Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-03-07
NO. 49,.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.


ployer for Injuries or Death Resulting
to His Agents, Employees or Servants.
Either from the Employer 5 Negligence
or from tho Negligence of Some Of His
Other Employees, Servants or Agents. and
20 Repeal All Acts and Parts Of Acts In
Conflict Herewith
BE II Enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Arkansas
Section /. That hereafter all railroad
whether incoFporated or not, and ali cor
porations of every kind and character, ana
every OF coa vS S9
may employ agents, servants or employees,
such agents. servants or employees being
In the exercise of due care, shall be liable
10 respond in damages for injuries or death
sustained by any such agent, employe or
servant resulting from the careless omls-
agent, servant or employe OF the said EN-
ployer in the same manner and 10 the
same extent as it the carelessness, omis-
sion of duty or negligence causing the in
jury or death was that of the employer.
Sec. >. That all laws and parts of
laws in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed, and that this act shall take effect
and be in full force from and after its
passage.
A bill by Representative Thompson of
Independence county, TO redistrlct the
chancery districts of the state and under
which several of the present Chancery Courts
would have been abolished. lived but a few
moments. 1t provided for only five chan
Gerry districts to be composed of the follow
First Distriet-Lonoke Pulaski, White.
Second District-Garland, Hot Spring
Third Observation-Disclosures Jefferson, Lee
and Phillips
Fourth Lafayette, Little River,
Fifth District Crawford. Franklin. Mad
ison, Sebastian. Washington and Benton.
Under the general appropriation bill that
will be presented in the House by the Com
mittee on Ways and Means the Railroad
oV,,iz- -fNy, he RfsAh
to get along with a smaller office force
than it has had since it was created.
The bill provides for the consolidation of
the offices of secretary and rate clerk. and
provides that the stenographer shall be
the assistant secretary. The clerical force
e. present consists of a secretary, rate
secretary has been $1,000 per annum. but
under the new bill the salary OF the see
retary-rate clerk will be but $l,i00 per
GEnum.
The Senate special committee 10 act on
the ant-futures bills. six in number. pend
ing in the Senate, held a meeting Thursday
in the Senate chamber and decided to
report a bill which will probably be made
was the unanimous verdict of the com
mittee that legitimate operations, such as
would give farmers and cotton growers the
right to hedge on the markets. should
not be interfered with The members OF
the committee expressed themselves in
favor of allowing legitimate board deals
where actual delivery is contemplated.
The Joint Penitentiary Committee has
returned from a personal inspection of the
state farm at Cummins. which had been
begun Friday morning. The committee re
farm, the convicts orderly and well cared
for, the buildings clean and the food suf1i-
cient The entire farm was gone over, and
II was found that much improvement has
been made. The manner in which affairs
are conducted was a complete surprise TO
many members of the committee who state
m over m u n
excess of what had been expected.
miners and Of the operators of mines,
have appeared before the Senate Com
mittee ON Mines, and presented their
claims. The operators argued for the
repeal of the law on the ground that II
il remains the statutes it will result in
either loss to the mine owners or an
hat It is necessary for their S Protection
and that the public will in way be
inconvenienced by its enforcement.
number of county officers Of Chicot
county appeared before the Senate Com,
mittee Claims Monday in behalf of
the Simms bill which provides for an
appropriation of $500 to reimburse Chicot
state from yellow fever two years ago.
ltemized accounts are submitted and the
will probably be little opposition to the
passage OF the appropriation bill in the
Senate.
Senator Patterson, in a vigorous fight
on the patent medicine bill introduced by
senator Greenhaw, intmated that outside
patent medicine concerns had spent much
money in Little Rock in the defeat of his
bill on the same subject. The charges
but it is stated that an investigation will
follow, in which the manner of conducting
haw bill as against the Patterson bill win
be taken up.
a bill to establish an eight-hour day
for railroad telegraph operators, whose
duties pertain to the movement of trains,
wll be Introdgeed in the hegisIiaaturs
operators in Arkansas. and they will make
an earnest effort for its passage. A SINH
land Legislature and has also been intro
duCed in the Missouri Legislature and has
passed the House.
A resolution will probably be introduced
in the General Assembly sometime this
emit session forty or sixty days, Such eS-
tension seems necessary at the present
stage as under the constitution 1t will con
it is extended by resolution adopted by
both Senate and House and there is much
legislation yet to be done.
Representatives Black of Sebastian, Old
ham and Coleman. who were appointed a
of a pamphlet circulated among members
of the House rejecting upon Representa-
tives LEIGH and Ba1ch of Pulaski county
began their work Thursday. They inter
viewed several persons. but none of the
committee will state the range the inquiry
has taken.
Petitions were read in the House Wed
nesday from citizens of Stamps for the
passage of a better fire insurance law
from citizens of Craighead county against
the bill seeking to Increase the tax levy
in the st. Francis Levee District from
citizens OF Dardanelle for the passage of
the Balch fire insurance bill, and from the
W; C. I. o., for the passage of Senate
Bill 100, an anti-cigarette measure.
At the morning session of the House
Monday the bill by Representative Simp-
son to provide room rooms In the
new state capitol in which to store battle
records and other Confederate relics, was
passed by vote of AZ ayes to Al noes,
but a motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill passed and to lay that mo-
ton on the table failed of adoption.
In accordance with concurrent resolu.
ton by Representative Rlack of Sebas.
tan county. Speaker Ham.ter yesterday
Tod Dat,,,o ,4nfiv a IIort sill Il