Newport weekly independent., 1903-05-01

The. Dill placing the entire state in | chancery districts and creating three | new districts, passed the house by three | votes.
 The senate adjourned till Monday | morning at o'clock senator Killough's bill, authorizing | the St. Francis levee board to ,increa SC | its bond issue to s5OO,O0O, passed the | house.
 The Senate. l H. B. 564 (Mr. Cook of Chicot) pro- vldlng for the redigesting of the stat
 utes, was read third time and passed.
 5. 5. 27s (Witt), the nti-poolroom
 Dill, was taken up. Senator Smith of- | Tered an amendment fixing the license
 for running poolrooms at s3,ooO and
 making it optional with the quorum | courts to allow poolrooms to run Ii. B. 465 (Crutcher), preventing fish | ing except with hook and line, passed | by unanimous vote. | The house bill establishing mining 1 districts and defining the rights of
 mining corporations, was passed. | H. B. 497 (Baskin), allowing jurors.
 except in justice courts, mileage, was | read third time and passed MT. -kelth'S bill, preventing the ob- l struction of neighborhood roads. was | passed
 H. B. All (Moore of Phillips). mal1- ing appropriation to secure a roster of Confederate officers and soldiers from Arkansas, passed.
 | Senator Fletcher called up the bill. | appropriating $1.O0O to care for the | graves of the Confederate dead at | Camp Nelson, near Lonoke The meas ure was opposed by Senators Wilson, Hardy and Norwood The bill failed | to pass. IS to II, a two-thirds majority | being necessary.
 Hud | Al, providing for uniform primary in | the first senatorial district. Senator Norwood and Huddleston engaged in a | heated discussion, in which Senator Huddleston branded a statement of Senator Norwood as a falsehood. La
 ter both gentlemen apologized to each | other and to the house. The bill was placed back on second reading. H. B. 516, requiring mutual fire in-
 surance companies to give a bond, and defining their rights. was passed Conference committees were appoint
 ed on the state university and blind school appropriation bills.
 The House.
 H. B. 493. the appropriation bill for the university of Arkansas. was taken
 up for the purpose of considering the senate amendments. All the amend
 ments proposed by the senate making
 an increase in the appropriation were
 rejected by the house. The house refused to concur in the senate amendments to the blind school appropriation bill and conference
 committee was appointed. MT. Campbell of Randolph introduce ed a bill to protect the mussel and pearl fishing industry to have the same effect as the one vetoed by the gov ernor.
 A motion by MT. Campbell of Ran dolph to reconsider the vote by which
 the bill dividing the state into chan cery districts was passed, was laid on the table.
 S. B. PIT (<illough), authorizing the
 St. Francis levce board to issue bonds
 to the amount of s500,000, was taken
 up and passed.
 s. B. 2S1, redistricting the chancery
 districts to include the entire state and increasing the number of districts rom seven to ten, was taken up. It
 was explained that the bill was a sub stitute for the Simpson chancery bill.
 Messrs. Moore of Newton and Camp bell of Randolph opposed the measure on the ground that it would add an expense of sS.0O0 per annum to the state unnecessarily. Messrs. Pindall and Poole spoke in favor of the bill. showing the benefits from separate chancery courts. The bill passed. 46 to 43.
 MT. Chestnut called up a motion to reconsider the vote by which H. B. 2O3 recurring notes and due bills to be listed for taxation. was tabled The motion received majority of the