The Nevada County picayune., 1907-04-19


 The Senate Thursday morning passed the Martin state uniform text hill by a vote of 70 10 c. The measure provides for thc establishment of State Text Book Commission to be appointed by the super intendent of public instruction, member from each of the congressional districts in the state and one from the state at large who shall be secretary of the board The board shall have the power to formul ate state series of text books. and any county examiner tolerating the Use Of any other thnn tho state series in the common schools Of his county is made guilty or q misdemcaunr- \ standard price k fixed on all state books and it ls violation nf thr law t1 sell inc books above "r be- low jhc standard price fixed bv the cam- mission Three thousand dollars is appro priatad to rarry thc ott Into "FeCt
 \ bin hv senator Pattersan providtne for the uavment of thn members af tho state ruard who served during the yellow frec~ aaHea If 1901. was considered Tn Committee If tho Whole. The bill carries m appropriation of S3.a4o and each sol. dier who served duripg that time will TO. -cfvo St 10 a day besides the i2 cents that has already been paid by the eovernment Upon an attempt to place the hlll on It's third reading there was a hitch. lt appears that $25 600 was appropriated two years ago to pay certain persons connected with the quarantine work and it was claimed hv some of tho senators that the diSposl- ton Of the money was not on record and no one seemed to know much about II. on the motion of Senator oldham committed FNFnIfnNt0 Browning was appointed to look into the matter and In the meantime the Patter son bin was postponed until next Nednes
 The anprourlatjon ntl for the acrlcul. tursl experiment station carrying SCR 2oh ns drawn mp hv the late Senator Thomp son was considered in rhe Committee Of thc Whole with disastrous results When the bin got back to the Senate proper S32. roo had been taken from lt-more than half of the entire appropr'ation
 E.,tg aaI a a N r,.,.tss .,s- $1 cO0 ttr the use of the Arknn- sas Historical Commission, in, order that thsv .wI-ht eoutiur their work and bring out second vonmo of the report recently issued by the body,
 Friday was House day In the Senate and a number of bills were considered, all If local nature
 suspended and introduced Senate }tl Nc. 4Ol ,CApttol C0mmittee1 for tho purpose of arurupriating S2.5Oo for the purpose of paviug the expenses of the joint faaitei C0mmfffee Senate went into Committee of the Whole and considered the bill. The committee recommended the passage of the
 .t1Fa rules were also suspended in order to consider the bin of Senator Me'a, which calls for creating 2 drainage board and taxation nf land for drainage purposes Rll was read the third time and passed by vote of 2S to i.
 The senate was not In session during the afternoon.
 Tho Commlttee on Agriculture recon nendcd that the measure by Senator Toucy providing heavy penalties for tho theft of dogs be reported unfavoraby. The com mlttce agreed that the sentiment in the bin was good but the penalty Tn the measure was out of proportion to tho crime. For the failure to advertise the finding of dog belonging to someone else person was liable under the Tonev bill to term in the peutentlary> The bill was introduced by the senator from Jefferson at the request of fox hunters of the slate who have been torubled with the theft of valuable dogs and the committee was of the opinion that the measure had been drawn up by some man who was in a passion al the time over fhe loss of a valuable canine.