The Van Buren press., 1903-05-02
The Senate.

Senator Mears called up the house
resolution memorializing congress 10
| declare the Mississippi river a boat
canal and drainage waterway. The res
olution was adopted without opposition
The senate voted to recede from Its
amendments to the appropriation bill
for the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, the
house having refused 10 accept the
amendments.
Senator Witt called up s. B. 27S, pro-
hibiting the keeping of pOolrooms for
betting on races. motion to place
the bill back on second reading for the
purpose Of reconsidering the senate
amendments, was carried.
The rules were suspended and II. B.
b64, providing for the redigesting Of
the statutes, was taken up. Senator
Norwood introduced all amendment
striking out the name of T. ID. Craw-
ford as digester and inserting that Of
W L. Kirby, The amendment was
adopted, 10 to u.
Motions to suspend the rules and call
up the King antitrust bill and the
Keel antitrust bill were lost
A bill providing for the inspection Of
nursery stock before it is shipped, was
passed.
Senator Mardis called up bill which
provides that county judges may lease
wild and uncleared sixteenth section
school lands for a term not TO exceed
hve years. The bill passed.
The senate went into executive ses-
sion and confirmed the nomination "
G.. T. Breckenridge as a member of the
board Of trustees Of the University Of
Arkansas.
The House.
Chairman Merriman of the ways and
means committee introduced II, b. $40,
the general deficiency bill. The house
went into committee OF the whole to
consider the bill. Mr. Toney offered an
amendment to strike out the item Of
1878 for carpets for the governors Of
fee The amendment was lost 81 10 3S.
A motion to adopt the item for tels-
grams used in the governors office was
lost, 23 to 80. An amendment striking
out the item for local telephone for
governors office was defeated. An
amendment to strike out item Of 5000
for University Of Arkansas magazine
and annual was adopted The commit
tee rose, reported progress and asked
leave to sit again.
H. b. 572, relieving men over sixty
years OF age from the fine for refusing
TO serve as school directors. passed.
H. b. SOS, changing the name Of the
state lunatic asylum TO the Arkansas
State Hospital for the Insane passed
by unanimous vote.
II. b. 662 bradley granting one
thousand acres Of state land per mile TO
aid in the construction Of a railroad
from Russellyille to Dover, failed to
pass
II. y. $40 (Burks) granting permits
sion 10 companies and individuals TO
construct short lines Of railway or
tramway and granting them right OF
eminent domain was passed.
H. b. 579, appropriating s62 900 for
an annex to the insane asylum, was
adopted by the house as a committee Of
the whole, with recommendation that it
pass,
H. B. 3l5 (Whitthorne), repeating
the Wilson anti-gambling act Of 1901
and re-enscting the old gambling laws,
was taken up, A motion TO indefinitely
postpone the bill prevailed SO TO 49,
message was received from the goG-
ernor announcing that he had vetoed
H. b, 429, DR., Myers bill for the reg
ulation Of mussel and pearl fishing.
Dr. Myers moved that the bin be re-
considered and passed over the veto.
The motion was lost, IS 20 %; neces-
sary to pass 81 ayes
committee was appointed 20 invite
James d, Richardson, Of Tennessee, TO
address the house.