The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
HAMILTON PASSES
 IMPORTANT BILL
The House Votes in Favor of Act 10 Compel Children to Attend School Embraces Nine Counties h.
 cluding Polk.

house today passed the Hamilton compulsory schoj attendance bill. IL applies to nine counties including Polk, Sebastian, Frank lin, Madison, Cleburne, Scott, Baxter and Independence. IL af- fleets children from to IA years, who must attend at least half the school year, with certain excep- tions. It is made possible to have truancy officers in towns of 5000 and a school for truants in cities of 10000. Appropriate penalties are provided for par ents violating the law.
 The amendment to the Combs corporation law, requiring all corporations with capital of million or more to pay $200 an- nual tax, and requiring corpora t;ons without capital stock 10 pay $50 annual tax, was also pass ed by the house today.
 The house also passed the Winn bill, estopping railway and simi- lar corporations from setting up the defense of "assumed risk" in personal injury suits, if the cor poration has in any manner vio- lated the federal or state laws re- quiring maintenance of safety appliances, etc.
 The "battle-axc brigade" showed up strong iu considera ton of the state university aP- propriatiou bill, and the indiea- tions are that the bill will be cut materially, some even wanting to cut the allowance below that of two years ago. Smith of Ashley criticised the university commit tee for not bringing in with the report all vouchers for the pre- ceding biennial expenditures. Hudson of Marion wanted to in- troduce a substitute measure re- ducing the recommended appro priation from $3l1, 1000 to $12O, 00J for the biennial period, cut sala. ries nearly in half and cut out all appropriations for Y. M. C. A. and Y. w. c. A. work.
 About every phase ot the liquor and state capitol questions which could be touched upon has been now discussed, and something definite will probably be douc upon these two propositions by the Arkansas legislature during the coming week. The senate has the Garlock- Granger resolu- ton for constitutional prohibition and the Little-Parks statutory prohibition bill and the house has the Gam statewide prohibition bill amended by the senate for submission upon this proposition. an : if any liquor bill receives the approval of both houses, it must be submission bill. The senate has spoken and so enphatically the house must yield If 1t is sin cere in wanting statewide prohi- bltion. The senate will never pass anything but a submission bill, aud unless the house is play ing for time, to allow the session to end without action on any bill, 1t will accept the Gam bill as amended and allow the people of the state to vote upon the oues tion. In all the prohibition bills introduced SO far there are no distinctive q ffereuces, the house simply bringing O. new ones as fast as the nate knocks them in the head by amending with the su omission clause.
 Tne st"te house matter is more simple however, though there arr et east ten measures of this kind h the two houses. It is thought tho House will call up the Paterson bill before the end ot the 0e.k and pass it, as the members have begun to aliza thc c ivyrnor is right, and if thev arc going 70 sfard on the side of rlgh' 'hry will have to support the G ,veruor in his efforts 10 complete the new state capitol. Senator Hamp Williams, re ccutly elected to fill the vacancy iu he Fhirty-first district. was lcar'lfied 10 the Senate today by Secr,tiry If State o c. Ludwig and as soon as lie takes the path J NJ. Wadley, of Hot Springs, who has been serving as Senator from that district pending the election, will return 10 his paste pot and scissors on the Hot Springs News, of which he is proprietor, Senator Wadley has