The Russellville Democrat., 1891-03-19

Senate bill s4, to fix the liabilities of l sureties on bonds and 0thei obligations. 1 was read third time and evoked consid- l erabie discussion.
 | It finally passed by vote of 47 to 30. 1 Senate bill 92, to amend Sec. 6159 of Mansleld's Digest, was read third time ] and passed.
 1 Senate bill 93, to amend Sec. 5332 of Mansfeld's Digest, was taken up, and Mir. Rhodes moved that the bill be in- definitely postponed.
 The motion prevailed, and at 12 o'clock the house took the customary recess.
 Afternoon Session, March 13.
 SENATE.
 Consideration of house bill 40, relat- | ing to penalties for murder in the first l degree, was resumed. The bill was l defeated,
 Senators voting aye were: Allen, s. l H. Davidson, Hamby, Holmes, Lucas. Oyler, Russ, Sumpter, Warren and Williams. Total, 10.
 Senators voting nay were: Bell, Brickell, Casey, Clement, Crawford, 1 Harkey, Harris, Hawkins, Hill, Kins- worthy, Miller, Morton, Patterson, Redwine, Tillman and Washburn. l Total, I9.
 I A message from the governor an- nounced that he had signed and ap- proved senate bill 61, to cure defective acknowledgements, and senate bill 14S, to prevent rough handling of baggage l by transportation companies.
 House memorial . was read. IL asks 1 of the general government the dona- tion of the arsenal grounds near Little ] Rock for the benefit of the common 1 schools of the state.
 l Senator Washburn offered to amend l by asking the donation for site for state house building and other pur- l poses.
 The amendment was variously dis cussed and finally adopted. As amended the memorial was adopt ! ed
 House bill 3l3 was read first and sec- | ond times. The bill provides for the submission of the question of consti- tutional convention to the people at the next general election. The bill was re- ferred to the committee on judiciary. House bill 242 was read a third time. The bill proposes to create the Six teenth jupicial district, and 10 change the boundary lines of the Second, Third and Fourteenth distric s, and for other purposes.
 Senator S. H Davidson explained the purposes of.the bill and spoke in behalf of its passage.
 Senator Casey objected to the bill for the reason that 1t effected his judicial district in way detrimental to his con- stituents.
 yU Ir .l bill in brief address.
 The roll being called the bill passed. Yeas, IS; nays, 6.
 Senate bill 2l5, regulating the com pensation of sherlffs and clerks. and discussed ct length during the fore noon. was again taken up, and on motion of Senator Miller indefinitely postponed the discussion of the motion having been cut off during the forenoon by the house calendar being called by the president.
 Senate bill S9, the university appro- priation bill, introduced early in the session by Senator Tillman, came up on special order, the senate was resolved into committee of the whole with Senator Clement in the chair.
 Senator l illman taking the floor said:
 Mir. Chairman-f the committee of the whole will indulge me, will ex- plain as briefly as 1 can the provisions of the pending bill. The board of trus- tees ask for something like Sl0O, GOO for the support and maintenance of the Ar kansas Industrial University for the en- suing two years. They made other recommendations, all of which the bill embodies. The board is composed of six members: James Mitchell, w. NJ. Fishback, W. B. Welch, w. H. Lang- ford, J. W. Kissee, W. F. Avera, with his excellency, Gov. Eagle, as ex-officio president. The finance committee, made up of such stern and rigid econo- mists as the senators from Colum- bia, Stone, Pope, Gar and, Yell, Poinsett, Grant and Izard, have recommended the appropriation of something near SIC, 900, which is all | will contend for. With that the A. I. U. can take rank with the best schools of the West. The first section of the bill provides for an appropriation of S32 300 for teachers salaries. In this connection, let me state that I am es- pecially anxious for this item to be adopted. This will enable the board to secure the services of good talent, and, being fund entirety at. their disposal, will permit the board to retain efficient men when other institutions offer temp tatons in the way of an increase of sal ary. The school has suffered much by reason of losing its brightest and ablest teachers, lured away by an increase in salary offered by colleges in other states. Arkansas pays smaller salaries to her teachers than any other state in the union. This information 1 get from the president of the university, who gave the matter a painstaking in- vestigation by putting himself in com municatiod with the heads of like in- stitutions over the country. The further purpose of the bill is to make labor op tonal beyond the freshmen class. to re- ouce the hours of labor from three to two, to leave the matter of pres scribing studies to the hoard. to build dorni- tory for girls and for other purposes which are disclosed by the printed bill on each senator's desk. Now, Mir. Chairman, would like to see lhe bill pass just as it Is without change, and 1 believe it will be done. The people are beginning to better understand the claim this insti- tuition has on the state. It is just as much the duty of the state to foster and protect and encourage this university by liberal appropriations as it is for her to help the insane, the blind or the deaf mute. Time was when there ex- isted considerable prejudice against this school, but that has about expired. | The students of the school live in every 1 county in the state, and there Is not one l among the number who is not stalwart | friend of the institution. Upon the | floor of this senate and in the house sit | ex students of that university, ever | ready to break lance in her quarrels. | She has raised up her own defenders,