The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
BILLS FLOOD BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE MANY LOCAL BUT FEW GENERAL
 BILLS SUCCEED IN
 PASSING.
l32 BILLS IN THE HOUSE
Is Record for First Two Weeks of As- sembly-Senate Con-
 siders 91.

Western Newspaper Union News Service. Little ROck.-In the first two weeks the thirty-ninth general assembly was in session in the house 132 bills were introduced, while the senate has considered 9l. Besides these there have been numerous resolutions, con- current resolutions and joint resolu- tions. Of 10 bills which have passed both houses, eight have been local bills. The general bills were Senate bill No. 1, by Senator Friedell, to ap- duct the general assembly, and senate Bill No. B, by Senator Ferguson, pro- viding that improvement districts may advertise in any newspaper in the county, if none is published in the town of the improvement.
 And the local bills. House bill No. IT provides Crawford county with wire fence law. Senate bill No. "A, by Sen ltor Toler, is to guarantee two trains each day past Sheridan. Two of them nave to do with drainage or levee dis tricts, one repeals the law protecting fish In Sharp county and others have 70 do with the holding of court in va rious counties.
 Bills which, if they pass, will have an important bearing on the states fu- ture have been introduced. Senator Rogers of Benton presented a bill providing for the creation of State Highway Department Senator Lun- l iy introduced measure providing complete system for working county l convicts. Senator Ashley introduced a bill to increase Confederate pensions to the maximum of $100 year. A bill l by Senator Friedell would change the apportionment of state taxes. Senator l Jacobson presented measure provid- ing for the introduction of the kinder garten system In the public schools. Senator Rodgers of Howard introduced measure for the purchase of two blocks of property in front of the capi- 1 tol. Senators Raney and Overman would make the penitentiary board consist of the attorney general, com- missioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture and one elettor and would do away with the convict lease system
 House bill No. 10, by Mir. Willems, of Logan, is designed to benefit the day laborer. It provides that ''it shall be unlawful for any person, partner ship, firm, company or corporation within the state of Arkansas, or doing | business therein, that employs labor, 1 50 demand, require, permit or allow any employees, laborer, agent or serv- l ant, to labor or work more than six consecutive days in any one week." The prescribed penalty is not less than $25 nor more than S100.
 The bill making Gentry city of the second class, which had passed | through the senate without opposition, met a stumper in the house. It was up for passage when Grant of Jack | lature to increase the rating of town or city. Speaker Hardage announced that the Attorney General had declar- ed such acts unconstitutional, so the bill was then referred to the Judiciary l Committee for further investigation.
 A little leniency was shown by the champions of economy when the chair men of certain committees which have much work to do asked for committee clerks. Miss Mary Walls was elected clerk of the State Capitol Committee, and one was provided for the com mittees on agriculture and labor, but the penitentiary committee was denied clerical assistance. Miss Myrta Good man was appointed stenographer for the members of the house, with the understanding that she serve as clerk to any committee which needed her services.
 Bills passed by the house Saturday provided a deputy prosecuting attor nev in Cross county, for two trains a day on the Pine Bluff, Hot Springs and Western between Pine Bluff and Ben ton, and for the protection of fish ir the streams of Carroll county.
 Other measures considered provides salaries for officials of Madison coun l tv. the consolidat ion of two school dis
 tricts in Lee county. the dividing o
 the road district in Jackson county
 into two disN'icts, creating deposito
 ries for Ouachita. Stone, Cleburne ant
 Pike counties; and the creation of tht
 Cadron dr;anage district in Conwa.
 county.