Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-24

COQSlOeTEQ+ many Ol HBlOu h6io ab4OhNSN SS as to reduce the total appropriation somewhat and at 4:30 the committee arose and reported action, and the senate adopted the various am mendments. The bill was ordered to it's third reading
 The senate contingent of the conference com mittee on senate bill No 20 reported, and recommended that the house recede from the amendment and pass the bill as it came from the senate. Adopted.
 Senate bill No 194. the consolidated cleo tions bill was next called up. The afternoon session was exhausted in the discussion Of this measure, and at late hour on motion the senate took recess until 7:so p. n-
 NIGHT SESSION.
 The senate reconvened at 7:30 for it's first 1 night session, and the argument of senate | bill No 124 was continued until late hour. | Several motions to adjourn and postpone were l promptly defeated and at one time it appeared | as though the senate had settled down to an | all-night session but those who favored ad journment adopted the only method left to them, and quietly glided out of the chamber 1 one at time
 It soon came to the knowledge of the presi- 1 dent that the body was without quorum and | he at once declared the senate adjourned.
 HOUSE.
 It was gratifying to all 10 see Speaker Col l duitt again in the chair at the opening of the morning session yesterday. He has been pre- vented by illness from occupying the chair dur ing almost the entire session. l Business was put in motion by the calling up of the railroad commission bill
 A motion to suspend the rules received the necessary two-thirds vote and the bill was read the second time,
 Several long amendments and still more l lengthy substitutes were offered and discussed and the bill, amendments, substitutes. etc. l finally referred to the judiciary committee | They will be expected to evolve bill from this conglomeratiou of personal ideas that will pass the house with a rush-maybe
 Mir Wadley, who has been tied up the small- pox scare in Hot Springs for nearly three weeks, reported for duty by letter, stating that he would return to his post with tho consent of the house.
 MT. Newton moved that his leave of absence 1 be cheerfully extended, which was done amid 1 great laughter
 House bill No 156, to quiet the titles of cer | tain lands formerly in dispute between the i Iron Mountain railway and the state passed | with only four negative votes. l House bill No 12, to repeal the law requiT | ing petitioners for the removal of county seats to deposit &300) guarantee fund, was read 1 the third time.
 This bi provoked warm and sharp debate and on call of the roll failed u pass-ayes 15, noes @.
 Recess until p. m.
 After recess the house again went into com l nltL56 gt tue WhOlD on the general dppfOp t1t- i tion bill, Mir. Warren in the chain. The remainder of the days session was taken up in Is consideration. Amendments l by the wholesale were offered. but few of them adopted the total amount appropriated will however be materially lowered. l On motion the committee arose and reported to the house recommending that the bill do pass as amended. Carried.
 At 5:t5 the house adjourned until Friday morning.
 SENATE.
 LITTLE ROCK. March 23.-President Witt called the senate to order yesterday morning l at g 3o sharp.
 Committee reports coming first in order number were received.
 The vote by which senate bill No. 243, five mile act fer bardaneI1e. was ordered to it's third read ng. was reeonsidered the bill | amended so not to include Pope county in l it's provisions, and also reducing the minimum fine from 800 to S25 and then made special 1 order Tor Monday morning.
 House bill No 286, t5 fx the time for holding urt in the fifteenth district passed-ayes 26.
 House bill No 60 to restra Il the incauttous 1 use of fire arms, defeated-ayes ID, nays 6. House bill No. i26 Jo require sherifs to set l tic monthly with the state and counties, de feated-ayes IA, noes 15 | Senate bill No. 90, to amend the act estab- fishing a chancery court for Montgomery, Sa | line, Hot Springs and Garland counties, was uOAb bdkeu up to COuSlQ6I 4Gu56 dulGuuMEubS.
 The house had amended the bill by reducing the salary of the chancellor to B. 0)) and his term to four years, and provides that he shall be elected instead of appointed
 On motion the amendments were non con l cured in.
 Recess until 9 D. m.
 At the opering of the afternoon session | house bill No. 212 to provide for the payment | by the state of costs in felony cases was read the third time, and after some little discussion it was defeated-aycs F, nays F. House bill No 8, 10 encourage and foster stock raising and to prevent the larceny of stock, passed-ayes 23 nays 3. The bill ap- plies only to Arkans as, Lonote, Prairie and | Critten len counties
 House bill No. 74, to punish vagrancy, read the third time ard passed-ayes 26. nays 1. House b1li N T. 75 requiring railway comf an- l ies or corporations to transport free Of charge the shippers of live stock or poultry by the car load, passed-ayes 20 nays 6.
 House bill No 129, to repeal tue seventh sub division of sect on 2515 Of inc digest in reja- tion 10 marriage contracts where either party has become insane pGSsed-ayes }, noes II.
 House bill No. 104, to give notice in special school districts and U fill vacancies on sc4ool l boards, passel-ayes 22, noes 1.
 Adjourned until Saturday morning.
 HOUSE.
 The first business before the house yester day morning was the introduction Of Q bill by the comm tfee on charitable institutions pro- viding for the appointment by the governor of q board of six trustees, one from each congress | sionai district. They to be paid s per day for actual time spent and appropriating S3 0l0 for sa aries and expenses. As an evidence that the man with a bill" Is Q conspicuous figure in the house this session, this bill was num- bered 48i.
 The resolution to pay the nurse who attend ed Mir. Armstrong during his late illness. was passed, but another resolution was immediate ly adopted. declaring that the payment of nurses for members was illegal and unadvisa ble, and shall be discontinued. Moral-d n't get scK.
 House bill No. sO2 to pay sherirs sI per day for attending elections, passed-ayes 63 noes !. An amendment to senate bill No. 5J to pay the Pilot Printing O. for printing supreme court reports, was adopted It reduces the | payment to Sl Ter copy, instead Of $l.50, and l limits the number of books to 900 | The vote on the bill as amended was A ayes 10 8 noes, but the speaker exprassed the opln- ion that as the bill carried an appropriation it l could not pass without two.thirl's vote but l agreed to await ant hority on the suhiect and