Woodruff County news., 1903-02-12
NO. 45.

IT. B. 50 (Arnold), fixing salary of county and probate judge of SearcY county at $500 per annum
 II. B. IS DuLaney). fixing salary of county and probate judge of Little Riv- CT county at $700 per annum.
 House concurrent resolution No. (Gantt). for joint committee to inveS- tigate worlds fair fund expenditures
 The following new measures were in- troduced:
 H. B. 262 (Boskn). to require true weights of bran. chops. meal or four to be stamped the sack or barrel
 H. B. 263 CBrooks). to compel rail- road companies to build switches upon sixty days notice; shipper to grade and furnish ties and to give bond that he or they will ship at least fifty car loads of freight per year. H, B. 264 CDaniels), regulating civil suits in justice of the peace courts.
 No. 265 (Winn). amending section 3335 of the digest so as to allow grand and petit jurors $2 per day, together with ferriage bridge toll. No. 266 (Bell), to allow witnesses g per day in circuit courts. 50 cents per day in justice courts and $1 per day in county and probate courts. On motion of MT. Parks. at 0 o'clock | the house adjourned till Monday. Legislative Notes. Hope. Sesrcy. Pine Bluff and Hot Springs. through their representatives, will endeavor to secure the location of the insane asylum annex. | Senator lobe desires to amend the law applying to vagrants in order that l they be compelled to work out fines l on public roads ill road districts. | Gov. Davis appeared before the sem ate judiciary committee and urged l favorable report on the Keel-King anti trust measure, which has passed the | house.
 It is estimated that the extra cost | of maintenance involved by the con- struction of a $140.000 annex to the state insane asylum would be about : $50.000 annually.
 1 MT Meyers reform school bill car ries an appropriation of s70,0o0, and vests supervision over the institution | in the penitentiary board. The insti- tuition is to be located in the commu- nity offering the best inducements in the way of location and bonus.
 Senator Adams bill (No 13O), relat- | ing to road duty. requires all persons ! subject to road duty to work four days in the year. or pay the sum of $4, in addition to the regular road tax. but gives the probate court the right to exempt them from such week if same 1 is not necessary.
 | Dr. J. II. Meyers. of Lawrence coun- l ty, has introduced in the house a bill
 
 | institution for the detention and re- formation of all persons of the white race convicted of crime, up to the age of 21 years. The institution is to be known as the reform school for young criminals.
 | The Parks bill passed in the house re- lating to insurance policies provides that no policy of insurance shall con5 tain any condition. provision or agree ment which shall directly or indirect I ly deprive the insured or beneficiary of the right to trial by jury on any policy, and all such provisions. condi- tions or agreements shall be void. Senator Logan'S absence for a week is well condoned for the good work he has done in the past and is doing in the present in furthering scientic and practical horticulture. As presi- dent of the State Horticulture Society. his presence was necessary at the an- nual meeting. held at Green Forest Senator Logan is one of the solid men of the general assembly.
 By name Senator Cotton is undoubt- edly the best known member of the general assembly. Not that he has personally met more people than other members, but from the fact that hs is the author of the present roads law now in force in majority of counties in the state. That the law first passed was not perfect. MT. Cotton has never denied. and on several occasions at this session he has given his ap- proVal of proposed amendments. in or der that the original idea of the parent measure might be made satisfactorily operative. While there is a wide diver sity of ideas to the practical work ings of the Cotton good roads law as originally drafted and passed by a former legislature. all concede to the author of that bill a spirit or progress in the riobt direction