The Russellville Democrat., 1893-04-13


 etc., furnished to railroads on instalment plan or oR credit, by recording the lien in the office of the secretary of state, and such record shall be good in any part of the state. Under the operation of this act railroads may obtain additional rolling stock, etc, on liberal terms to be paid for out of the earnings of the road.
 ESenate bill 279, to amend section 4760 of MansfelPs Digest, was read first and second times.
 Senate bill No. 2s9, to donate lands to the inwood, Laconia, Red Fork, Desha, Chicot sad Auburn levee districts, was read third time and passed Senate bill No. 228, to prohibit the solic- itation of the sale of intoxicants in dis tricts where prohibition laws are in force was read third time and passed. A violation of the act is punishable by | a fine of not less than $l00 and imprison- meut in the county jail for not less than thirty days.
 Senate concurrent resolution, authorizing | the payment of claim of $434, held by the l Arkansas Carpet and Furniture Company, | was adopted.
 The house then adjourned. Friday Morning, April :. 1 SENATE.
 The senate was called to order at 9 | o'clock this morning. House bill No. 32e, the general appro- | priation bill, was taken up and the confer ence committee amendments were read and | adopted; also the appropriation bill for the | lunatic asylum was handled in the same way. The blind asylum bill underwent a | like change.
 The Confederate home bill was read third | time.
 I Senator Erwin spoke in touching terms in behalf of the bill Senator Russ said he was in favor of a Confederate pension bill, but he would not support bill appropriating money for the | Confederate home. Senator Hawkins was in favor of the bill. | He said it would not be long till all the old | Cor federates would be gone and he was for a home to shelter them while they remained | here.
 Senator West asked the senators to vote | far the bill.
 The sergeant-at-arms announced mes sage from the house, whereupon Clerk O. I c. Ludwig came within the bar and read the following;
 MR. PREsIDENT-I am ins tructed to in- l form your honorable body of the passage of senate bill No. 289, bill for an act to donate to the Laconia levee board, l the Red Fork levee board the Desha levee board, the Chieot levee board, end the Linwood and Auburn levee boards all of the state lands, except six teenth section school lands, lying within said districts; also of failure to pass of senate bill No. 26s. to prohibit soliciting sales of liquors in prohibited districts; also of the adoption of senate concurrent resolution No. 25, for payment of materials furnished in repairing senate chamber and house of representatives. Back to Confederate home bill. Senator Davidson was for the bill So was Senator Adams. The bill passed, yeas, 28; nays, 2. House bill No. l6I, for the relief of Joseph Stevens, of Columbia county, was read third time and failed to pass. By request of the house senate bill to prohibit the keeping of lewd houses in this state, which passed both branches of the legislature short time ago, was returned to that body.
 House joint resolution No. 4, by Mir. Gray, proposing an amendment to the con stitution, was read third time and failed to pass.
 House bill No. 253, to amend an act to create the Sixteenth judicial district, and to change the boundaries of the Second, Third and fourteenth judicial districts, was read third time snd passed.
 House bill No. 257, to care defective ac- knowledgments, was read third time and passed.
 Senate bill No. 161, prohibiting the ex- portation of game and fish from this state, was taken up and some house amendments were read and adopted.
 Committee on temperance reported ia. vorably on house bill No. 339, to prohibit the gale of liquors within three miles of the public school building in Besrden, Ouachita county.
 House bill No. 358, to extend the time of paying county and state taxes in certain parts of Jefferson county, was read third time, and the senate took recess till 2:30.
 HOUSE.
 The house was called to order at 8: 30 a m. Speaker Humphrey in the chair.
 The clerk called the roll.
 A quorum present.
 Prayer by the chaplain.
 The manuscript journal of yesterday was read and approved and signed by the speaker and attested by the clerk
 Mir. McGhee offered the following reso- lution:
 Whereas, On the l6th day of January last, Mir. T. J. Wesson was duly selected and sworn as clerk of the house committee, state charitable institutions, at $4 per day. and
 Whereas, On the 18th day of January, said Wesson was selected as clerk of the joint committee, and that he has since per formed the duties of clerk of the house committee and the joint committee on state charitable institutions, and has dis charged the duties as clerk of both com mittees in faithful and business like manner, and to complete the investigation of the books of all the institutions he has worked by day and greater part of the niehts; therefore be it
 Resolved, That the sum of $75, in ad. dition to the per diem he has received, be, allowed T. J. Wesson for his extra duties performed, and that the clerk be author lzed to issue him certificate for same, to, be paid from tho appropriation made by the general assembly to pay the per diem and contingent expenses.
 McGHEE, Chairman. Mir. Mitchell called for the ayes and nays on the adoption of the resolution, which was sustained, and the clerk called the roll when the following voted in the Affirmative, 3li negative, 5l.
 LITTLE RooE ARK, April 6. MR. SPEAKER--I am instructed by the senate to inform your honorable body of the passage of house bill No. 305, entitled ! bill for an act to be entitled an act pro Eiding for allowing claims Against the charitable and educational institutions of his state, approved February l9, 1889; Ilso house bill No. 100, bill for an act to De entitled an act to define the qualifea- ions of physicians and surgeons practicing ! n the state of Arkans as also of the failure Q pass house bill Mo- 34l, bill for an act ! Q be entitled an act authorizing the re- iemption of real estate sold under orders r deerees of court: also of failure to pass