The Van Buren press., 1873-04-08

He would vote no. distinctly enough to
be heard throughout the house.
Mr.. Berry, Of Benton. ! Iappeal to the
honest members Of the house not to vote
for this bill, which will take three mills
tax from their nsighbors pocket. and put
it into the bondholdsrs' pockets He ap-
pealed to the gentlemen who intended to
reside in this state not to pass this bill.
He said he was ready, If this bill passed,
to advocate reputation, and the people
would advocate reputation. Great ap
plause. This bill will add a burden of
Sl2, 900, 900 more on the tax. burdened
people of the state. If they intended to
run this state economically, he was in fa-
vor Of the state paying every cent of her
just debt, but if not, he advocated repu-
diation.
Mr.. Turner rose to point Of order,
and moved the previous question on the
final passage of the bill. Carried-ayes
40, noes 81.
Mr.. Reid, Mr.. White and other men,
bers protested against this.
Mr.. Turner. Not desiring to make a
speech, l now give my time to Mr. Tank
ersley.
Mr.. Cunningham hoped Mr.. Tankers
ley would be allowed the time as he t0as
so very polite to him with his amendment
Mr.. McVeigh. Yes; the gentleman
from Clark (Mr. Tankersley) IS in favor
OF a .fuH and free discussion, and roted for
the previous question.
Mr. Tankersley said he would say moth
ing about reputation. That had been
the sing song, the battle cry Of the dem
ocratic party for years. He thought il
was unnecessary now to raise the cry of
reputation. He thought it came with a
poor grace for that party to talk of repu-
diation, after the many miles of railroad
the republican party had built. He said
the opponents Of this bill in the third
house were those who expected to gain
state aid, but the bill stopped the further
issuance of bonds. He said there was
not a state in the union but had larger
state debt than Arkansas. He knew if
the issuance Of these bonds continued,
they would not be worth as much as the
stock of the roads, and the passage of
this bill would put these roads on a
sound financial basis. l hope this bill
will pass.
Mr. McVeigh. Would you be in favor
il this bill passes, of passing bill to
compel these railroads to receive state
scrip for transportation and passengers ?
Mr. Tankersley. Nc, sir /. IS ab-
surd.
Mr.. Latta raised point Of order tuat
the bill Ievies a tax Of three mills, and it
could not therefore be considered except
in committee Of the whole. Oyerruled,
The bill passed--ayes 43. noes 35.
Those voting in the affirmative were
Mcssrs c. E. Berry, Beardsley, Neal
Brown, c. f Brown, Chapline. Corbell.
Cleveland, Copeland, Davie, Fox, Fur
bush, Grissom, A NJ Hawkins, o. S
Hawkins, NJ Hawkins, Havis, Joslyn, A.
Johnson, J. II. johnson, Joyner (dem. J,
Kingston, Kent, Lee, j. NJ, Murphy, ,Wm.
Murphy, Mcleod, Marshall Merritt, Nil.
len, Mum, Rollins, Robinson, Sarber,
Shrigles, Shapard, Spears, Stephenson.
Sheppcrson, Strong, Turner, Warwick
the Speaker--43
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs j II, Berry, Beascy, Bridonthal,
Colt (rcp }, Chandler, Chapman, Crow
ley, Cate, Cunningham, Erwin, Eagle,
Foster, Gst, Gilbreath, Gossett, Harley,
Lynn, Latta, McGehee (rep.), McVeigh,
Matheny, Mitchell, Preston, Pindall, Reid,
Robertson, Sumptor, Stewart (col. rep. },
Thrower, Thomason, Tillar, Thornburg,
White (rep), Williams (col' rep,
Wright-35
Absent Hynds (dem. J, Parrish (dem,
W heat, Walker (dem