Woodruff County news., 1903-04-30
THURSDAY, ApR71 2s.

The senate passed the house bill pro- viding for the redigesting of the stat utes, amending it by inserting the name of w. F. Kirby for that of T. D. Craw- ford as digester.
 The governor announced his veto of the Myers bill for the regulation of mus sel and pearl fishing. A motion to pass the bill over the veto was lost by three votes
 The Whitthorne bill, repeating the Wilson anti-gambling law and re-en- acting the old gambling laws, was in definitely postponed in the house.
 The Senate.
 Senator Mears called up the house resolution memorializing congress to declare the Mississippi river a boat canal and drainage waterway The res olution was adopted without opposition.
 The senate voted to recede from it's amendments to the appropriation bill for the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, the house having refused to accept the amendments.
 Senator Witt called up s. B. PTS, pro- hibiting the keeping of poolrooms for betting on races. A motion to place the bill back on second reading for the purpose of reconsidering the senate amendments. was carried.
 The rules were suspended and H. B. 564, providing for the redigesting of the statutes, was taken up. Senator Norwood introduced an amendment striking out the name of T. D. Craw- ford as digester and inserting that of w. L. Kirby. The amendment was adopted, 13 to 12.
 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 school lands. for a term not to exceed five years. The bill passed.
 The senate went into executive ses- sion and confirmed the nomination of G. T. Breckinridge as a member of the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.
 Chairman Merriman of the ways and means committee introduced H. B. 576, 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 $37S for carpets for the governors of flee. The amendment was lost 37 to SS A motion to adopt the item for tele- grams used in the governors office was lost. 23 to 32. An amendment striking out the item for local telephone for governors office was defeated An amendment to strike out item of s200 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. 56S, changing the name of the state lunatic asylum to the Arkansas State Hospital for the Insane, passed by unanimous vote
 H. B. 562 (Bradley) granting one thousand acres of state land per mile to aid in the construction of 8 railroad from Russellville to Dover, failed to pass
 H. B. S7O (Burks) granting permis- sion to companies and individuals to construct short lines of railway or and granting them right of eminent domain. was passed
 H. B. 57s. appropriating $62.00O for an annex to the insane asylum was | adopted by the house as a committee of | the whole. with recommendation that 1t | pass
 H. B. 315 (Whitthorne). repeating the Wilson anti-gambling act of 1901 | and re-enacting the old gambling laws | was taken up A motion to indefinitely | postpone the bill prevailed. 53 to 33.
 A message was received from the gov | ernor announcing that he had vetoed | H. B. 42s, pr. Myers bill for the reg l