The Mena weekly star., 1909-05-13
TILL FIGHTING
 OVER RAGING BILL
lends of the ''Game" Unable to Get N Before the House -H Hamilton Educational Bill Passes Senate Viaduct Bill in Senate.

t Reck, Ak. May g.
 X !. racing bill occupied the mos
 40 ninent spo, before the housl
 x terday despite tue fact that i
 u not called up. Opponents o
 4a,e bill fuu ghi u Si { out reg
 <. order" which would have 'hpe n the roll call for The introduce |};nn or adv incement of local .,4e a sures, aud to operate under a .ss pensinn of the rules through .,l the day. They were success |Ial in that respect, although their x<peaied efforts to adjourn the house met with no success. The tx,ends of the bill called for "reg 4.Iar ordet" time after time, but uere not successful in getting it, 1h hhough they succeeded in de- the motions to adjourn.
 Fifteen bills were passed, two defeated, one introduced and ten Miners considered.
 A bill relating to the payment of employees by corporations, ~bich would kill the semi-month. If pay day act, was indefinitely I,ostponed.
 The Oldham bii., approprlating <l7 }, GOO in connection with the settlement ot the capitol contro- t{rsy, was read once. Before it ~as read the fist time a motion Was made to table II and another |0 indefinitely poApole, but both xere ruled out f order until the bill bad been read. Neither mo- |iDn was made after the first read |ng.
 # A slight brush followed the iecond reading of the bill to re- |nburse J. A. Pitcock. An 6mendment was offered aud de- 3ated. There were several dis nssious during the morning ses lion, but in the afternoon prdc- ically the entire time was devot- kt 10 the passage of bills.
 & Friday more business was ransacted II the senate than dur |ng any day of the week and Rhen the body adjourned 1t was |p Monday morning at 9:30 rclock.
 There were 21 bills passed dur ng the morning session, 70 ac- fluccd and o1e defeateds the lai- |er being d measure appropriat- ng Sl0,000 for the relief of suf- |erers from the recent storm. House bill No. 9, by II amiton Ii Polk, providing tor compulsory |chooi attendance in Scotr, Polk, cleburne, Baxter. Franklin, Se- bastian and Yell counties passed, Ives 34, noes o.
 House bill No. 800, by Hamil- lon of Polk, requiring the Kansas City Southern Railway Company To build viaduct at Mena, was lead twice and made special or. Der for Monday morning.
 The only bill over which there was any discussion of consequence was house bill No. 24, by MT. ToIer, regulating the manner in winch corporations shall arrange Tor the employment of physicians for their employees. The bill was finally amended so as to be oper- ative in nine counties. It will come up in the senate Monday morning as special order. Polk county is not included.
 The Fletcher bill providing for the establishment of a second in- sane asylum, was amended SC that the $200,000 necessary for the purchase of a site and the construction of the building shall come out of the general revenue fund instead of being secured by a one-fourth mill special tax levy as the original bill provided. The measure was passed in this shape
 Senator FletcheT's blll reliev
 ing Superintendent J. A. Pitcocl -ltom the payment of the hut
 imposed upon him by the Pulask
 Chancery Court for conte&lpt Il
 tlking the convicts from th'
 Dickinson brick gard, was passe'
 by the Senate, also the bill az
 propriating s42c,000 fu the sup