Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-25
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same as any other property owner in the state. They brought in this bill, and it provided for the things I wish ed brought about, but found that the legislature had made certain exemp- tions which I did not like. I signed the bill, as thought it was better to get what we could from the railroads, and have another bill in the future tc get the rest of it. Davis has also presented railroad taxation bill, and he wants records compared. shall let you do the comparing.
 Davis says 1 voted against the Hatch bill, which provided for a tax on all persons dealing in futures in farm products, and he says this was wrong. did vote against this bill. but supported Senator Henry George when he brought in his bill making it crime to deal in futures in farm products, and voted for that p1il. uCtluS, CaA O1 dVdIlASS III IHCoC futures was only licensing gambling, but making it crime would have stopped it. Davis says he would have put so high a tax on this that it would have stopped it, but a tax is for purposes of revenue only, and a prohibitory tax is unconstitutional.
 ''Davis also criticized me in the early part of the campaign for my part in the Arkansas settlement. but he has dropped that now that he finds it is to my credit
 Senator Berry said he disliked to praise himself, and had never before in a political campaign read speeches complimentary to himself. but he wanted to now. And he read speech which characterized him as one of Gods noblemen, and said his public and private character was above re- proach and then he said ''That trib- ute was written by Jeff Davis less than four years ago"
 Condition of State Treasury.
 The senator also proved by reports from the state treasurer and auditor that Davis statements in regard to the emptiness of the state treasury when he became governor and the amount of money in it now were false hoods. He merely said that the gov ernor was mistaken when he said this, and smile crept over the faces of many in the audience as they remem- Der how this statement differed from some of Davis bitter denunciations of Berry's statements as lies.
 River Appropriations
 "When they ask you what Jim Der ry has done for Arkansas, ask them what he has failed to do for Arkansas when it was possible to do anything at all. The only place in the senate where it is possible to get money for the south is in the rivers and harbors bill and the public buildings bills. l worked for ten years to get on the commerce committee, where l could do something in this line. Speeches on the floor of the senate do not in- fuence legislation nor secure votes, they are merely for home consump- tion. We can not get more appropria- tions for the work on the Arkansas river, because the engineers say it is too costly, but we have been working hard fer it and whatever we can do we will do. I believe that the river islthe only protection the people have against eycessive freight rates on the railroads, and when Arkansas loses her place on the rivers and harbors committee which is only gained by seniority, and which l now hold, the Arkansas river will fare far worse.
 Arkansas has had more money ap. for public buildings than any other state in the south. I have secured numerous purhc buildings for my state, and if MT. Robinson sue. ceeds in getting his bill for the new public building at Pine Bluff through the house shall take as much pleas ure in putting it through the senate as in any vote ever cast.
 Not Too Old for Service.
 q am at the head of the Democrats on the public lands committee, and am next to the head on the ,appropri- ations committee. have worked har!