The Green Forest tribune., 1901-04-20
LEGISLA,TURE DOINGS..
Regular weekly Letter From Our specia1e Correspondent.

T HID i1cefot 2cCSSI AAAGSoCOS1hAS5 week in both branches of the state Legislature, and more good has been accomplished than in all the preceding weeks of the ses- sion. z
 sAs' predicted in our letter last week, the senate sat down on Speaker Humphreys repudiation bill by the handsome vote of 20 s. The state is to be congrat- ulated that such is the case and in the future contractors who en- ter into agreements with our great commonwealth will understand that that agreement will be bind- ing upon both parties, and that contracts with the state will not be repudiated to boom the guber- material or senatorial can didacy of any man..
 Another, step which will be hailed with delight by every lover of fair play was. the action taken by the house in the Bynum mat ter. Last June Prof. Bynum was elected to the chair of English and Modern Languages in the State University. Shortly after his election to better prepare him. selffor the duties of his position he made trip to Europe. Early in September, and while he was returning from abroad the board of managers headed by the then governor, Dan w. Jones, met and discharged Mr. Bynum upon fic- titious charges trumped up by jealous members of the board and faculty. An investigation by B legislative committee expos ed the plot, although the majority report upheld the board, while stating that the charges were un- founded. The legislature thought differently, however, and by a practically unamous vote exon enated Mir, Bynum and centured the outfit which discharged him.
 Thos. E. Little, state treasurer of Arkansas, died at his daugh- ter's residence, of heart disease, Tu e sd a y morning. Death loves a shining mark, " and sure- ly that preference was shown in the death of this good man. He was taken ill about7 o'clock Monday evening with sinking spells which rapidly succeeded each other until 7:3O-. the next morning, when the angel sum- moned him to that bourne from whence no traveller returns.
 MT. Little was a great friend of the. country newspapers. In fact. he was everybody's friend. Often during the past three months we have called on him in his official capacity, and always was that information cheerfully furnished with expressions of re- gret that he could not do more to aid in making things interesting for "the boys in the country-,' Kind aud courteous to all with whom he came in contact, a true christian gentleman. In fact, s' a man who, take him all in all, we shall not See his like again." His lpss is public calamity. ]: Gov- Davis has appointed Col. Harry c. ipton to succeed Mr. Little as treasurer and gives general satisfaction.
 The convict farm bill which recently passed the senate hides d gigantic colored gentleman in it's woodpile. And the beauty of it is that the author of the bill is in perfect ignorance of it.. We have it from first hands that it cost thousands of dollars to pass the bill through the senate, and that other thousands will be used to influence the house. The fund is being handled by one of the prominent senators who is prob ably smooth enough to get the bill through the lower body. The bill has in contemplation plan : tation in Chicot county, and it isn't tSunnyside plantation either. We will keep you posted on the affair as it progresses. From the best Investigation we can make, it seems to be a settled thing that S40,0G0 will be the limit of the worlds fair appropri !