The Monticellonian., 1919-02-21
BILL IN HOUSE ID
 ABOLISH DANCING
WOULD PUT A HEAVY FINE ON CONDUCTORS OF PUBLIC AND
 PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
MR. HILL AUTHOR OF BILL
Attack On Measure Creating County Supe ntendents-House Passes Bill To Repeal Act Creating
 Fish and Game Commission.
Little Rock

Dancing is doomed to follow liquor Into oblivion if the reform pro gramme of Mir. Poindexter Hill of Bethesda, Ark, is enacted into law Mr. Hill, who represents Independ- ence county in the Forty-second Gen oral Assembly, introduced bill which would prevent all forms Of public dancing. even in clubs and churches, and makes the conductors of public dances subject to fine of from $100 to $500. The bill carries . wealth of verbal camoufage direct d at immoral speech, action or dress, obscene practices and Ian guAge," but lawyers who read the measure said it would make all pub uc dancing wherever held misoe- 0eanor.
 Another attack was made in tho Senate on the bill proposing to es- tAblish . uniform system of county boards of education in the state and empower them to select county su- perintendents. Senator Moncrief sub 41tted an amendment limiting the salary to be paid to the county su- porintendent to $1.S00 per year in counties having less than 32,000 pop the population exceeds that figure. The amendment finally was adopted.
 Senators Collins of Drew County made a second unsuccessful attempt to have Drew and Desha counties ex ompted. Senator Utley, who was ln the chair instead of President Pond CT, who was acting governor, ruled against the submission of Senator Collins amendment, on the ground that motion to reconsider the ac- <t1pn on similar amendment re-
 bntly had been tabled. Among tye counties finally asked to be eX- e})pted by their senators were Arkansas, Lee, Drew. Hampstead, Phillips, Desha, Cleveland. Monroe, Hard, Fulton and Baxter.
 The House passed a bill by MT. Choate to repeal the act creating the Arkansas Fish and Game Commis- sion after having tabled a bill drawn by special committee to amend the act in details. which. it was thought, would meet the objections of oppo- nents of the measure. There were 61 votes cast to table the bill, and ; the Choate repeal bill was passed by . vote of 57 to Fl.
 The Chambliss bill to tax motor trucks for running on improved high ways at the rate of $l0 ton was placed back on second reading on mo- tion of MT Held, for amendment. He will propose that the proposed tax be paid into a fund for the repair of roads shall be in addition to the pres ent tax of $1O. which is paid into the state highway fund for the building of roads.
 Senator Walls bill, No. 364, pro- vides for the promotion of the health of the rural population. appropriates e1,576.2s for the biennial period, that the state may cooperate with the federal government in the en- forcement of the act of Congress for the betterment of the health in ru- ral localities.
 MT Alexander Of Pulaski introduc- cd a substitute for bill introduced earlier in the session. providing for special elections upon the petition Of 16 per cent of the qualified electors to decide upon the playing of base- ball on Sunday in the cities of Little Rock, Hot Springs and Fort Smith.
 A bill introduced by Messrs Seam ster and Stevens, and emanating from the state insurance commis- sioner. defines the kinds of insur- ance that may be written in the state. the character of investments that may be made by domestic insur- Ance companies. and provides tax on the premiums of casualty compa- nies.
 The House adopted a concurrent resolution by Mir Held of Sebastian for the appointment by the governor of a commission of five to serve with out compensation, for the purpose of making an investigation of work mems compensations laws in other states. and making recommenda- ton to the next session of the legis- iature.
 The Senate was in killing mood, 1t treating the King bill to extend the uniform text book law to take in high schools. tn a like manner. After at tempts to amend had failed, the bill was tabled, on motion of Senator Ca Eort, Is to To-
 President Harry l.. Ponder of the Senate was acting governor of the state several days while Governor Brough was in New Orleans attending the Southern Cotton Mems conven- ton.