On the 40th ballot for Senator, which occurred on the 25th of January, the whole number of votes cast were 200, of which David Davis received 101, C. B. Lawrence 94, John C. Haines 3, Wm. H. Parish 1, John A. Logan 1. Mr. Davis having received a majority of all the votes cast, the Speaker declared him the duly elected Senator. The highest number of votes during the contest received by Gen. Logan was 100, and by Gov. Palmer 89.

The chief acts, exclusive of the appropriations, were: to provide the manner of proposing amendments to the constitution; to levy and collect back taxes of incorporated cities; for the relief of disabled members of police and fire departments; to establish Appellate Courts; to divide the State into judicial districts; to extend the jurisdiction of county courts; defining vagabonds and prescribing punishment; to prevent and punish wrongs to children; to punish fraud or extravagance in the expenditure of moneys appropriated for public improvements; to amend the liquor law; to amend the election law; to amend an act concerning insolvent debtors; to provide for the organization of the State militia; relating to miners; providing for the health and safety of persons employed in coal mines; to amend an act relating to the payment of railroad bonds by counties, cities and other municipal corporations; relating to fencing and operating railroads; to protect passengers on railroads; to prevent obstructing the business of railroads; to fix rates of storage in the warehouses; to amend the school law, and to establish a State Board of Health.

The two houses adjourned sine die May 24.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

STATE CAMPAIGN OF 1878.

The campaign of 1878 was ushered in by the nomination of three State tickets. The Greenback party held their convention first. Erastus N. Bates, ex-Republican Treasurer, was nominated for Treasurer, and F. M. Hall, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The Republicans nominated John C. Smith, for Treasurer, and James P. Slade, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The Democrats nominated Edward L. Cronkrite, for Treasurer, and Samuel M. Etter, the then incumbent, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Although three parties were contesting for the offices to be filled at that election, there was but little enthusiasm aroused among the people in general, and the candidates made more of a personal canvass than otherwise. The Republican ticket was elected by a plurality of 36,373. The aggregate vote for State officers and members of Congress is as follows:

He is the Projector of the Illinois Central Railroad-His Wonderful Prediction regarding the Growth and Magnitude of Railways in the United States.

Until the death of Judge Breese it had never been quite understood who was justly entitled to the credit of projecting the Illinois Central Railroad, which has added untold wealth to the prairie State. Judge Breese himself lays claim to having projected the enterprise. In the elaborate memorial address of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, before the Illinois Bar Association, at Springfield, in January, 1879, on the life and services of Judge Breese, we find this definitely satisfactory statement regarding the origin of the great enterprise. Said he:

"In October, 1835, Judge Breese called the attention of the public to the importance of a direct connection of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, then in course of construction, with the lower Mississippi at Cairo, by a railroad, proposing that the road should start from the termination of the