The Russellville Democrat., 1891-03-26
BoTH BRANCHES
Labor Industriously for the Good of the Whole People-seyeral Important Bills Considered and
 Passed,
Forenoon sssnon-March IS.
SENATE.


 In the senate this morning the committee on claims, to whom was referred senate bill 246, returned it with amendments, recommending that it do pass as amended.
 Senator Hamby introduced senate joint resolution ,, accepting the di- rect tax refunded to the state by an act of congress, approved March 2, 1891. Adopted.
 Senate bills 261 and 264 were re- ferred to the committee on circuit and inferior courts.
 Senate bill 262 was ordered to it's third reading.
 Senate bills 263 and 265 referred to railroad committee.
 Senate bill 266, Senator Clements 8 bill requiring insurance companies to file in the auditors office S20, ,000 bond before doing business in the state, was read second and third times, passed, reconsidered and sent to judiciary committee.
 Senate bill 271-the Pine Bluff normal branch appropriation bill-- was referred to finance committee.
 Senate joint resolution 4, with an amendment, was reported back from the joint committee on constitutional amendments, recommending that the resolution pass as amended. The amendment was adopted. The reso- lution was ordered engrossed and to its third reading.
 BILLS ON THIRD READING.
 Senate bill 259, to authorize the sale of certain swamp lands. There are PTS, 1000 acres of these lands in this state, the title of which was vested in the state by congress, but was afterward, by congress, certified to railroad companies. The railroad companies have sold about 100, 900 acres of these lands without right and without title. The purchasers are without legal title and unprotected. This bill proposes to protect them, and let them have their lands at 12 | 2 cents per acre.
 Senator Crowley made clear and ample statement of the conditions this bill proposes to remedy.
 Senator Erwin explained wherein the bill is just to purchaser and the state.
 The bill passed. Yeas, 23; nays, 0.
 Senate bill 241, to repeal Secs. 6487 and 64S9 of Msnsfeld's Digest.
 The bill passed. Yeas, 16; nays, 6.
 Senate bill 194, to amend chapter 131 of Mansfield's Digest. Consid- eration of the bill was postponed till Monday morning next at 10 o'clock.
 Senate bill 256, to amend section of an act to regulate the sale of wine made from grapes and berries, approved April 3, 1889. The bill provides that in local option districts this domestic wine shall not be sold to minors nor in quantities less than one gallon.
 Senators Tiliman and Miller thinks the bill blow at grape and berry growers. The grape industry, for both the fruit and juice, is becoming considerable business, and adds materially to the wealth of the state. It ought not to be strangled, but fostered.
 Senator Williams does not believe ths. these wine producers ought to be allowed to sell in prohibition dis. t-icts in quart quantities, which is virtually tippling, and allowing them to debauch and make drunk men and boys in districts where the people have forbidden it.
 The bill failed to pass. Yeas, Il; nays, IA.
 Senate bill 207, 10 regulate the ap- pointment of peace officers and for the punishment of unlawful acts by uOu-ICblOCntSs lt hubbGr ttAS erton gang and other armed forces out of the state, unless called here by the officers of the state.
 Senator Crowley explained the birr.. It is bill prepared by Repre- sentative Fo-d.
 The bill passed. Yeas, 19; nays, 5.
 Senate bill 255, to amend sections 55Ss and 5596 of Msnsfeld's Di- gest. It reduces the license on ped ers from I210n- t0 $50 per .annum. The bill passed. Ayes, IS; nays, 6.
 (Senator Tillman in the chair)
 Senator Harkey moved that the senate take 8 recess till ? pm. to. day. The chair seconded the mo- ton and, amid loud laughter the mo- ton was declared carried.