The Forrest City times., 1907-03-01
THE HOUSE.

phone or telegraph for futures 10 be exc cuted in this state or elsewhere. and for any telegraph company to deliver any message concerning the purchase or sale If futures or which contains report of the purchase ar sale of futures
 To House Bill No. so simpson. to provide room in the new state capitol as headquarters for the Arkansas division of the United Daughters of the tunfeder- acy. amendments were adopted providing that when provision k made for the finish ing of the capitol an appropriation may preservation of Confederate hattie flags and other historical articles, and that in stead of the room being set aside for the headquarters of the Daughters of the Con federacy it shall be for The filing of his- torical documents and archives.
 New bills introduced at this session were
 Ky Mr. Partain, to amend section 'i4o of ktrhys Digest. relating 10 the clandes= tine sale of intoxicating liquors. by pro viding that when house has been leased for lawful purposes and is Used blind tiger, il shall be the duty of the owner to cause the tenant to Yacate the heuse and if he refuses the owner shall take steps to procure possession. II also makes the running of q blind tiger sufficient cause for the cancellation ef lease
 By Mir quinn for the protection of HaSz sengers oh trains and to prohibit drumming ar soliciting for hotels bath hou~es cat ing houses or doctors on trains or plat forms and at deuotS
 The House Thursday refused ta adopt the motion hv Representative Coleman ta make his demurrage bill substitute for a measure on the same subject by Repre- sentative Barker. The motion was under debate the greater part of 'the day before and at all of today's session after the morning hour
 The principal objection to the Coleman bill was hat il did not prescribe penalty against the railroads.
 The Barker bill was ehampianea hr Rep resentattve ilartseH. Ross. Foster. and by Its author
 In ecmmemoration of the 10th anniver SarY of the birthday uf George Washing ton. the House adjourned Friday shortly before noon. until Saturday morning Al though Ii was Senate day only one bia emanating from the upper body was con Sdered. Suspension of the rules for The consideration of House bills WAS the order and II was after II o.cIork before the House took up Senate business. The one Senate bill considered was the formation of a drainage district in Phillips county. and half an hour was consumed in it's reading
 The House. which was the onlv hadv ot the General Assembly in session Saturday. transacted more business than on any day since the converting of the session
 Three especially Important bills were passed during the morning session The first to receive consideration was the bill ny representatiye Black of Sebastian ta increase the bowers of the Railroad Com mission of Arkansas hF VeSting 1T With authority to consider petitions for the fn- proyement If train service and the esfab,= IlshInent of depots- spurs. sidetracks and
 Another bill passed was that be Repre- sentative Quinn which x to prohibit drum ming or soliciting for hotels. bath houses doctors. ete. oh trains. platforms or at depotS
 The irase also passed btl by ftcpfo sentative Ross. prescribing the means by which foreign corporations may heeaine tsmestlc corporations As explained iy Nr Ross, the purpose of the biIi is ,u make II possible for the foreign corporations To be sued in the state courts instead of Tn the federal courts.
 There Were thirteen new bills introduced at this session. most of them local in rharacted. twelve bills pa ssed. fhe majority of which were also local. and many were advanced and referred
 Among those introduced were
 By Mr Roby. 10 g,nend article i of see tion 3o95 of kirby& Digest. relating to the incompteney of witnesses. to read as follows Husband and wife for or against each other. sr Cosaerntng communication made by one to he other during the mar- riage. whether called a- witness while that relation subsists or afterward. but either shall be allowed to testify for the other fin regard To any other matter or thi.. The last line of the article now reads in re gard r. .nf business transacted hy thc one for the other in the capacity of agent 90
 There was also introduced House .TGfut Resolution No. ; ttartWright, proposing an amendment To Amendment No of the stat" constitution whereby the railway incorporation school tax may he made gen eral and distributed among the yar'aH4 counties and the school di~triets in tfr several counties. Read first and second times
 The Honse spent considerable time Mon day. discussing resolution by MT Thomas Of Columbia, declining 10 accept an inv, tatior from the Little Rock board sf ffadr to attend banquet on March : After rather spirited debate the resolution was indefinitely postponed. with Mir Thomas and Mr. AfGollam of Hope voting in thr negative.
 House bills passed at this session wore :.
 By tfummittee on EdGeatiout tn =uak. the general tax levy for school pllrpnsrs ; mills Instead of rlills. and to proytde than seven tenths ef l per cent If t6e assessed value of thc taxable property ei the district. Instead ef one half af per
 By Mr Kiiloueb. giving the rigbt c. eminent domain to companies generating and transmitting electricity.
 There were twelve new bills introduced at this Sess on most of them of local ehafaetef Among them were
 fly MT h"mas, To provide that here The same right to hunt and fish in am, county In the state as citizens of inat :. ty Mr Walker To amend section 7aG7 of Kirby Digest. relating tn labor on hich ways by providing That any person subject l9 work un eeads and highways may pav .' cents per day for each day he is sub
 
 tp The credit If the road district in the
 Hx Mir Waaley To compel all officers ef The law to enter on record the true names of all persons arrested and to make t unlawful for persons arrested to give hctuous names
 The House Tuesday passed The fefIov servant biil by Senator kie Oldham. applv. ing te employe~ of railroads and coal mines Ahot an hour and hall was spent in hSfnsSins l the measure. and on lhc roll call there WAS onlv one vote against ifa passage Objections were urged that Tn, bitl Nas deficient in phraseology and if Was eunS'rued hv some members as auals.- lhs t9 the employees of all corporations and Ia addition II was stated that the puuefua ton of the bill was fad-v. rac men. hers who suggested the defects in the HfN said they did so only in oider tir, ., Berfect mea-qre might he passed. hHt if 1T WaN iuslSted that tAe Oldhs ri nil sh6utd be be based they would yote 5or it. which
 The afternoon session vas devoted ,o t,. reading ot Senate bil5s and tweiasr=fa,Ie tiiIs i.Is "sre read drSt and seaond ms
 Hr only Senate hiil passed ei ths after h7"a session Was eue by Senator Sfmms prohibiting the uaace of ..uon ttceasss o1I .5 side the cotl'elaie limits of tau4icipal