Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-07
Upper House Also Passes Measure by Caldwell for
 No Fence District.
APPROPRIATION FOR GIRLS REFORMATORY
House Passes Caldwell Bill to Em- power Towns to Enforce Laying of Sidewalks as Law Now Ap-
 plies to Cities of State.

Little Rock, March 6.-Three meas ures affecting Pine Bluff and Jeffer- son county were passed by the sen- ate this afternOOn-th Magee house bill providing for a municipal court, the Niven house bill to cure defects in the organization of Road Improvement District No. 15, and the Caldwell bill, establishing a no-fence district in a part of the county north of the river.
 The house this morning passed a bill by Senator Caldwell to empower incorporated towns to enforce the lay ing of sidewalks as the law now ap- plies to cities of the first and second class.
 The Magee municipal court bill was passed as amended by Senator Cald we'll Saturday. The amendments pro- vide that the prosecuting attorney shall not be paid fees for prosecuting cases involving violation of city ordi- nances; that the court shall not have jurisdiction in matters involving land titles; that the judge shall be elected for a two-year term, and that the con- stable shall be allowed mileage when serving summons or effecting arrests outside of the township in which the city is located. It is expected that the house will concur in the amendments and pass the bill tomorrow.
 The Barker general appropriation bill, whittled and chiseled on in the house for day, was read as amended and the senate refused to concur in a single cut. The bill was sent back to the house and the house refused to concede. A conference committee was then suggested, and thus the house and senate will get together on amend ments, without the senate being forced to spend hours of deliberation. - Blind School Must Depend on SOlOns.
 There was a slight clash in the aft ernoon over the bill to place the State School for the Blind and the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute on millage basis, Senator Caldwell objecting to it's pas sage on the grounds that the state schools and charitable institutions would soon be getting all of the gen. eral revenue funds. Senator Garrett made quite a speech favoring the bill, but it was defeated, 2 to 17. The bill was introduced in the house by MT. Doyle.
 The senate passed the Jones bill appropriating $40,000 for the main- tenance of the Girls Industrial School. There was objection to this bill in the morning, but when it was explained that there had already been passed 0 bill giving the girls the old Reform school, and that the boys must now find new place, the objection was withdrawn and the bill passed.
 The bills considered in committee of the whole, adopted and made ready for passage Wednesday morning, were the Reform school, Deaf Mute insti- tute, Arkansas National guard, Branch Normal, maintenance bills, the de- ficiencies for the Deaf Mute institute and the medical department of the University of Arkansas, and the appro- priation for the payment of expenses of Arkansas Federal and Confederate veterans to the Vicksburg reunion. Without opposition the Trawick bill providing for state oil and gasoline inspection was passed by the senate. The senate penitentiary investigat- ing committee was allowed $474 to pay the expenses of the Investigation. Adjourn to Avoid Wrangle. An adjournment was taken at 4:36 i o'clock as the quickest way out of an argument that had arisen between Senator Goodwin and Senator Great house. chairman of the public charities committee. Senator Goodwin asked