secretary of the board. Every member of the board of censors shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars. The members of the board shall be considered as employees of the State in the office of the Secretary of State, and shall be paid as other employees of the State in the office of the Secretary of State are paid. The Secretary of State shall appoint such assistants and clerical help as may be necessary to carry on the work of the board.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of censors to examine and censor as herein provided, all motion picture films to be publicly exhibited and displayed in the State of Illinois. Such films shall be submitted by manufacturers, dealers, and exchanges, to the board before they shall be delivered to the exhibitor for exhibition, and any member of the board shall have power and authority to require any or all motion picture films submitted to be displayed before him for the purposes of this Act and may require a description of any motion picture film or reel to be furnished, describing the scenes. The board shall charge a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each reel or film to be censored which does not exceed one thousand (1,000) lineal feet, and one dollar ($1.00) additional for each reel exceeding one thousand (1,000) feet, which shall be paid to the Secretary of State and all moneys so received shall be accounted for by him and paid into the State treasury in the manner now provided by law.

SEC. 4. Only such films as are in the judgment and discretion of the board of censors of a moral, educational or amusing and harmless character shall be passed and approved by such board. They shall be stamped or designated in an appropriate manner and consecutively numbered. Before any motion picture film shall be publicly exhibited, there shall be projected upon the screen the words, "Approved by the Illinois Board of Censors," and the number of the film.

SEC. 5. The board of censors may work in conjunction with any censor board or boards of legal status of other states as a censor congress and the action of such congress in approving or rejecting films shall be considered as the action of the board and all films passed, approved, stamped and

numbered by such congress, when the fees therefor have been paid to the Illinois board, shall be considered approved by said board.

SEC. 6. Ninety days after this Act shall take effect no films may be publicly shown or exhibited within the State of Illinois unless they have been passed and approved by the board or censor congress and stamped and numbered by such board, or congress, as provided for herein.

SEC. 7. Any person, firm or corporation who shall publicly exhibit or show any motion picture within the State of Illinois unless it shall have been passed, approved and stamped by the Illinois board of censors or the congress of censors, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both, for each offense.

SEC. 8. Any person in interest being dissatisfied with any order of such board may apply for a rehearing and upon refusal of the board or upon decision after a final hearing may appeal to the Circuit Court of Sangamon County for the purpose of having the reasonableness or lawfulness of the rule, decision, or order, inquired into and determined.

SEC. 9. Any member or agent of the board shall have authority to enter any place where motion picture films are being exhibited for the purpose of detecting any violations of this Act, and the secretary of the board shall provide the members and any such agents with badges of authority.

The question then being, "Shall the report of and the amendment reported from the committee be adopted?" it was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Swanson offered the following amendments to the bill, which were adopted:

Amend Senate Bill No. 382 by adding a new section, to be known as section 10.

"SEC. 10. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair the powers heretofore granted to or existing in any city, village or incorporated town of 100,000 inhabitants, or over, to regulate, examine or censor all motion picture films before the exhibition thereof in such city, village or incorporated town: Provided, further, that no such city, village, or incorporated town shall permit the exhibition of any motion picture films, unless the same shall have been approved by the board of censors, as provided for in this Act."

AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL No. 382.

Amend Senate Bill No. 382, as amended, by striking out all after the word "before" in section 4, to the end of the said section four,

The question then being, "Shall the bill be engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Pervier, Senate Bill No. 102, a bill for "An Act to amend section 107 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges,' approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913," Was stricken from the calendar and ordered to lie on the table. On motion of Mr. Broderick, Senate Bill No. 370, a bill for “An Act to amend section 74 of an Act entitled, 'An Act concerning local improvements, approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903,"

Having been printed, was taken up and read at large a second time. Mr. Broderick offered the following amendments to the bill, which were adopted:

AMENDMENT No. 1.

In line 19 of the printed bill, before the word "any" insert the words "If the owners of three-fourths of the property fronting upon any proposed

improvement shall file a petition with the board of local improvements of any city, village or town requesting the use thereof."

AMENDMENT No. 2.

In line 30 of the printed bill, strike out the word "of" and insert in lieu thereof the word "thereof" and insert a comma after such word "thereof."

And the question being, "Shall the bill, as amended, be engrossed and printed for a third reading ?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Glackin, Senate Bill No. 26, a bill for "An Act authorizing courts of record to suspend sentence and parole adult persons guilty for the first time of certain criminal offenses, and authorizing the appointment of a registrar to aid in carrying out its provisions,"

Having been printed, was taken up and read at large a second time, And the question being, "Shall the bill be engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Woodard, Senate Bill No. 508, a bill for "An Act to authorize cities having a population of less than 50,000 to renew, repair and maintain sewers, ditches, drains, dykes, levees, pumping works and machinery by general taxation,"

Having been printed, was taken up and read at large a second time, And the question being, "Shall the bill be engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Carroll, Senate Bill No. 15, for "An Act to establish a State Athletic Commission and defining the powers and duties thereof,"

Having been engrossed, and printed as engrossed, was taken up and read at large a third time,

And the question being, "Shall this bill pass?" it was decided in the affirmative by the following vote: Yeas, 28; nays, 15; answering present but not voting, 1.

The following voted in the affirmative: Messrs.

Total-1.

Answering present but not voting: Mr.

Andrus

Ordered that the title be as aforesaid, and that the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof and ask their concurrence in the passage of the bill.

Senate Bill No. 195, a bill for "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a house of correction employees' pension fund in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants,' approved and in force July 1, 1911,"

Was taken up and read at large a second time, together with the

following amendment thereto (which has been printed), reported from the Committee on Revenue and Finance, May 26, 1915:

AMENDMENT No. 1.

Amend Senate Bill No. 195, by striking out after the word "correction" in line 15 of section 1 of the printed bill all the remainder of said line and all of lines 15, 17, and 18 of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: “For a period of three years beginning with the year 1915.”

Mr. Denvir offered the following as a substitute for the committee amendment, which substitute was adopted:

Amend Senate Bill No. 195, by inserting at the end of line 18, the following: "both of which last two mentioned payments shall be for a period of three years, beginning with the year 1915."

The question then being, "Shall the bill, as amended, be engrossed and printed for a third reading?" it was decided in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Curtis, House Bill No. 885, a bill for “An Act to provide for the payment of fifty per cent of the expenses, costs and charges for burying, disinfecting premises, disinfectants, certain claims for animals slaughtered, and assistant veterinarians' services, paid out and provided on account of the slaughter of live stock to suppress the foot and mouth disease, and to make an appropriation therefor,"

Was taken up and read at large a second time, together with the following amendments thereto (which have been printed), reported from the Committee on Appropriations, May 27, 1915:

AMENDMENT No. 1.

Amend House Bill No. 885 in Senate, on page 2 thereof, section 1, by striking out all in line 2 after the word "Assembly" and all in line 3 preceding the word "or," and inserting in lieu thereof the following words and figures, to wit: "That the sum of one hundred forty-six thousand, five hundred ninety-nine and 91/100 dollars ($146,599.91)."

AMENDMENT No. 2.

Amend House Bill No. 885 in Senate, on page 25 thereof, under the head of "Expense of cleaning and disinfecting premises" by striking out all of line 2, by reason of this claim having been already paid by the United States Government.

AMENDMENT No. 3.

Amend House Bill No. 885 in Senate, on page 27 thereof, in line 43, by striking out the figures "$1,949.68" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$1,895.50."

AMENDMENT No. 4.

Amend House Bill No. 885, on page 28 thereof, by inserting after line 19 the following:

"19% To Andrew Olson, Blandinville, Ill.

.$1,000.00"

to correct a typographical error made in House Bill No. 415 on page 21 thereof, in line 7, under head of "McDonough County," which total figures in said line 21 read "$397.50" instead of the correct amount of "$1,397.50.”

AMENDMENT No. 5.

Amend House Bill No. 885 in Senate, on page 28 thereof, in line 20, by striking out the figures "$25,208.33" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$26,208.33."

AMENDMENT No. 6.

Amend House Bill No. 885 in Senate, page 33 thereof, in line 9 of "recapitulation," after the word "premises" by striking out the figures "$1,949.68” and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$1,895.50;" also in line 10 of the recapitulation, after the last part of the word "slaughtered" by striking out the figures "$25,208.33" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures “$26,208.33,” and in the same line, after the word "Total" by striking out the figures "$103,620.16" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$146,599.91."

The question being, "Shall the amendments reported from the committee be adopted ?" it was decided in the affirmative.

AMENDMENTS TO PRINTED HOUSE BILL No. 885.

Mr. Gorman offered the following amendments to the bill, which were adopted:

AMENDMENT No. 7.

In the title, after the word "disinfectants" insert the word "serum.”

AMENDMENT No. 8.

In section 1, lines 2 and 3, on page 2, strike out the words and figures "one hundred three thousand, six hundred twenty and 16-100 dollars ($103,620.16)" and insert in lieu thereof the words and figures "one hundred fortysix thousand five hundred ninety-nine and 91/100 dollars ($146,599.91).”

AMENDMENT No. 9.

On page 27, under the heading "Live Stock Slaughtered within the State of Illinois on account of Foot and Mouth Disease, and Appraised Value" insert after line 6 the following words and figures:

"62 Chapman and Bowen, Sugar Grove, Ill., $43.19; for balance remaining unpaid as allowed on appraised value of $3,233.82."

AMENDMENT No. 10.

On page 27, after the words in the sub-title "disinfectant used" insert the words "and serum destroyed" and in the paragraph on page 27 entitled, "For Disinfectants Used in Connection with Foot and Mouth Disease" after line 4 thereof insert the following:

"5 To Great Western Serum Company, Chicago, Ill., $19,577.36" and in the same paragraph opposite the word "total" strike out the figures “$19,207.28" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "$38,784.64."

AMENDMENT No. 11.

On page 28, after line 19, insert the following line:

"19a To Morris & Co., Chicago, Illinois, on account of the difference for loss and damage sustained in the value because of the slaughter of 7,762 head of cattle," and under the head "100% Appraised Value" the figures "$44,826.76." Under the head "50% of Amount to be Paid by State of Illinois" the figures $22,413.38;" and on said page 28, in line 20, opposite the word "total" strike out the figures "$50,416.69" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "$95,243.45,” and strike out the figures "$25,208.33" in insert in lieu thereof the figures "$48,664.90."

AMENDMENT No. 12.

On page 33, under heading "Recapitulation" in line 3, after the word "disinfectant" add the words "and serum" and strike out the figure "4" and insert in lieu thereof the figure "5;" and in line 4 strike out the figures "19" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "20" and in line 6 opposite the word "Total" strike out the figures "768" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "770."