The Russellville Democrat., 1893-04-06
TWENTY-NINTH SESSION
ARKANSAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
 Wednesday Afternoon, March go.


 Wednesday Afternoon, March go.
 SENATE.
 The senate re assembled at 2 pm, and returned to committee of the whole to re- sume consideration of the general appro- priation bill.
 Senator Adams moved to strike out all the appropriations for janitors.
 In support of his motion Senator Adams urged that two janitors are sufficient for the building and that further on he would offer new section authorizing the employ ment, of two janitors for the whole build ing.
 Senatnr Russ said that one janitor could do the work for the whole building, and that it is useless to keep acrowd of janitors around the state house doing nothing on good pay.
 Senator Bell, of Desha, said that some senators are always crying out for the poor man and the laboring man, and yet, when sn appropriation is sought to be made to pay poor men and laboring men for services around the capitol, these woud-be friends of the laboring man are in favor of killing the appropriation and cutting down their number, and imposing extra burdens on those that are left.
 Senator Russ said he wanted to reduce the number and pay more.
 The motion of Senator Adams was lost.
 Senator Harkey moved that the appro- priation for the eight normal schools of the state be raised from $4000 to $8000.
 Senator Scott said that educating teach CTS at the states expense is wrong. Just as we'll educate doctors, lawyers and farm CTS free.
 Senators Smith, Trustworthy and Mehaffy believed that the teacher bears the same relation to children that the parent and state does, hence the state is more inter ested in the teachers qualifications than in the qualifications of any other class of our citizens. The state proposes to educate the children of the state, then the state ought to train and prepare those who do the teaching.
 Senator Gaughan said the amount pro. posed to be appropriated was too large. That any appropriation of the kind can be justified only on the ground of public Iolicy, and not on any political principle cf right.
 Senator Smith called attention to the fact that the Peabody fund supplements the ap- propriation, giving the same sum to the schools that the legislature appropriates.
 Senator Adams said that teachers have told him that the normal schools are a farce. It is useless and wasteful ex- penditure of the public money
 Senator Russ addressed the senate against the amendment.
 Senator Bell, of Desha, said that public spirited citizens are always in favor of ed- ucation.
 Senator Hawkins said the normal train ing rife in these days is new-fargled sys- tenn that discredits all other training for teaching.
 The motion of Senator Harkey was adopted by vote of l5 to IA.
 President Kinsworthy took the chair and received the following message from the governor:
 MIR. PREsIDENT--I have approved and signed senate bill No. 174, to amend an act entitled an act to amend section 256S of Mansfield's Digest. It is the Rector di- vorce law; also senate bill No. 1S7, for the relief of Jasper Hutchinson, sheriff of Sharp county; also senate bill No. PAT, to prohibit the sale or giving away intoxicants within ten miles of Warren public school in Bradley county; also senate bill No. 23O for the support and maintenance of the branch normal college at Pine Bluff; also senate blu No. 2S5, to prohibit the sale or giving away intoxicants within five miles of the school house in Saratoga, Howard county; also senate bill No. BIG, to fix the time for holding the spring terms, 1895, of the circuit court in the counties of Lee an9 Phillips; also senate bill No. 225, relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds, obligations, etc, and to allow cor porations to be accepted as surety therein ; also senate bill No. 2S3, to extend the time for the payment of taxes of Clay county for the year 1892 to June 5, 1893. w. NJ. FIsHBAoK, Governor. The senate returned to committee of the whole.
 The appropriation for salary of the clerk in the supreme court clerk office was re dused from $2400 to $l200. On motion of Senator West, the follow ing new section was adopted For travelling expenses, purchase oi seeds and distribution, collection of ex hibits from the various counties, freight and express charges, publication ol bulletins and crop reports, chemicals and stationery, etc., ten thousand dollars | ($l0, ,000).
 This ia for the bureau of mines, manu factures and agriculture. On motion of Senator Casey the item o 1 5000 for completing and printing the re ! ports of the geological survey was raised t. | $400O.
 The committee at 4 40 p. m. arose ans | reported progress and asked leave to si l again.
 The senate resumed session. Several at l tempts were made to adjourn, on whicl ! the ayes and nays were callei, but th' 1 senate refuse to adjourn. ! On call of the roll, the rules were sus | pended that Senator Gaughan might in ! troduce resolution. 1 THE RESOLUTION. | Resolved, That the senate hold nigh | sessions for the consideration of hous business on Tuesdays and Fridays unti the close of the present session, and tha on the same days the house hold night sea | sions for the consideration of senate busi ness. At such occasions only bills on frs and second readings shall be considered. After a fight. lasting thirty minutes { defeat the resolution, in which there wa an admirably display of parliamentary tae ties, the resolution was adopted.
 At 5:20 m. the senate adjourned.
 HOUSE.
 The house re-convened at pm.
 House bill No. 352, fixing the first Mor days in May and December as the time fe holding court in Mississippi county, va read third time ani passed.
 House bill 332, to amend an act to faci itate a settlement between the state of Al kansas and the United States, arising uI der grant by the United States to the stat
 of Arkansas of swamp and ovsrfiowed land
 nnder acts of congress, was called up D
 MT. Judkins. The bill appropriates s40o ] for carrying out it's provisions, the same