The Osceola times., 1885-04-04
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
TuE lEsI,LiTJRE.

THE LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate on the 2lst the following
appointments were confirmed; Trustees Tor
the Arkansas school for the Blind, Z. H.
Moore and John b. Bond, NJ. D.; Trustees foi
the State Insane Asylum, Rev. L. Q. Iupper,
IN place of Dr. T. X. Welcn, resigned. Inc
following senate bill@passed To amenut tne
revised statutes In relation to Insurance; 70
authorize the Auditor TO issue reiunulns
certificates TO persons Tor forfeited Ianu5
where the title proves defective; to provide
for the adjustment and collection OF overdue
taxes BY certain railroads, to aid in tine CON
struction OF the Ultima Thule, Arkadelphla
Mississippi Railroad to donate .ne p,oa roa
swan Lake 4 White River and Pine Blum,
Monroe Il New orleans railroads; the olii
To provide for improving tie state capitol
therefor. In the House the following bills
were passed, For the support OF the IN.
sane Asylum and for the support OF tne
Arkansas Industrial University; for the
maintenance OF paupers; for fencing GER
tain lands on Little Red River empowering
county authorities to hire out vagrants un.
der sentence; to amend the statutes so tlat
county collectors shall be required to make
bond for twenty five per cent. more tnan
they are to collect and iio Use bill making
school districts coextensive with political
townships and to regulate the appointment
of trustees and directors.
Iy the Senate on the 23d the House gem
eral appropriation was taken up and DIS
cussed at length, occupying both the day
and evening sessions. II the amendments
made all stick some official positions will 90
begging. ......ln the House the Judiciary
Committee reported on the bill to recon-
pense Howard County for the expenses in.
Cured in suppressing the race war OF 1883,
recommending that 81 900 be stricken out
and $500 substituted. TIE Committee on
state Charitable Institutions reported on the
school for the Blind, recommending the i'm
mediate removal OF superintendent GUS
b. a DI.sx.s. lla
part OF the day was passed in the
discussion of two resolutions; one author
izing suit to be brought against w. r. Camp
bell, the late Land Com missioner, for short
age, and one by Mr. Thornburg, as follows;
While 1t may be that W. 4. Campbell law
fully owes the State the 81 6s4 short in the ac-
counts OF the state Land Comm ssioner, yet
morally and equitably ID. w. Lear should be
held responsible for the sum in question, ana
every eff iri should be made to recover IT
from him before proceedings be commenced
at length in support OF the resolution, ana
after long and heated debate It was reject
ed, and the resolution adopted authorizing
suit to be brought.
In the Senate on the oath the general
appropriation bill was passed; also the fol.
lowing appropriation bills Slis,000 for In
sane Asylum; s39.sOO for State University at
Fayetteville; s2l,5s0 for Deaf Mute Institute,
Little Rock; $4,000 for school for Blind,
Little Rock. The last-naned appropriation
does not apply unless Otis Paten, the super
ntendent and Teacher Plowman resign.
The principal portion of the forenoon ses-
sion was occupied in considering the House
bill to give landlords lien on supplies fur.
nished and m Ike the sale OF the crop before g
Is satisfied "A misde IN amor, with punishment
by fine of $40 to s. %, and 1t finally pas sed lsto
D. A number of local bills were also passed.
.... In the House the bill requiring petit jury
lists to be drawn when the court term ex-
tends over more than twelve days, passed,
also the senate bill requiring construction
and maintenance OF chutes to faciltate
passage of fish over dams, and seuate bill
regulating admission of foreign surety com
panies to the state was passed by vote OF
~ to 2. The general appropriation bill, with
the senate amendments, was taken up AMI
most of the amendments concurred in The
rest Will go to conference committee.
In the Senate on the 21th, the bill to
abolish county boards of equalization failed
to pass over the Governors veto. The bill
increasing the salary of Attorney General
and reducing the salaries of clerks In differ
ent departments was taken up and amended
by reducing the salaries OF senators to - per
day. and the bill was made the special order
for the 26th. The bills changing the line OF
Pulaski and sa inc counties, and for estab-
fishing separate courts In Lincoln County
were passed .... In the House the following
bills were passed: Providing for the sale OF
sixteenth section school lands; requiring
settlement OF County Collectors accounts:
approprlating $1,000 for the enlargement OF
the Insane Asylum. The Senate amend
ments to the salary bill were concurred in.
The House refused to suspend the rules and
pass the road law.
In the Anate on the Goth the following
bills were passed; For the support OF the
Insane Asylum, with amendments cutting
the salary of the steward down from $1,000 to
$50 per year, dispensing with farm hands,
butchers and other employees; lthe senate
refused to read the bill appropriating $4,000
to erect an additional building at the asy-
luml appropriating s2O,OOo to erect AN adll'
tional building to the Deaf Mute Institute;
appropriating s3a $40 for the state University
mt Fayetteville; requiring all persons practis-
ing medicine IN the state to be graduates of
some regularly chartered college of medi-
cine appropriatng 900 for n new building
for the school for the Blind...... In the House
the following bills were passed: To preven,
deception In the sale and use OF but
issuance of State scrip, Treasurer's
certificates or Auditors warrants; /;
making an appropriation OF $4,000 to i'm.
prove the State house; reducing the rent OF
telephones to 81 per month. The House refus-
ed to concur in the senat amendments to the
bill making appropriations for the Insane
Asylum. senate amendment TO House Dill
to Withhold any appropria ion for the school
Tor the Blind until Messrs Patton and Plow.
man superintendent and teacher. resigned
wus concurred in by an almost unanimous
vote.
In the Senate on the 9th 1t was decided
that House business of n general character
should have precedence over local bills.
The senate refused to concur In the House
amendment to Senate bill authorizing the
furnishing Of counties, free of cost, field
notes of the State; the vote refusing o pass
House bill approprating $4,000 to build a
wing for the Insane Asylum was reconsidered,
and the bill passed; under suspension Of
rul, 3. the senate took up and passed. House
bill providing for the sale of sixteenth sec
s.hn ,l lands committee
pointed to notify the Governor that the Leg
stature would adjourn mt noon. There was
no dispos tion to crowd matters through,
and nothing more was done until
nearly noon. when Mr.. Siayton, the
President pro. tenn. elect, was es
corted to the secretary's desk, where the
oath OF Office was administered to him by
IIon.J Il. Eakin, Associate Justice of the ,u
preme Court. A resolution that state char
table Institutions should be insured pre-
vailed. Chaplain White offered benedic
tion. and promptly at noon President Weaver
adjourned the senate sine die-.....ln the
House it was resolved: "That the memAers
OF this House extend their sincere sympa-
thies to the distn tuished citizen and sol.
dier, General L. :. Grant, in this his hour OF
great aftliction; that We sincerely hope a
kind Providence may restore him to the en-
ioyment of perfect health; that the speaker
of this House transmit to General Grant a
,opy of these resolutions" The bill to pre-.
-ent free passes being issued to members of
e Legislature was called up and killed by
avote OF 80 TO 81. The House spent the tal
ance of the time in presenting complimentary
resolutions for clerks, reporters, etc., aud
adjourned ut noon.