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for a just peace, one of which principle is that the people of all nations forming a separate and distinct race in a particular country have the right of self determination in the creation of the administering power of government within their borders to the end that the power of government may conform to their ideas of justice and freedom, thereby preventing their subjection by governments or peoples foreign to their race and ideals; and

WHEREAS, The Allied powers associated within [with] the United States have given assurances to many of the smaller nations that they will guarantee that such rights of self determination will be provided for in the final treaties or agreements which shall be presented by the Peace Commissioners to the various powers for signature and ratification by said powers; and WHEREAS, The people of the State of Illinois believe that the right of self determination or self rule ought to and does apply to all nations no matter under whose rule such people are subject, and believing further that the people of Ireland come within the classification of such nations, and believing further that consistent with justice and humanity the Irish people are entitled to the same rights as other subject nations. Therefore, be it Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, the Senate concurring herein, That the representatives of the people of the United States at the Peace Conference be requested to present to said conference the claims of the Irish people to the right of self government, and that they further be requested to exercise their influence to bring about a just consideration of the Peace Conference of the rights of the Irish people to govern themselves, and that said representatives of the United States at the Peace Conference further exercise their influence so that the Irish people may receive such measure of self determination as is consistent with justice and humanity towards the Irish people. Be it further

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on record in the Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, and a copy of same properly attested with the Great Seal of State and signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, the Secretary of State and the Governor of Illinois, be forwarded to the President of the United States and to the representatives of the United States at the Peace Conference.

Adopted by the House January 14, 1919.

Concurred in by the Senate April 22, 1919.

ITALIAN GOVERNMENT CLAIMS BEFORE PEACE CONFERENCE.
(House Joint Resolution No. 5.)

WHEREAS, The Allied Powers associated with the United States are assembled in conference for the purpose of drafting terms of peace affecting the settlements of various questions arising out of the World War; and for the purpose of drafting agreements affecting the rights of the nations involved in said war; and for the purpose of readjusting conditions brought. about by said war, relative to those nations whose people are either subject to or whose national integrity has been endangered by the autocratic powers responsible for said war; and

WHEREAS, In addition to the sympathy and interest which the people of the United States of America have for Italy as an ally, there is a senti mental interest in Italy because Italy was the mother of modern civilization, and because Italy is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, who discovered America; and

WHEREAS, Italy has fought with heroism and great sacrifice since its entry into the war, and has done its share in bringing about the great victory of the Allies; and

WHEREAS, Italy is making claims at the Peace Conference for the restoration to it of certain lands and territory formerly belonging to it, and for

lands and territory which it is alleged are necessary for its economic needs, and for its national security and preservation; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, and Senate concurring herein, That the Representatives of the People of the United States at the Peace Conference be requested to exercise their influence to bring about a just consideration of the claims of the Italian Government for the restoration to it of its lands and territory and of its claim for lands and territory which it is alleged are necessary for its economic needs and for its national security and preservation; and be it further

Resolved, That these resolutions shall be spread on record in the Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, and that a copy of the same properly attested with the Great Seal of State and signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of he House of Representatives, the Secretary of State and the Governor of Ilinois, be forwarded to the President of the United States and to the Representatives of the United States at the Peace Conference.

Adopted by the House February 5, 1919.
Concurred in by the Senate June 5, 1919.

JEWISH PEOPLE PERSECUTION IN POLAND AND ROUMANIA.

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 38.)

WHEREAS: It has been charged by persons, worthy of belief, that many people of the Jewish faith, including men, women and children, have recently in different parts of Poland and Roumania been murdered, tortured and otherwise illtreated and subjected to pillage; and

WHEREAS: The existence of such a situation, if in fact it does exist is, in this day of enlightened civiliation, deplorable in the extreme; and

WHEREAS: The conditions which are alleged to exist in Poland and Roumania should be investigated so that proper steps may be taken, if need be, to remedy the situation; now therefore be it

Resolved, by the Senate, the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois concurring therein: That the Government of the United States of America, through its proper officials, investigate said charges and that the United States of America use its good offices and influences to end the persecution, if any there be, of the people of the Jewish faith in Poland and Roumania; and be it further

Resolved: That a copy of this resolution, under the seal of State, be sent by the Secretary of State, to each member of Congress from this State. Adopted by the Senate June 19, 1919.

Concurred in by the House of Representatives, June 20, 1919.

JEWISH PEOPLE-RIGHTS IN PALESTINE.

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 27.)

WHEREAS, The future prosperity and peace of the world depends upon a just and equitable settlement of the European war whereby each and every nationality, however small, be granted the liberty to determine its own destiny and the opportunity of living its own life; and

WHEREAS, The government of the United States of America is recognized as an ardent exponent of the rights of the small nations; therefore, be it Resolved, By the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Repre sentatives concurring therein, that the national aspirations and historic claims of the Jewish people with regard to Palestine be recognized at the peace conference, in accordance with the British government's declaration of November second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, that there shall be established such political, administrative and economic conditions in Palestine as will assure the development of Palestine into a Jewish commonwealth, and that the American representatives at the peace conference shall use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object; be it further

Resolved, By the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Repre sentatives concurring therein, that express provisions be made at the peace conference for the purpose of granting the Jewish people in every land the complete enjoyment of life, liberty, and the opportunities for national development to the end that justice may be done to one of the most suffering people on earth-the Jewish people; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Secretary of the State of Illinois to the President of the United States.

Adopted by the Senate, April 22, 1919.

Concurred in by the House of Representatives May 7, 1919.

JOINT RULES OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE.

(House Joint Resolution No. 27.)

Resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That the following be adopted as the Joint Rules of the House and Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly, to-wit:

1. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Repre sentatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.

2. The same ceremony shall be observed when messages shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.

3. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each House may determine to be proper.

4. In every case of disagreement between the two Houses, if either House request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, the other House shall appoint a committee to confer therewith upon the subject of their disagreement. Said committee shall meet at a convenient time to be agreed upon by their chairman, and, having conferred freely, each shall report to its respective House the result of their conference. In case of an agreement the report shall be first made, with the papers referred accompanying it, to the disagreeing House, and there acted upon; and such action shall be immediately reported by the Clerk to the other House, the papers referred accompanying the message. In case of disagreement, the papers shall remain with the House which referred them. The agreeing report of a conference committee shall be made, read and signed in duplicate by all members of the committee, or by a majority of those of each House, one of the duplicates being retained by the committee of each House. Should either House disagree to the report of the committee, such House shall appoint a second committee and request a second conference, which shall be acceded to by the other House before adhering. The motion for a committee of conference, and the report of such committee, shall be in order at any time. When both Houses shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution is lost.

5. While bills are on their passage between the two Houses they shall be accompanied by a message signed by the Secretary or Clerk (as the case may be) respectively.

6. After a bill has passed both Houses, it shall be enrolled before it is presented to the Governor.

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee, which shall consist of five members, two from the Senate and three from the House, to be appointed by the Senate and the Speaker of the House respectively. The clerk of the Committee on enrolling, transcribing and typing of bills of the respective Houses shall act as clerk of the committee whenever their services are required. Said committe shall carefully compare the enrolled bills with the engrossed bills, so passed by both Houses, correct any errors which may be discovered in the enrolled bills, and make their report forthwith to their respective Houses; the Secretary or Clerk having previously certified on the margin of the roll in which House it originated.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective Houses, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and by the President of the Senate.

9. After a bill shall have been signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, it shall be presented by said Joint Committee to the Governor for his approval. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the Govenor to each House, which time shall be carefully entered on the Journals of each House.

10. All resolutions and memorials which are to be presented to the Governor shall be previously enrolled, examined, signed and presented to the Joint Committee, reported, and entry made thereof, as provided in case of bills.

11. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed one House is rejected in the other, information thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed.

12. When the consideration of any bill, memorial, or resolution, which has originated in one House shall be postponed in the other to a day so distant that it shall not be taken up again by the present session, the House in which such bill, memorial or resolution shall have originated shall be forthwith informed of such postponement.

13. When a bill, memorial or resolution which has passed one House is rejected in the other, it shall not again be introduced during the same session, except in the House so rejecting, and after three days' notice and leave of that House.

14. Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

15. While the two Houses are acting together upon elections, or any other matter, the Speaker shall preside, and all questions of order shall be decided by him, subject to an appeal to both Houses, as though but one body was in session. A call of members of either House may be had in joint meeting by order of the House in which the call is desired, and to constitute a quorum of the Joint Assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both Houses shall be present and voting.

16. Motions to postpone or adjourn shall be decided by a joint vote of both Houses, and yeas and nays upon such motions, if required shall be entered upon the Journals of both Houses.

17. Upon questions arising requiring the separate decision of either House, the Senate shall withdraw until the decision is made. Provided, that questions upon motions for a call of either House shall not come within the provisions of this rule.

18. Each House shall have the liberty of ordering the printing of bills. messages and reports without the consent of the other.

19. Whenever any message, bill, report or document shall be ordered to be printed by the Senate or House, for the use of both Houses, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the House (as the case may be) immediately to report the fact of the passage of such order to the other branch of the General Assembly, together with the number so ordered to be printed in case the same shall exceed 300.

Adopted by the House, May 23, 1919.
Concurred in by the Senate, June 3, 1919.

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS-CONSERVATION OF FORESTS.

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 31.)

WHEREAS, The United States during the last half century has witnessed the reduction of the forest in one region after another. The white pine forests of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England disappeared nearly a half century ago. Likewise the pine forests of the Lake states for the most part were obliterated before 1900. The Southern pineries which for 20 years have been the main supply of lumber for Illinois and other Central

states will, according to statements recently made by authoritative sources, be to a large extent exhausted within the next ten years.

WHEREAS, The effect of the exhaustion of the commercial forests has been the closing of nearby industries which depended upon these forests for supplies and the shifting of local population to new centers, involving heavy penalties upon both the industries and the people. As another result the country has observed the area of cutover timber land increase to an area estimated by the Secretary of the Interior at 228 million acres. Far the greater part of this land is in the North, South, and East and a very large percentage of it is non-agricultural. With recurring destructive forest fires millions of acres of it have become waste and can only be restored to productiveness through an extensive program of reforestation.

WHEREAS, The wood-using industries not depending upon uncertain local forest supplies have become centered to a very large extent in the thickly populated districts east of the Mississippi River and are drawing their supplies from the remaining forests in the Eastern states, the Gulf states and the states adjacent to the Great Lakes. A large number of such industries are located in the State of Illinois, with the City of Chicago the center of a very large and important group. Chicago has for many years been the chief lumber distribution point of the United States, and the greatest point of lumber distribution in the world. These important industries including the manufacture of railway cars, boxes, sashes and doors, farm machinery, furniture, pianos, vehicles and many other articles are now threatened by the exhaustion of the forests from which their supplies have been drawn. They now face the necessity of bringing timber from the Pacific Coast with heavy freight charges added to the cost.

To the same Pacific Coast supply the country must look for lumber for general construction purposes. The transportation system of the country must add to its present burdens the transcontinental shipment of very large quantities of lumber, a bulky product upon which a high freight rate greatly increases the cost to the consumer.

WHEREAS, Such forests as are owned and managed by the Government, the National Forests, are 97 per cent in the far west and for that reason cannot contribute substantially to the solution of the problem of wood supplies which has become so threatening to the industries of the Eastern States.

WHEREAS, The situation is of such gravity as to require the most careful consideration by the Federal government and the states to the end that policies may be adopted that will lead to the solution of the problem.

Therefore, be it resolved, by the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Representatives concurring therein, That the Fifty-first General Assembly of the State of Illinois urges the attention of the President and the Congress of the United States to the present timber situation and recommends that, without delay, there be formulated such a National program of forestry as will insure the future timber supplies required by the industries of the country. As an example of what should be done, this General Assembly points to the wise course of the Republic of France in so managing its forests for more than a century that they contributed substantially to the winning of the great war.

It is further urged that the Federal government acting independently or in co-operation with the states inaugurate action looking towards such measure of public control of the remaining bodies of original timber as will make sure that their supplies will be available as needed by the industries. It is furthermore urged that comprehensive plans be put into effect for restoring the forest on cutover lands which are non-agricultural in character in the Eastern states, in the states bordering the Great Lakes, and in the South, in order that timber supplies from these regions may be available to the established industries of the Central and Eastern states.

Be it Resolved, That the Secretary of State of Illinois be, and hereby is directed to transmit copies of this preamble and resolution to the President of the United States, the United States Senate and to the House of Repre

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