Woodruff County news., 1907-04-11
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 Proceedings
THE SENATE.

ton in the Senate Monday, In which an | expression was desired as to whether mem | bers of the body who had been subpoenaed | to testify in the CovingtOn case would waive their constitutional rights and make answer to the summons of the court. A | considerable time was spent In discussing l the resolution. the chief objection to which was that if the members who were wanted | as witnesses were to attend the court ac- the Senate would be broken The resolu- | tion was amended so as to provide that | wanted, and this meeting with the wishes of the court the roll was called and each Senator responded by answering aye" which meant that he would respond when called upon by the court.
 The Roland bill which proposed to deduct ture the tme they Wsre sosent egcept in cases of sickness. or when they were engaged in committee work, was defeated.
 A concurrent resolution was introduced by Senator Rowland authorizing the attor- ney general to bring suit to enforce the 1 payment by certain railroads of back taxes alleged to be due in 1883 and 1884. and a bill was introduced by Senator DeRossitt ] making any person who does not own and pay taxes on 10 acres of land ineligible | to hold the position of director on the board of the St. Francis Bevee District
 The bill by Senator Browning to pre- vent the introduction and spread of con- tagious diseases, among animals in the State was passed by vote of IS to ,.
 The Senate also passed the bill by Sen. | ator Cloud making a teachers license issued in one county license to teach in any | county in the State
 Other bills passed were
 By Senator Patterson, for the better | protection of state cOnvicts.
 By Senator Harrison, providing for the transferrence of insane, convicts from the pentcntary to the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
 By Senator Bu.h for the establishment | of state agricultural school
 By Senator McCall. for the rSlrpose of | keeping clean the drainage ditches in the State of Arkansas
 The Senate spent Tuesday in dsposing | of routine business
 A bill was introduced by Senator liar rison increasing the salary of the agricnl- tural commissioner from S1 800 to $2.500.
 In executive session the appointments of Gustave Jones' Frank H. Hall and W. <. Goodwin trustees of the State Uni- | Yersity were confirmed
 shortly after the executive session the Senate adjourned.
 The Senate passed the Patterson bill Wednesday. which provides the manner in which convicts shall be fed and clothed. and also provides that lessees of contracts | shall not sublet their contracts that con sicts shall not be used as guards and that they shall be paid for overtime when they, work more than ten hours per day.
 The Pine Bluff Normal school appro- priation bill was taken uu in the after noon; considered in Committee of the 1 to strike out the appropriation of $6,O00 for an additional bulding.'
 The bill by Senator Holland requiring | mine owners to furnish ample timberS to be used in protecting miners in case of the caving of mines was passed at the afternoon | session.
 Senator Montgomery introduced at tlis session bill fixing the rates to be charged for switching cars. The bill provides a | maximum rate of S1.5O for one mile or less; g for two miles, and S5 for three miles.
 All the labor of the day In the Senate Thursday was compressed into about lo 1 minutes and at an early hour adjourn ment was taken out of respect to the mem ory of Senator Thompson who died at 30 that morning. only one bill was passed, | allowing non-residntS to nSh in White river above Calico Rock.
 The Senate Friday devoted it's attention almost exclusively to the consideration of trial at which many of the senators are witnesses. and the funeral of Senator Thompson at Fayetteville, the attendance | in the upper house sparse, and business was done with bare quorum Senator Oldham introduced bill re- quiring railroads to issue bills of lading for cotton in congresses. At present this must be done by contract and tbe bill is | calculated to ohvate the necessity of this. Another bill introduced by Senator Arnold | raises the penalties for selling adulter- ated oils and fluids | A messenger from the Governor an nounced the approval of Senate Bill No | 52. known as the good roads measure. It | only effects 36 counties and the next TWO l years will be devoted to trial >s the law l The senate adourned at noon until Mon day.
 Acting Governor John Ike Moore toSly signed the bill introduced by Senator John | r. Lee, prohibiting the soltiting or talk ing of orders for intoxicating liquors in l prohibition territory. It is considered the most drastic temperance measure ever | sod in, Aplyn and nfn n | 6 o'clock Tuesday. The salient flea lures of the bill follow
 | It shall be unlawful for any liquor | dealer firm corporation, engaged in | the sale of intoxicating liquors in this State to, in any manner through agents, cir %an. ments. solicit H orders F"P for such sales of 1 intoxicating liquors in any territory in this State. wherein It would be Gnawful | Provided that the term newspaper adver- | tsements,' as used in this section does l not refer to liquor advertisements in papers published within licensed territory; unless said papers are sent intoA prohibition ter ritory, by the saloon keepers or their agents for advertising purposes.
 The presence of any such liquor dealer. | firm corporation, through agents or otherwise, in such prohibition territory person therein. shall constitute. violation of this act and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $2oo nor more than $500 for each such offense. Pro vided that the term agent under this section shall mean any person who receives an order from another for intoNieating liquors in prohibition territory and trans mits the same in person, by letter. tele- graph or telephone, or in any other manner. to some dealer in intoxicating liquors who accepts and fills the same.
 The defeat of Senator Moor's bill ap- propriating $6. 400 for continuance of the work of the Arkansas Historical Commis- sion by the Senate on Thursday is disap- pointing to those who favored the meas ure. and there is some talk of the intro duction of another bill that will accom- plish the purpose. The bill received majority of the votes of those voting on the measure. but was defeated on account of the ruling of the presiding officer, who held that it required two-thrds vote for its passage on account of its carrying an appropriation The contention KS that the ruling is wrong. as the appropriation was made for carrying out the provisions of an existing statute which was enacted two years ago This act created the com mission and appropriated $250 to aid it In its work An effort will probably be made to put a similar measure through the Legislature which will answer the pur- pose and will not conflict with the ruling that sent the original measure to its de feat.