Woodruff County news., 1907-05-02
7 Legislative \
 Proceedings
THE SENATE.

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- clan $50 a month to attend the inmates
 of the reform school. The bill passed with
 only one dissenting vote. The Patterson bill asking for $35.00O for the payment of the state guard. which
 was defeated and reconsidered last week was passed with only seven dissenting votes
 Prohibition Act of 1907 was also passed. The bill regulating poll tax receipts
 was passed; Under the measure the sherif or collector cannot take out a bun de 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
 $192, 100; Executive, $44,0OO; mainten-
 ance and repair of state house. and state | departments, $133, 360; governors office,
 $S,000; office of secretary of state. sS,-
 672; attorney generals office, $5.S50 au-
 ditoG's office, s142o7 treasureF,s sEa oftise t5s | 772; superintendent of public instruc- | tions office, S6,172 office of commis- | sioners of mines, manufacturers and agrl- 1 culture $5,O00; clerk of Supreme Courts
 office, $6 025; railroad commissioners, $22,- | 1S7; janitorS wages, $3.72U.
 The Powell bill prohibiting any railroad l in the state from working its telegraph l operators for more than eight hours in
 shift was passed by unanimous 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 l 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 a bill allow | ing the school commissioners to increase 1 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
 the Senate without a change in exactly
 8 minutes Wednesday, This is the quick | est action that has ever been taken on an appropriation bill of this magnitude in the | present seSSiCO.
 The Rowland resolution which authorizes | the attorney general to bring suit against
 the railroads in the state to recover $500 | 900 in taxes that have been due since 1887. was passed by d 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 2nt all of the school funds of the state are | invested in Arkansas bonds that are draw 1 ing interest at the rate of 5 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 l 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 al!
 times in the year was passed by a vote or
 New bills introduced were:
 | By Senator Toney, requiring water com | panies to comply with the provisions or 1 their contracts and to pay all damages caused by the violation of the same,
 By Senator Cloud. giving to traction en-
 zines the same rights on the roads of the 1 state that automobiles have. providing that
 the latter repair all bridges that are
 By Senator Bush, giving to the railroad
 commission power to fix rates on interur- | ban trains.
 The Senate consumed nearly all of Thurs.
 day in the consideration and disposal of | local bills 1t refused to recede from its
 amendment to the Reform Sehoo! bill re
 qulring the penitentiary physician to
 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 oulldshg of a macadamized road from Fort smith
 through the counties or SeDastiah, 1raw I,'aS.
 ford Franklin, Johnson. Pope, conway | Faulkner Pulaski, Lonoke, Prairie, Mon
 roe, St Francis and Crittenden counties 10
 point on the Mississippi river opposite | Memphis The bill approprlateS S=1,oooo | for the survey and location of the road | and provides for the creation of board
 of commissioners to look after it's construc- | tion.
 Senator Mcknight presided over the de | Alterations of the Senate Friday. The Senate Friday passed the Brown- | ing bill appropriatiug So0,OOO for the re | printing Of the Supreme Court reports l the House bill by MT. Leigh, regulating | the employment of child labor, and House | bill by Mir. kizzie, increasing the pay Of | judges and clerks of elections from Sl | to S1.50 per day.
 the practice of suggestive therapeutics ana
 magnetic healing, also encountered Sena- | tor Wipgos opposition. He spoke against | the measure attempted to have it tabled
 and later moved to indefinitely postpone | its further consideration, but failed in both l instances The bill was accorded hrst l reading, but a motion to suspend the | rules and have it read second tune was | lost number of House local bills were passed and others advanced ln the stage | of Legislation.
  | by request for the relief of w. II. Maxey
 of Crawford county, providing for an ap- | propriaton of $50 to reimburse him for | the purchase of a tract of land belonging l to the United States, but which was sold l to him by the state. Read twice and re l ferred to the Judiciary Committee. 1 While the clerk was calling the roll on l Senate bill next up Wednesday the House was disturbed by second personal con l 1ict of the session. In this instance Mir. | Foster of Cleveland was again one of the belligerents, and MT. Caraway. represen-
 tative of the Democrat in the House, was | the other Members of the House inter | yened as soon as possible and the tight was stopped, Speaker Hamiter an | nounced that gentlemen with fighting | proclivities should be removed from the | room, but the stir soon subsided and the participants were brought to peace. The | trouble is believed to have grown out of l an interview concerning the difficulty be- ! tween MT. Foster and MT. Quinn on
 Tuesday