The Green Forest tribune., 1893-03-16
ONLY $500 APPROPRIATED
BY OUR STATE LEGISLATURE FOR AN EDu.
CATiONAL EXHIBIT AT CHICAGO.
Worlds Fair Commissioners Conhrmed-SaIary
of the Prison Superintendent Fixed.

one now in force in Texas failed to pass by
vote Of 6 yeas to % nays.
The bills passed by the senate were: To pro-
tect prairie chickens; to provide for the costs in
certain cases where the defendant is adjudged
insane; to regulate the fees of prosecuting at
torneys in all cases of the illegal sale of intoxi-
eating liquors; to compel the railroads to put in
gates or make crossings in certain places; to
amend the law prohibiting the expectation of
fish from the State; to regulate the individual
liability of corporations o ganized under the
laws of the State.
The senate sent request to the house asking
the return OF the bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in the State. The request was grant
ed and it is believed that the senate will recon-
slider it's action in passing the same, on the
grounds that it is unconstitutional.
Bills passed BY the house were: To authorize
exhibit of the educational system of the State
at the World Fair, and appropriating $500 to
cover expenses of the same; to provide for the
payment of the refundng certificates Of the State;
increasing the salary OF the Chancellor of the
Second District to ,2500; and adding more terri
tory to the same.
MARCH THE senate reconsidered its action
in passing the bill prohibiting the sale or giving
away Of cigarettes, and referred the same to the
Judiciary Committee to investigate it's constitu-
tionality
Bills that passed the senate were: To reduce
the fees of the officers of Benton c9unty: to per
nit the construction of gates across the high
ways of the State; to fix the salaries OF the OFF,
GERS Of Grant county; to repeal the law granting
Il B. Archer charter to build turnpike road
in Columbia county
The above bills had previously passed the
house.
The senate in executive session confirmed the
Worlds Fair Commissioners as appointed by
the Governor.
The Penitentary bill was again taken up in
the house, and the senate amendment prohibit
ing the working of any convcts under the age of
Is years was concurred in. The amendment in
creasing the salary of the Prison Superintendent
from $500 to $500 was rejected. The action
will necessitate committee conference I'M
less the senate recedes.
MARCH S.-The whisky question was the
cause of another heated discussion in the house.
Representative Williamson of Hampstead coun-
ty, introduced bill prohibiting the sale Of in
toxicating liquors within ten miles of Hope in
Hampstead county. The bill was defeated by
small majority
The Sc ate refused to recede from it's former
action in increasing the salary of the Penitenti-
ary superintendent and asked the house for
conference tommittee to settle the matter. The
committee as appointed consists of Senators
Handy, Smith and Hawkins and Representa-
tives Clements Judkins. Cloquit, Harrison and
Gully.
Senate bill to compel persons from 16 to SO
years to work the public roads, was again tax
en- up and discussed for hours.
Gov. Fishback sent message to the house
announcing that ne had approved house bills to
prescribe the qualifications of County Examin-
ers and fixing their salaries; also, declaring it
unlawful to sell, barter. exchange, remove, or
otherwise dispose ofproperty upon which liens
Of certain kinds existed, and fixing the punish
ment; to suspend the operations of certain Sec
tions of Mansfeld's Digest in Union and White
counties, and to authorize and empower the
County Courts to make all needul orders for
the construction and repairs of bridges and turn
pixies, and for the opening, repairing and work
ing Of roads and highways in said countless and
to punish disobedience of the same to fix the
fees and salaries of officers of Washington
county.
The house consumed several hours of the days
session in amending the bill to enferce the pro-
visions OF amendment No. to the Constitution
ofthe State. No final action was had.
MARCH 9-Speaker Humphrey and his col
leagues from Sebastin county scored a great vic
tory fer their part of the State, ia the passage
by the house of the bill to provide for the health
and safety c persons employed in coal mines,
and providing for the inspection of the same.
Considerable opposition to the bill developed
during the day, but the greater portion was dis
PEELED by the great speech of Speaker Humphrey
The bill creates the Office of Inspector of Mines,
at a salary of $500 per year.
The house also passed the bill to legalize tile
1882 assessment in Poinsett county.
Gov. Fishback announced to the house that he
had approved and signed the resolution extend
ing the session of the Legislature to April 8.
q lso the bill to provide for the revising and di
gesting of the laws of the State.
The senate refused to pass the bill Introduced
by Senator Harkey prohibiting e sale ofin.ox-
icating liquors within ten mi es Of aly church or
school house in the ate.
Bills to pass the senate were: To make ap-
preparations for the support OF the brapch Nor
mai college OF 5he Arkansas lndustr al Uuiver-
sity; requiring all State officers to make quar-
terly reports; to prescribe the mode of payment
OF all obligations OF debt to be paid in ntoney.
MARCH l0-Mr. kimball, Chairman Of the
Committee on Railroads, reported substitute
bill for the house railroad commission bill on
which his committee has bestowed much labor
and investigation. The bill provides for regu-
lation OF freight charges and every express COM
pany in this State, prevents unjust dscrimina-