The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-10
THE HOUSE.

verSity of Arkansas received blow in the House when that body acting in Committee of the Whole. refused to allow an item in the general appfoDria tion bill for the support of this department. The subject will be renewed when the bill is again talk on up in the House and an effort made to restore the appropriation, but it is freely admitted by friends of the university that tha action of the House in committee is most likely to be duplicated by the House in regular session.
 The entire day was devoted to this meas ure. Item by item it was passed upon. with few being approved in the original form in which the bill had come to the House from the Senate
 Speaker Hamiter reversed a former rul- ing Monday to the effect that every ap- propration item in every bill must be passed on in Committee of the Whole, before be- ing brought up in the House. and under this reversed ruling there may be more progress made in the future in disposing of these bills.
 For the first time during the session the House called to order at s 30 in the morning. and there was no quorum. Al ter about fifteen minutes of waiting the sergeant at-arms had organized delinquents sufficient to begin the proceedings.
 A half million dollar issue of bonds was authorized by the Legislature Tuesday when after one of the hardest floor fights of the session the House passed the Harrison bill authorizing the St. Francis Levee Board to float bonds in this sum for the improvement Of the levee work in the St. Francis levee basin and to take up bonds that are now due.
 Single handed. Mir. Killough of Cross fought against the passage of the measure, not obiecting oyer seriously to the issuance of the bonds as provided for under the bill. but attempting to delay 1t until other legis- lation could be enacted which would re quire that no member be allowed to serve or the board having in hand this bond is sue who had not for q period of 90 days previous to his appointment been land owner in the basin affected.
 Messrs Lasley, Moore of St. Francis and Hazel spoke for the Harrison bill They de clared that the people of the St Francis leyee district were satisfied with the board at present and that there was no reason for change except to satisfy political grievance.
 During the afternoon session the House finished the university appropriation bill. acting in Committee of the Whole The Branch Normal appropriation bill was ad- vanced by receiving two readings.
 Following the passage of the bill Tues day which authorized the St. Francis Le- vee Board to issue bonds in the sum of S300,000. the second leyee fight of the session took place Wednesday morning over
 The House took time before noon ad. journment to listen to the report of the committee on the Moore IIeartsil bill Un- der the report no blame was fixed for the ',doctoring' of the bill, but Chief Clerk Ed Lucas was criticised for his careleSsness in handling the bill, and for having it en- rolled by the expressing clerk when the enrolling clerk was the proper one to have done it.
 The greater part of the afternoon sion of Wednesday was devoted to con tinuance of the discussion of the Bishop bill. which had been taken up in the fore noon
 The House adjourned in an uproar of excitement over the third reading of bill for working convicts the roads.
 The appropriation for the preparatory department in the University of Arkansas. which has been the subject of attack in past Legislatures. is to be abolished under q bill which passed the House Thursday, if the bill becomes law. The bill was was the subject of a three-hour discussion. much of which had been covered formerly when the appropriation bill was being passed upon.
 The sum of s5o.0oo is appropriated for the establie bment and maintenance of a State Agricultural and Horticultural school under bill that passed the House without any discussion. and with but one dissenting vote. The bill is endorsed by the agricultural organizations of the state.
 A night session was agreed on. at which time only local bills should be consider ed.
 The report of the Joint Committee on State Capitol, on which the members of the committee have been working since the De- ginning of the session. was read in the Gp- per House Friday morning. but no actiGn will be taken until next week. when the members of the senate VII! nave had d presented to the committee ana consider their recommendations.
 The Mckenzie anti-clsarette bill occn- nied the attention of the House through ont the greater part of Friday morning, and after a prolonged discussion was passed
 Committee on the State Capitol investi- cation occupied more than an hour and half of the Friday afternoon session. Al it's close Mr. Hunt. submitted resolution which was read twice. and which prohibits the present architect and contractors from beng interested in any manner in future appropriations. The resolution IS aS iol
 ..Re it Resolved by the House of Repre- sentatives of the General Assembly or ,,,; AT Eansas. the Senate concurrlng thefein' ihal tbe Board of Commissioners Of the new state capitol building are he:-by directed to recuire the architect and contractors to complete their contracts on said pc-in4ns and that said contractors ana the attAitett he then discharged and not permitted to make bids on the additional work pro- vided fer by this Legislature.
 The second attempt made within the mittee from the Legislature to Visit coy ernor John <. Little at Corpus Chrlsh. Tex, was frustrated saturday Tn me liouse, when a resolution to this effect lntrouueeo by Mr. White of Logan county. was iHuSn nitely postponed by vote Of 39 10 -, The resolution asked only for the appoint ment of committee Of three rom 'he Uouse the Senate being excluded, since |, had expressed its distaste for the pro nosed investigation the day before py vote of 2S to ?. Under the White measure th ecommittee was to proceed 10 leAas ahu investigate the mental and physical con ,dition of Governor Little and report the results to the Legislature.
 The appr, erlation bill for the State Hospital for Nervous niSeases' slsed @nssii be House l5 minutes after it had been piaceo in Committee of the Whole.
 A bll by Mir. Scrimshire of Dallas coun tv making it a felony to sell nQuof ID temperance territory passed by vote oi
 The he Walker bill and the measure, by MT. Hamilton of Polk, both designenaa n,o 1e of the state by all children between the ages of and il. were both considered to gether and the House decided to give ies support to the measure by Mr. Hamilton from the provisions O. the Dill. mostly pS the black belt representatives who were op posed to forcing education on the negroes
 The climax of political activity in the upper House of the Thirtysixt General AS se!nby will be reached at the end Of this week with the ballotins by the senatofs for the position of lieutenant gonernoh tti. I-n,s,lal interest attaches to the race thls venr owinr 10 the large number of strong sardidates in the field and the fact that the choice of the Senate for th.s position m,y at once step into the office of the eyecutiye and remain until Governor Little returns to the state, or even longer thar that.
 An exhaustive hearing was given citizens of Ionoke county Monday night by the IIouse Committee on Agriculture on the subject of the repeal of the fourwire fence ;,, in, ha n art of that county and extending into Pulask enuntr petiIinns for and againSt the re