Doings Of Illinois Legislators

Spbingfield, Hls., July 25. - The senate refused to suspend the rules and pass the Hogan arbitration bilí. Bills were introduoed to tax gas and electrio Hght plants 3 per cent. on their feross earnings, 2 per cent, to be used to créate a fund to build municipal plants; to tax telephones $a each instrument; to tax life insurance companies Ü per cent. on their premiums. In the house a bilí was iutroduoed making it embezzlement punishable with not longer than ten yearsin tha penitentlary for a public officer to take for hls own use the interest on public funds in his oare. The revenue bilis were then discussed ior a time, and no action taken.