The Green Forest tribune., 1907-03-08
 / Legislative k Proceedings

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 THE SENATE.
 After q heated and somewhat sensational debate the Senate Monday by one major ity passed the Greenhaw pure food bill, which is almost an exact copy of the pure food law enacted by Congress several months ago Senator Patterson, who intro the session, took the floor in opposition to the Greenhaw measure, and intimated that outside influence had been brought to bear to defeat his measure
 The motto of the state. 'Reg.ant Pop uli, which is erroneous is sought to ha corrected in T bill introduced by senator uius." meaning "The people rule. Reg nant Poprli" means "the peoples (that is the tribes or nations1 rule His object is to have the change inscribed on the new capitol dome
 Another bill passed at this session was one repeating all laws antagonistic to Greek kansas and authorizing the faculty to con trol the matter in the future
 The Senate als. passed the Patterson bill providing for the working of convicts on public roads. Each county is permitted to work the convicts sent up from that particular county.
 peal section 12o6 of kirbys Digest, and giving the Supreme Court reporter the right to accept law cases whenever they are rendered
 One of the most important bills intro duced in the Senate Tuesday was by Sen ator Legate, which makes it unlawful to permit any cotton buyer cotton shipper. or cotton factor, to own or operate or become an officers or director in any company or corporation owning or operating any cot ton compress plant in this state, and re quires persons, companies, or corporations owning or operating cotton compress plants tn fUI.n Gh m nf operators, or their officers and directors, to the stterney general of the state when the latter demands it.
 Senator Patterson introduced a bill rais- ing the salary of the governor of the state to S4000 after the expiration of the pres ent term of office.
 It being House day in the Senate, twen- ty-nine House bills were given two readings in the regular grind and five were passed. These were all local measures.
 New bills introduced were:
 By Senator Arnod-Requring the pres ident or secretary of every corporation doing business in this state t0 file annually a statement of the cash capital cash value of real estate and personal estate, and in debtcdness
 people the right to vote Gs te whether ma tive wines shall be sold in one-fifth gallon quantities. the samG. as when voting for license or against license.
 The Senate Wednesday. passed the de fciency bill for the University of Arkansas
 
 it developed that d bill would be intro duced prohibiting the state department in the future from assuming any obliga-
 During the morning senator stmms called up the bill which appropriates Sio.- GOO for the Jamestown exposition, but it failed of passage. not receiving the necessary two-thirds vote.
 Other bills passed were; By Senator Lambert, requiring railroads to drain their d. beds and providing for agricultural and dem onstration farms in each county.
 New bills in the Senate were By Senator De Rositt, providing for the work ing of conyicts on the public roads, by Senator Browning. requiring assessors in improvement districts to make sin oath when placing assessments on valuation.
 The vote by which the appropriation of $15ooo was killed the day before, WaS Wn6 after .he bill had received 20 votes fof' and 9 against. was declared passed A A question remains. as to whether the .4ai pdli OF tWo-thirds of those present and voting before it can be legally passed oe r,o people of the Ninth senatorial district i'll the special election held last Saturday. was officially received in tlie Senate at this session. Aetiag, Governor John Ike
 Senate Bill No. 166. by Senator Pat terson was taken tip for the purpose Of disposing of the committee amendment. This is the patent. medicine bill which requires the formula to be printed in plain type as large as brevier size on every proprietary medicine sold in the the state The Senate Cosnmttee on Public Health had amended the bill so as to require physicians also to write their pre- scriptions in plain English, and the drug gist preparing the medicine to copy the prescription on the label whenever request ed to do so by the purchaser. After lengthy debate in which a number of mem IL. .r,,Tf ffaa af m was stricken from the bill. and the whole subject made special order for next Thursday afternoon.
 Other bills passed at this session were
 By Senators Ams and Goodwin. requlr- ing railroad companies to file annually statement and schedule of all real and personal property in the state.
 By Senator Mckenzie prohibiting the sale or giving away of cigarettes in the
 By Senator Mccall providing that the county seat of no county shall be changed until after those petitioning its change shall have deposited the sum of $5.000 in cash to be donated toward the building of the new county court house in the new seat of government.
 By Senator Goodwin. authorizing the State Board of Education to invest the special school districts.
 New bills introduced in the Senate were
 By Senator Milan-An act to shorten the time for closing up administrations from three years, as now prescribed, to IS months.
 By Senator Holland, providing for an asylum for the insane in Sebastian coun- fy and authorizing that county to appro- priate money for the establishment of same
 By Senator Mcknight Requiring notes and bonds to be listed for taxation, and prescribing how they shall be stamped to show that they have been so listed
 By Senator Goodwin.-An act to permit shippers to execute bond and receive freight in advance of bills of lading after having made surety
 pers from delay in the shipment oi cattle or live stock and requiring stock trains to make at least 1o miles an hour in transit
 The Committee on State Capitol of the quiry in the building of Arkansas nSw state house. were endorsed as to the meth ods they are employing in making the in vestigation by both bodies of the General Assembly at Fridays session.
 The special committee appointed to con. fer with Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton also made it's report in both houses and was discharged The committee reported that the prosecuting attorney had asked an appropriation to be placed in the hands of lers but that inasmuch as he did not state the amount of the appropriation needed nor the manner in which it would be ex- pended 1t recommended that no appropria tion be made. The report also stated that two bills have been prepared on boodling and will shortly be introduced
 Among the bills passed was one by Mr. McCracken of the House authorizing an increase in ex-Confederatc pensions where extra disability is established in proof. and requiring coal inspectors to make inspec- tions promptly under penalty of a minimum