Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-06
The Senate.


 LITTLE ROCK. May 31.-The senate met the usual hour. and prayer was offered by Rep resentative Rowe, of the house. Senator Worthen called up senate bill No. 7S to appropriate S2, 400 for salary of the seere tary Of state board of charities Read third time and passed
 Senate bill appropriating 40000 for support of the penitentiary (working capital for the board of commissiohers), was read third time | and passed-ayes IA, noes 9.
 The biu granting 000 acres land per mile to the Sunnyside and Western railroad was taken up, read third time and failed to passages 12, noes 12, Senator Hathcock changing his vote from aye to mo-
 The bill exempting lands donated to the St. Francis levee district from taxation was read third time and passed-ayes 14, noes g.
 Senator Witt called up house bill No. 22 to cure defective acknowledgements. Read twice and placed on calendar.
 Senator McGehee submitted report of the second conference committee on the general appropriation bill showing amendments con- cured in and those reeeded from. Adopted.
 Senator Cranberry call up the bill for tue ap pointment of election commissioners. Read third time.
 After a somewhat lengthy discussion the bill failed to passages Ii, noes 15.
 Senator Haley moved to reconsider and ta- ble. Carried.
 Senator Hillheuse called up his bill to amend the St. Francis levee district act changing the time of assessment Read third time and passed-ayes r, noes 3.
 Senator Cranberry called up his bill to regu- late freight rates by statute law. Read third time and failed to passages II, noes 15. Senator ConnelPs railroad commission bill came up and Senator South moved to post pone indefinitely. Lost-ayes 12 noes 12.
 Senator Gray moved to table the bill and amendments Carried-ayes 13, noes 12. After recess Senator McGehee introduced bill placing Randolph and Walnut Lake town ships in the Auburn and Linwood levee dis trict. Read twice.
 Senator Gray's bill to regulate express rates was taken up, discussed and tabled-ayes 15, noes G.
 Senator Granberry's bill to require the for mula of patent medicines to be printed on the labels was withdrawn by the author.
 Adjourned.
 The House. After roll call and reading and correcting Saturdays journal, MT. Brown submitted the conference report on the general appropriation bill
 The report was adopted and the bill made special order for Tuesday morning. After spending some time in effort to fix a time for final adjournment, the Kirby bill re- tating to garnishments was taken up.
 The bill failed to passages 43, noes 46. l House bill No. 34, permitting manufacturers of native wine to sell their products in original packages without license, was read third time.
 Messrs Prince. Jackson Bush and Hernn op- 1 posed the measure.
 A communication from Prescott w. C. T. U. urging that the bill be defeated, was read, and it failed to passages 27, noes 61.
 House bill No 54, to amend the election law so that in cases of contest the oath of the elec- tor as to how he voted shall be accepted as evil dence in preference to the ballot purporting to have been voted, was read third time. MT Short moved to table the bill. Carried. NAM 1Tfof 1.-two axrfla Rpct time and motion of MT. Hernn, further action on all wine bills was deferred.
 At the afternoon session the following reso- tuition, offered by Mir Bush, was adopted by d vote of 41 to 36:
 Whereas, Hon. S. L. Jeffers. of Crawford county, is now engaged in teaching county normal at Brinkley, Ark. for which he is paid B per day therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the clerk of the house of rep resentatives be instructed not to certify any per diem for the said s. l., Jeffers until he re- turns to his duties at this house. and then he shall receive no pay as representative for no day or days that he receives pay for teaching such county normal.
 On motion, the rules were suspended and the bill authorizing the St Francis levee board to issue bonds for the purpose of building leyees. was read second time and placed on calendar
 Senate bill declaring legal four-wire fence in Chicot county, read second time and placed on calendar.
 Mir Shaws bill, providing for road improve ment districts, was read third time and failed to passages 26, noes B.
 Mir Cottons bill, to enable a voter to cast his ballot in another township or precinct than his own in school elections. provided said town ship or precinct Is in the district was read third time-and passed-ayes T, noes IA.
 Pending discussion Of the Harper bill an in- solvent act which was read third time, the house adjourned.
 The Senate.
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