Woodruff County news., 1903-02-12
The Senate.


 Little Rock
 The Senate.
 Senator Wilson called the body to order at 9 o'clock
 The following members sent up pe-, titions protesting against passage of the keel antitrust bill: Mardls, Price Gotham and Fletcher.
 Among the bills introduced were the following:
 No. 12S (Pinnix). to establish state reform school: No. 130 (Adams), pro- viding that persons subject to road duty be allowed to pay s1 per day in lieu of such work; No. 133 (Butler). to pro- vide for an annual accounting by life insurance companies to policyholders of all surplus; No. 134 (Mardis). to au- thorize the attorney general to bring and prosecute suit in the supreme court of the United States to settle the boundary line between Arkansas and Tennessee at Fowler Island, Mississippi county; No. 1855 (Wilson). to suppress sale of liquors in prohibition districts; No. 136 (Butler), prescribing the meth cd for the vendor of personal property to retain title; No. 137 (Kigore) all lowing prosecuting attorneys the same fees for prosecuting misdemeanor cases in justice courts as allowed in circuit courts.
 S. B. 51 (Butler) making it unIaw-
 
 by hook and line in streams of Madison. Carroll. Washington and Benton coun- ties. was taken up and passed.
 MT. Kilgores bill (No. 19). to prevent the destruction of fish, was read third time and passed.
 s. E. 52 (McFerrin) to repeal act of April 1S. 1899. allowing county clerks fee of 10 cents for registering each school warrant, was passed-26 to 5.
 The entire afternoon session was devoted to the consideration of Sen ator Jobes bill to apportion school tax paid by whites and blacks in propor- tion to the amount paid by each race.
 Senator lobe opened the discussion by explaining the measure; it did not effect the present school system. Tho constitution provides that ? mills tax be voted and devoted to school pur- poses. but when community voted 5 mills it was a kind of private contract. and he thought that community should be allowed to do as they saw fit with their own money.
 Senators Killough, Fletcher. Gotham. Hardy and King spoke in opposition, and Senators KilGore and Covington in favor of the passage of the bill.
 Senator lobe closed the debate on the measure, speaking at length and quoting statistics tending to show that the negro race grew more crim- final between 1879 and 1880 by as much dS 70 per cent, ana at the same time illiteracy decreased by over 10 per cent. For the next ten years it grew more criminal by B Is per cent. and illiteracy decreased by IS per cent. In 1890, 25 years after the enamel patton. the race constituted 12 per cent of our population and furnished 30 per cent of all crime. argued MT Jobe 37 per cent of the homicides and 40 per cent of all assaults, and this. too in the face of the fact that we had spent in his education s1O0.OOO. 900.
 The bill was defeated by only two votes. Among the bills introduced were number of local measures. MT. Meyers had presented H. E. 23l, an act to provide for a reform school for white juvenile offenders. H. B. 229. to regulate contracts of insurance. was passed. MT. Norfeet introduced H. B. 2S2. authorizing the reprinting of certain volumes of the Supreme Court. now out of print. MT. Campbell of Pulaski introduced H. B. 23s. appropriatng $5.00O for Confederate monument at Little Rock l MT. Toney presented H. B. 2s5. for l the protection of railroads employees Several other measures were intro duced and read first time. MT. Latimer's bill tNo. T4) amending | the digest. raising the standard of | Illuminating oil from 130 to 150 de- | grees Fahrenheit. was taken up and | passed-ayes 64. noes g. H. B. No. 8 Daniels). regulating the | practice of medicine and surgery. and | creating three state boards of medical | examiners. one for allopaths. one for | homeopathic and one for eclectics was l called up. Several members argued that the bill | as 1t stood discriminated against the | osteopaths. and on motion of MT. Gan | naway the measure was postponed for |