The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-09
The .SENATE'S. WORK..
Some. Of the Unfinished Business
Now on the Files.
IMPORTANT BILLS FOR ACTION.
The judiciary Act-The Regulation of
Taxes Prohibition OF Sale Of Tobacco
to Minors or the Supreme Court.
Regulating the Election of school
Committee, Etc.

The Senate docket for the coming session
contains under unfinished business eighty
eight acts and resolutions, etc. Among
the most important are
The judiciary bill; act concerning cleo
tions; act in amendment of chapter 43 of
the public statutes; of the levy and assess
ment of taxes; directing the attorney
general to protect the interests of the
State in the sites covered by the buildings
OH Canal street; Co compensate Company
q for repairs of uniforms, ETC., all of
which are on the files of the clerk of the
senate.
Files OF Committee on judiciary.
An act prohibiting the sale to and use
of tobacco by minors under 10 years; TO
prohibit the undue use of money in cleo
tions.
Amendments To Acts-Of elective meet
ings; OF general provisions concurring
elections; of property liable To and exempt
from taxation; of Rhode Island Game and
Fish Protective Association; of the chapt rs
of the public statutes entitled milk" and
''of offenses against the public health;" of
the sale of firewood and charcoal; an act
TO provide for the supervision Of foreign
corporations engaged in selling or nego-
tlating bonds, mortgages, notes or other
chooses in action; amendment of the chap
ter of the public statutes, "of banks and
institutions for savings" amendment of
the chapter, ''of the property of married
women and the disposition of the
same" also of the lien of mechanics;
of the Supreme Court of the terms of the
Supreme Court and Court of Common
Pleas, and the adjournment thereof ; an
act 10 provide for the printing and ..istri-
button of ballots for town officers in
Cranston, and TO regulate the voting at
such elections also for printing ballots in
Johnston an act TO further regulate and
restrain the sale of strong, malt and
spirituous liquors an act TO secure the
publication of election expenses; an
amendment TO the act relating TO the
election of the school committee in Provi-
dence, to correct an error; an act provid-
ing for a second election in the city of
Providence after failure TO elect at pre-
ceding election.
Resolutions and petitions: To issue State
House bonds, To create town of Nara
gansett, for q commission to revise the
public statutes, in regard to convict labor,
for the creation of Woonsocket county,
relating to the agricultural fund.
An act dividing the town of Smithfeld
into districts for voting.
Committee on Corporations.
To incorporate the Riverside Electric
Railway Company. in amendment TO an
act to incorporate the Arlington fire dis
trict in Cranston; to incorporate the
Rhode IslBnd Shore Line Railroad to in-
corporate the Mount Pleasant, Olnevville
and Pleasant Valley Horse Car Company,
also in amendment of an act to incorpor-
ate the Pawtuxet Valley Railroad Com
pany and the Ponagansett Railroad Com
pany; TO incorporate the Union Light
Company.
The most important measure before the
committee on militia is an act in amend
ment of chapter 25S of the public laws en-
tied, ''of the militia The other commit
tees have much routine work on file.