The Green Forest tribune., 1907-03-01
THE HOUSE.

?, l to pay the judge of Washington county
 salary of $1,25o per annum. Among the new bills in the House were By Mir Walker, to require that In coun- l ties having two county seats, county clerks l shall keep at each seat in addition to the re
 cords already kept records of marks ana 1 brands, incorporation, estfays, advertise | ments for sale of delinquent lands and re- | cords, of lands sold the state and indl- | viduals that the county collector shall keep | one set of tax books at each seat: that the l sheriff and collector shall keep the tax
 books at each seat until April 10, of each l year for the payment of taxes and that | the treasurer shall keep al each seat the l funds of each of the school districts in
 the, respective judicial districts Read first 1 By Mir Leigh. to enable persons having 1 claims against insurance companies that | may 1all or go into the hands of receivers. | to consolidate such claims and sue jointly l Read first time.
 By Mr. Mccollum; to prohibit the plead i ing of the statute of limitation against the
 right of a town OF city to open streets aud l alleys. Read first time
 | At ;10 the House adjourned until Tues ! day morning
 The bill by Representative Meade. to l make the salaries of the chancellors or
 the state uniform at $2,3oQ per annum, i which withstood an attack Monday in the | House. was up again Tuesday and came | out unscathed from another assault made | upon it in the shape of an amendment. | This particular amendment was by Repre- | sentative Thomas, and was to the effect l that instead of the salaries being fixed l at $2,500 per annum the amount should be l h cents per annum. The author of the | amendment said it was not offered for the | purpose of fixing c0npensations. and that | chancery districts in the state Upon a | viva voce vote a motion to reject the amend ment prevailed
 The House spent an hour and half of l the afternoon session ill discussion of a 1 Senate concurrent resolution memorabilia | ing Congress to pass a bill introduced by | | "a 1 the waters of White river, in Missouri and
 in Arkansas, above Cotter for electrical | purposes without impeding navigation. The resolution was not adopted.
 Measures passed upon were as follows
 By MT. Anderson. to make valid copies
 of certain records of Garland county dam
 aged in the fire at Hot Springs in February, | 1903. was q special order and read
 the sr third time a!19 and passed: 5,,.,,.., i yiding for one stenogfapher for the chief | justice of the Supreme Court and two ! sten22graphers for the associate iustieesi. i the House Committee on Judiciary offered | an amendment to authorize the justices to
 employ one stenographer at salary of 1 $1.200 per annum. which was adopted
 bill was introduced at this session by ! Mr. Black of Sebastian for the protection ! of natural gas and mineral oils in Arkansas.
 The Barker and Coleman demurraee bills | were special orders in the House Wednes- day and all of the afternoon session and l part of the morning session was taken
 up in discussions. f'he principal speaker
 was Mr Coleman who spoke for two hours and half for his motion to substitute
 his. bill for that offered by Mr. Barker.
 menfs i'e fo inc bli hT SysS9h sf Moore of Inda ] pendence to prohibit dealings in futures. were adopted. One i'll particular. by Mr. l Coleman prohibits the soliciting or feceiv- 1 ing of orders for futures to be executed | in this state or elsewhere, and makes il 1 unlawful to send an order by mail. tele- l phone CT telegraph for futures To be exc ! rutpd elsewhere l any telegraph company To deliver any
 message concerning the purchase or sale 1 of futures or which contains a report of
 the purchase or sale of futures.
 To House Bill No SD fSimpson). to
 provide room in the new state capitol as ! hcadQuarters for rhe Arkansas division
 of the United Daughters of the Confeder- l 0cN, amendments were adopted providing
 that when provision is made for the finish l ing of the capitol an appropriation may l be made for the purchase of cases for the l preservation of Confederate battle flags
 and other historical articles. and that in | stead of the room being set aside for the | headquarters of the Daughters of the Con i federacy- it shall be for the filing of his | torical documents and archives. New bills introduced a this session were :: By Mir. partain. to amend section 31 10
 of kirby's Digest, relating to the clandes- | tine sale of intoxicating liquors, by pro | yiding that when a house has been leased 1 for lawful purposes and is used as blind
 tiger" it shall be the duty of the owner
 to cause the tenant to vacate the house.
 and if he refuses the owner shall take
 steps to procure possession. It also makes
 the running of a blind tiger sufficient | cause for the cancellation of q lease. By Mir. Quinn, for the protection of pas l sengers on trains and to prohibit drumming | or soliciting for hotels, bath houses, eat [ forms and st depots.
 The House Thursday refused to adopt | the motion by Representative Coleman to
 make his demurrage bill a substitute for | a measure on the same subject by Repre- | sentative Barker The motion was under | debate the greater part of the day before
 and at all of today's session after the | morning hour.
 The principal objection to the Coleman | bill was that 1t did not prescribe a penalty
 against the railroads.
 1 The Barker bill was chamnioned by Rep | resentative IIartsel. Ross, Foster, and by l it's author
 In commemoration of the 175th anniver- l sary of the birthday of George Washing l ton. the House adjourned Friday. shortly | before noon, until Saturday morning. Al | though it was Senate day only one bill 1 emanatiDg from the upper body was con sdered. Suspension of the rules for the | consideration of House bills was the order l and it after II o'clock before the | House took up Senate business The one
 Senate bill considered was the formation
 of drainage district in Phillips county. 1 and half an hour was consumed in it's 1 reading.
 The House which was the only body of l the General Assembly in session Saturday. | transacted more business than on any day | since the converting of the session. Three especially important bills were
 passed during the morning session. The | first to receive consideration was the bilt i by representative Black of Sebastian to | increase the mowers of the Railroad Com
 authority to consider petitions for the i'm i provement of train service and the estab- | lishment of depots, spurs, sidetracks and l platforms.
 Another bill passed was that by Repre- | sentative Quinn, which is to prohibit drum | ming or soliciting for hotels. bath houses.
 doctors, etc, on trains, platforms or at
 depots.
 The House also passed bill by Repre-
 sentative Ross prescribing the means by l which foreign corporations may become | domestic corporations. As explained by | Mir. Ross. the purpose of the bill is to make l 1t possible for the foreign corporations to l the federal courts
 There were thirteen new bills introduced | at this session. most of them local in
 characted, twelve bills passed. the majority i of which were also local, and many were
 advanced and referred.
 Among those introduced were
 By Mir Roby. to amend article 4 of sec
 ton 3095 of Kirby's Digest relating to l the incomptency of witnesses, to read as l follows: Husband and wife, for or against | each other or concerning communication
 riage. whether called as a witness while that 1 relation subsists or afterward. but either | shall be allowed to testify for the other in regard to any other matter or thing" The l last line of the article now reads Tin re- l gard to ass business transacted by the
 one for te other in the capacity of agent" There was also introduced House Joint | Resolution No 2 (Cartwright), proposine 1 an amendment to Amendment No of | the state constitution whereby the railway i incorporation school tax may be made gen eral and distributed among the various | counties and the schoo. districts in inc
 several counties. Read ffs; and second fimeA