Woodruff County news., 1907-05-02
THE HOUSE.


 intendents and gives them the author tty formerly vested in county examiners, passed the House Saturday morning by a liberal majority. Under the provisions of the bill no county need adopt the new method unless a majority of the electors of the county shall so choose at the next general electi0n- By agreement, the greater part of the day was devoted to the pas sage or advancement of local measures, these having been delayed during the week for general appropriation bills.
 New bills introduced in the House were
 By MT Skaggs, aboishlng the grand jury system throughout the whole of the state
 By Mir. Davis of Clark prohibiting city ordinances from becoming effective sooner than thirty days after passage, and then only after having been submitted to the
 By Mr. Newton, increasing the per diem of jurors in attendance on circuit courts to $500 per day.
 By NIr. Carlton, requiring assessors to make separate lists of the schedules of property and persons assessed and sub nit it to the auditor.
 The House Monday trimmed the peni- tentiary appropriation bill about S10O.0OO and disposed of another of these very i'm. portant measures when it gave its final approval to the bill for .ne support and maintenance of The Deaf Mute Institute. The measure had been gone over several times in the House Committee of the Whole, and in the final action there was no discussion of the bill.
 bill asking for an appropriation of S1O,OO0 for the support of the Eureka Normal School was taken up and saved from final sacrifice by deferrlng action. In Committee of the Whole the House recommended that it do not pass.
 New bills in the House were:
 By Mir DuLaney of the House Com mittee on Charities, the regular apprOpria- tion bill for the support and mainten- ance of the Confederate Home in the sum
 By Nir. Stevens of the Ways and Means Committee, amending the inheritance tax law and providing that certain large es- tates shaii not be divided until the tax is settled.
 The entire afternoon session in the he insurance bill under the provisions of which the life insurance companies doing bushes, in the state were to have been serve held for policy-holders in this state in investments within the state The bill had passed the Senate and was. up for q final test in the House. 1t failed to pass. the vote being 54 to 35
 The following bills were passed:
 By Mir. McCollum. chairman of the requiring corporations and persons to give the names of such persons in their em- ploy as are subject to road tax
 By MT. Stirling, requiring. the railroads to maintain track scales at every point in the state where more than 100 cars of freight are handled in any one year, and prove weights when demanded to do
 By Mfr. Oldham, prohibiting any persons from drawing a pistol or weapon on an other, or threatening or intimtdating an other making the penalty fine of from $500 to S1,O00 and one year in the peni- tentiary.
 The House spent the greater part of the day Wednesday in Committee of the Whole passing on the various items of the blind school appropriation bill. The salary of the superintendent was reduced from the committee recommendation of $3.20O per annum to S2. 500. Other items passed with but slight changes, and as whole the bill was reduced but. slightly from the recommendations made by the Joint Char-
 Among the bills passed at this session was one by Mir Carl Lee, making it unlaw- full to permit the running at large of stock ard giving persons taking up such stock 30 cents for having taken it up and 10 cents per day for feeding same. And one by NIr .Wech, regulating the practice Of pedding and requiring that peddlers Tn
 The House Thursday passed the bill which seeks to preserve the sixty acres of land surrounding the new state capitol
 A bill recognizing and regulating sug- gestive therapeutics as a healing medium passed the House at the morning session: Under the provisions of the bill absent" treatment can be given only by those who have graduated in it's schools.
 The salary of the superintendent of the Blind Institute. which had been reduced to $2,so0 in House Committee of the Whole Wednesday was Thursday restored to $3.OO0, which is the sum paid the super intendent of the Deaf Mute Institute.
 Other bills passed at this session were
 By MT. Anderson regulating the auction business and hours in which auctions shall be held.
 tions to cities to file their plats with the hpfn
 By Mir Stevens of the Ways and Means Committeel, amending the inheritance tax law and raising the tax on large estates
 A protest from the Arkansas Fedora ton of Woman's Clubs. in session at For rest City. against the proposed demolition of the old state capitol building and ask ing the Legislature to pass a law that will protect the building to future posterity, was read Friday morning.
 More than S100000 was stricken from day by the House in Committee of the Whole before that body had passed on & dozen items. The indications point to q continued clipping of the items until the appropriation is reduced one-third from the form in which it had passed the Sen ate.
 The university deficiency bill was de ciared passed at tS Friday morning ing ses port of two-thirds of the membership or the body. Speaker Hamiter ruled that a majority could pass the Dlll, thlS ruling was challenged by MT. Killough who served notice that he would later ask for def nite ruling e the question.
 The Blind Institute bill has been about completed in the House and will go to the Senate within very short time for consideration there.
 A bill was introduced by Mir Klllough which repeals that part of the 1908 sta tutes authorizing the capitol commission tC dispose of the property of the old state capitol.
 A bill was introduced in the House Fri day repeating that section of the 1903 law which authorizes the sale of the old state capitol grounds and building The bill was presented by MT. killough. The defeat of the Quinn bill, which sought to save the property by turning it over to the Arkansas Historical Society, was interpreted by many to mean that the old capitol grounGs would be sacrificed to sale but this idea is combated by the warm reception the Killough bill received. 'The people do not want the property disposed of" said MT. Kilough. but they are not ready vet to turn it over to any society. Just we protect the property from sale within the next two years is all that is asked In that time there will have developed a wel-detined idea as to how the property should be kept"
 The Senate Friday killed the Owens seg- raua +ion hin before the reading of the title