The Green Forest tribune., 1907-03-15
THE HOUSE..

| By bare majority of one vote. the l House Monday passed a resolution by Rep
 resentative Jackson providing for the eX- tension of the session of the General As | sembly sixty days, or up to and includ ing May l4. It required 67 votes or two | the resolution. But one amendment was | offered to the resoution-that by Mir. Eos | ter providing for an extension of thirty | days, and it was rejected by a vote of i 70 ayes to Is noes.
 l The House passed a resolution extend
 ing thanks to James II. Berry: whose term | as United States senator expired Monday 1 for the service he has rendered the state
 and nation duing the twenty-two years he 1 spent in the upper body of the national | Much of the time of the House was de-
 voted to the bill to increase the tax levy
 in. the St. Francis levee district from six
 was reached among the members from the 1 counties in the district under which il was
 decided to accept Mir. Kilough's amend | ment to make the tax eight cents an acre | and this amendment was adopted New bills introduced were:
 By Committee on Ways and Means-mak
 legislative. executive and judicial depart
 ments of the state government, | By. MT. McCracken.-To prevent the
 abandenment of wives and children by hus i bands and fathers It makes wilfull aban | donment or failure to provide, mlsde
 meanor. punishable by fine of from %25 to | SiiDD and imprisonment Tn county jdll | of from 30 days to six months. | Mir Hunt introduced House Joint Resoiu 1 ton No. l, proposing an amendment to the
 constitution to allow cities and ineorDo | rated towns to issue bonds for public i'm | provements and to allow counties to issue
 bonds for road purposes.
 | The House spent a great deal of time | Tuesday considering the bill by Senator l Simms to enforce compliance with contracts
 in certain instances. The bill is intended
 to apply especially to negro farm hands | who contract to labor and secure provisions
 and money in advance and then fail to
 fulfill the contract. The bill narrowly es-
 caped indefinite postponement, as in mo
 tion to that effect the vote was 3o ayes | to 35 noes. It was made special order l for Tuesday morning.
 The only new bill introduced at this ses- | sion was one by Mir Rowell giving improve
 ment districts the right to assess railroad | tracks. right of way and sidetracks the
 same as other property in the district.
 The bill by Representative Balch which
 seeks to change the insurance law so thar
 any foreign or domestic corporation shall l be permitted to do business in Arkansas
 without fine or forfeiture. upon compliance
 with the insurance laws of the state, pro
 vided ii is not member of or party to any pool trust. etc. made in this state
 or elsewhere to regulate premiums on prop
 erty in this state. was called up NedneS day afternoon and placed on it's final pas
 sage. Speeches in support of the, bill were
 made by Messrs. Ralch and Beck. and in opposition by Messrs. Ruff. Foster and Meade While Mir Beck talking he
 yielded to q motion to adjourn; and he | will be the first speaker when the debate
 on the bill is resumed Thursday. The House has finally framed an anti-fu- | lures bill. and it will be known as the
 Moore tof Independence) -Heartsill bill. in
 asmuch as it embodies the principal fea- | lures of measures on the subject intro
 duced by those representatives.
 At the morning session the House passec
 the bill by Mr RqYe amending ngeut section n
 give improvement districts the right to as
 sess railroad tracks and the. right of way
 New bills introduced in the House were ::
 By Mr. Andrews to require railroad com.
 panies to establish regular pay day, not | later than the 10th of each month.
 House Joint Resolution No. ,, by AIr l Carl Lee, proposing an amendment to the l constitution whereby counties may issue 1 provides that the bonds shall at no time
 exceed the amount of ten per cent of tho assessed value of the taxable property of | the county that the rate of interest shall
 not exceed five per centum per annum and 1 that the amount and specific object for
 which bridge and roads bonds may ba is l sued and used in any one year shall be
 authorized and determined by majority
 of the electors of the county. as shown by
 the assessors book last filed at special | election for that purpose. and at Siich times
 as may be determined and fixed by the coun- 1 tvs quorum court.
 
 Ralch, which was carried over from
 Wednesdays session. was taken up
 again Thursday morning as unfinished
 took up the greater part of two days. and | which termed by Representative Jack son as rehearsal of campaign speeches
 55 noes The finishing 'ouch was put to
 the bill under motion by MT. Finley to
 reconsider the vote by which the bin failed to pass and to lay that motion on the table.
 which was adopted by vote of 3l ayes to | 37 noes.
 During the morning session the following | bills read and passed
 | By Mir. Davis. of Clark. to provide thar
 the minimum number of men employed on
 conductor. one fireman and three braFr-
 men. The bill does not apply to roads
 less than fifty miles In length where trains 1 consist of less than 9 cars or during strikes of trainmen on the lines affected. By AIr. Skaggs. to require that all ship pers and buyers of stock shall keep reg reg. | ister of the brands of their stock and that 1 station agents shall keep a record of live stock shipped amendments were adonted to include butchers. and to fix a penalty, for l failure to keep the register and for making | of false entries therein. l TrS House passed comparatively un- 1 important session Friday. Only few bills l were discussed and acted upon The fight
 of the day came over Senate Bill No. B, | by Senator Montgomery, to provide for jury trials and change of venue in cities of the | second class and in incorporated towns. and at the hour of adjournment was still pend
 ing, s..,ouu ,..no,,oos .,, .o,,ou,nr resolution at the morning session: Whereas It Is apparent to all that the citizens of this State need better insurance and:
 | fuses to bow the knees to the behest of the trusts and combines; therefore. be it Resolved by the House of Representa- tives. That the Speaker Is hereby empower. ed to appoint a committee consisting of five members of the House. whose duties shall be to prepare bill of insurance for the better protection of the people of this State.' This resolution was adopted. The bill by Senator Mckenzie to rearrange the appointment of university trustees so as to represent each of the seven congress sional districts passed by vote of T5 ayes and noes.
 The House was the only branch of the General Assembly in seSsOn Saturday. the
 Senate having adjourned Friday at noon until Monday.
 By a vote of 43 to 2S the bill by Rep resentative Duaney which authorizes and
 regulates the cancellation of liquor licenses passed the House. The bill was fought
 on the floor of the House and was referred to being much too drastic The sec tion to which particular objection was made Is the one that provides that violation of certain sections of Kirby's Digest by either the keeper of a saloon or dramshop or his employees shall be ground for the revocation of the license. and it was also contended that the section providing that after re- vocation of license no part of the tax paid shall be refunded was unjust. An attempt
 was made to place the bill back on its sec ond reading for the purpose of amendment
 but motion to that effect was lost on a tie vote.
 In accordance with a resolution adopted Friday. the Speaker announced the ap-