The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-02
THE HOUSE.

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.
 A bill asking for an appropriation or $1o.ooo for the support of the nd Eggess esS from a fual sacrifice by deferring action. In Committee of the Whole the House recommended that it do not pass.
 New bills in the House were
 Bv MT. DuLaney of the House Com mittee on Charities, the regular approprla- ton bill for the support and manten- ance of the Confederate Home in the sum
 By Mir Stevens of the Ways and Means Committee. amending the inheritance tax law and providing that certain large es- tates shall not be divided until the tax is settled.
 House Tuesday was devoted to the Amis insurance bill, under the provisions ot which the life insurance companies dolng business in the state were to have been required to invest n per cent Of the re serve held for policy-holders in this state in investments within the state The 9llI a final test in the House. It failed to pass. the vote being A to 8.
 The following bills were passed: Roads and Highways Committee an act requiring corporations and persons 10 give the names of such persons in their em- DlOV as are SUDJpct ID Itdu iNA.
 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 Mir. oldham, prohibiting any persons from drawing a pi istol or weapon on an other or threatening or intimidating. an- other making the penalty fine of from $500 to S1,000 and one year in the penl- 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 or the superintendent was reduced from the committee recommendation of $3,2oo per annum to S2. 500. Other items passed with bill was reduced but slightly from the recommendations made by the Joint Chari- ties Committee.
 Among the bills passed at this session was one by Mir Carl Lee, making it unlaw- ful to permit the running a large of STOCK and giving persons taking up such stock 50 cents for having taken it up and lo cents per day for feeding same. And one by MT .Weleh, regulating the practice or peddling and requiring that peddlers Tn the counties shall have county license.
 The House Thursday passed the bill which seeks to preserve the sixty acre of land surrounding the new state capitol
 A bill recognizing and regulating ,sug- SeStlNe lUeTdpeutlCS ntdilhS III passed the House at the merAng session Under the provisions of the oill 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 S2.S0O in House Committee of the Whole Wednesday was Thursday !, restored tor dnd. to intendent of the Deaf Mute Institute
 Other bills passed at this session were
 By Mir Anderson. regulating the auctlon business and hours in which auctions shall
 By Mir Beck, requiring owners of addi- tions to cities to file their plats with the county clerk before disposing of lots uoons
 By Mr. 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 tion of Woman's Clubs, in session at For rest City, against the proposed demoltio of the old state capitol building and ask, protect the building to future posterity was read Friday morning. ..,
 More than S1O0000 was stri, ken from the state university appropriation bill Fl day by the House in Committee or The Whole before that body had passed on dozen items The indications point to a continued clipping of the items until tne appropriation is reduced one-third tTom inc form in which il had passed the Seq
 The university deficiency bill was de clared passed at the Friday morning St sion, although 1t had not received the sup pert of two-thirds of the membership CT the body. Speaker Ilamiter ruled thai a majority could pass the bill, thls rui.as rum was challenged by Mir. Killough. who serve notice that he would later ask Tor det- nite ruling on the question.
 The Blind Institute bill has been abort c0mnleted in the House and will go tn inc Senate within very short time for
 A biii was introduced by Mr. KIllougo which repeals that part or the l9"n .,;,,l S'%, i. dispose of the property of the old stat! capitol.
 The Oldham anti-lynching bill met oe- feat in the House Saturday after a SC were attack made upon its proVlSlohs U! Messrs. Kiuough and McCollum, WhE charged that it was revolutionary ana n an attitude of dictajing to the ludlclary Under the bill any sheriff who held q prisoner against whom the community was aroused and who feared that SnCB prisoner would suffer from lynch law could order the Circuit Court in session Tor lm- mediate train of the case, Ihe hlli Was it was a solution of the lynch problem ma had bpen presented by Father l.uctN Pine Bluf and that this dlstnSulsheq ma ma believed il would serve to reduce mop VIC" a strong plea that Arkansas give the l"" :" test. NJ, I,tulo,-
 A bill was introduced by MT. ll,'GS ,t{, which prohibits smoking of cigarette, Wpe or cigar in any hotel rotunda. railroad train or depot, street ear or pubic mn,'e place of any character where women are SeheI, ally assembled with men. Ball rooms ana cafes que among the places p,(s.o% where smo"- ing is 10 be absolutely tabooed ,
 hiII introduced by Mr. Quinn, which sought shorten the hours frs. in anG 1mf cdSnG TynG%i iIs TVi tn o noXimum of five hours per day. was vas taken up and oyerwhelminEggIy def .,1a It, ed. Mr Bishop opposed the blil' stat,ns ,lS, that it discrimnated between the city schools and the rural schools, ana ne Ia yored leaving the hours of school ins'r3c, ne. tion in the hands Of the directors oA 'N' schools. .., a ,ro
 Under the head of petitions n@;,tid% 2md foSn %e, many citizens, asking for the enactment of measure that would nIace %"tnqfee tn he court TonScs For an office for the county sur yeyors.
 The first rupture on the floor of the l 1r,,,sa Iurfpcr pTpSPnt legislative SoS