The Green Forest tribune., 1907-03-08
THE HOUSE..

The House spent considerable time Mon day discussing resolution by MT Thomas of Columbia, declining to accept an invi- tation from the Little Rock board of trade to attend a banquet on March |. After a rather spirited debate the resolution was indefinitely postponed. with Mir Thomas and Mr. McCollum of Hope voting in the negative.
 House bills passed al this session were
 Ky Committee on Educationl. to make the general tax levy for school purposes mills instead of . mills, and to provide that the district tax shall not be greater assessed value of the taxable property of the district, instead of one-haIf of per cent.
 By MT, Kilough, giving the right Of eminent domain to companies generating and transmitting electricity.
 There were twelve new bills introduced at this session. most of them of a local character. Among them were
 By Mr. Thomas, to provide that here the same right to hunt and fish in any county in the state as citizens of that
 By Mr. Walker. to amend section 7267 of kirhys Digest. relating to labor on high ways, by providing that any person subject to work on roads and highways may pay l1 cents per day for each day he is sub icct to work. which amount shall be placed to the credit of the road district in the county treasury.
 of the law to enter on record the true names of all persons arrested and 10 make It unlawful for persons arrested to give fictitious names.
 The House Tuesday passed tEe fe tow servant bill by Senator ktc Oldham. apply ing to employees of railroads and coal mines. About an hour and a half was spent in discussing the measure, and on the roll call there was only one vote against It's passage Objections were urged that the bill was deficient in phraseology and if was construed by some members as apply ing to the employees of all corporations. and in addition it was stated that the plnctua- tion of the bill was faulty The members who suggested the defects in tile bill said they did only in order that perfect measure might be passed but that if 1t was insisted that the oldham bill should be passed they would vote for it, which they did
 The afternoon session was devoted to the reading of Senate bills and twenty-four bills were read first and second times.
 The only Senate bill passed at the after noon session was one by Senator SimmS prohibiting the issuance of saloon licenses outside the corporate limits of municipal tiles.
 The measure by Representative Meade: making the salaries of all chancellorS Of the state uniform at S2,1eo per aonum had narrow margin in the House We'd nesdav The vote was 4 ayes to go noes.
 The demurrage bill by Mr Barker over which there has been so. much discussion in the House. was passed without debate with only one dissenting vote.
 A bill by MT Roby to provide for the confscation and destruction of pistols found on persons convicted of unlaWfully carrying them. was passed.
 New bills introduced at this session
 Ry Mr. Stevens. to provide that every person. company or corporation in the state which shal buy, for the purpose of .@lling intoxicating. spirituous: malt or fermented liquors or blended spirits or in toxicating liquor of any kind shall. in ad dition to the taxes already provided. pay as license tax two per eeptum on the total amount of purchases made. which shall go to the general revenue fund of the state It requires that a record shall be kept of the number of gallons blended. and the price paid or the cost Of the same Ii is substitute for House Bill No. 59, somewhat similar measure.
 By Committee on Militia. to promote thP of fciency of the Arkansas National Guard and tO prescribe rules and regulations for it's government
 By Messrs Hamiter and Jackson. to create the office of county superintendent in each county.
 In the House Thursday afternoon the entire session was devoted 10 a discus sion of the amendment hy Representative Kjllough to the bill by Representative Hazel of Poinsett county to increase the ta2 levy in the St Francis levCe district from cents to 10 cents an acre. but after spending two hours and a half on the sub iect. adjournment was taken without q
 
 Bills passed during the morning hour were
 tBy Messrs. Kizzia and Jackson. to make drunkenness at public gatherings, such as pcnics. barbecues, childrens day exercises Sunday school and church services literary societies or on trains. misdemeauer. pun ishable by fine of not less than SIC nor more than S25.
 My Mr Lasley amending the drainage laws by authorizing the re-assessment of property for widening or deepening drain Tn manner in which taxes are to be collected to create sinking fund, and fixing q penalty for obstructing drainage dtches
 MT. McCracken introduced a bill at tnl' session to provide for the separation of whites and negroes in public examinations for teachers license.
 Other bills introduced were of purely a local character.
 At 1 80 o'clock the House adjourned until Friday morning
 For the first time during the session of the present House, the journal of the pre- ,y.ious', days proceedings was not read Thursday Representative Barker who al in his seat during the early part of the mornings session. which accounts. probab- ly, for its not being read
 The House spent much of the day Fri day in considering the roads bill by Sen ator Arnold, and amendments to exempt several counties frsm its provisions were adopted
 Only local matters were considered during the balance of the session, and at an early hour the House adjourned until Monday morning.
 The fellow-servant bill by Senator Kie oldham of Pulaski county. which has pass ed both the Senate and House, and will in few days go to the governor for his approval. is as follows
 "A Bill for an Act to Be Entitled An Act
 to Give Right of Action Against an Elm
 ployer for Injuries or Death Resulting
 to His Agents, Employes or Servants,
 Either from the Employers Negligence
 or from the Negligence of Some of His
 Other Employees. Servants or Agents. and
 to Repeal Ali Acts and Parts of Acts in
 Conflict Herewith
 Be It Enacted by the General Assembly
 of the State of Arkansas:
 ''Section l. That hereafter all railroad companies operating within this state, whether incorporated or not and all cor. porations of every kind and character. and every company, whether incorporated or not engaged in the mining of coal, who may employ agents, servants or employees, such agents. servants or employees being in the exercise of due care, shall be liable to respond in damages for injuries or death sustained by any such agent, employe or servant resulting from the careless onis- sion of duty or negligence of any other agent, servant or employe of the said em- same extent as if the carelessness. omis sion of duty or negligence causing the in jury death was that of the employer.
 Sec. ?. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby re- pealed, and that this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after it's passage"
 Representatives ]. w. Seay of Greene county. and Representative Thompson Of Independence county. have been granted indefinite leave of absence on account of illness.
 A number of county officers of Chicot county appeared before the Senate Con- mittee on Claims Monday in behalf of the Smms bill which provides for an county for money spent in protecting the