The Russellville Democrat., 1893-03-02
Senator Sloan explained the bill and t passed without vote against 1t.
 The senate tosk rccess to 2'o'clock.

&tI FNAt~tH t'"h Q ANttHH " ~ V A@AftAt HOUSE. l The house was called to order at am ! Speaker Humphrey in the chair. The clerk called the roll. A quorum
 present.
 Prayer by the chaplain. The manuscript proceedings of yester- day were read al q approved and signed by the speaker and attested by the clerk. 1 The sergeant-at-arms announced a message from the senate, whereupon Jno. ] ". Howell appeared within the bar of tho house and read the following LITTLE ROCK. ARK, Feb. 2s. 1 MR. SPEAKER Il am instructed by the senate to inform your honorable body of ! the passage of senate bill No. 202, entitled bill for an act to prevent the sale or giv- ] ing away of any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquors or alcohol or any com 1 pound or preparation thereof within six miles of the church house and academy in tue town of Mountain View, Stone county, Arkansas, and herewith respectfully trans nit the same for your favorable considera- i tion. JOHN w. HOWELL, Secretary.
 The speaker presented house petition No 1 S9 from Post B, Arkansas Travellers Pro tective Association, asking an appropria- tion for the Worlds Fair Referred to the committee on ways and means. l Mr. Foster, chairman of the committee OF internal Improvements, reported senate bill No. I94 favorably, and house bill No i I20 adversely.
 Mir. Russell, chairman of the committee on engrossed bills, reported house bill No. I 150 correctly engrossed. House bill No. PAP was read the first 1 time, and under suspension of the rules read second time.
 Mr. Galloway in the chair.
 The regular order being the call of the roll for the introduction of bills, house bill No. 243, by Mir. Carr, bill for 1 an act to be entitled an act to i prevent hawking and peddlng of watches, clocks and jcwelry of any kind in the state of Arkansas, read first time.
 House bill No. PA, by Mir. Churchill, a 1 bill for an act to be entitled an act for the better regulation of county conyicts when leased to contractors, read first time. House bill No. 245 by Mir. Crump, bill for an act to be entitled an act to prevent the sale or giving away of auy spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquors or alec hol, or any compound or preparation thereof, within three miles of the school house of Mountain City, Newton county, read first time.
 House bill No. 246. by Mir. Edwards, a bill for an act to repeal sections l755 1756 and 175T of Mansfeld's Digest, read first time.
 House bill No. 247, bill to be entitled an act to amend section 58l of Mansfeld's Digest.
 House bill No. PAS, by Mir. F1ucks, an act to amend section 664 Mansfeld's Di- gest of the statutes of Arkansas, read first time.
 House bill No. 249, by Mir. Foster, bill for an act to compell school teachers in the free schools of tho state to hold public examinations monthly, read first time.
 House bill No. 250, by Mir. Galloway, bill for an act to be entitled an act declar- ing what are legal holidays in Arkansas, read first time.
 House bill No. 25l, by Mir. Gates, bill for an act to be entitled an act to enabi. justices of the peace to issue process to be served outside of the counties, and for other purposes, read first time.
 House bill No. 252, by Mir. Gray, an act to be entitled an act to fix the fees and sal aries of the county officers of Independence county, Arkansas, and for creating the of fee of tax collector, read first time. House bill No. 253. by MT. Gulley, an act entitled an act to amend an act to ere ate the Sixteenth judicial circuit of the state of Arkansas and to change the bound aries of the Second, Third and Fourteenth judicial circuits and for other purposes, approved March 2l, 1891. House bill No. 254, by Mr. Hammock, an act to amend section of an act for the donation of forfeited lands, approved March 4, 1887, and an act amendatory thereof, entitled an act for the donation of forfeited lands, approved March 3, 1891, read first time.
 E Hou.e bin No. 255, by Mir. Bradley, bill for an act to be entitled an set to sub init to the people of this state the question of holding convention to frame a new constitution and for other purposes, read first time.
 Special order, house bill No. l50, the penitentiary bill, was read the third time. Mir. Carroll in the chair. Special order house bill No. l50, bill for an act to provide for the management of the peniteutiary and convicts of the state of Arkansas, read third time and placed on its final passage, the question be- ing shall the bill pass. Mir Mitchell opposed the bill and spoke against it's passage. He had evidently studied the penitentiary system closely, and his argument showed deep thought. He reviewed the history of crime and it's punishment from the early ages to the present day and advanced strong argument tending to show defects in the pending bill He yielded the floor for recess. [Mr. Blackshare in the ehair.l Ar R,i1au~.1l ,ucval ta tak. rasaaa until ? clock, which motion prevailed, and the house at l2 m. took recess. Thursday Afternoon, February s3. SENATE.
 The senate .reassembled at O clock ?. m. Senator Amis obtained consent to intro duce senate bill No. 227. creating a rail road commission Read first and second times and referred to the committes on 1 judiciary.
 Senator Word obtained consent to intro duce senate bill No. 22S, to amend section
 46S9 of Mausheld's Digest. Read twice and placed on the calendar.
 By consent. Senator Smith introduced
 senate bill No. 229, to protect educational
 advantages and to materially advance the
 same. The bill authorizes town councils
 to appropriate any sum not exceeding $500
 for the support of normal school or any
 other school of learning
 Senator Allen obtained consent to call
 up senate bill No. i24, to amend section
 of an act to quiet titles, approved March
 26. 1891. The bill was read third time
 and passed. Yeas, 24; nays, O. By permission Senator Wilson intro
 duced senate bill No. 230, making an ap
 propriation for the Branch Normal School
 at Pine Bluff. It appropriatss SIS, 700
 Read twice and referred to the committee
 on education.
 Senator Mehaffy called up senate bill
 No. lls, regulating the practice of medi
 cine, for the consideration of an amend
 ment, requiring notice to be given in ons