The Huttig news., 1907-05-18
THE HOUSE.

y for the contingent expenses of the Legls, lature was passed as was. also the bill for the support of the Confederate Home;
 stone dome for the new state capitol building, as a substitute for the copper dome that had been anticipated in former plans, was approved in the House when pletion of the new building the lower legislative body decided to grant every item just as the Investigating Committee
 A bili authorizing the teaching of eie- mentary agriculture in the public schools was also passed.
 ands-ssd twice The bill appropriates Of $5O00 for the use of the at & general In securing counsel to help p5 the many cases under the King
 After debating the matter for four hours the amendment to the capitol appropria- tion bill introduced by MT. McColum of Hampstead county. providing for the the contractors of the new state capitol and George Mann, the architect, and the employing of new men to complete the publishing of bids for the remainder of the labor and the material involved.
 The Senate Bill by. Judge Mcdaniel. pro- viding for the organization of mutual live stock insurance companies in the state, was passed in the House yesterday morn ing An attempt to call up the bill by EoCudiol " lnSo. ulOuIlylHS lue hOsS dSl Tor the domestication of foreign .corpor- atioons. for second reading, failed by 2, large vote A measure appropriatins Sl5,000 for the establishment of a state normal school, by the same author, was read twice. and referred to the Committee on Education
 Other bills passed were
 By Senator Legate, appropriatng $1 800 for geological survey of the state depos it's of the state.
 By penitentiary Committee. appropriat- ing SCU.UOO for the . lntiOD itentiary.
 The House Wednesday again uefeated an attempt on the part of Mr. McColum of Hampstead county to have Caldwell & Drake and George Mann immediately dis charged and new men secured to complete the work on the new State capitol. On Tuesday the proposition was defeated by vote of 47 to 40, while on Wednesday the defeat was by a vote of 46 to 40
 The Hunt resolution. however, which pro. Vides Tor the discharge of the architect, George k. Mann, and the contractors. Cald- well x Drake. immediately after the com them to bid on future State work, was adopted by vote of 5S to 90.
 ', A bill by MT. Thompson. amending the law relating to bribery was passed The measure does not increase the penalties like the bill introduced in tie Senate by Senator Yopp. but defines bribery so as to 6 embrace li the giving of presents to an inter The resolution by Senator Rowland. au thoriZng the attorney general to begin suit against the railroads for the recovery of S30.000 taxes due since 1887, was passed by unanimous vote.
 By a vote of 5 to B the House repealed act 1s5, the Ross bill. for the domestica ton of foreign corporations, which is the measure which would have had the effect of keeping some of the largest corporations in the country from doing business in Ar Kansas The vote came on an amendment to the Wingo Senate bill fixing the fees to be charged foreign corporations doing business in the State. offered by MT. Cole man of Arkansas county Under this amendment the Ross act is repealed and aWinaaAs shlis-sa esz-Aifec mne Aiate1 if it is passed, alIti not in 90 days as was pro vfded in the Ross bill.
 The Greenhaw pure food bill. a copy of the national law passed the House with only one dissenting vote.
 The Patterson blind tiger bill was passed by large vote. Under the provisions of the measure the landlord of a house Is ia- ble to a fine and imprisonment if he allows blind tiger to be conducted on his prop erty provided that the occupant shall have been convicted twice of the illegal selling of liquor. The measure is almost a copy of the Partain House bill which has passed the lower branch and is now in the Senate.
 The House Friday passed the bill by Senator Yopp providing that change of venue can be taken only when the court finds it necessary to get justice by so doing. also the bill by Senator Lee giving cities of the first class additional power to regulate the erection, raging repairing of build ings therein
 After several days wranglng the House finally approved the Wingo bill repeating the Ross law by vote of 6i to %, having voted down the motion to re- consider the vote by which the Coleman amendment was adopted Thursday
 After three days of hard fighting the House Saturday night, by vote of D to ha int hv ha Jojpt Committee on State Capitol, apjpropriating three hundred and twenty-five thousand dol lars for the erection of a stone dome on the state house and fixing the marble work in the structure
 The defeat of the measure marked the continuation of a controversy that has been thrashed out on every husting in the State and leaves the date of the completion of the state house some time in the indefinite future.
 were:
 By Senator Goodwin. requiring railroads to use searchlights of 1.5O0 candlepower.
 By Mr. CarlLee. repeating the Patterson act fixing standard price to be allowed sheriffs for the feeding of prisoners.
 Hon. John H. Hamilton of Polk county. who has been ill for several days. was com pelled to be absent from the House Thurs day afternoon. He announced his inabil- ity to be present in note to the Speaker MT DuLaney, who was on the hoor speak yielded and Mr. Hamitno's compulsory edu- cation bill. House Bill No. 397. was called m and passed number of counties have been exempted from the provisions of the bill. but friends of the measure feel that they have made step forward in getting the law in a few counties. They claim strate to the remainder of the counties the benefits to be derived therefrom.
 Capt. Willie B. W. Heartsill of Sebastian o1c hon nd vUo C wellnigh unable to be on the floor. In the forenoon he was under the care of phy- scian, although in the House, and in the afternoon attempted to speak to the passage of his county officer salary bill which he called up for final action. Ordinarily vigorous speaker. he was not able to pre- cant hi. case in his uSual forcihlp manner