The Russellville Democrat., 1893-03-09

upon it's third reading. The motion pIe- vailed.
 Mir Russell gave notice that on Satur- day he would move to reconsider the vote by which house bill No. 133 failed to pass.
 The special order was postponed and the house took up senate bill No. 179. Mir. Judkins offered the following amend ment.
 move to atrike out $3G, ,O00 wherever it appears in the bill and insert SIS, ,000.
 The amendment by unanimous consent
 was read first and second times and adopted.
 Mir. Humphrey offered the following amendment:
 Strike out, in section I, $500 and insert 5000 wherever it appears in said section, and strike out $500 and insert $l200 wherever it appears in said section. The amendment was read the first and second times by unanimous consent and adopted.
 Mir. Bradley was granted indefinite leave of absence on account of sickness. Mir. Judkins offered the following amend
 ment:
 Amendment to section 7--The governor shall execute note for the said sum of 1 $l5, 900, said note to be in the name of the state of Arkansas, and to be payable when the treasurer informs the governor that the money is necessary to pay the lawful claim, and payable out of said fund when the same shall be presented. The amendment, by unanimous consent,
 was read first and secondftimes. Mir. Baird offered the following amend
 ment to the amendment: And the treasurer is hereby authorized 1 to empower, without further legislation, to pay amounts to all persons entitled to the
 same, when presented, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, provided that the remainder If said tax | money left in the treasury is exhausted. The amendment to the amendment was, by unanimous consent, read the first and second times and adopted. The amend ment was adopted.
 MT. Hutton in the chair. The bill was made special order for tomorrow immediately after the morning hour.
 IThe speaker resumed the chair.] Mir. Davis in the chair. Special order house bill No. 100, bill for an act to be entitled an act to define the qualification of physicians and surgeons practicing in the state of Arkan, sas, was read third time and placed upon it's final passage. The question being shall the bill pass.
 MT. Collins moved that the vote by which the bill was ordered to q third reading be reconsidered. The motion prevailed.
 On motion of Mr Williams house bill No. 100 and house bill No. IF were re- ferred to the committee on the practice of medicine.
 At 12 m. the house took a recess till 2
 Thursday Afternoon, March 2.
 SENATE.
 Immediately upon re re-assembling the question recurred on the passage of Russ bill to abolish houses of i'll fame.
 An effort was made to put the bill back on second reading, but the vote to do so stood, yeas, 12; nays. l3.
 The question then recurred on the pass age of the bill, yeas, IT; nays, 8. So the bill did pass.
 Senator Words bill, authorizing the state treasurer to deposit the state funds in such quantities as may be desired with any bank or individual who can give se- curity in double the amount ask for that it will be forthcoming on tbe call of the treasurer, was laid before the senate for passage.
 Senator Word urged the passage of the bill. The money so deposited draws 5 per cent. interest for the state. [Senator Casey in the chair.] The debate on a former bill to allow the funds to be deposited with banks covered the arguments made for and against this bill. This bill only goes further and all lows the funds to be deposited with indi vidualswhen their security is approved by the financial board.
 Senator Hamby gave several reasons for voting against the bill. MR. PREsIDENT-I desire to enter my protest against this bill It is little strange that we are asked to pass bill authorizing the use of the state money in this way. The state is now trying to put Woodruff in the penitentiary for using
 money just as this bill provides. Just as soon as we get treasurer that will keep the money where it belongs a bill is in troduced to force him to furnish banks with money to do business. The state has no right to go into the money lending busi- uess. She ought never to have more money on hand than is necessary to run the ma chinery of the state. The finances of the state are in bad shape as it is, but when
  ing schemes then our institutions will be prostrated.
 Senate bill No. 204, by Senator David
 son, to prohibit the sale or giving away of intoxicants within several miles of Monn- l tain Home College in Baxter county. The bill passed-yeas, 26; nays, O. | Senator Bell, of Desha, sent up a report 1 from the committee appointed to investi- l psts tne State Branch Normal College at | Pine Bluff. The report reeites that the 1 building needs repair; that the school is
 being managed loosely; that the principal
 of the school is not the man for the place
 that Jefferson county has seventytwo of | the 245 benefciaries in the college; that
 the appropriations for the support and
 maintenance of the school have not been
 properly expended. Senator G. w. Bell 1 dissented from that part of the report recommending the removal of the principal | Senator Russ sent up minority report | in which he reported a shortage of $53 05 l in the money appropriated for the support of the school. He urged in the report that | it is wrong to tax the people 10 educate : | few of the negroes in that school, which
 recommends that no appropriation be made l He reported that the negroes are very
 much in earnest about educating theil 1 children.
 Senator Russ moved that the majority l and minority reports, with all testimony | taken, be printed. Rejected. The testi
 mony was then ordered printed. l Senator Pettigrew moved hat the report
 of the committee on agriculture, reac | Tuesday, as to their findings in the investi l gation of the bureau of mines, manufac | lures aud agriculture be referred 70 ths committee on mines and mining. Carried
 House bin No. 1, to abolish the bureau
 was sent along with the committee report
 Senator Chimney called up senate con current resolution No. l2, instrueting oui
 representatives in congress to investigate
 certain alleged frauds perpetrated in issu
 ing bonds to certain railroads by the United States. Adopted