Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-16
The House,
Monday, January 12.

| Monday, January 12. | A. 8. Hays, Chief Clerk of the last | house. called the body to order and. | after prayer by Rev. F. R. Noe of Beebe
 list of the members was read. 1 MT. Thomas w. Campbell of Ran | dolph was chosen temporary speaker Chief Justice Bum of the supreme l court administered the oath of office to the members.
 1 Nominations for permanent ofYlcer.
 being the order of business Hon. John W. Holland presented the name of Judge John Ike Moore of Phillips for speaker l MT. A. D. DuLaney of Little River | nominated Hon. Hardin K. Toney of 1 Jefferson.
 ] Only one ballot was taken, Judge l Moore being elected.
 The vote was as follows: 1 Moore-Allen, Apple, Arnold, Atkins l Bell. Bevill, Bird. Braden, Bradley, l Brooks Burk. Cate, Campbell of Pu-
 laski Campbell of Randolph, Chappell. Chambers, Chapline. Chestnut, chrisp,
 Clement, Cook of Chicot, Cook of Phil ] lips, Crutcher. DeRossitt. EldPidge, l Flanagin, Fraser, Fink, Fuller, Flu
 trail. Can't. Gibson, Green of Benton, Greene of Ouachita. Hale Hall, Harris,
 Hill. Holland. Holman. Holmes. liar ton. Jacobs, Kelso. Keith. Latimer.
 Martineav. Michigan. Merriman. Moore
 of Newton, Newberry, Norfieet, Patter-
 son. Perry. Poole, Reece, Rodman, Row. | land. Scrimshire, Slaughter Stafford, Stevens. Stockard, Stover, Tarver,
 Thompson, Toney, Weaver. White,
 Whitney Whitthorne. Winn, witt-74. | Toney-Baskin. Briant Bush, Butler, 1 Daniel. Dixon. DuLaney. Ellis, Tergu-
 son, Garrett. Griffin, Hogan, Hooker, 1 Keel. Kerwin, Knox, Matheny. Matmil- l Ter, Meyers, Moore of Phillips, Parks, l Pindall Roundtree, Wofford, York 25.
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 tatives Toney. Cate and Chrisp was l appointed by the chair to escort the | new speaker to the rostrum Me Moore thanked the members for 1 the honor conferred. Among other ] thin1s Mir. Moore said:
 1 The poor words at my command do | not enable me to convey in adequate
 terms my profound appreciation of this l high honor so graciously bestowed, | but trust you all will do me the justice to believe that my gratitude Is l none the less sincere if I do not cx- press it in high-sounding words and | rounded periods. I am not unmindful | of the fact that honors bring with
 themselves great and grave responsibil- 1ties, and that in undertaking the dis l charge of the duties of this office my responsibility to you, my constituents
 and the people of the state is thereby approximately increased. In full 1 realization of my position I covenant 1 with you this day that will earnestly, honestly, faithfully, impartially and | bravely do all that Hes in my power l to convince the world that to be a mem- | Der of this house is to wear the badgn | of honor and not of shame-that to be l n member of the Arkansas legislature | Is to bear the commission of a people in l whose veins triclles the best Anglo 1 Saxon blood of the century.
 | "As to whether the business of this | body shall be conducted with propri- l ety and in good order is matter to
 be determined by it's members and not | by the man who happens to be the | presiding officer. It will be your re- | sponsibnity and not mine I therefore | hope that every member will do his ut | most to see that nothing transpires here that can bring disgrace upon us 1 or the blush of shame to the cheek of l any citizen
 1 "I am aware that there is no test of l manhood in any department of poiit-