Woodruff County news., 1907-05-16
], Legislative W Proceedings /
THE SENATE.

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 THE SENATE.
 The surprise of the session was sprung In the Senate Monday afternoon when the l upper house passed a bill introduced by
 Senator Milan exempting Garland county hibiting ali kinds of betting in connection with horse-racing. Under the provisions l of the measure no racing season can last holding agricultural fairs are entitled | to the same privileges as Garland under the bill. The presidents announcement that the bill had passed, was a great sur suit: The vote on the bill was 15 to IA
 The penitentiarys appropriation bill, car passed. also the bill for the support of the University Agricultural Experiment | Station, carrying $30,000.
 The Mcdaniel bill, repeating the Ross bill for the domesticatlon of foreign cor porations. was passed. Under the provis Ions of the measure, which to a large corporation before being allowed to do | business in the state must file with the secretary of state articles of incorpora- tion and also a certificate containing the name or the person residing in the state i upon whom service may be had Every court court in the state shall have jurisdiction ] over the corporations that do business 1 ln the district dominated by said court | l he toeudle lueSuay Tn committee Of the Whole, adopted that section of the
 Robb bill appropriating BIO 900 to re | store the muster rolls of the Arkansas | troops in the Confederate service and l passed the AbercrOmbie bill which pro | T1des for the working of conyicts on the puollc roads all counties except 32 being | exempted from the provisions of the act | The bill by Mr. Oldham providing for 1 the punishment of any person who sends
 warming to another for the purpose Of i intimidation, was passed in the Senate several important House bills were con | sldered and advanced to stage where when when taken up again, they may be finally The Senate Wednesday passed the House Dlll by Mir Combs which requires cor | porations to pay an annual franchise tax The bill retains many features of the old law which was in force previous to the passage of the Ross act and also repeals 1 the objectionable section of that act re latlng to the demestication of foreign cor 1 p0raI1ons; The greater portion of the bill consists in amendments which ori" l mated in the Senate. concurrence in | these amendments by the House is all that Is necessary for the final passage of the | act.
 celyed a vote of IS ayes to 1 noes. was | declared defeated. the chair holding that l two-thirds majority was necessary in order | to pass the bill
 The Hamter-Jackson bill creating the office of county superintendent in each | county was passed.
 All euOIl NdS Uldue to XIII lDe DlIl aOOl- ishing the preparatory deHartment of the State University. but it failed and the measure was referred to the Committee or Education.
 The Senate Thursday disposed of great deal Of House business. including the originating in that body. One was tn resolution debarring the state canitol con tractors md the architect George R. Mann, from any future State work, the other pre-, testing aWainSr the removal of the In.f1G States engineers office in Little Rock t. Memphis
 The bill providing for the maintenance of the Arkansas National Guard carrying an appropriation of $23.50O, was passed also the bill for the maintenance and sup port of the Arkansas School for the Blind the appropriation being $10S.S50. being about $10.000 less than the appropriation of two yea& ago.
 The proposed amendment to the McDan- iel bill calling for the election of a super intendent of the reform school once every two years instead of annually, as the bill provides, brought cut 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
 The Snate went into 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 death knel of the cigarette-home- made and tailor-made-was sounded Sat urday morning when the House passed the anti-cigarette bill introduced in the Sen ate during the third week of the session by Senator Mckenzie of Nevada county. Ear ly next week the measure will be approved by the governor and on January l. 1908, the sale giving away of cigarettes or cigarette paper in the state of Arkansas will be a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of from $10 to $50 The bill was not ,n1ia falv oil ha piCr arette dealers until the beginning of the new year to dispose of their stocks.
 The appropriation bill for the State Hos pita for Nervous Diseases passed the House Saturday, 15 minutes after it had been placed in Committee of the Whole. This measure has the reputation of having passed both Houses without cut being made and in so short a space of time that it prob ably establishes a record In the Senate the bill was managed by Senator Rector and passed in 35 minutes from the time its con sideration began in Committee of the Whole In the House. under the care of Mir. Du- Lsney. it passed in 20 minutes less than the Senate record The measure carries slightly over $400,000.
 On Saturday, Nay IS. will be held the annual election of directors in every school district in the state, and at the same time the people of the state will have an op portunity to show their appreciation of the recent act of the Legislature which amend ed article 14, sec.on 5, of the state con stitution in such a way as to raise the maximum amount which may be voted by a school district for school purposes from , to mills At the same time vote will be taken oC the length of the school term and the proportion Of the tax levied which will go to teachers and to the building of school houses.
 The climax of political activity in the upper House of the Thirty-si.sth General As sembly will be reached at the end of this week with the balloting by the Senators for the position of lieutenant governor. Unusual interest attaches to the race this year owing to the large number of strong candidates in the field and the fact that the choice of the Senate for this position may at once step into the office of the executive and remain until Governor Little return5 to the state, or even longer than that.
 It is very probable that the Iron Noun tain Railroad will contest the action of the Legislature on the bill recently passed which compes that road to operate all of its pas senger trains on the Fort Smith branch through Coal Hill, a small station located on the old Iron Mountain route to Fort Smith, but which was partially abandoned when the line was straightened and i'm Drovpd tO better the service for the Dublir