Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-28
Tine senate Proceedings.

 day transacted very little business.
 Chairman Grace, Of the committee on rail- roads, returned senate bill No. 43. tManningl to provide for the regulating of freight and express tariffs. recommending that it do not pass as amended Senator Manning moved that the amendments be read twice, that the expressing clerk prepare n typewrtten copy for each senator. and the amendments be con- sidered with the bill next Monday. Carried and the amendments were read twice The same committee returned senate bill No "A (Hathcoel5), to make railroad companies more punctual in paying for material and dead stock. that 1t do not pass as amended. Sena- tor Gray said the intention of this bill was to make the railroad company come to time and pay for ties sold to them. He would vote for the bill Postponed until to-day at 10 a The same committee reported senate bill No. t63 QkimbelD, to extend the charter Of the Lott. railroad. that 1t dc pass.
 House bill No. i90 tHafperl. to regulate the purchase of school apparatus and supplies aud for other purposes, was read twice The bill was referred to the committee on education. House pill No. l84 fWarren1 to prevent ex- tortion by saw mills and other corporations. was read twice and referred to committee on corporations.
 House bill Ne. 3I lKeeD, an act for telegraph | offices in railroad towns of over f50 inhabi- tants, was read twice and referred to com mittee on railroads,
  means) to prohibit the making of gold eon- 1 tracts was read twice and referred to comrnit- 1 tee on finance.
 The balance Of the morning session was oc- cupied in reading the relief bill reported by ] Senator kimbet, which will come up for its third reading and passage to-day in the senate, the loan feature Of the bill having been elimi- hated
 Alter recess house bill No. fs9 tBut0, to fix the salaries of county officers Of Carroll county and create the office of tax collector. was read the third time and passed d-Gyes, 20; noes, g. The bill provides the collector shall hold office for two years and receive 5000 per year and one-half the fees of his office.
 House bill No. l4 (Gannaway), providing for 1 the assessment of mineral rights. was read the third time and passed-ayeS. 30; noes, Q. The bill allows separate assessment and sale of mineral rights.
 House bfH No. lsS Bennington, to fix the fees and salaries of county officers of White county. was read the third time and defeated after a long discussion ayes, 3; noes 24
 The House.
 The morning session was devoted princi- pally to speech making
 Mir Potts, chairman Of the committee on ways and means, reported the condition of the insane asylum as generally diIapdated and recommended that committee be vested with authority to make further investigations.
 MT Kirby said US one of the board of trus- tees that the report was exaggerated He did not think the committee right in wanting to shift the responsibility to another committee. IT what this report said was true, the ways and means committee should report the facts.
 After considerable discussion, Mir Coftman moved that the committee on state charitable institutions be given power to make inveStiga- tion Of the insane asylum, instead of the com mittee on ways and means Adopted.
 Mir Touhey moved to reconsider the vote by which senate concurrent resolution No. :, look Ing to settlement between the state of Ar kansas and the United States. failed to pass.
 Mir Brown moved to lay the motion on the table which was lost ayes, B; noes 51.
 The remainder of the morning session was devoted to discussing the motion to reconsider the vote, MT. Tappan favored the motion; Mir Shaekelford favored settlement even if we had h coneede lands to the Iron Mountain rail- road; Mir. Patteu opposed giving the railroad 273 000 acres of land.
 Nothing was done in the afternoon but de- batting the above motion Messrs. Curl. Potts and Prince spoke in opposition toa compromise settlement and MesSrS Warren. Dickinson and Rogers of Benton county, favoring one