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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10
DEFEATED

Representative Toney's bill to sub- init an amendment to the constitution to exempt new factories and manufac- turing industries from taxation for a period of seven years, has been prac- tically defeated in the House. An amendment was tackled on to it by MT. Claek to exempt all taxpayers from taxation in the sum of S100. That means, of course, that the Mis- sissippi negro immigrant can be re- lieyed of taxation, but the man who comes here and erects cotton mill or some other sort of factory must be taxed to death.
 We can now begin to take the measure of the House From it's acts already we need expect no progress sive legislation at this session, but only drastic laws against corpora tions and capital, and restrictive and retrogressive legislation of the rank est sort.
 Of course, we car have no substan- tial progress along manufacturing lines until some inducement is offered capital to come here and locate and develop our natural resources. like is done in Georgia, Alabama and other States. To do this, we must elect legislature composed of broad-guaged and progressive men instead of the narrowminded politicians and rank retrogressionists now in session at Little Rock
 We can only hope for better things and better days, but we have been hoping against hope for To, these many years, and hope long deferred maketh the heart sick"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

ried to the penitentiary at time, and plan has worked well and economic ally in the past, but it has allowed no fat fees for the Sheriff. There fore bill more satisfactory and profitable to them has been introduced and passed by the House. As to it's remunerative fca- ture, let the blll speak fer itself. Sec ten and of the bill are as follows:
 Section 1. Every person sentenced to the penitentiary shall, as soon as possible after conviction, be safely conveyed to the said penitentiary by the Sheriff of the county in which the conviction shall have taken place, and the Sheriff, in all cases of con veying such prisoners, shall have DOW CT to employ such guard and use such means for the safety of such convicts on their conveyance to the peniten- tiary as may be deemed necessary by such court passing such sentence
 See. 9 In all cases where any Sheriff or Coroner shall be required to convey any convict to the penite,.- tiary he shall receive therefor out of the state treasury the sum of g for every twenty miles he may travel in going to and returning from the pen itentiary, and he may summon guard, not to exceed one for each prisoner, provided he shall in no in stance summon a greater number of guards than three for any number of prisoners unless otherwise ordered by the court, and they shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of $1.50 for every twenty lB Hes they may travel going to and return ing from the penite1.tiary, aad every Sheriff or other proper officec shall be allowed all necessary expenses incur- red in conveying convicts to the pen itentiary of the State.
 The Sheriff's Association is a DOW erful lobby, and as trust the organi- aztion gives every promise of paving good dividends on the money invest ed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

Senator Sengel, of Sebastian Coup. ty, expressed great truth when, dur. ing the consideration of the bill to re duee the penalty for pistol toting,e he declared: "A few more resolutions encouraging the Filipinos, a bill or two more fixing the penalty for steal ing horse at one year in the peni tertiary, and allowing the pistol toter to get off with light fine would turn Arkansas loose to the low ana vicious, as we'll make the State the laugh. ing stock of the country With such legislation as the foregoing it is not surprising that Arkansas should be made the subject for iibe and jest throughout the Nation. Arkansas is all right. The only thing the matter with the State is some of the dam phools' in it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

tally be laid away in the legislative grave yard are the following:
 The bill reducing the fine for car rying a pistol from $50 to $15.
 The bill reducing the penalty for horse-steaIing from five to one year.
 The bill to prevent theatrical com panies from charging over $1 for a reserved seat on any floor, which bill, f passed, will prevent high-class att fractions from coming to this state.
 The Huddleston bill to drive O. porations and capital out Of the State.
 The bill to reduce railroad passen- ger fare to 2-cents per mile.
 The Simpson bill, that provides that Sheriffs shall convey convicts to the ponitentiary
 There arc numbers of others that might be enumerated, but they are "to numerous to hc mentioned" in any one article. From the above it is ob- vious that the services of bill killer are badly needed. We hope the occa- sion will develop the man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10
TIE STREET CAR FRANCHISE.

For several years the people of Pine Bluff have wanted an electric street car line and competitive lighting plant. Every inducement has been offered foreign capital for the enter prise. Our City Council has granted franchise after franchise to foreign pfomters. First came Mir. Wood. of Chicago, who secured a franchise and worked for over a year to secure cap ltal with which to carry out his fran chise, but finally fell down. Then came another promoter in one Nr heyser, also of Chicago After hold ing franchise for almost year which had to be several times extend ed' keyser also hunked Now comes local concern in the Bluff City Lumber Co.,, composed of home neo- pie with the capital and enterprise to back up what they undertake. and ask that the City Council grant them the identical same franchise that was granted Wood and Keyser If the keyser franchise was a good thing for the town, the same franchise in Inc name of the Bluff City Lumber Co. is better thing for the town, for the reason that the Lumber Company is composed of home people who would give the public better service than could be expected at the hands of for elgn owners, whose only interest in the people of Pine Bluff would be in wrestling dividends from them. Pub lie opinion is therefore in favor of granting the Bluff City Lumber Co. the keyser franchise, with the proper restrictions and limitations thrown around it relative to the lighting con- tract. The Bluff City Lumber Co., means business and will build the electric street car line if given the franchise. The people of Pine Bluff need and want street cars and a com petitive light plant If the Bluff City Lumber Co is granted the franchise We shall have them shortly: if not we may not have them until a time re- mote in the future. It is matter that seriously addresses itself to the Council, and that body should act promptly and rightly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

reduced to this, that unless there is greater economy in such expenditures as the latter and similar, there cannot with safety be made any reduction in the revenues of the government. h. deed, 1t is more than possible that de- lay in the consideration of the war tax bill is due to the desire of the ad- minstration to remain on the safe side. if the Presidents probable veto of the river and harbor bill should not be sustained.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10
BILLS TO KILL.

The thirty-third General Assembly of the State is very prolific body, though it's issue may not come up to the required standard. The present Legislature has been in session al most a month, and during that time over 300 bills have been introduced. The large yield has naturally result ed in very poor variety, and there fore a thinning process is badly need ed. There are great many bills that should be killed-more that should be killed than passed-but some of the bills that should espec-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10
A T RUST.

There are trusts and trusts, but one of the trusts of most recent or2gln, and one that has for it's primary object the same purpose as all other trusts-the wrestling of money from the people-is the Sheriff's Associa- tion of Arkansas The ostensible ob- ject of this organization is the better enforcement of the criminal laws of the .5ate; the real object of the As soeiation is, by united purpose, to in crease the fees and emoluments of their office.
 Already the Sheriff's Association has borne fruit. There has net been a session of the Legi 'ature in several years past that the Shel .ffs have not made some effort before it to secure legislation in their interest And the Sheriffs are again at their old tricks. They are already getting in their work on the present Legie ielaturc, for last week the House passed a bill which, if it becomes a law, vii eces- |sitate an expense of something like [$30 in fees to the sheriff for each con- |vict carried to the penitentiary. Under the present law, all prison |ers sentenced to the penitentiary are confined in the jail of the county in Iwihch they are convicted until an agent of the penitentiary calls and takes them to the State prison. In
 this manner several prisoners are car
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

Do the people of Pine Bluff want an electric street ear and lighting plant? The Bluff City Lumber Co., is ready to supply the demand Let the street car franchise and the lighting contract (with the proper require ments an dsafeguards thrown around it) be granted them. If the Keyser franchise was good thing for Pine Bluff, the same franchise in the name of the Bluff City Lumber Co. should also be a good thing for Pine Bluf And it is better that the franchise should be owned at home than abroad.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

The House Friday, by a vote Of SS ayes to 57 nays, killed the bill to ln' crease the salary of Circuit Judges from $2,000 to $2,500 per annnm the same as is paid the Chancellors. Since the House has refused to increase the salary of the Judges it may equallze things by reducing the salary of the Chancellors. Certainly one shoulu not receive greater pay than the other.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

MT. Walter Springfield, a promls. ing young man of eighteen years dieo at his home on the Sulphur SprlnsS road near this city Friday mofhlns of congestion He was a son ot MI W. R. Springfield, manager of the our phur Springs hotel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10

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Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

must be governed by the state of their | residence
 In Rhode Island the matrimonial pro-
 step-children. sons-in-law and parents 1 in-law though there is a special pro-
 vision that the Jews may contract mar rlag ges within the gree3 allowed by | their religion. Several other states. in- cluding New Jersey. forbid a man from
 marrying his father's widow. In Vir- gnia and in West Virginia man can not marry hia wife's step daughter. Thirteen states say a man shall not marry the widow of a grandson. MiscegenatiOn is geographical
 crime In New York the .ntermarriage
 for whites and blacks is deemed mer ly matter of taste. In many sections of the country it involves imprison- ment In one locality white man may marry an .OctOroon but not d quadroon, while in another locality the quadrOon makes the boundary line in testing the guilt or innocence of the bridegroom. In Ohio. to constitute a crime, one party must be a pure white blood and the other must have a suffi- cient amount of African blood to rem der that fact visible Co the naked eye. In some sections of the Pacific slope the legislation is extended to cover the Chinese. while North Carolina includes Indians.
 think that enough has been said to snow the folly of the present system, in which the crossing of an imaginary me would make marriage either valid or invalid, and involve endless complications. The sole remedy is to obtain uniform laws. As it seems im possible to get an amendment to the nlted states constitution. giving con sress the power to legislate in this di- rection. there should be some concert of action among the states, and an agree nent reached to pass identical laws. The scandal should be suppressed.-A. II. Hummel in New York Herald.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
GEOGRAPHY OF MARRIAGE AND
 DIVORCE

Recent decisions Of the supreme court
 of the United States accentuate the
 absurd conflict existing between the
 laws of marriage and divorce in diff
 ferent states of the Union While the
 judges of the highest tribunal in the
 land did nothing more than coincide
 with the views expressed reps atedly
 by judges of the supreme court of New
 York. they have again attracted atten- tiOn to the distressing complications resulting from legal divergenciss.
 This is a very serious object. about wh!th too much cannot be said. as agi- tation may bring about @ needed re- form
 Who can go over the facts without coming to the conclusion that there is something radically wrong at present 2 Is it proper that one woman should be a mans legal wife in Brooklyn, while another is bound to him in holy wedlock in Sioux Falls; that he should be bigamist here. an observer of the. marriage law there? Stop a moment and consider the serious complications that are bound to result. affecting not only property rights, but. what Is still more important, tho legitimacy Of off spring These vital questions are now regulated by geography.
 The case carried to the supreme court of the United States involves this point:
 man goes to south Dakota, sues for divorce and obtains a decree which Is valid in that state. giving him the privilege of contracting another mar rlage His first wife has not placed herself within the jurisdiction of the court and has interposed no defense. She has retained her rights in her own state, and she remains his wife. She may turn around and sue him for a divorce, naming wife No. ? as core spondent.
 But suppose that she does not see fit 10 sue The husband may establish a nome in the west and live there some time, raising a family He may then conclude to return east c. the woman ne had left and who is still his wife here, and he may have more citildren. Each family is legitimate at, home H. gitimate in the other state, Carry the example a little farther and where do you get? A man may be a poygamist with , dozen wives and families scattered through as many dlHerent states. Each is bound to him ny me laws of the state where the marriage was contre ,cted, and he may | always have acted within the letter of ! ihe law in contract ing and in severing ms marital ties. Again il comes down l to question of Geography. Nothing would he more dangerous man to assume that because a. remar- | rage of divorced person might be le- | gal in New Je rsey 1t could be con 'racted anywhere in the Union. In 1 some places such a marriage would be bigamous
 IT person h as no grounds for dl- 1
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

vorce here. he can surely find som,
 state wh re any particular grievanc,
 that he may have will be sufficient, fol
 there are laws to suit all, and the only
 difficulty Is to find them and to live ir
 the place where they apply long enough
 10 acquire a residence. The mismated
 must always avoid one state. South Carolina, where no divorces are grant
 ed for any cause.
 ! Even for first ma rriage it is some | times essential to stuCy the geography
 A man may elope with girl who Is
 less than IS in N Jersey and con-
 tract valid marriage with her. where.
 as in New York he woull be guilty of
 abduction. and liable to term of i'm prisonment.
 In New Mexico the bride would have
 to b. less than IA ;o fall within the statute of clandestire marriages. In some localities when there are secret marriages between minors. both bride and groom arr subt cted to punish
 ment; in others. the penalty Is directed
 to the party celebrat ing the marriage
 m stiil others to the person issuing the
 license: while in sor3l states liabilities attach to all conce'I ned. and in few instances the proper ty rights of the wife or husband arc involved.
 There has been considerable agita- ton in the nortl west within a few months about a proposed law to pro- hlbit marriages of persons suffering from tuberculosis ard other ailments liable to be transmitted to their pro- geny. There are other bars to mar riage recognized in different states. all having certain prohibitions on account of blood or kblshlp
 Consanguineo marriages are gen- erally abhoT ed among civilized na- tions. Although his ia a.her. Amran had married Jochebed. a paternal aunt Nose" prohibited by the Cevitical law marriage arrons llneal kindred of near blood, and declared such practices an in the sight of God By this law Hebrew was forbidden to marry his mother or his sister or his daughter, or his aunt. and women were prohibited taking husbanda nearer in blood than first cousins. This rule has been general ever since. sometimes ex- tending to remote qualifications. as, for example when the Roman Catholic church. under Gregory III. prohibited marriage between sixth cousins.
 In Georgia and Florida the law of Nose" has beer re-enacted In several states, including California, Iowa. Kan | sas, Maine and Montana man can | not marry his niece. Delaware and 1 Kentucky Include grand nieces in the | prohibition In respect to the marriage | or cousins there has been q great d, | versity of opinion. They may marry in New York. while they would be. liable 10 go t0 jail If the ceremony occurred m Arlzona. Nevada or Wyoming.
 A marriage between cousins would be valid In New York, but q grave aues- lion would arise if cousins re sidents of state prohibiting their marriage. were welded in New York and them returned 70 their homes. The doctrine is that marriage valid where solentnized is 'ahd everywhere. hut on the other hand the status of citizens of a state
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
HOW TO AVOID TROUBLE.

Now IS the time to provide yourself and family with a bottle of Chamber lain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed before the summer is over, and IT procured now may save you a trip to town in the night or in you busiest season. It is everywhere admitted to De the most successful medicine in use Tor bowel complaints both for children and adults. No family can afford to De without it. For sale. by Elvey & Hulett.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
FOR OVER FIFTy yEAps

FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain. cures wind collie, and IS the best remedy for Darrhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

Cail at ElVey x Huletts and get a Tree sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are an elegant physic. They also improve the appetite strengthen the digestion and regulate the liver and bowels. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
" PROCLAMATION,
To the People of Arizona

 | 'I, John N. Goodwin. having heey I appointed by the president of the United States. and duly qualified. as governor of the territory or Arizona, d, by announce that by virtue of pow. CTS with which l am invested by an act of the congress of the United States, providing a temporary govern ment for the territory. shall this day proceed to organize said government The provisions of the act and all laws and enactments established thereby, Will be enforced by the proper terri torlal officers from and after this date
 preliminary census will forth with be taken, and thereafter the judi clal districts will be formed and an election of members of the legislative assembly and the other officers. pro- vided' by the act, be ordered
 invoke the aid and co-operation Of all citizens of the territory in my ef- forts to establish a government where by the security of life and property will be maintained throughout it's limits and its varied resources, be rapidly and successfully developed.
 The seat of government will. for the present, be at or neac Fort Whip pie.
 JOHN N. GOODWIN.
 By the governor
 RICHARD C. MCCORMICK,
 Secretary of the Territory. Navajo Springs, Arizona, Dec. 29, 1863.
 On the editorial page appears the salutatory in which the editor dwells on Arizona's auriferous wealth, an- hounces his Independence in every thing. the organ of no exclusive in- terest," and says that local rather than national affairs will occupy his atten- ton' Geographically the paper has better appearance than some papers published in the territory today. It has Tour pages of four columns and the prefswork was creditable There is but one column of advertising and the largest advertisement tells of the new
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

Ladies, have your suits and golf skirts made at Steins.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

on July lst and 2nd We will sell round trip SO day tickets as above ac- count MEETING CHRISTIAN EN- DEAVOR.
 l.. II. Landis, Acting GenI Agent
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
THE WICKENBERG WHOLESALE
 GROCERY.

Received today one car load fresh rolled Barley.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

CINCINNATI AND RETURN SIS. S.6O
 SANTA FEE ROUTE.
Arizona republican., 1901-06-23
Dr.. SIayfOn Says:

The English Kitchen keeps their cook room in absolute clean condition and the quality of their food, together with good service, entities them to liberal patronage.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-13
A PUN THAT PAID.

\ witty remark does not always re
suit so satisfactorily to the perpetra
tor as in the case of the young curatt
who obtained valuable living in the
west of England by means Of pun.
The rector who held the living had
died and there were many applicants
to the place, which was worth SO, 0W
year. The living was in,the gift of
an Earl. whb was surprised at the
funeral by the manifestations of grief
by the assembled rector and curates
So he said to the young curate who
had been acting AS the tutor of his
son: Naturally they should feel a
proper amount of grief, but cannot
understand why they should weep so
frenziedly for the dead
The young man instantly replied ::
You are mistaken. my Lord it is
not for the dead they weep it is for
the living.
Thereupon the Earl was so pleased
with the keenness of the remark that
he presented the living to the curatc.
Youths Companion.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-13

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