Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-03-25
LEGISLATIVE MATTERS.

LE1toLN I'VE NNI Emo.
But little business was transacted
in either House Saturday.
Greensboro has been authorized tc
levy d. tax to pay her floating debt.
To change the line between Butler
and Muhlenberg counties. Passed.
To prevent shipping of partridge:
to market out OF Mclean county
Passed.
A bill has passed prohibiting the
usc of whisky in Todd county on
election days.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendments te the bill amending the
charter of Bethel College at Russell
vile.
Hon. VIM. Wharton, of Trigg, who
had been absent a month on account
of sickness, resumed his seat in the
House yesterday.
On Saturday the House passed the
Senate's bill, calling a Constitutional
Convention, and it is now ready for
the Governors signature.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tons of S. G. Bull, N. j. Sawyer and
W. S. Dehoney as Commissioners OF
the Feeble Minded Institute.
The house has passed bill to in
corporate the Grand Lodge of the or
der of Adherents of the Grand Mogul
and to organize a mutual benefit So
ciety.
The Senate has passed the Peter
man bill requiring publishers of school
books to enter into an eight year con-
tract with the State, STIMULATING that
the prices charged for text books shall
be those charged wholesale dealers.
The General Statutes Committee of
the Senate, which has the Thorne
Bill in hand is said to be about
equally divided on the Bill. Petitions
continue to pour in from the tobacco
districts against the passage of the
Bill.
Mr.. Flannary introduced a bill to
change the penalty for carrying con-
cealed weapons. He proposes to abol-
ish the Imprisonment part of the pen
atty and to making the fine fifty to
one hundred dollars instead of twenty
five to one hundred.
The Legislature has passed and the
Governor has signed bill abolishing
the City Council of Covington. II
the Democrats Of Hopkinsville had
been disposed to resort to extreme
measures, similar action might have
been taken for Hopkinsville when the
Ward bill was passed.
The Committees on Internal I'M
provements, Military Affairs and Sink
ing Fund had the floor Friday and
unloaded large number of local bills.
A bill was passed abolishing tempo
rarily the Sinking Fund, the Sinking
Fund money to take the ordinary
course to the State Treasury.
Mr.. BLACKBERRY introduced a bill to
redistrict the State into eleven Con-
gressional districts. The act carries
out the gerrymander exactly as pro-
posed in the Times about two weeks
ago, making one Republican district
and ten Democratic. The bill was re-
ferred to the special committee ON the
redistricting of the State.
NEW BILLS FRIDAY.
Forty-six new bills were introduced
Friday, most of them of a local nature.
Following were some of the more i'm
portant:
By Mr.. Duvall, an act to compel
railroads to pay full value for stock
killed.
By Mr.. Smith, an act providing that
counties pay one-half for the main
finance of pauper idiots.
By Mr.. We'll, an act providing for
of voters in McCracken
county and another applying the
Wallace law to city elections in Pa
ducah.
By Mr.. Gardner, an act to punish
persons who defraud hotels and board
ing-houses, by fine and imprisonment.
By Mr.. Tichenor, an act to tax dogs
so cents each in Ohio county, the
proceeds to pay for sheep killed by
dogs.