The Russellville Democrat., 1893-04-06


 an amendment to the constitution reducing
 the exemptions If real and personal prop erty. was taken up and Senator Pettigrsw offered an amendment perfectipg the Ian guage of the preamble of the amendment The amendment was adopted. The sergeant. at arms announced Q mes gage from the house, whereuron Clerk Hal Iiburton appeared within the bar and read the following:
 MR. PREsfDENT--I am instructed by the
 house of representatives te inform your honorable body of the passage of senate bill No. IT, for an act to define the boundary line between the counties of Marion and Newton, and respectfully trans init the same for your favorable considera- tion.
 Senator Amis moved that the joint reso- lution No 4 be sent to committee on finance to be perfected, grammatically and otherwise. The resolution was So re- ferred.
 House Clerk Halliburton again came within the bar and announced that the house had passed house bill No. 265, an
 act to submit to the people of this state the question of holding constitutional convention.
 Senate bill No. 79, to amend sections 305, 3O6, 307 and 309 of Mansield's Di- gest, read third time and passed, yeas, l3; nays, Q.
 1 House amendments to senate bill No. PAS, for the better protection of fish in the
 waters of this state, were concurred in by the senate.
 Senate bill No. 2O6, to provide for the improvement and maintenance os the Ar
 kansas state university, was next placed l hsxfr. IA. h<zx.o rafad-
 ments were concurred in by it. | House bill No. BAG, to provide for tho | reliefi of Confederate soldiers, was read 1 twice and referred to committee on finances. 1 The conference committee's report on senate bill No. 49, to extend the time for paying county and state taxes for the year l 1892, in certain counties, was read and the
 senate concurred in the house amend ments.
 | A house messenger came within the | bar and announced that the house had | passed house bill No. 203, to compel com
 mon carriers of freight to receive and re-
 ceipt for all freight delivered at their l depots.
 l Senator Amis called up senate bill No. | 227, for an act to create a railroad com
 mission, for tho state of Arkansas, which
 was read third time.
 Senator Amis spoke at length in behalf ] of the bill.
 1 At l2 o'clock the senate took a recess l till O clock this afternoon. 1 HOUSE.
 The house was called to order at 9 a. m., by Speaker Humphrey. l Prayer by Dr. Welch.
 Mr. Judkins in the chair. l On motion of Mir. Bradley the ruAes were suspended and the house took up house bill No. 255, a bill for an act to submit to the | people of this state the question ef holding
 a convention to frame new constitution, and for other purposes, read third time and 1 put upon it's final passage. The question l being, shall the bill pass, the clerk called | the roll when the following voted in the affirmative, 42; negative, fl. On motion of Mir. Smith house bill No. | 205 was taken up and senate amendments | thereto were read the second time. On motion of Humphrey house bill No. | 1S5 was taken up and the question being | shall the house concur in senate amend l ment thereto to strike out section Is, the clerk called the roll when the following
 voted in the affirmative, 51; negative 23. The following message was received | from the senate:
 LITTLE ROCK, ARK, March 3l. MR. SPEAKER--I am instructed by the senate to inform your honorable body of the passage of house bill No. 299 entitled
 an act to be entitled an act to protect Ar
 kansas Cumberland College from effects of intoxicants and of gaming, and herewith
 respectfully transmit the same for ysnr l favorable consideration. JOHN W. HOWELL, Secretary TThe speaker resumed the chair. Mir. Sellers, chairman of the committee
 on judiciary, submitted reports. Mir. Bridewell, chairman af committees on ways and means, submitted reports. House bill No. 357, by the committee on ways and means, bill for an act to appre-
 priate money to pay the salary and travel ing expenses of the inspector of mines in the state of Arkansas, was read the first
 time and by unanimous consent, read the
 second time.
 By unanimous consent Mir. Russell called up house bill No. 203, bill for an
 act to be entitled an act to compel com
 mon carriers of freight to receive and re-
 ceipt for all freight delivered at their depots.
 Read third time and put upon its final passage. The question being shall the bill pass, the clerk called the roll, when the lOlloWlE NUbcu HI bLlc huifhabiFCt VNt negative, 6.
 Mir Bridewell called up senate bill Mo- 302 and the amendments thereto reported by the committee on ways and means were read the second time and adopted. Mir. McGhee offered the following amend ment: Strike out section and insert the following as sections and 3, that remain ing sections be numbered consecutively- Sec. ?. No part of the mouey appropri- ated for any one purpose by this act shall be used by the board of trustees, or any
 one having charge thereof, for any other purpose than that mentioned in the several items of this act, and the board of trustees, through it's proper officers, in presenting accounts or acquisitions to the auditor for the money appropriated by this act shall state out of which special appropriation the money is to come and for what 1t is to be used.
 Sec. 3. Any officer or employe who shall violate any of the provisions of this act
 shall be fined in any sum not less than $50 nor more than 5000, and be immedi-
 ately removed from office; provided, that
 any officer or employe who shall appropri-
 ate 10 his own use and purposes, or embez-
 gle any amount of the funds or property
 belonging to the institution shall be guilty
 of larceny and prosecuted as in cases of
 larceny.
 The amendment was read the first time,
 and by unanimous consent read the second
 time and adopted.
 The rules requiring senate bill No. BOP
 to be considered in committee of the whole
 was suspended.
 Mir. Hutton in the chair
 MT. Rodgers, of Jefferson, called up his
 motion to reconsider the vote by which
 senate bill No. 4S passed the house.
 Mir. Gates moved to lay the motion to
 reconsider on the table, and Mir. Rodgers,
 of Jefferson, called for the ayes and noes
 which was sustained and the clerk called
 the roll, when the following voted in the
 affirmative, PC; negative, AT.
 So the motion to table the bill failed.