The log cabin Democrat., 1907-03-07
THE HOUSE..

tation from the Little Rock board of trade to attend banquet on March 1. After rather spirited debate the resGiutipn t ion was and Mir. McCollum of Hope voting in the negative.
 By (Committee on Education), to make 1 the general tax levy for school purposes mills instead of 2 mills, and to provide than seven.tenths of l per cent of the assessed value of the taxable property of the district, instead of one-half of 1 per cent.
 By Mir. Killough, giving the right of eminent domain to companies generating and transmitting electricity.
 at this session, most of them of local character. Among them were:
 By Mr. Thomas to T0yde tba that the same right to hunt and fish in any county in the state as citizens of that
 By Mir. Walker, to amend section 7267 of Kirbys Digest, relating to labor on high ways, by providing that any person subject 1 75 cents per day for each day he is sub, l ject to work, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the road district in the
 By MT. Whaley, to compel all officers | of the law to enter on record the true names, of all persons arrested and to make l 1t unlawful for persons arrested to give fictitious names.
 The House Tuesday passed the fellow servant bill by Senator Kie Oldham, apply l ing to employees of railroads and coal mines. About an hour and half was spent ln discussing the measure, and on the roll passage Objections were urged that the bill was deficient in phraseology and 1t was construed by some members as apply, ing to the employees of all corporations and in addition 1t was stated that the punctua- tion of the bill was faulty, The members who suggested the defects in the bill said hoy only in order that a perfect measure might be passed, but that if It was insisted that the Oldham bill should be passed they would vote for it, which
 The afternoon session was devoted to the reading of Senate bills and twenty-four bills were read first and second times.
 The only Senate bill passed at the after noon session was one by Senator Simms prohibiting the issuance of saloon licenses outside the corporate limits or munlclpai- ities.
 The measure by Representative Meade ef the state uniform at S2,5OO per annum had a narrow margin In the House Wed nesday.- The vote was A ayes to 99 noes: which there has been so, much discussion d in the House, was passed without debate, with only one dissenting vote.
 confiscation and destruction of pistols found on persons convicted of unlawfully carrying them,. was passed.
 New DlllS inlrouuCeu ae Ihie eo''io By MT. Stevens, to provide that every person, company or corporation in tne state which shal buy, for the purpose of selling intoxicating, ,spiritqous, malt or or fermented liquors or blended spirits or h. toxicating liquor of any Kind, snail m or au, as license tax two per centum on the total amount of purchases made, which shall go to the general revenue fund Of the state. It requires that a record shall be kept of the number of gallons blended, bought for sale and ordered for another, and the. price paid or the cost r3f, of Hn the 59, a somewhat similar measure.
 By Committee on Militia, to promote the eff fciency of the Arkansas National Guard and to prescribe rules and regulations for
 By Messrs. Hamiter and Jackson. to create the office of county superintendent in each county.
 In the House Thursday afternoon the entire session was devoted to discus Killough to the bill by Representative Hazel of Poinsett county to increase the tax levy In the St. Francis levee district spending two hours and a half on the sub iect, adjournment taken without decision being reached.
 were
 By Messrs. Kizzia and Jackson. to make drunkenness at public gatherings such as
 
 Sunday school and church services, literary societies, or on trains. misdemeanor, pun Ishable by than ne ss, of not less than $1o
 My MT. Lasley. amending the drainage laws by authorizing the re-assessment of property for widening, or deepening drain, age ditches or canals, to prescribe the manner In which taxes are to be collected to create sinking fund.- and fixing penalty for obstructing drainage ditches.
 Mir McCracken introduced a bill at this session to provide for the separation of whites and negroes in public examinations for teachers license.
 Other bills introduced were of purely local character.
 At 80 o'clock the House adjourned
 For the first time during the session of the present House, the journal of the pre- s,ious days proceedings was not read Thursday. Representative Barker, who al ways insists upon the reading, was not in his seat during the early part of the mornings session, which accounts, probab ly, for it's not being read.
 The House spent much of the day Fri day in considering the roads bill by Sen ator Arnold, and amendments to exempt several counties from its provisions were adopted.
 the balance of the session, and at an early hour the House adjourned until Monday morning
 The fellow-servant bill by Senator Kle
  ed both the Senate and House, and will in few days go to the governor for his approval, is as follows; . "A Bill for an Act to Be Entitled An Act
 to Give Right of Action ast Against pssntins an Em
 to His Agents, Employees or Servants,
 Either from the Employers Negligence
 or from the Negligence of Some of Ills
 Other Employees, Servants or Agents and
 to Repeal All Acts and Parts of Acts In "Be It Enacted by the General Assembly
 of the State of Arkansas
 Section l. That hereafter all railroad companies operating within this state, whether incorporated or not, and all cor porations of every kind and character, and every company, whether incorporated or not, engaged in the mining of coal, who may employ agents, servants or employees, such agents, servants or employees being in the exercise of due care, shall be liable to respond in damages for injuries or death sustained by any such agent, employe or servant resulting from the careless omis- sion of duty or negligence of any other agent. servant or employe of the said em- DlOVpr in the and to the