The Carlisle independent., 1907-05-02
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THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
 resolution was introduced in the Senate Monday by Senators Pindall and June 10 No action was taken on this resolution.
 The reform school appropriation meas ure. carrying S32. 500, was called up for final passage by Senator Rector. The bill had previously been considered in Com mittee of the Whole and favorably recom mended with an amendment by Senator Rowland giving the penitentiary physi- elan $50 a month to attend the inmates of the reform school The bill passed with only one dissenting vote.
 The Patterson bill asking for $3o,000 for the payment of the state guard, which was defeated and reeonsidered last week was passed with only seven dissenting
 The Cloud measure repeating the Lee Prohibition Act of 1907 was also passed was passed Under the measure the sheriff or collector cannot take out bun dle of the receipts. but must have an or der for every receipt that is issued. The idea of the bill is to prevent certain coun- ty officials from using the poll tax receipts for the purpose of carrying elections. The appropriation bill as passed by the Senate carries nearly half million dol lars divided among the following depart ments: Legislative. S15o.o00; judicial, S192, 100; executive $44,00o: mainten-
  departments, $133, 360; governors office, Ss,000; office of secretary of state, $S,- 672; attorney generals office, S5,S50; au ditors office $14,207 treasurers office. S11,914; land commissioners office. ST. 7T2; superintendent of public instruc- tlon's office. S6,172; office of commiss- culture, S5000: clerk of Supreme Courts office, S6,025 railroad commissioners, $22, 1SI; janitors wages, S3,12o.
 pau-aI hill ,,robibitinU any railroad in the state from working its telegraph operators for more than eight hours in a shift was passed by unanim9us vote vote in telegrams from different parts of the state were received in favor of the bill.
 The Cravens measure. making It mis- demeanor for an individual or public body to spend more money than was appropriat- ed by law for the purpose was read third time and passed with only two dis senting votes. The bill is aimed at the university trustees. and others who have been presenting deficiency bills at every session of the legislature.
 Senator Goodwin introduced bill allow ing the sshool commissioners to increase the school funds of the state for the pur- pose of securing additional funds for the erection of school houses.
 The appropriation bill for the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, carrying more than s400,00o, was considered in Committee of the Whole and passed by the Senate without change in exactly 35 minutes Wednesday, This is the quick est action that has ever been taken on an appropriation bill of this magnitude In the present session.
 The Rowland resolution which authorizes the attorney general to bring suit against the railroads in the state to recover S300, OO0 in taxes that have been due since 1887, was passed by a unanimous vote.
 The Senate killed the Goodwin bill which has for it's object the investment of the school funds of the state by the State Board of School Commissioners. At pres ent all of the school funds of the state are invested in Arkansas bonds that are draw ing interest at the rate of per cent and the Goodwin measure is to provide for the investment of the funds in the various school districts of the state at the rate of , per cent, the money to be used for building purposes The bill was passed in the early part of the session.
 The bill by Senator Patterson, allowing the shooting of ducks and snipe at all times in the year was passed by vote of Is to [,
 New bills introduced were:
 By Senator Toney, requiring water com panies to comply with the provisions of caused by the violation of the same.
 By Senator Cloud, giving to traction en- zines the same rights on the roads of the state that automobiles have providing that the latter repair all bridges that are broken.
 commission power to fix rates on interur- ban trains.
 The Senate consumed nearly all of Thurs day in the consideration and disposal of local bils It refused to recede from it's amendment to the Reform School bill re- quiring the penitentiary physician to serve as physician at the Re form School, and amended the bill pro viding for the printing of the Supreme Court reports by authorizing the board to receive bids from publishers outside the state and to award the contract to the lowest bidder irrespective of locality.
 The only bill of general character intro duced in the Senate was presented by Sen ator DeROsitt, providing for the building of a macadamiZed road from Fort Smith through the counties of Sebastian. Craw ford Franklin, Johnson, Pope, Conway, Faulkner, Pulaski, Lonoke. Prairie, Mon roe St Francis and Critteaden counties to a point on the Mississippi river opposite Memphis The bill appropriates S25, ,O0o0 and provides for the creation of board of commissioners to look after it's construc- tion.
 Senator Mcknight presided over the de liberations of the Senate Friday.
 The Senate Friday passed the Brown ing bill appropriating So0o0o for the re printing of @ the supreme Court report reports, the employment of child labor, and House bill by Mir. Kizzie, increasing the pay of judges and clerks of elections from s1
 House bill by Mr. Barker, regulating the practice of suggestive therapeutics and magnetic healing, also encountered Sena- tor Wingo's opposition. He spoke against the measure, attempted to have it tabled and later moved to indefinitely postpone It's further consideration but failed in both Instances. The bill was accorded first reading. but a motion to suspend the rules and have it read a second time was lost number of House local bills were passed and others advanced in the stage
 New bill in Senate: By Senator Gross, by reouest, for the relief of W H. Maxey of Crawford county, providing for an ap- propriation Of $50 to reimburse him for to the United States but which was sold to him by the state Read twice and re- forred to the Judiciary Committee.