Woodruff County news., 1903-03-12
SATURDAY. MARCH ?.

IIl6I1ls was OlSClldi Stu-
 SATURDAY, MARCH 2.
 The senate was not in session, but the house put in a busy day.
 A resolution calling on the peniten- tiary board to demand the resignation of M. D. L. Cook, financial agent of the penitentiary was indefinitely post poned. Several bills if general inpor- tance were passed.
 The House.
 MT. McGuigan introduced H. B. 413 to limit the amount of stock and bonded debts of railroads, according to mileage and value of rolling stock, and to make public the value of such properties.
 H. B. 163, to prohibit the sowing of Johnson or cocoa grass in the counties of Clay, Greene, Craighead, Randolph Poinsett, Washington and Conway, was read third time and passed.
 H. B. 367, the agricultural committee substitute for the De Rossit game bill was read third time and, after some discussion, passed-6S to 14. The bill makes it unlawful to trap, net, shoot or kill by any method whatsoever any quail or partridge from February IS to November l deer or fawn from Feb ruary l to September 1; wild turkey from May 1 to September 1. It makes it unlawful for non-residents to shoot. hunt, fish or trap at any season of the year in this state, and constitutes the sheriff of each county or any constable game warden, and their deputies game wardens. The bill makes it unlawful to shoot after sunset or before sunrise upon any waters of the state, nor shall any person shoot any wild duck before sunrise of after sunset. It is also made unlawful for any common carrier to ship out of the state any deer, turkey, wild fowl, game fish or game of any -s.l, lN, not less than $100 nor more than $500.
 MT. Chapline introduced a resolu- tion calling upon the penitentiary board to demand the resignation of M D. l.. Cook, financial agent of the peniten- tiary, the resolution alleging that the agent had not compiled strictly with the law in the payment of $30,000 on the Cummins plantation.
 After considerable discussion a mo- ton to indefinitely postpone the reso- lution prevailed. The argument was advanced that a special committee had under investigation the whole transac- tion relating to the farm purchase. and that the house had no authority to pass upon anything connected herewith be- fore the committee should submit it's report.
 H. B. 56 (Burk), to protect coal miners and defining the duties of the state mine inspector, was read third time and passed.
 MT. Keith's bill requiring that in the printed lists of persons paying poll tax the township in which they reside and postoffice address be given, passed.
 MT Stevens introduced H. B. 421, to repeal the act passed at this session creating the Seventh chancery district.
 Expenses of Fair Commissioners.
 The report of the committee com- posed of Senator lobe and Representa- tives Can't and Thompson. appointed to investigate the expenditure of the $30,- 900 appropriated in 1901 for an exhibit at the worlds fair showed that total of $7,223.19 had been expended by the board of commissioners A communi- cation from Attorney General Murphy stated that of lIlis amount only $376.50 had been lawfully expended. The larg- est item in the expense account was the salary of a manager, clerk and lady manager, offices which the attorney general says were not intended to be filled until the exposition building was completed and stocked with exhibits. A fee of $2,500 was paid to J. F. w. Hart the architect employed to draw the plans for the Arkansas building. The expenses of the old board. com posed of Commissioners Cohen, Whitta- ker and Crump, who were removed by Gov. Davis, were $5,333.29, and the new board, consisting of Messrs. Bedding, Rembert and Lake, $2,22425 Expenses to the amount of $25431, incurred by the old board were allowed by the present board.
 The following is the text of an act passed by the legislature and signed by the governor for the protection of mu- tual cotton factory insurance companies: Be it enacted by the General Assembly
 of the State of Arkansas:
 Section l. Hereafter all cotton factory insurance companies, foreign and do- l meStic, which are organized and being maintained for the mutual protection of the cotton factories composing the same from loss by fire, and which are oper- ated without a fixed capital stock and without view to a profit to such cor porations as such, are hereby exempted from the provisions, conditions and ef- fects of the insurance laws of this state and the laws of this state governing foreign corporations doing business in this state.