The Huttig news., 1907-05-18
/ Legislative ' Proceedings
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
 The surprise of the session was sprung tn the Senate Monday afternoon when the Senator Milan exempting Garland county from the provisions of the Amis bill pro hibiting all kinds of betting in connection with horse racing. Under the provisions of the measure no racing season can last longer than 40 days, and all counties to the same privileges as Garland under the bill The presidents announcement that; that the bill had passed, was was gre, great sur suit; The vote on the bill was 15 to 14.
 The penitentlarys appropriation bill, car psassd so the b for the aSepe support o station, carving $$o'ooo.
 The McDaniel bill, repeating the Ross bill for the domestication of foreign cor porations,, was passed. Under the provis- ions of the measure, which to large extent is a. re-ehaetment of the old statute a corporation before being allowed to do business in the state must file with the secretary of state articles of incorpora- fion, and also a certificate containing the naGce of the person residing in the state upon whom service may be had. Every court in the state shall have jurisdiction over the corporations that do business in the district dominated by said court. The Senate Tuesday in Committee of The Whole, adopted that section of the Robb bill appropriating ;S1o,oo0 to store sronns the muster nus r9s of the Arkansas passed the. Abercrombie bill, which pro- Yldes for the working of eonvicts on the pubic roads, all counties except 32 being exempted from the provisions of the act.
 The pill by Mr. Oldham providing for the punishment of any person who sends warning to another for the purpose of intimidation, was passed in the Senate.
 Several important House bills were con sidered and advanced to stage where m he disposed of.
 bill by Mr. Combs which requires cor norations to pay an annual franchise tax. me me olIl retains many features of the old passage of the Ross act. and also repeals the objectionable section of that act re lating to the demestcation of foreign cor porations. The greater portion of the bill consists in amendments which orio- mated in the Senate. concurrence in these amendments by the House is all that IS necessary for the final passage of the act
 The Confederate roster bill which re ceiyed a vote of IS ayes to II noes. was declared defeated the chair holding that two-thirds majority was necessary in order to pass the bill
 The TamiterzJackson bill creating the office of county superintendent in each county was passed.
 An effort was made to kill the bill abol- lshing the preparatory department of the State University, but it failed and the measure referred to the Comnittee on Education.
 The Senate Thursday disposed of great deal of House business. including the originating in that One was the resolution debarrina( canito con rractors afsr.- from any future State work. the other pro testing against the removal of the United States engineers office in Little Rock tc Memphis.
 The bill providing for the maintenance of the Arkansas National Guard, carrying an appropriation of $23.50o. passed also the bill for the maintenance and sup port of the Arkansas School for the Blind the appropriation being S1oSS50, being about $10,000 less than the appropriation of two years ago.
 The proposed amendment to the MeDan- iel bill calling for the election of super intendent of the reform school once every two years. instead of annually. as the bill provides. brought out some debate in the Senate Friday. Senator Rector speaking in favor of it, and Senator Arnold opposing it. When put to vote the amendment was adopted
 The Snate went into a Committee of the Whole to consider the bill providing for the establishing and maintenance of an other State agricultural school The bill is by Glover of the House. The bill was still under consideration when recess was taken. The Senate was in session short time Saturday morning. but very little business was transacted
 Senator McKnight's bill prohibiting lum Der plants and oil mills from compelling their employees to work more than ten hours day was as taken Ken UP Senator nat olfia Mcknight ight an employe should not work more than ten hours if he desired to do so. After some discussion the bill was finally passed by vote of 14 to H.
 Monday afternoon. for the first time probably in the history of the state a ,knt of thn floor of the Senate and spoke to the mem bers while the upper body was in session spect to certain bill. The hero of the episode was Judge Van Hook of Union county, and, what is more to the point he got what he wanted Immediately after the noon recess the Senate was con sdering the Abercrombie bill providing for the working. of convicts on the roads of the state. Soon amendments were De- ing sent up exempting counties and 32 of them had been exempted when Judge Van Hook entered the chamber and asked Sen ator Martin to exempt Union, The. sen, ator from Pope stated that he believed that Senator Goodwin wanted Union , ex, empted from the bill Some one asked whether Senator Goodwin really wanted the county exempted when the representa- tive from the county walked out into the middle of the floor and shouted: "I don't care what Senator Goodwin wants :. l want Union county out of the oill" The Senate cOnvulSed with laughter, but the exemption was ordered as per request.
 The House held an informal meeting a. the close of the afternoon session Wednes- day. for the purpose of making arrange ments for the last day of the session. on ercises. Mir. Killough was made chair man. It was decided to make presents to the Speaker of the House and all the clerks and attaches. Each member is being as sessed $1.5O to defray the cost of the gifts. By unanimous vote Mr. DuLaney was elected to deliver the farewell oration, and Mr. Fletcher was chosen to make the presentation speech in delivering the gif of the Snaakar Roth men