The Green Forest tribune., 1903-05-09
WORK OF HON. c. A. FULLER
What Our County Represents. |. tive Did i'll the Legislature.

En route home from St. Louis last Saturday our scribe fell in at Springfield with Hon. c. A. Full Ter, on his return from Little Rock, the state legislature hav- ing adjourned the day before.
 Believing that our readers would be interested in reading resume of the work of our repre- tentative, we interviewed him briefly. In answer to ques- tion as to what he had accom- plished during the term MT. Full Ter said:
 "Out of 135 house bills, which passed and became laws, 1 in- troduced four of this number.
 "I passed the constitutional amendment through both houses and then over the governors veto. It allows cities to borrow money for public improvement and is to be submitted to the people in 1904. For twenty years this amendment has been before the legislature and I was the first one to ever pass it through the house.
 q introduced and passed the militia bill. It carried an appro- priation of S6, 300 and in return for that the state gets over S74,- 900 federal government. Without that appropriation we would have gotten nothing.
 "I passed a local bill declaring the office of the present improve ment district of Eureka Springs vacant. These members were all republicans and elected their own successors. The bill makes them elective by the council every two years. It was this bill that caused the party lines to be drawn in the late city election.
 "I also passed local bill pro- viding how certain school lands in this city should be sold and quieting title to the same.
 "I placed Carroll county in a local bill which makes road over- seers elective. 1 was a strong advocate and assisted in the pas- sage through the house of a bill making the two justices of the peace of every township and the county assessor the assessor for each township; thus abolishing the equalization board. I think this bill was killed in the senate. q advocated on the floor of the house passage of the bill leaving it optional with the county judge as to whether the county should have county road commissioner.
 "I led the fight against creating the office of county superinten- dents of schools. It is and was generally conceded that l killed the bill in the house after it had passed the senate. The bill pro- vided that the superintendent should draw the same salary that the county judge does. It pro- vided that the county should pro- vide him with an office and that he must be in it twice a month, second and fourth Saturdays. I think he was to hire all teachers for all schools. It made him a czar and dictator. Nothing could be done without his ap- proval and he was not required to do any thing much to earn his salary. It took all power away from the directors and left them without even honor attached to their office.
 "I made the only speech against Brady bill, which gave a railroad company 1000 acres of state lands for every mile they built. The bill was killed in the house. I voted against the re- pealing of the railroad commits sion and kept Carroll county out of all stock laws.
 "Last week I led the fight against the leaders of the house; in fact, I was the only one who fought them. They were seeking to pass bill which had passed the senate making tenant guilty of obtaining money under false pretense if he left the premises