The Forrest City times., 1907-05-10
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THE SENATE.

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 THE SENATE.
 Senator Pindall presided over th. de Alterations of the Senate Wednesday morn ing. The reading of the journal was dis pensed with and the work began at once on the special ord1s.
 The Senate Wednesday afternoon killed the Cloud Goodwin anti gambling bill by one vote. The measure iS copy of the ia nous Wilson anti gambling bill that was doetored and rendered invalid six years after it had passed both Houses. The bill considered Wednesday provides heavy pen altes in cases whtre officers of the law fall to prosecute gamblers In cases where the infractions of the law have been brought to their notice. The general oplnier e+ the Senate was tbat the penalties In the bill were too drastic and that there were enough anti gambling bills the statute books already if the officers of the law would enforce them.
 The Ehoton bribery law was in the Sen ate for several hours Wednesday. Under this measure which was prepared by Prose cutting Attorney Ehotof of Pulaski county at the request of the committee appointed to cooperate with him earlier in the sion, the receiver of bribe Is made as liable as the giver. and soliciting and re- cetyng are placed on the same footing. The maximum penalty is also raised from two years in the peaitentiary to i've years. Senator Holland was of the opinion that under the bill a man could be convicted
 
 aceomplce. and the bill was placed back on its second reading for the purpose ot amendment
 Senator Yopp presided over the delib- eratiorA of the Upper House Thursday mornils The reading of the journal was dispensed with and the special orders were taken in hand.
 Senator Rowland introduced a bill Thurs day morning appropriatng S25.Oo to pay the mileage and per diem of the members ,.f tI | Ia.,iaI trpa fha DrU iu tian of S1O0.00o having run out.
 The Wlngo bill. providing Tor the estab. lishment of a state normal school, passed the Senate Thursday afternoon with only five dissenting votes. The measure r!es an appropriation of sl5.0oo. reduc- ton of $20.000 in the amount carried in If the bill the town giving the ground and S3J. 900 for building will secure the school
 The reading of the journal was dis peused with Friday morning, and Senator Wifgo was called tn the chair.
 With only one dissenting vote that of morning passed the bill introduced into the House by Judge Martin of Grittenden. repeating the bill of civil rights, other wise known as chapter l9 of the statutes | of Arsansas This is the first time in the memory of the present generation that an Arkansas Legislature has repealed whole chapter of the statutes at one time. The Rowland bill. appropriating S2o,Qoo for the per diem and mileage of the mem l bers of the Legislature. passed the Senate | without any trouble.
 Senator Oldham sent up the report of the Joint Capitol Commission, the results Of the labors of that body since the second week of the session in Investigating the state house The minority report of Sena tor otis Wingo of Seyer was read at the conclusion of the regular report.
 The surprise of the session was sprung in the Senate Monday afternoon when the upper house passed a bill introduced ny senator Milan exemMing Ga-land Gpdhty from the provisions of the Amis Dill pro hibitng all kinds of betting in "nnhectloh with horse-raCiug. nder the provisions of the measure no racing season ea~ last longer than 10 days. and all counties holding agricultural fairs are entitled to the same privileges as Garland under the bill The presidents announcement that inc bill had passed was q great sur prise as no one had expected such re suit 1hc vote on the bill l5 t0 II.
 The penltentiary appropriation bili car rying a quarter If T million dollars was passed also the bill for the support If Station. carrying S30.000.
 bill for the domestication of foreign cor porajions. was passed. nder the proVls- ions of the measure which to large extent Is q re-enaetment of the old statute. q corporation before being allowed To de business in the state must file with the retary of state articles of lncorpora- ton. and also q certificate containing the name of the person residing in the state upon whom service may be had. Every court in the state shall have turisdietion over the corporations that do business in the district dominated by said court
 The Senate Tuesday in Committee of the Whole. adopted that section of the R0bb bill appr-riating Slo 900 to re store the master rolls of the Arkansas troops in the Confederate service, and passed the Abercrombie bill. which pro vdes for the working of conyicts on The public road. all counties except 'i2 being exempted from The provisions of the act.
 The bill by Mr. oldham providing for the punishment of any person who sends warning to another for the purpose oi intimidation was passed in the Senate.
 Several important House bills were con sidered and advanced to a stage where when taken up again, they may be finally disposed of
 The second section of the Ross bill the one which has proven objectionable To the foreign corporations which II demands shall become domestic. was prepared before the Senate Committee on Corporations when that body had the bill up for con sideratiOn. Mir. Ross wrote the section and IL was later adopted
 The reason the section was added" said Mr. Ross. was that il was believed the bill would be incomplete without 1t. In der the section the foreign companies are to be pnder the same control and subject to the same rules as local corporations They are given equal privileges therefore subjected to all the same conditions To have left this section out would have left a discrimination which might have inyali. dated the bill. would oppose the repeal of the second section Of the bill. That Kind of measure would practically repeal the purpose of the whole affair. and l wlit np- pose it. and endeavor To have the law stand as the Senate and House have ap' proved IL :"
 MT Ross does not ike the suggestion that his measure passed under false eolors-
 
 The Mcdaniel bill which modihes many of the features of the Ross act, affecting foreign corporations doing business In Ar kansas is made a special order in the Senate for Monday, and promises To be of the most important matters to De considered by the Legislature in the week. The biii has been read twice In the Sen ate IL k expected that il will be given third reading Monday and will reach the House Tuesday. Friends Of the measure are hopeful of its final enactment. since a great majority of those affected by it. who have expressed an opinion, Lave na objee- tion 70 it II k reported that many state officials who have examined the Meltaniel bill carefully are convinced that 1T Is fair measure and will mol oppose its pas sage Unless opposition Dot now expected springs from some unexpected source, II Is thought that the bill will be given first and second reading in the House Tuesday