Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-01
FIFTY BILLS
CONSIDERED
Lower House of Legislature Passed
Twenty Measures and Twenty
nine New Ones Are Introduced.
One Was Defeated.

ed on the 9th. Twenty-nine bills
were introduced and twenty were
voted on and passed. One measure
proved unpopular and was defeated
Messrs. Leigh, Dunaway and Jones
of Pulaski introduced House Bill No.
367, placing the Pulaski county Off
GERS on salary. The bill was read the
first time. Mr.. Dunaway moved to
suspend the rules and read the bill
a second time. The motion lost on
viva voce vote.
Mr. Newton of Lonoke called up
House Bill No. 1863, of which he is
the author, creating the Office of tax
collector in Lonoke county. The bill
was read the third time and Mr. New
ton took the floor to speak in support
of the measure. He spoke briefly, say
ing the bill had been introduced early,
that plenty of time had been given
to its consideration and that he had
petition, very lengthy, endorsing the
bill. He closed by asking that it pass.
Mr.. Bogard of Lonoke, a colleague
of Mr.. Newton, spoke against the bill
and asked that it be defeated. This
discussion developed quite warm
feeling between the Lonoke county
statesmen The measure was defeat
ed by vote of 40 to %.
There was a discussion over House
Bill No. 1886 Thompson of Greene),
amending the act creating a special
drainage district in Greene and Clay
counties. Mr.. Thompson spoke in ia
vor of the bill and Mr. Campbell of
Clay spoke against the bill, stating
that it would take certain land out of
the district and thus deprive the dis
trict of certain revenue. Mr.. Thomp-
son explained that the land was not
benefited by the improvement district
and that it was being assessed for
something it did not get. Mr.. Brown
of independence was in favor of the
bill, declaring he did not believe it
right to make a section of the country
pay a tax from which it received no
benefits. Mr.. Winn of Pulaski OPP
posed the bill on the ground that it
would deprive the district of $1,000
revenue, thus, in a way, impairing
the obligations made and assumed by
the district as a whole. The bill
passed.
The state capitol committee of the
House has reported unfavoraDly on
House Bill No. 251 johnson, by re-
quest), which provides for the appro-
priation of 100000 for the completion
of the state capitol the discharge of
George R. Mann as architect, the ap
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state capitol commission and making
other provisions in regard to the COM
pletion of the new capitol. The COM
mittee also reported unfavOrably on
House Concurrent Resolution No. "a
(Winn), providing that steps be TAX
en- to ascertain on what terms Cald-
we'll & Drake would be willing to set
tie with the state. Without recon-
mendation, House Bill No. 165
(Hurst), providing for the discharge
of George R. Mann as capitol archi-
tect, authorizing the governor to en-
ploy an architect, who would be under
the direction of the governor, the lat
ter to have the power to discharge
him if he sees fit, fixing the archi-
tect's bond at $4,000, and appropriat-
ing $4,000 to be used in paying the
architect and a superintendent of con-
struction if the governor sees fit to
employ such superintendent, was
reported.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. VIM
of Pulaski regulating the telephone
rates in Little Rock and Argenta, pro-
vides that it shall be unlawful for any
telephone company to charge more
than $3.50 per month for any bust
ness telephone, or $1.50 for any resi-
dence telephone in either Little Rock
or Argenta. 1t also provides that it
shall be unlawful to exact more than
one months telephone rent for a bus
mess phone in advance or two
months rent for a residence phone.
The bill provides that any violation
shall be deemed a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by fine of from $50 to $780,
The most important measures in
troduced were:
House Bill No. 800 (Hancock), pro
viding for the relief of Special School
District No. 70, in Yell county.
House Bill No. 366 Davis of Column
bia), allowing Mcneil Special School
District No 81 of Columbia county to
borrow money.
House Bill No 376 (Williams), Gre
ating Greenland Special School Dis
trict in Washington county.
House Bill No 377 (Oliphant), re-
quiring the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroad to build a spur track
from the main track to the Farmers
Union warehouse at Many Islands, in
Fulton county.
House Bill No. 3S5 (Hamilton of
Polk, protecting game and fish in
Polk county Read twice
House Bill No 3SS (Simpson),
amending section 1902 of Kirby's Di-
gest so that Scott county is exempt
from the provisions of the law, a
fishing law Read twice.
House Bill No 800 (KendaID, com