Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-02-10
THE LEGISLATURE.
Several Important Measures Consid-
cred, and a Busy Day Passed.

SENATE.
Convened at the regular hour
quorum present
Committee reports received and
acted upon.
The following important bills were
passed:
Senate bill No. ia, (Gaughan), reg
ulating the giving Of testimony in
criminal cases.
Senator Sloan's bill, for the better
prosecution of misdemeanors.
After the consideration of a number
of more or less unimportant meas
ures the Senate took a recess until
2:30 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Immediately upon reassembling the
following communication was laid be-
fore the Senate:
Mr.. PREsIDENT-Permit us, in be-
half of the citizens of Hot Springs, to
extend to your honorable body an in
vitation to visit Hot Springs Saturday,
February llth, leaving Little Rock At
9 a. M, and returning Sunday at 6
p. m. KMBELL AND McCoLLUM.
On motion, the invitation was nc.
cepted,
BY unanimous consent Senator Da-
wilson introduced Senate bill No. 166,
to settle the claims of Mrs. Josephine
Clark, widow of Gen. Henry f. Clark,
for work and labor for the Senate,
and for which no payment was ever
made.
Senator Handy called up Senate
bill No. |. the Constitutional Conven-
tion bill, for consideration.
Senator Hawkins moved to strike
out section II Of the bill, which makes
an appropriation to pay the expenses
of the convention.
This motion brought the full inter
est of the Senate concerning the bill,
and was the means Of provoking one
of the most able, earnest and eloquent
discussions of the session.
The yeas and nays were demanded
on the motion to strike out: Yeas
Adams, Galloway, Gaughan, Handy,
Hawkins, Mehaffey, Oyler, Scott Smith
West, Wilson, Word and Mr.. Presi-
dent--l3. Nays--Allen, Amis, Bell
j II, Casey, Davidson, Erwin, Harkey,
Holmes, Iiddell, Pettigrew, Quincy,
Russ, Sloan, Weaver and Witt-1b.
SO the motion to strike out was not
adopted, This being practically a
test vote on the bill. Senator Handy
withdrew 1t.
Senate bill No. So, (lIamby), that no
mortgage be given on crop unless it
is planted within twelve months after
the giving Of the mortgage, and that
no mortgage shall be foreclosed unless
an itemized statement cf the mortgag-
or's account be furnished him by the
mortgage, unless the mortgagor alb
seconds or removes the property or at
tempts to remove it. Bill passed.
At o'clock p. m. the Senate adj
journed until $3.50 a. IN. to-day.
HOUSE.
A resolution was adopted rendering
the use of the hall to Hons. J III Rog-
ers, j w House, James Mitchell, j G
Fletcher and others to address the
General Assembly and the public at
1880 o'clock p. IN. to-day, upon the re-
lations and duties of Arkansas to the
Worlds fair
Resolution also adopted congratu-
lating the heretofore Republican State
of Nebraska upon the election Of n
Populist, w. N. Allen, to the United
States Senate, thus strengthening the
reform forces in that body.
The House then took up unfinished
business, the question being upon the
passage of House bill No. 81, by Mr..
Rodgers, of Craighead, to repeal The
law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants
within four miles OF the common
school-house at Jonesboro.
The bill brought forth a long and
stormy debate, bringing dozen mem
bers into the argument over its mer-
Its and dement's.
After consuming fully one half OF
the day, the discussion was ended by
final vote upon the bill, resulting in
its defeat by vote of 81 to "a.
The House was then adjourned un.
til the usual hour to-day.
A Famine Threatened,