The Forrest City times., 1899-04-14

Little Rock. April 11.-There was very little
accomplished In either branch of the general
assembly during the day.
S. b. 202 (Hillhouse), to provide for stem
ographer for the Third chancery district, was
read third time and passed.
S. b. 236 Kirby. to repeal the act creating
the ONCE OF tax collector for Columbia county
and fixing the salary of certain county officers
in said county passed
Senator Landlord asked for the recall from
the house OF the Cotton good roads bill, which
passed the senate yesterday. The senate re-
fused to recall the measure.
Senator Clark called up II. B. 343 Humph-
rey). changing the time in which railroads
shall file their assessment lists from June LIST
to August LIST. Read third time and passed.
II. b. 246 tSullivan), to regulate fraternal in
surance companies, was read third time and
passed.
II. B. 1854 (Speer), to amend section 242o OF
the digest passed.
H. b. 1874 Jones OF Nevada) was called up by
Senator Smith and read first and second
times. The bill donates certain forfeited state
lands to the counties In which such lands lie.
Senator McMullin called up H. b. 1876 (Clack).
to provide for working the public roads Of Yell
county. which was read third time and passed.
H. B. S33 (CaldwelD, imposing license tax
on laundry drummers, failed to pass. ,+s
H. b. se3 Humphrey. requiring the county
lax COilcCtOT 10 post up III cdCu tOWuSulp u
printed copy OF the delinquent lands in the
county and call the attention to same OF all
parties desiring to pay taxes on the land.
was read third time and passed.
Senator King called up H. b. 379 (Neill Of In
dependence) which makes suicide no bar to
the collection of life insurance policies The
bill failed to passages s, noes Is.
The House.
The house refused to recede from its amend
ment striking out the clause in the state uni
versity appropriation bill which prevents the
employment by the trustees as teacher any
OF their relations
Gen. Tappan made an effort to have the
house take up the Kimbell state house bill.
but Mr.. johnson called for the deaf-mute ap-
preparation BILL which had the right-of-way
The house went into committee Of the whole
to consider the bill item by item.
Where the bill proposed an increasesover the
appropriation Of two years ago. the house
knocked out the increase.
After all the amendments offered had been
acted upon. the bill went over.
The state house bill was next In order but
an effort was made to have 1t displaced with
another appropriation bill
The speaker ruled that the new state house
bill was an appropriation bill, and could be
deferred only by two-thirds vote.
An appeal was taken from this decision, and
the discussion OF the matter took up most OF
the afternoon. The speaker was sustained In
his decision but a motion to adjourn pre-
vailed and no action was taken on the bill
senate Proceedings.
Little Rock, April 12.-Much Of the days ses-
sion was consumed in consideration OF appro-
priation bills In committee OF the whole.
The deficiency appropriation bill was passed
as reported from committee Of the whole.
The senate concurred In house amendments
to S. b. 23s. making appropriations for the
deaf-mute institute.
s. b. 300 to pay pensions OF ex-Coufederate
soldiers. was read third time and passed.
s. b. 24S (Hillhouse) was taken up and read
third time. The bill provides that the charac-
ter OF life insurance policies shall be printed
in red ink on the same. The bill passed.
A message from the governor announced the
appointment OF Mr.. Henry L. Fitzhugh, OF
Van Buren,, to the state senate to MI the va
cancy occasioned by the death OF Senator
Douglass.
S. b. 247 Qains) to permit defendants In
certain felony cases to give bond after convic-
ton In the circuit court. was read third time
and passed.
HB 3s7 civilians OF PulaskD, to amend
an act establishing a fencing district In Pu-
laski county, was passed