The Monticellonian., 1907-02-28
THE ROUSE.

tracks and yards in Pine Bluh ta compel the Rock Island to stop trains at BclEpile
 a salary of sl 25o per annum
 Among 1 nc new bills In the House Were By Mr. Walker, to require that In enun= tics having two county seats, comfy clerks shall keep al each seat in addition tu the F. cords already kept records of marks and brands. incorporation. estraYs, advertise
 ments for sale Of delinquent lands and ee cords of lands sold the state and Ind
 vduals that the county collector shall keep one set of tax books at each seat that the sherif and collector shall keep the tax books at each seat until April to ol each year for the payment of taxes. and that the treasurer shall keep at each seat tHe funds of each of the school districts m the respective judicial districts Read first and second times
 By Mir Leigh to enable persons having claims against insurance companies that may fall ef go Into the hands of receivers. 10 consolidate such claims and sHe Jointly
 By MT McCollum, to prohibit fhe plead ing uf the statute of limitation against The right of town or city to open streets and alleys. Read first time
 At 10 the House adjourned unttl Tues day morning.
 The bill by Representative Meade to make the salaries of the chanecllors of the state uniform at S2.ahu per aaHum, which withstood an attack Monday in the House, was up again Tuesday and came out unscathed from another assault made upon IT In the shape of an amendment
 
 sentative Thomas, and was to the ehee! that ins. cad of the salaries being fixed al S2,50o per annum the amount should be l1 cents per annum. The author of the amendment said il was not offered for the purpose Of fixing conpensatlons. and thal its real object was to abolish the several i ChaneerE districts in the state | pon q viva yoee vote motion to reject the amend
 nent prevailed
 The House spent an hour and a haf or the afternoon session in discussion CT a Senate concurrent resolution mem0rialH
 Ing Congress to pass bil introduced by i Congressman ]. t. Floyd. To make ayaila0is the waters of White river. in Missouri and in Arkansas. above fOtteT for electrical purposes. without impeding navigation. The resolution was not adopted
 Measures passed upon were az follows By Mr. Anderson, tO make valid copies of certain records of Garland county dam. aged i'll the fire at Hot springs in February, 190j. was q special order and read the third time and passed;
 viding for one stenographer for the ehief | justice of the Supreme Court and i've stenographers for the associate iustieesf
 the House Committee on Judiciary offered an amendment ta authorize the justices to
 employ one stenographer at salarN CT i Sl.2O0 per annum, which was adopted < bill was introduced at this session hE | Mir Black of Sebastian for the protection i Of natural gas and mineral oils in Arkansas.
 The Barker and Coleman demurraee bills i were special orders iu tine House Netales- | l part af the morning session WIS taNea 1 ap in discussions The principal srcakeg
 was Mir. Coleman who spoke fer twa hours ] and i half for his motion to substitute 1 his bill Tor that offered by Afe Barker.
 Al the morning session drastic amend 1 meats t6 tine biIt by Nr Moore of lnde- | were adopted One in particular. lF MF. ] Coleman, prohibits the soliciting CT reeeiT 1 ing of orders for futures to be eSecuted
 in this state or elsewhere, and makes il l unlawful 10 send an order by mail. telc ] phone or telegraph for futures to he exc l cuted in this state or elsewhere and far i any teleEi aph company to deliver auN l message concerning the purchase or sale of futures or which contains a report Of 1 the purchase or sale of futures 20 House Bill No. S0 tSimpson1. to l provide room in the new state capitol as i headquarters for the Arkansas division 1 af the United Daughters of the Conteder5 ] acY amendments were adopted providing i that when provision is made for the finish 1 ing of the capitol an appropriation may i preservation of Confederate battle flags l and other historical articles, and that in i stead of the room being set aside for the l headquarters of the Daughters of the Con
 federaey 1t shall be for the filing of his- torical documents and archives.
 l New bills introduced al this session were
 By MT. Partain, to amend section Il 10 1 of kirby's Digest. relating to the clandes- l tine sale of intoxicating liquors by pro i vidlng that when a house has been leased | for lawful purposes and is used as blind | tiger" it shall be the duty of the owner
 10 cause. the tenant to vacate the house. l and if he refuses the owner siali take l steps to procure possession. It also makes 1 the running of n blind tiger" sufficient i cause fer the cancellation of lease. 1 Ky Mir. Quinn. for the protection of pas I sengers on trains and to prohibit drumming | or soliciting for, hotels, bath houses, eat I ing houses or doctors trains or plat 1 forms and at depots.
 The House Thursday refused to adopt i the motion by Representative Coleman to
 ,f-- .Ir. 1 q measure on the same subject by Repre-
 sentative Barker. The motion was under l debate the greater part of the day before i and at all of today's session after the
 The principal objection to the Coleman i bill was that 1t did not prescribe penalty i The Parker bill was ehampioned by Rep. rescntative IIartsell. Ross. Foster. ana by ] its author.
 In commemoration of the 175th anniver- l sary of the birthday of George Washing l ton the House adjourned Friday shortly 1 before noon, until Saturday morning Al i though If was Senate day only one bill l emanatng from the upper body was con l sidered Suspension of the rules for the
 consideration of House bills was the order. 1 and it was after II o'clock before the l House took uD Senate business. The one i Senate bill considered was the formation 1 of q drainage district in Phillips county.
 and half an hour was consumed in its
 reading.
 The House. which was the only body Of i the General Assembly in session Saturday. l transacted more business than on any day since the conyening of the session.
 Three especially important bills were l passed during the morning session. The l first t0 receive consideration was the bill 1 by representative Black Of Sebastian to i increase the powers of the Railroad Com | mission of Arkansas by vesting II with authority to consider petitions for the i'm l proyement of train service and the estab.
 lishment of depots, spurs, sidetracks and I platforms.
 Another bill passed was that hv Repre- | sentative Quinn which ls to prohibit drum ming or soliciting for hotels bath houses.
 doctors etc. on trains platforms or at
 The House also passed a bill by Repre-
 sentative Ross. prescribing the means by
 which foreign corporations may become
 domestic corporations. As explained by
 1T possible for the foreign corporations to
 he sned in the state courts Instead of in
 the federal courts.
 There were thirteen new bills introduced
 at thls session. most of them local in
 charaeted. twelve bills passed. the majority 1 of which were also local and many were
 advanced and referred
 Among those introduced were
 By Mir. Roby. to amend article of sec
 tion 3o95 of kirby's Digest relating to
 follows Husband and wife. for or against
 each other concerning communication
 made by one to the other during the mar | | relation subslsts or afterward. but either
 shall be allowed to testify for the other In
 regard to any other matter thing" The
 last line of the article now reads "in re
 gard to any business transacted by the
 one for the other In the capacity of agent '
 There was also introduced House Joint
 Resolution No. tCartwright9, proposing | an amendment to Amendment No s of he state constitution whereby the railway | incorporation school tax may be made gen
 eral and distributed among the various | counties and the school districts in the
 several counties Read first and second ! finss