The Green Forest tribune., 1893-03-09
LEGISLATURE PROCEEDINGS.

Ell the following bills:
To secure defective acknowledgements; for
the better prosecution OF forgery to regulate the
removals Of county seats, and the act appropri
ating money to furnish the new annex at the In
sane Asylum.
Bills to pass the house: TO compel the st.
Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
company to erect and maintain a passenger and
freight depot at Hugginson, in White county;
for the better protection OF the credit ofthe State
providing for the calling in OF all outside indebt-
edncss for the purpose of registrations to compel
railroad companies to remove wire fences in i'll
coryorated towns and cities; to ix the salaries Of
officers in Hot Springs county.
FEDnUARY 2S.-The house reached vote on
the Worlds Fair appropriation bill as it passed
the senate The bill received ~ votes while So
were cast against is, Not having received the
necessary two-thlrds majority it was declared
defeated.
The report Of the committee on Agriculture. OF
the senate relative to the alleged crookcdness i'll
fore the senate The Committee say they have
discovered corruption by the wholesale in the
Department OF Mines, Manufactures. al,d Agri-
culture and produce testimony to justify its
conclusions. Tne committee say that articles
sent TO the department tor exhibit have been
Ilisuset. careleasly taken OF, and i'll several
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to their own use; also that money has been
| fraudulentiy drawn from the treasury and war
raats have been duplicated; that valuable tim
hers have been split and used for kidding pur-
poses; grains, fruits, vegetables, aud liquids
sent for exhibition have beeA misappropriated; /;
seeds inteaded for the State for dis trbution have
been allowed to disappear from the building i'll
al unlawful manner, carried away under cover
oI night and shipped to private parties The re-
port closes by recommending that the Office be
abolished and the guilty parties prosecuted.
The Ponitentiary bill, as it passed the house,
consumed the entire day IS session of the senate
The bill was amended aud laid aside.
The house passed senate bill to create the Len
wood and Auburn levee districts into Jefferson
aAd Line In counties.
MARCH 1.-The following bills passed the
ate: 70 settle and adjust the claim Of the late
Henry f. Clark against the State for building
levee in DeA Aha county. The claim amounts to
S;4 602 relating to contracts for the conditional
sale lease, or hire OF railroad and street railway
equipment and rolling stock and requiring the
recording of the same: for the better protection
of the fish in the waters OF the States to author
ize the redemption OF lands sold for taxes after
they have been sold to the State; requiring fire,
life and accident insurance companies to file
bond of so 600 with the Auditor Of the State an
nually conditioned for the prompt payment of
| all claims arising and accruing to any person
during the term OF said botd by virtue OF any
policy issued by such company
\ concurrent resolution to authorize the COM
mittee public charities to Investigate the
books as far back as 1856 was adopted.
Bills to pass the house were 10 reduce the
salary Of the County Judge of Clebornc county to
S4oo; for the better protection OF laborers and
landlords, and to make their Gins assignable;
to prevent minors between the ages Of Is and Il
from buying liquors Of any kind.
MARCH : The house by two-thirds vote
adopted resolution to extend the session OF the
Legislature to April 8, twenty days.
The vote by which the Worlds Fair bill was
defeated was reconsidered, and an amendment
appropriating SIS, 600 instead OF $50, 900 was
adopted 1t is a compromise aud will pass as
amended.
Bills to pass the senate wcre 10 prohibit the
keeping of bawdy or ewd houses in the State;
authorizing The money in the State Treasury to
be deposited in banks or banking Institutions,
and regulating the manner OF doing the same.
MARCH 3-The senate passed the following
bills which had previously passed the house: To
provide for the control and management OF the
State penitentiary apd convicts. 1t abolishes
the present lease system, and places the convlcts
under the direct supervision OF the State. The
senate tackled on two amendments that will meet
with the approval OF the house. Q) To increase
he salary of the superintendent from 81 800 to
s., 800. (2) No convict under the age OF is years
shall be permitted to work in the mines of the
State; to prevent the sale, exhibition or giving
away of cigarettes or cigarette paper. The law
went into effect last Saturday: to prevent the
sale, removal or giving away of mortsaged
property
The senate failed to pass house bill to repeal
the court of common pleas in Monroe county
Tie house agreed to senate amendment in the
bill to revise and Iii .sest the laws of the State.
The amendment increases the salary of the li-
gester to 5S, 900,
Senate bill creating the Fifteenth Judicial Dis
trict passed.
MARCH 4.--rhe senate concurred in the house
amendment to the world fair bill. 1t also pass