The Newark journal., 1903-03-27
ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE
Impeachment Proceedings Against Chancellor Leatherman in
 Senate.
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 Representative Hale-s bin seeking to l abolish the railroad commission was de- l feated in the house by vote of 21 to 52 after a debate which occupied almost the entire day
 The senate passed Nr. Campbelfs bill | apprapriattng S20.O00 for the purpose 1 of redigesting the statutes of Arkansas aud giving the supreme court power to appoint the digester In the senate the Keel antitrust bill was taken from the table and placed upon the calendar. The Senate The first business taken up was H. B. | No 1 Campbell of Pulask1. which pro l vides for the appointment by the su- l preme court of 8 redigester of the sta | tutes and appropriating $20, ,000 for the l printing Of the same. A motion to postpone was lost and the bill was placed on third reading. Senator Covington spoke in opposi- tion to the bill. He said that there seemed to him to be a movement on foot on the part of certain members of the senate as well as of the house to take away from the governors office every vestge of the appointive power. Senator Sengel spoke in favor of the bill and said he hoped the senate would place the appointing power in the hands of the supreme court.
 Senator Wood favored the bill He said that in his opinion the appointing of the digestef should be taken out of politics He said the supreme court was the proper tribunal in which to invest the power.
 Senator Wilson urged the passage of the bill.
 Senators Hardy and Caldwell spoke in opposition te the measure.
 On reH call the vote stood: Ayes II; noes q
 Senator Caldwell called the chairs at tention to the fact that it required a two-thirjs vote to pass the bill.
 Senator Wilson contended that under the constitution it ires only ma jority vote 10 appropriate money for such purp $. quo ting the s pr me courts q cision on tie state hcuss mt ter.
 The chair ruled that te bfl failed t. pass, not Tee .ng a two-t irds ma iority
 Senator Wood moved to appeal from the decision of tae a r which app al was sustained hy vote of B to Il.
 The Br' sideHt then announced that the bll had psSsed.
 S B. 152 prohibiting the removal Of surveyor landmarks. was taken up and p5teeezI
 NJ Hud6l stal called ID II. B 14t tMoore of PaHps). for the areaniza- ton and resultti of trust companies Read tw ce.
 senato- Gotham introduced an emer- geney liA to prevent fhe running at large of hoss in the st. Francis Ievee dist jet.
 Senator Wilson moved to take the Keel aHh-trEst bill from the table snd tn motion WIS c1rrje1. and the bill plae on the calendar subject to call.
 The House.
 II F faF ffI91a, ab,afef,f,,rra road commission, occupied almost the entire days session
 Mr. Kerwin of Jefferson occupied over two hours with an argument in opposl- tion to the bill.
 He said that the railroad eommis- sion was of benefit to 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.
 MT ToHey 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
 Mir. Butler urged the passage of the bill He said he did not believe taa commission had ever benefited poor peo- pie and his people, who were farmers wanted it abolished.
 Mr. Perry favored the bin and re- ferred to a plank in the democratic state platform faVoring enlarcing the powers of the commission. According c 4t., ,F commission had cut rates on an ever age of 20 per cent
 MT McGuigau believed in enlargirg the powers of the commission.
 MT Holland argued that the eommis- sion was a useless expense.
 Mir. Thompson was not in 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:
 Ayes-Apple. Bevtll Campbell of Ran dolph. Chestnut Cook of Chicot be Rossit. Dixon. Eldridge. Green of Ben ton. Hale. Hogan. Holland. Hooker Matheny. Merriman. Moore of Newton. Stockard and York-21. .oes-AHen, Atkins Baskin. Bell Bird Bradley. Briaut Brooks. Camp bell of Pulaski Cate. Chambers Chap man Clement Cooke of Phillips Crut- cher Daniel Ellis, Funk Fuller. Flu trcli. Gibson. Green of 0u1chita. Griffin, Hall. Hill. Holman Holmes, Jacobs. Keel Kelso. Kerwin. Knox, Latimer. Martineau. Matmiller. McGuiEan. My CTS Nordeet Parks Patterson. Perry, Pndal Poole, Rountrec, Rowland Slaughter. Stafford. Stevens, Stover. Tarver. Thompson Toney. Weaver. White Whitley Vim, Witt. Woford and Mir. Speaker-52 Severa! who voted aye changed to no with the evident purpose of nov