Woodruff County news., 1907-05-16
THE HOUSE.

T l mittee from the Legislature to visit 3ov- ! ernor John $. Little at Corpus Christi, l Tex, was frustrated Saturday in the House, when a resolution to this effect, introduced l by Mir. White of Logan county. indefi- nitely postponed by vote of 39 to 23 | The resolution asked only for the appoint ment of committee of three from the | had expressed it's diStaste for the pro- | posed investigation the day before by a vote of 2S to 2 Under the White measure. investigate the mental and physical con | dition of Governor Little and report the results to the Legislature
 The appropriation bill for the State | Hospital for Nervous Diseases, which car ries slightly over $400,000, passed the House 15 minutes after it had been placed
 in Committee of the Whole.
 A bill by Mr. Scrimshre of Dallas cOun- | ty. making it a felony to sell liquor in temperance territory, passed by vote of | 40 to 35.
 The Walker bill and the measure by MT. Hamilton of Polk, both designed to enforce attendance in the public schools | of the state by all children between the ! ages of 6 and 14. were both considered to- | gether. and the House decided to give it's support to the measure by MT. Hamilton | of Polk. Nearly 40 counties were exempted | from the provisions of the bill, mostly by | the black belt representatives, who were op- 1 posed to forcing education on the negroes.
 Appropriation bills were given the right | of way in the House Monday. The bill | by Senator Rowland apprOpriating S250oU 1 for the contingent expenses of the Legis l lature was passed as was also the bill | for the support of the Confederate Home | A 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 acting on the committee bill for the com pletiOn of the new building the lower legislative body decided to grant every
 item just as the Investigating Committee
 A bill authorizing the teaching of eie mentary agriculture in the pubic schools was also passed.
 One new bill was presented in the House and read twice. The bill appropriates the sum of S5,OOO for the use of the at torney general in securing counsel to help prosecute the many cases under the King antitrust law.
 After debating the matter for four hours the House Tuesday defeated by seven votes the amendment to the capitol approprla
 tion bill introduced by AIr. McCoIlum or Hampstead county providing for the the contractors of the new state capitol, and George Mann. the architect. and the employing emp VII ,, or new men to complete t"e 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 senator Wingo. modifying the Ross act for the domesticaton of foreign corpor- ations, for second reading, failed by
 a large vote. measure appropriatins Sl0OO0 for the establishment of state normal school. by the same author. was read twice. and referred to the Committee on Education.
 Other bills passed were:
 By Senator Legate. appropriating S1 800 for geological survey of the state depos- ;tan4i,',, --...-...-
 ing $60,0O0 for the completion of new pen ttentiary.
 The House Wednesday again uefeated an attempt on the part of AIr. McColium of liempstead county to have Caldwell ( Drake and George Mann immediately df, charged and new men secured to complete ne work on the new State capitol On Tuesday the proposition was defeated by vote ot 47 10 40, while on Wednesday the deieat was by vote of 46 to 10.
 The Hunt resolution however which pro. Eldes for the discharge of the architect George R, Mann and the contractors. Cald- well, vel X Drake a immediately after the. com pletlon Of the State capitol, and forbiddinr them to bid on future State work was adopted by vote of JS to 30
 bill by Mir. Thompson amending thr law relating 10 bribery. was passed. The measure does not increase the penalties like the bill introduced in the Senate h Senator 1opD. but defines bribery so as ested public official
 The resolution by Senator Rowland au- thorizing the attorney general to begin suit against the railroads for the "ecove. of $30.000 taxes due since 1887. wa passed by q unanimous vote.
 By vote of B to B the House repealed act 1S3, the Ross bill for the domestica. tion of foreign corporations which is tho measure which would have had the efec of keeping some of the largest corporations in the country from doing business in Ar. nmPndmFn- to the Wingo Senate bill fixing the fees to be charged foreign corporations doing man of Arkansas county Under this amendment the Ross act is repealed and the Wingo bill takes effect mmediatelyif vided in the Ross bill
 The Greenhaw pure food bill, copy of the national law passed the House with only one dissenting vote.
 The Patterson blind tiger bill was passed by q large vote. Under the provisions rf. the measure the landlord of a house ss lia. ble to fine and Imprisonment if he allows a blind ti"er to be conducted on his prop erty provided that the occupant shall have been convicted twice of the illegal selling or ltGuor. The measure is almost a cop 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 Iopp providing that change of venue can be taken only when the courr finds 1t 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 wrangling the House finally approved the Wingo bill repeating the Ross law by vote of 64 to %, having voted down the motion to re consider the vote by which the Coleman amendment was adopted Thursday.
 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- itv to be present in note to the Speaker Mir DuLaney, who was on the floor speak ing to an amendment to the Wingo bill, yielded and Mr. Hamiltnos compulsory edu- cation bill, House Bill No. 397. was called up and passed. A 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 that with this to work they can demon strate to the remainder of the counties the benefits to be derived therefrom.
 Capt Willie E. w. Heartsll of Sebastian county has also been i'll, and Thursday was wellnigh unable to be on the floor. h the forenoon he was under the care of phy- sician, although in the House, and in the afternoon attempted to speak to the passage of his county officer salary bill which h