The Monticellonian., 1903-02-05

form school, and Mr Campbell of Pu- | laski introduced a bill appropriating | 1000 to assist in the erection of a
 monument to the Confederate dead at
 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: Mardis, Price.
 Gotham and Fletcher.
 Among the bills introduced were the | following:
 No. 12S (Pinnix), to establish a state
 reform school; No. 130 tAdams), pro- viding that persons subject to road duty | be allowed to pay s1 per day in lieu | of such work: No. f33 1Butler). 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. 13s (Butier), prescribing the meth | cd for the vendor of personal property | to retain title; No. 13T tkilgore), al- | lowing prosecuting attorneys the same | fees for prosecuting misdemeanor cases | in justice courts as allowed in circuit
 courts.
 S B. 51 (Butler). making it unlaw- | full to take fish in any manner except | by hook and line In streams of Madison. Carroll. Washington and Benton coun- l ties. was taken up and passed. MT Klgore's bill (No. 1s), to prevent | the destruction of fish, was read third | time and passed.
 S B 52 (McFerrin). to repeal act of | April 13. 1899, allowing county clerks
 a 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 Jobe's 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 1t did not | effect the present school system The | constitution provides that mills tax l be voted and devoted to school pur- | poses, but when community voted | mill: 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 kiliough, 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 l lHdl lHt neSIo Idtt gre" | inal between 1879 and 1880 by as
 much as 25 per cent. and at the same | time illiteraey decreased by over 10 | per cent. For the next ten years 1t | grew more criminal hy 22 Ia per cent.
 and flliteracy decreased by IS per cent. l In 1890, 25 years after the emanci- | patton, the race constituted 12 per cent | of our population and furnished 30 per
 cent of all crime, argued MT. lobe; 30
 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 s100. 1000. 900.
 The bill was defeated by only two votes.
 The House. Among the bills introduced were a | number of local measures MT. Meyers had presented H. B. 231. an act to provide for a reform school 1 for white juvenile offenders. H. E. 229, to regulate contracts of | insurance. was passed. MT. Norfieet introduced H. B. 232. | authorizing the reprinting of certain volumes of the Supreme Court. now out | of print.
 MT Campbell of Pulaski introduced
 H. E. 233. appropriating 5000 for a Confederate monument at Little Rock Mir. Toney presented H. B. 235, for 1 the protection of railroads employees. Several other measures were intro- | duced and read first time. MT. I.atimer's bill 6No. "A amending | the digest. raising the standard of
 Illuminating oil from 13o to 150 de- grees Fahrenheit, was taken up and | passed-ayes 64 noes 2. l II. B. No. 8 (Daniels). regulating the practice of medicine and surgery anu creating three state boards of medical | examiners. one for allopaths. one for homeopaths and one for eclectics, was called up.
 Several members argued that the bill l as it stood discriminated against the osteopaths, and on motion of MT. Gan | naway the measure was postponed for | two weeks.
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