Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-19
PINE BLUFF
 OFFICIALS RETURN Arkansas Municipal League Organized and w. F. Cole man and Others Figure Prominently Therein.
MANY BILLS FAVORED
City Councils Want To Elect City
 Clerk and Attorney Instead of By
 Popular Yote-Improyement Dis trict Discussed-Highly Elated.

Mayor John l.. Caldwell, D. c. Bell, w. X. Trulock, w. F. Coleman, w. J. Parkes, Gabe Meyer, Charles Well, William Nichol, J. k. Boyce, A. C. Jordan and other city officials and members of the Pine Bluff Board of Trade returned this morn- ing from Little Rock, where they attended the meeting of the Arkan- sas Municipal League, organized there yesterday. They are enthusi- astic over the great interst mani Tested in the work of the League by the representatives of the cities of the first and second class in Ar i kansas, and they say that many good local laws will result from the ! conference yesterday.
 : The league went on record as fa- voring the Balch insurance bill, sev district laws, a bill providing that so per cent of the road tax col i lected within cities of the first and second class be expended in the , cities by the city councils, a bill providing for the election of city attorneys and city clerks by the council instead of by the people, a bill making it a misdemeanor to fail to connect with sewer when ordered to do so by the Board of Health, a bill divesting justices of the peace in cities of jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases and placing all this business in the city courts, and the passage of bill giving cities the right of eminent domain over i public utilities operating within the city limits.
 All cities of the first and second class in the state are eligible to membership in the league, which is to be made a permanent organiza- tion. A committee of fifteen was selected at the close of the meeting yesterday afternoon, which will have charge of the resolutions pass ed at the meeting and will not only work to secure the passage of the bills thus endorsed, but this com mittee will also provide a constitu- tion and bylaws and report to EA6a league at a meeting to be calledE at some time this fall by the presidx xnt. This committee consists of WAT. Coleman of this city. Edwin BeSins of Helena, P. P. Bacon of Texar- kama. Walter Harkey of Russell- vile, w. Burt Brooks of Little Rock, Lyman F. Reeder of Bates vile, Henry Patterson of Searcy. c. Floyd Huff of Hot Springs, J. E. Woods of Eureka Springs, c. A. Mulholland of Fayetteville, H. c. Pernot of Van Buren, Henry O'Melia of Fort Smith, w. E. Lemon of Lit; tie Rock, Hugh Martin of Helena and Ashley Cockrill of Little Rock. This committee, at the conclusion of the session last evening, selected a committee of five, consisting of Wossrs. Coleman, Cockrill, Bacon, Harkey and Bevins, to be an execu- tive committee of the organization. The resolutions adopted by the league will be looked after by this committee, and the fifteen mem- bers of the general committee will see that bills are introduced in the legislature providing for all the things asked for by the league at it's session yesterday.
 Officers Elected.
 There were about thirty-five dele gates present when Mayor Lemon called the meeting to order at the Business Mems League rooms. Mayor Hugh Martin of Helena was selected as chairman and Herbert Duval and J. s. Hawkins were chos- en as secretaries. During the af- ternoon session Mr. Martin was