The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-21

Coleman demurrage bills. Amendments to both bills were adopted, and considera- his measure substitute Tor the Barker bill was deferred, by consent until Wed nesday of next week
 concurrent resolution providing for the appointment of a Joint committee to make an investigation into the conduct or the Confederate Home adopted. MT hillough introduced bill to auth orize the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House to furnish each member or both bodies with 40 copies of daily | newspapers or 2S0 copies of weekly news papers publishing complete reports of legls- latiye proceedings and 25 cents worth of stamps daily The bill provides that mem bers shall be furnished with any paper In the state they designate. and requires that all papers furnished shall publish the full text of all laws passed that are less than s oeven sections and synopsis 4f all one aes of the papers shall not cost more than cents copy.
 The House spent the day considering the newspaper and stamp bill, and the Webb Cartwright contest case from Stone coun- of the House and secretary of the Senate to furnish each member with forty. daily papers and 25 cents in stamps, passed after
 The contest case ended In favor of Cart wright, the democratic contestant The committee with only two dissenting votes, publican member. but the House adopted the minority report, by vote of 46 to 34, seating Cartwright
 At o'clock the House adjourned.
 The House Friday passed the bill by
 ing of the % day pVi1 for holding 0 the 'H state % gen eral elections from the first Monday in September to the second Monday in that month.
 Mr.. Roby presented a petition from druggists and physicians of Ashley coun- y protesting against the passage of either both of which seek to regulate the sale medicines.
 The Arnold bill requiring railroad com panies to settle within thirty days for stock killed or injured by railroad trains, was passed by the House, also Senator ans from $50 to $1O0 per annum.
 New Bills in the House were
 s556 of # Kirbys Digest, relating to fer fer. ries, by providing that when any city or town may own shore, and the public con venience may demand it shall have au- thority to ask an order by the County Court for the establishment of a ferry in addition to others already established, and the ferry licenses shall have the right to land passengers and freight upon the opposite shore, notwithstanding that he may own W land on either shore.
 Ky. Mr. Pinney, to give the council Of any '.city of the first class the power to require any railroad company operating its, tracks through the city to construct and maintain viaducts, as may be deemed by the council necessary for the protec- tion of the public.
 By Mir. Powell, to relieve the owners of all property of whatever description de- stroyed by fire in the confagration at Pine Bluff on February 13, from the pay ment of taxes for 1906.
 The House adjourned at :55 until Mon- day morning.
 The feature of the concluding fight on the Amis bill in the House Tuesday was tion by Representative Quinn, the longest made in a General Assembly in Arkansas in many years.
 Senator Greenhaw who has been in at tendance at the bedside of his father since the opening day of the session. answered to roll call Monday, his father having died a few days