Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-15
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

7 DR.. SHIRLEY of Paris, president Of
the State Anti-Tuberculosis Society,
addressed the members of the General
Assembly in favor of the bill that has
passed the Senate TO establish tu-
! berculosis sanitarium in Arkansas. DR..
| SHIRLEY sale 5000 persons die in Ar
kansas each year from tuberculosis.
and that the disease, as rule, strikes
down its victims in the prime of their
lives. tuberculosis, he said, is not
now considered a hereditary disease,
but an infectious disease. 1t is infec-
lions through food, drink and air and
net more rnan one-fourth of the peo-
pie are immune from the bacilli, the
doctor stated. Speaking of prevent
ives, he said that cleanliness was one
of the first requisites and with it
wholesome food, good air, light and
water are necessary. The doctor said
the disease is not only preventable,
but durable. The campaign against
tuberculosis began in 1882, and since
that time the death rate from tuber-
reduced almost one-half The doctor
compared the consumptives of the
state to a standing army and estimat-
ed the ranks at 10000 and that the
army is costing the state annually
about $1,000,000, as 5000 persons die
annually in Arkansas from the dread
disease.
The recently introduced appropria-
ton bill for the Reform School pro-
vides for an appropriation of $33 900.
The appropriation bill for the Con-
federate Soldiers Home provides for
the appropriation of $60685, against
$56,285 appropriated two years ago.
Representative Hurst of Washing
ton has received a number Of letters
from people throughout the state con-
graduating him on the passage of his
assessment bill. The pleasing feature
of the passage of bill of statewide,
general importance, to the authors of
those measures are the congratulatory
messages which they receive after
ward
So far as can now be judged, the
present legislature does not intend to
pass any kind of pure food legisla-
ton despite the fact that the present
pure food law as it exists in Arkansas
is practically harmless and without eff
Sect, inasmuch as it fails to provide
for any kind of an appropriation for
the purpose of carrying out the re-
quirements of the law and also mas
much as it provides that its eXecu-
ton shall fall upon the state treasur-
er, who is busy with other work and
who does not have anything to do
along the line of food work. Had the
bill provided that the state commits
sioner of agriculture take charge of
the work it would probably have had
more effect, as the work would have
been in connection and in line with
part of his work.
Many of the legislators are carrying
canes which are gifts from their con-
stituents.
Over $4,000 has been paid by the
state to the expert engineers who
investigated the state capitol build
ing.
The locak bill by Senator Edmond
son, creating a special school district
in Stone county, which has passed the
Senate, is a segregation bill. 1t pro-
vides that in district No. 8 of the coun-
ty the white tax shall go to the white
school and the tax from the negroes
to the negro school, This bill has
been asked for by both the whites and
the blacks in that school district"
said Senator Edmondson, 'and | hope
everybody will vote for the bill
Several weeks ago a resolution was
adopted in Congress authorizing Ar
kansas and Tennessee to establish
boundary line between the states i'll
the Mississippi for the purpose of Civ
ing each state jurisdiction over crime
committed en- the river. In accord
ance with this resolution Senator De-
Rositt Of ST. Francis has introduced
a bill in the Senate defining the boun-
Diary line between the states.
The channel of the river as piled
by the Mississippi boats, forms The
boundary and the center line of the
channel is the dividing line. If crime
is committed en- the Arkansas side OF
the line, Arkansas peace officers viii
have the right 10 arrest the criminals
and take them before the nearest mag
Istrate to be held for trial. If the bill
becomes a law Arkansas will have po-
lice Jurisdiction on The river just the
same as on Arkansas soil.
The bill by Senator Keel requiring
water companies to lay the service
pipes from the mains to the abutting
property, which passed the Senate, is
not a general bill 1t applies only to
Jackson county and affects only the
town of Newport.
A bill to regulate the sale of mer-
chandise in bulk has been introduced
in the Senate by Senator Holland of
Sebastian. The jobbers and whole
salers of the state were given a hear
ing on this bill several days before It's
ipfroduot;nD Inv tho iudiciarv commit