The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-20
MANY BILLS ARE
Up IN ARKANSAS
Few Measures, However, Pass
in House and Senate With
out Amendments.

LITTLE ROCK, Arb. Feb. 20 tSpl)
After being b%utChered from enaCting
clause to emergency clause, the Ctley
Dill providing for county boards Of ed
u%cation, 10 be elected by the people.
which IN turn will elect county superin-
tendents, passed In the senate late Wed
nesday. II probably win meet defeat,
for the house is said to oppose il. Op-
position to Ii in the senate was so
strong that II wal hacked 10 pieces,
and all the revolutionary proposals ia
ken out, despite that II was signed by
20 senators, constituting a good major
ity before it was introduced,
A bill was introduced in the house
during the afternoon to appropriate
$4,000 TO erect a governors mansion,
being referred to the budget committee.
H. too, has a slim chance OF living.
The senate recalled Senator Town
sends bill regulating druggists on
grounds that II would prohibit rural
stores from selling patent medicines,
II had been passed and sent to the
house. The senate adopted the Held
OF a commission by the governor TO
study the workmen's compensation laws
and frame a measure which could be
enacted in this state without being in
conflict with the constitution,
Representative Carter's bill for a
board OF mine examiners was returned
TO the senate without recommendations
Wednesday by the mines committee,
and the same report was made on Rep
resentatlve Choate's bill to abolish the
game and fish commission The former
may be the center Of a fight, with it's
fate in doubt, while the latter has only
to be called up to be defeated, senate
leaders say.
Representative Carter introduced a
general bill in the house during the at
ternoon providing that no teacher be
permitted to teach unless holding a Ger
tificate from a reputable physician that
he or she is free Of tuberculosis. The
CaZort nursery bill was returned TO the
house with amendments eXempting
flowers, bulbs and roots and striking
out the clause requiring a 81, 500 bond.
1t was favorably recommended with the
amendments.
Representative wilcoxen introduced a
bill requiring the inspection of dipping
watts every two weeks to prevent germs
Of contagious diseases from spreading
among stock,
Gov. Brough Wednesday signed the
Knowlton bill permitting cities to levy
occupation taxes; the McFarlin bill per
hitting farm tenants to participate in
mutual insurance companies; the john
ston bill regulating pay OF the Polk
county superintendent; the Thane bill
amending the Lincoln and Desha coun.
ty levee district, and the Roger bill
creating the Bartholomew road i'm
provement district.
Among a mass Of routine business in
the senate during the afternoon was
the following: Passage OF Thompson's
bill amending Farrelly lake levee dis
| trict law; Caldwell's bill providing for
| probation and suspension of sentences
in certain cases; Whitaker's bill Great
ing tri-oounty road district; and intro
| duction of the following; BY Ward, Ia
| create Helena and MARVEL road district
BY Vaughan, to declare any place where
betting Is allowed a nuisance, and pro
viding for closing OF same; by Cald.
well, amending act creating road dis
trict No. IA in jefferson county.
The senate indefinitely postponed
yameson's bill providing for a refer.
endum on a fence law for Lamar town
ship, Madison county.