Woodruff County news., 1903-02-05
NO. A.

confirmed by the general assembly fn joint session. The bill proposes to abol- ish the office of financial agent of the penitentiary and to empower the board to employ a secretary at salary or $150 per month.
 A number of bills Of a local charac- ter were introduced.
 The Senate.
 President Short, being called to his home appointed Senator Wilson to pre- side during his absence.
 Senator King moved that his antitrust bill be withdrawn from committee, as they had had it for ten days. The mo- tfon was lost.
 Introduction of bills being in order. the following of a general character were presented:
 S. B. 125 (MQt1ock), authorizing the attorney general to employ counsel to assist him in prosecuting suits for back
 taxes.
 S. B. 126 (Flenniken). providing that
 statues of Albert Pike and A. H. Gar
 land be placed in the national hall of
 fame at Washington, and naming com
 mission to carry out the work.
 S. B. 127 (McFerrin), creating peni- tentiary board to be appointed by the governor, to be confirmed by the gen. eral assembly.
 S. B. 12S (vaughter), for uniform text books.
 Senate resolution No. 12 (Sengel), call ing on the governor to furnish the sem ate with a list of pardons granted dur ing his tenure of office. The resolution was adopted. H. B. 204 (Meyers), the newspaper and stamp bill. was read twice and
 made special order for Monday morn | ing.
 H. B. 72 donating certain swamp and | overflowed lands in the district to Ran dolph. Jackson and Lawrence counties, | was read third time and passed. The House. The special order, H. B. 2O4 (Meyers). l the newspaper and stamp bill. was talk ! eu np and passed by vote of 62 ayes to g noes. S. E. go (4ing). for making an appro- priation to refund money advanced for drouth suffer rsEC, was reported favor ably.
 H. B. 11s. es'ah fishing two judicial districts in MonroA county, was taken | up and passed General bills were introduced as fol- lows:
 No. 21S (Brooks), amending mechan- i ics' lien law, to better protect laborers, contractors and those furnishing either | labor or materials for improvements ap- purtenant and contiguous to any prop 1 erty and for the benefit of which said | improvement is made. H. B. 229 (DuLarey), making it the duty of school board secretaries on first days of January, Ap Til, July and Octo- | Der to make an itemized statement of all warrants issued during preceding three months and forward same to the county treasurer. H. B. 221 (Burk) authorizing rail roads and mining corporations to own and operate connecting lines of railway. and granting them the right of emil nent domain. No. 222 (Futrall), to provide a board | of commissioners the board to have and exercise all the power now conferred by | law upon the penitentiary board and | the board of trustees of the charitable | institutions, managing and controlling | all these institutions. H. B. 223 (Horton), to prevent the husband from disposing of the personal property of the wife. or his own perp- | erty in which she may be entitled to ali mony.
 H. B. PA (Cate). making it Nnlaw- | full for common carriers to accept for shipment out of the state any fish. ex- cept buffalo and catfish. H. B. 13S (Stover). to make the Ar kansas river lawul fence in Conway, Pope and Yell counties, was read the third time and passed. MT. Whitley introduced H. B. 22S. regulating the granting of franchises | by municipal corporations. It provides | that thirty days notice shall be given | before the passage of any ordinance granting franchise, and voters to be given an opportunity to pass upon fran chises.
 The vote by which H. B. IT (Holinan) was defeated was reconsidered. It is a bill enlarging the jurisdiction of coun-
 ty pension boards The measure was
 placed back on it's second reading for
 future amendment.