The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-21

Senators Hardy and Caldwell spoke In
| opposition to the measure.
ON roll call the vote stood: Ayes Ia,
noes g.
/ Senator Caldwell called the chairs at
/ tention TO the fact that Il required n
two-thirds vote to pass the bill
Senator Wilson coutenlod that under
| the constitution II requires only a ma
[ jority vote to appropriate money for
/ such purposes. quoting the pr me
] courts decision on tie state hcuss mat
/ ter.
| The chair ruled that tie bill failed
/ to pass. not rec living a two-tJirds ma
/ jority.
/ Senator Wood moved to appeal from
the decision of the chair, which appeal
was sustained by vote OF 10 to H.
The pr, sident then announced that the
bill had passed.
| Mr.. Huddleston called up IL. h. li1
| Moore Of Phllips). for the organiSa-
| ton and re2ulatiln OF trust companies.
/ Read tw &c.
Senator Gotham introduced an cmer-
/ genCy bill to prevent the rInntng at
/ large of hoss In the ST. Francis irNce
| dist let
/ Senator Wilson moved to take the
| Keel antitrust bin from the table. end
| tn, motion was carried. end the bin
| plac d on the calendar sub ect to call.
! S. b. 1872. prohibiting the removal Of
| surveyors landmarks. was taken up and
| passed.
The House.
II. b. 40l CHalc). abollshing the rail
| road commission, occupied almost the
| entire days session.
/ Mr.. Kerwn of Jefferson occupied over
| two hours with an argument In opposl-
| ton to the bill.
He said that the railroad commits
| sion was Of benefit TO "A great number
| of people. and that the passage Of this
| bill would be step backward of at
! least ten years in the commerce OF the
state. He said the railroads were the
only ones who suffered because OF the
| existence of the commission.
The speaker stated that he had let
| ter in his pocket from one concern that
had saved enough money by the reduced
| rates to pay the entire expense OF the
| commission for four years,
Mr.. Toney spoke In favor OF the bill.
He said that In his opinion only the big
| shippers got the benefit from the COM
| mission. and the people who paid most
| OF the taxes received no benefit He
said the commission was a detriment to
the small shippers.
Mr.. Butler urged the passage Of tho
| bill. He said he did not believe t."
| commission had ever benefited poor peo-
| pie and his people. who were farmers,
| wanted 1t abolished.
Mr.. Perry favored the bill and re-
| ferred to plank In the democratic
state platform favoring charging the
| powers of the commission According
| to statements OF railroad people the
commission had cut rates on an ever
| age of 20 per cent
| Mr.. Michigan believed IN enlarglng
the powers of the commission.
Mr.. Holland argued that the commits
sion was a useless expense.
Mr.. Thompson was not I'm favor Of
| taking away protection from the peo-
! pie, and that was what the commission
! had given them.
| Several other gentlemen spoke on the
| pending question
on roll call the bill failed to pass, the
vote being as follows:
Aycs-Applc. Bevill Campbell of Ran
dolph, Chestnut, Cook OF Chcot. DO
Rossit, Dixon, Eldrldge. Green OF Ben
ton, Hale. Hogan, Holland Hooker.
Matheny. Merriman Moore of Newton,
Stockard and York-2l
Noes-Allen, Atkins, BaskIn, Bell.
bird, Bradley Briant, Brooks, Camp
bell OF Pulaski, Cate, Chambers, Chap
| man. 'Iemtnt, tOoke OF IHllllph, Cfuts
| cher. Daniel. Ellis, Funk. Fuller, Fu-
troll Gibson. Green OF Ouschta. Grlnn,
| Hall, nm. Holman, Holmes. Jacobs.
Keel, Kelso, Kerwln. Knox, Latimer.
| Martineau. Matmiller, Michigan. N.Y.
crs. Norileet Parks Patterson, Perry.
| Pindall, Poole. Rountree, Rowland,
Slaughter. Stafford. Stevens. Slower.
| Tarver. Thompson. Toney, Weaver,
| White. whitley. VIM, Witt. Wonord
and Mr., Speaker--52.
Several who voted aye changed to
no with the evident purpose OF NOV
! ing reconsideration.