The Huttig news., 1907-05-04
THE HOUSE.

The House Monday trimmed the peni tentiary appropriation bill about $100 COG
 and disposed of another ofsthese very i'm, | portant measures when it gave its final | approval to the bill for the support and
 maintenance of the Deaf Mute institute
 The measure had been gone over several | times in the House Committee of the | Whole, and in the final action there was
 no discussion of the bill.
 l A bill asking for an appropriation of
 Normal Normal School was spbse taken % up aa and saved | from final sacrifice by deferring action.
 In Committee of the Whole the House
 recommended that it do not pass. l By MT. DuLaney of the House Com mittee on Charities, the regular appropria-
 tion bill for the support and mainten- | ance of the Confederate Home in the sum
 of about 570O0.
 By MT Stevens of the Ways and Means l Committee, amending the inheritance tax 1 law and providing that certain, large es- | is settled.
 | The entire afternoon session in the
 House Tuesday was devoted to the Amis i insurance bill, under the provisions of l which the life insurance companies doing business in the state were to have been | serve held for policy y-holders in this state
 in investments within the state. The bill
 had passed the Senate and was up for | a final test in the House. II failed to | pass. the vote being 54 to B.
 The following bills were passed
 By MT: McCollum, chairman of the
 requiring corporations and persons to give pioy as are subject to road tax.
 By Mr. Stirling, requiring the railroads to maintain track scales at every point in the state where more than 100 cars of freight are handled in any one year, and prove weights when demanded to do By MT. Oldham. prohibiting any persons from drawing a pistol weapon on an- other. or threatening or intimidating an- other, making the penalty a fine of from $500 to $1,000 and one year in the peni tentiary.
 The House spent the greater part of the day Wednesday in Committee of the Whole passing on the various items of the blind school appropriation bill. The salary of the superintendent was reduced from the annum to $2.SO0 Other items passed with but slight changes, and as a whole the bill was reduced but slightly from the recommendations made by the Joint Chari- ties Committee.
 Among the bills passed at this session was one by Mir Carl Lee, making 1t unlaw- full to permit the running at large of stock and giving persons taking up such stock 50 cents for having taken it up and 10 cents per day for feeding same. And one by MT .Welch, regulating the practice of peddling and requiring that peddlers in
 
 The House Thursday passed the bill which seeks to preserve the sixty acres of land surrounding the new state capitol
 bill recognizing and regulating sug- gestive therapeutics as a healing medium passed the House at the morning session. Under the provisions of the bill absent treatment can be given only by those who have graduated in it's schools.
 The salary of the superintendent of the Blind Institute, which had been reduced to $2,s0o in House Committee of the Whole Wednesday was Thursday restored to $3,000, which is the sum paid the super intendent of the Deaf Mute Institute.
 Other bills passed at this session were
 By Mir. Anderson, regulating the auction business and hours in which auctions shall be held.
 By MT. Beck. requiring owners of addi- tions to cities to file their plats. with the county clerk before disposing of lots.
 By Mir. Stevens of the Ways and Means .coMmit ttsza -2mending the inheritance tax tracts are QsRd a-daine aI. 2 law and raising the tax on large estates.
 A protest from the Arkansas Fedora tion of Woman's Clubs, in session at For rest City, against the proposed demolition of the old state capitol building and ask. l ing the Legislature to pass. law that will protect the building to future posterity, was read Friday morning.
 More than $100,O00 was stricken from the state university appropriation bi1l Fri day by the House in Committee or the Whole before that body had passed on a dozen items The indications point to a continued clipping of the items until the is reduced one-third from the form in which it had passed the Sen ate. - clared passed at the Friday morning ses- sion, although it had not received the sup port of two-thirds of the membership of the body. Speaker Hamiter. ruled that was challenged by Mr. Killough, who served notice that he would later ask for def nte ruling on the question.
 The Blind Institute bill has been about completed in the House and will go to the Senate within very short time TOT consideration there.
 A bill was introduced by MT. klllough which repeals that part of the 1905 sta tutes authorizing the capitol commission to dispose of the property of the old state capitol.
 The Oldham anti-lynching bill met de- feat in the House Saturday after a se- were attack made upon it's provisions Dy Messrs. Killough and McCollum, who charged that it was revolutlonary ana an attitude of dictating to the judiciary. Under the bill any sheriff who held prisoner against whom the community prisoner would suffer from lynch law could order the Circuit Court in session for i'm mediate train of the case The Diii was called up by MT Powell. who VII a,, stanem that that had been presented by Father I4ucey of dn Pine r Bluff, "a and that this distinguished man believed it would serve to reduce mob vio- lence in the South. Mr Rowel A maae ;an strong plea that Arkansas give the Id" . test. ., p,.,
 A bill was introduced by Mir. Finley, which prohibits smoking of cigarette: I pipe e or cigar in any hotel rotunda,. railroad train or depot. street car or public place of any character where women are gener, ally assembled with men. Ball rooms ana cafes are among the places where smok- ing is to be absolutely tabooed.
 A bill introduced by MT. Quinn. which sought to shorten the hours in the school room of the cities of the first and second class to a maximum of five hours per gay, ed. Mr Bishop opposed the bill,, stating that it discrimnated between the city