The Green Forest tribune., 1907-03-29
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THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
 The Senate Monday, by vote of 10 to [ passed the Amis insurance bill. which
 now makes it mandatory that every life in surance company operating in the state
 of Arkansas Ark shall Il invest in Arkansas SC,
 fund held for policyholders.
 The Montgomery insurance bill which prohibits all rebates. special inducements
 suicide clause and makes the policy ineon- testable after sixty days occupied the af- ternoon session and argument still in
 progress when the Senate adjourned at o'clock.
 The Moore Heartsill measure the anti future bill which passed the House re cently withstood strong attack in the Senate Tuesday. and it will have clear field when it comes up for final passage Friday the motion to substitute the Rec tor anti-futurcs bill having failed Senator Montgomery's insurance bill: making material changes in the form of life insurance policies and prohibiting re- bates, was defeated
 The bill making salaries of chancellors throughout the state uniform at S2.5O0 per
 year: had close call from being, tabled. It's friends rushed to the rescue. and it was finally passed with votes to spare. personal controversy between Sena- toYs Montgomery and Ningo due to tine latter's caustc remarks about the form
 CTS insurance bill enlivened things in the
 Senate Wednesday, point of order was raised which cSecked the controversy. The Rowland primary law, which makes some radical changes in the existing sys- lem, passed at this session after q
 warm fight on the floor The bill provides that candidates for office may have per sonal representative at the polls: calls for | a public counting of ballots and immediate posting of results makes it felony for false returns of actual votes cast and gives the right to person not able to mark his ballot to select some one to make it out for him.
 Senator Wingo presented a resolution memorializing the Arkansas members in | Congress to urge the repeal of amendments | 14 to 15 to the constitution of the United | States. which would result in the disfran- | chsement of the negro.
 Senator Hollands prohibition bill which prohibits saloon men from serving as oi, | fcers of election and classes native wines l as liquors. was made special order f2f | Monday morning after it had been amend | ed to exclude Lawrence. Garland. Desha, | St. Francis and Jefferson counties from it's The bill by Senator Moore providing that l factories. mills and corporations shall pay | salaries of employees in cash ony and mak- | ing it misdemeanor to tender scrip or | company store orders was unanimously passed.
 | By Senator Thompson.-Am Amending Kir- l bys Digest that the extent of public | Improvements may equal go per cent of the l | Instead of 20 per cent. at present. | By Senator DeRossitt.-Giving the courts power of injunction in civil matters.
 By Senator Pstterson-ro appropriate l $35000 for the payment of rational
 guardsmen who served during the y>llow | fever quarantine in 1903.
 | Senator Amis introduced a bill in the | Senate Thursday making 1t misdemeanor l to hold horse races of any nature on any
 race. course in the state. This bill is de
 lawn race track In Hot Springs which his
 anti pool se:.ing measure did not.
 The Edmondson-Recto bill abrogatiag
 the convicA labor contract, whereby con, of 90 cents per day to contractors. was
 measure which occasioned warm debate
 1s 1dtas n was o na n iGe defa5sa Dy Senator Moonlight introduced bill
 which was permitted to go to committee
 It aims to prevent ne'S,oes from waiting | barbers or porters on trains. and 1t also provides penalty for wi.ites serving ne | groes
 bill by Senator Edmondson called for | the amending of Kirby's Digest so as to provide that no warrants shall he drawn | by the auditor on the treasurer unless there | is appropriated money in the treasury for | the special purpose for which such war | rant is drawn.
 By large vote the Senate Friday pass | ed the Moore IIartsill bill. designed to pre- | vent dealing in futures and calculated to
 be a death blow to bucket shops and illesi- | tmate exchanges
 Determined to stop the races at Hot | Springs at all hazards. Senator Amis in
 troduced bill giving the Governor the | right to suspend all county officers at the request of 90 petitioners until the Grand | Jury can meet and return indictments. Senator Harrison introduced bill pro, viding for the displaying of the National | coors over public buildings.
 A messenger from the Governor an-
 nounced the approval of Senate Bill No. 246 lArnoldl, authorizing the he, Arkadei, 1ec (Bush). organizing the Tupelo swamp | Drainage District. and Senate Bill No 226 | (McCalD, regulating the removal of coun- The Senate adjourned at noon until | Monday morning.
 The bill by Senator Amis giving the Gov ernor power to suspend officers neglecting | duty is follows
 "A bill for an act to render more effect | ual the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State of Arkansas.
 Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly
 of the State of Arkansas:
 "Section l. That upon the filing with ] the Governor of the State of Arkansas of | duly sworn to petition. made by 90 | or more reputable citizens of any county
 in this State. that any, criminal statute county or township officer is knowingly | permitting such violation and failing and | refusing to take steps looking to the pre-
 vention thereof. the Governor shall have | power to suspend such officer or officers | and appoint some other person or persons to discharge the duties of the office until | the adjournment of the next term of the Circuit Court for. such county following thereafter. when if no indictment IS re- turned against such officer for some offense growing out of the cause of such sus.pen- sion. he shall he reinstated. provided. however, that if an indictment is return
 ed, such .suspension shall continue until the case is disposed of and such officers
 right to continue in office and be reinstat- ed Is determined by the laws now in force governing such cases.
 Sec. That this act be in force from and after it's passage.
 It was learned yesterday that a majority of the Joint Committee on Pententiary will recoI.mend that the new penitentiary be not abandoned but be completed and remain the home for prisoners of the state for the next two years. There has been proposition submitted to abolish the
 penitentiary and -'nd all of the prisoners to the state convict farm. With the peni- tentiary maintained during the coming two years the state electric lighting plant will not be disturbed but will continue to fur nsh the charitable institutions with cleo tricity at cost, as has been the practice in the past
 If questioned. the gentleman from Sebas- tlan would most probably deny the allega- ton. yet his amendment stands for itself, and the more the matter IS thought over the more convinced his friends become that he believes in changing conditions so that the hand that rocks the cradle can indeed rule the world. not indirectly through her father brother. husband or sons. but by the wgieht of the right ot franchise. When the Amis insurance bill was be- fore the Senate Committee on Insurance some representatives of insurance compan- l les declared that its passage would probab ly result in the withdrawal of number | of life insurance companies from Arkan 1 sas This the ma iolity of the Senate did