The Monticellonian., 1905-02-09
WORK OF FOUR WEEKS.
Eighteen Bills Have Become Lava
 During First Half of Session.

Sllt IBdbG llCulOiidt4 OiIe SEudbH concurrent resolution, one private act four house concurrent resolutions, and eighteen acts is the record os work accomplished in the first four weeks of the session of the Arkansas general assembly. The measures are as follows:
 Act 1-The King antitrust act
 Act 2-To provide for the support and maintenance of the Deaf Mute Institute.
 Act 3-To authorize the senate to elect an additional clerk
 Act 4-To increase the salary Of the county judge of Baxter county to 5000 per annum.
 Act 5-To increase the salary of the county judge of Lawrence county to $500 per annum
 Act 6-TO increase the salary Of the county judge of Lawrence county to $1,060 per annum.
 Act To authorize the town coun. cil of Atkins to appropriate funds from it's treasury to aid the school district.
 Act S-To change the time of hold. ing chancery court in Calhoun county to the third Monday in February and | the fourth Monday in July. Act 9-To appropriate S100,000 for the mileage, per diem and contingent expenses of the general assembly.
 Act 10-To increase the salary of the county judge of Desha county to s1 ,250 per annum.
 Act 11-To prohibit the hawking. peddling or selling of beef in Desha Chicot and Ashley counties. Act 12-To create Tucker Lake levee district in Jefferson county. and appointing Gabe Meyer, George A. Partridge, w. T. McFadGen, Charles Winfrey and F. H. Walker as the 1 board of commissioners.
 Act 13-To authorize the St Fran cis levee board to issde s250000 in bonds for building and repairing the l levee.
 Act f4-To provide for the holding of a special election i'll Nevada county 1 to levy tax for road purposes.
 Act Exchanging the name of the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum to the 1 State Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
 Act 16-To provide a stenographer l for the attorney generals office at salary of $1000 year. This war passed over the governors veto.
 Act 17-To prevent the running at large of hogs, sheep and goats in i Clark county. This act was also ve- toed by the governor.
 Act 1S-To raise the salary Of the county judge of Montgomery county to $500
 Private-Aet No For the relief of J. N B. Schuler in sum of S48 the amount of a Confederate pension he failed to receive.
 Senate Concurrent Resolution-Tn- I ..s. nI Chnafa n a. 1 tions to annex to Arkansas.
 House Memorial-Requesting Ar kansas delegation in congress to urge passage of the act for the enlargement of the powers Of the interstate com merce commission to regulate freight charges on the great lines of railway l in the United States.
 House Concurrent Resolution-Re- questing Arkansas delegation in con gress to take action to have the Cher | ekee and Cheetaw nations added ts Arkansas
 House Concurrent Resolution-To create joint committee of nine to vis- it the University of Arkansas.
 House Concurrent Resolution-Te create joint committee of five to draft a general road law.
 House Concurrent Resolution-To extend sympathy to the family Of eN- Gov. J. P. Eagle in his death
 Wednesday the governor sent mes- sage to the senate. yetoing senate bill No. 65, to provide additional office nelp for the attorney general, the veto being based on the contention that the extra help was not needed; sen ate bill No 39 fPinnix), to establish | fencing districts and enact stock law for Clark county, on the ground that 1 it was unconstitutional, and returned without his signature senate bills Nos. 37 and 46, which, however, become laws, not being vetoed. These bills are as follows: No 37 is the bill or Senator Killough allowing the issue of S350 GOO in bonds by the St Francis 1 Ievee district: No. AZ is the Fuckers Lake levee bill, introduced some tune ago by Senator Toney.
 
 The house adopted a resolution by MT. Barker for the charities commit tee to at once draft bill for the fur, nishing of the insane asylum anne1es |
 Within few minutes after it was introduced, the senate tabled bill offered by MT Vaughter by request l to appropriate 9Arbuu tO N1SiA1 WY s1 .000 bond issued in 1870 under tho Clayton administration.
 The house disposed of the senate l bill for an assistant journal clerk and a clerk for the judiciary committee at So per day each by striking out the committee clerk and making the jour nal clerks salary s4 per day. In that shape the bill passed the house
 By a vote of ayes to 23 nays, the senate failed to pass over the veto of the governor the newspaper and stamp bill Those voting ave were Senators Toney. Legate, Smith, Holland. Browning.
 MT. Tarver's bill to increase the membership of the State University board to seven, was reported unfavor- ably by the house education commit tee Under this bill, the governor could reorganize the board
 F. B. Sherman, president of the American Society of Equity ad- dressed the members of the legisIa- ture by invitation Monday night.
 Wednesday the senate passed three bills over the governors veto, as fol lows The four-wre fence law for Monroe county, the bill for q stock and fence law in Clark county and the l bill to allow additional office help in the attorney generals office.