Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A: I might explain that tabling so that you might know what happened. At
the end of the legislative session, June 30th in those days, there would be
a motion made to table a11 bills which had not been heard. They would
first make a motion to table all bills on second reading, and then they
would make a motion to table all bills on third reading. So, at the end
of June 30th, there would be no bills on the calendar. There would be a
clean slate. In later years, after we got into annual sessions, btlls
were not tabled in that fashion and they remained on the calendar to be
dealt with during the next session of the legislature which would be
within the two years of the current session.
Q: Yes, sir.
A: So, you will find a great deal mare bills tabled in that era than you
will now because all bills that remained as of June 30th, which had not
been heard, were tabled in the old days.
Q: Which meant yau had to introduce them again in order to start.
A: Start all aver, that's correctb
Q: 1 notice in many cases in the Senate it was stated that the bill was
stricken. What did that mean? Stricken from the calendar, I believe was
the term.
A: Well, generally if it were stricken rather than tabled, it would be
because the sponsor, fearing for the defeat of the bill or for some other
reason, would move to strike the bill from the calendar.
Q: I see. (pause) Let's see, the fair labor standards acts. In 1971,
Mrs. Saperstein, again, and you and 27 others in this case, introduced two
bills. One having to do with labor in general and the other having to do
with labor in agriculture. Both of these failed. Do you recall those
particular bills?
A: No, I don't remember those.
Q: (pause) In regard to housing, in 1957, there was a bill introduced by--
the main sponsor was Mikva, and you and some eleven others, in regard to
- discrimination in housing. Do you recall that particular bill?
A: Yes, I do. That was the very first year that Representative Mikva and
I came to the legislature. The concept of fair housing or open housing or
open occupancy, all those terms are the same, was first introduced in the
Illinois legislature. The bill was not a very strong bill, it bas a mild
bill because there was a great deal of resistance to open housing and the
open housing concept. The bill, in a measure, would have provided for
soie . . . it wasn't to farce anybody into any particular place, it would .
seek to place minority families in all areas. It was almost on a . . .
. . in a measure, it would be some sort of selective housing where you would