The Forrest City times., 1907-05-17
V Legislative \ k Proceedings ;
THE SENATE.

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 THE SENATE.
 The Senate Wednesday passed the Hoase l olf by Mir. Combs. which requires ceIz l porations 10 pay an annual franchise tax. l The bill retains many features of The old | law which was i'll force previous te the | passage uf the Ross act. and also repeals 1 the objectionable section of that act re 1 latinS tn the demesticatiou of foreign cor
 porations. The greater portion of the | bill consists in amendments which oriv# l mated in the Senate. A concurrence in
 these amendments by the House is all that
 k necessary for the hnal passage of the l act.
 The Confederate roster bill which re l ee1ved vote of N ayes to II noes. was
 declared defeated the chair holding that a o-tLirds majority was necessary in order
 t0 pass the bill
 The IIamter Jackson bill creating the
 office of county superintendent in each
 county was passed
 An effort was made to kill the bill abol | iShlng the preparatory department of the 1 State University. but II failed and the | measure was referred to the Committee on 1 Education.
 The Senate Thursday disposed of a great | deal of House business including the | adoption of two concurrent resolutions
 originating in that body. One was the 1 resolution debafrihg the state eanitol con | tractors and the architect, George k. Mann. l from any future State work. the other pro
 testing against the removal of the United
 States engineers office in Little Rock to | Memphis
 The bill providing for the maintenance 1 of the Arkansas National Guard. carrying | an appropriation of S23.aoo. was passed . | also the bill for the maintenance and sup | port of the Arkansas school for the Blind | the appropriation being $l0s.S5u being l about S1Oooo less than the appropriation | If two years ago.
 The proposed amendment to the Mcpan | iel bill calling for the election of a super | intendeut of the reform school once every l two years nstead of annually. as the bill
 provides. brought out some debate in the | SenaGe Friday. senator Rector speaking in. | favor of il. and senator Arnold opposing | it. When put to vote the amendment was
 adopted
 | The Snate went into Committee l of the Whole to consider the bill providing | for the establishing and maintenance of an | other State agricultural school. The bill is | by Glover of the House. The bill was still under consideration when recess was taken. l The Senate was i'll session a short time | Saturday morning, but very little business l Senator MeKnight's bill prohibiting lum- | Der plants and oil mills from compelling 1 their employees to work more than tel hours | explained that the act did not require that l an employe should not work more than ten 1 hours If he desired tn do so. After some | discussion the bill was finally passed by I vote of II to IL
 The Senate Monday passed the Wingo l bill repeating the Ross act with amend 1 ments which had been concurred m by the l House
 Senator oldham introduced concur.
 rent resolution requesting and directing l the State Capitol Commission To continue
 the work on the new capitol in accord
 anee with the recommendation ef tnS
 Joint Capitol Investigating Committee | The resolution was adopted and tans | mitted To the House and later was re l called on motion of Senator Wingo.
 When called up al the afternoon ses. l sion Senator Amis moved that the Vote | by which il passed the Senate be recon
 sidered. and nearly all the remainder of
 the afternoon session was consumed in dis. 1 cussing the resolution. resulting in de l feat of the motion to reconsider ii. The advancing of several local bills con. : stituted the business of the remainder of 1 the session
 The House held an informal meeting at 1 the close of the afternoon session Nednes- l day for the purpose of making arrange 1 ments for the last day of the session on
 which it k customary to hold farewell ex.
 ereses Mir. killough was made chair l man. II was decided to make presents to l the Speaker of the House and all the clerks l and attaches. Each member is being as
 sessed Sl.ao to defray the cost of the l gifts. Ky unanimous vote Mr DuLaneX 1 was elected to deliver the farewell Oration, l and MT Fletcher was chosen to make the | presentation speech in delivering the glf. ! l have served three consecutive terms in the
 lower branch of the assembly. | According 10 Mir. Kflleugh of Cross coun- l tV the resolution dtschargIug Architect
 George B Mann of the state capitei will
 be void, even 1T II passes the other braae Il | of the assembly Mann was designated bg an act ef the legislature of 1908 10 com | plete the work on the state -apitol and fl l is eoEtended that no resolution could repeal the act and the only way that the architect l CoiflI 70 Seh A.p Inc o h l repeating the aet of lao3 Mr Foster was | of the opinion. however, that the legislature 1 could repeal this particular act by a reso- | lution. However. that will be a matter fo.
 the courts to consider.
 The defeat of the capitol bin was due in ! q great measure to the opposition of Mr. | McCollum of Hampstead county. wh1 was | second in the race for sneaker this session.
 MT MeGollum has been lighting Inc reten-
 tion of Caldwell and brake and George k. 1 Mann on the capitol building, and after his 1 amendments and resolutions providing for the immediate discharge of these men had | failed. he concentrated his entire attention 1 on the killing of the hill Assisting tke gen | tleman from Tempstead in the fight was l Dr. Run of Randolph county and Mr Mar | tin of Yell
 The Fourehe drainage bill by Repre-. ea- | tatiye Pugh, which provides for the ere 1 Rttnn Of an Improvement district for the | drainage of Fourche in Pulaski couutv and 1 creating a board of directors. was passed | by the Senate. The board as provided h. i the act is composed of sam N Reyburn. 1 who is to hold office for one year Oscar | Davis. two years T. C Brown. thEea | years Bishop John R. Morris four years 1 Max lIeimaR five years N W Dickinson. | six years W. NJ. Kavanaugh, seven years.
 The Committee on State Finances re | ported that there was in the state treas | ury for the Use of general governmental 1 purposes the sum of about S4s.9o0. Sl 40.- | ooo less than there was when the legislature l began About Sll.0oO was paid out by tbt 1 treasurer Monday to members of the legls 1 lature, leaving the state with a balance in 1 the general revenue fund of about S3n 1000 | The Committee on the Auditors and Treas l urer's Books also rendered their report in l the House Monday afternoon
 House Concurrent Resolution No. 1S | providing for the discharge of George IL 1 Mann. architect of the new State capitol
 when the building is completed and pro
 vlding that he shall not be permitted tc | bid any future State work, the con | tractors. Caldwell X Drake. 10 be treated | iD the same manner. adopted unan. | mously In the Senate Thursday.
 By a resolution presented by Senator | 1oney the members of the Senate vii 1 hold caucus Friday evening at o'clocl | for the purpose of selecting a president | pro tem. of the Senate the election to b.