The Monticellonian., 1907-01-17
THE HOUSE.

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 THE HOUSE.
 A temporary caucus of the candi- dates for the speakership of the house Vas held at 9 o'clock in the morning, Hot Springs county was selected as the temporary speaker.
 At noon Hon. T. NJ Campbell of Pocahontas rapped for order and do clared that by the power vested in him by law he called the house of the Thirty-sixth General Assembly to be in session.
 He called Rev. J. N. Jessup of the First Christian church of Little Rock to offer the opening prayer
 At the conclusion of a most elo. quent prayer Mir. Campbell read a com muncation from Secretary of State o. C. Ludwig on which the regular elect. ed representatives were named. MT. Campbell read the names contained and then called for the nomination Of temporary speaker Hon. John c. Ross being the caucus selection, he was elected without opposition.
 Mir. Ross made q short speech in which he thanked the house for the honor. He called upon all members to lay aside all personal feelings and to look to the interest of the great state of Arkansas. Look to it that we per form our duties we'll As We go into the election of the officers of this house let us do so with malice to none.
 The chair then appointed the fol- lowing temporary officers:
 Sergeant at arms. Van B. Izard of St. Francis; chief janitor, NIT. J. M Hawkins of Clark. and assistants, James Harris. Gray. and Halbert.
 Postmistress-Mis Lucy Falconer of Sebastian.
 Pages-Hugh Dedman, Frank Clem- en. Jeff Davis, John T. Burlington, NJ. Hornbarger
 MT. Jackson moved that a commit tee of three be named to notify the chief justice to administer the oath Of office. It carried and Jackson, Cra- ven and Anderson were appointed
 The committee escorted the chief Justice to the desk and the 100 new members appeared and took the oath f office.
 MT. DuLaney then moved that the temporary speaker appoint temporary officers Of the house, which was car Tied. and the speaker announced the following appointments: Temporary postmistress, Miss Falconer of Sebas- tain; temporary janitor. Mir Harris; assistants. Messrs. Gray, Holbert and Harris; temporary pages Master Hugh Dedman, Lamar Simmer. Jeff Davis, John Burlington. Marcus Horn berger and Grady Forgy.
 Nominations for permanent speaker being declared in order. the following nominations were made:
 Hon. Allen H. Hamilton of Lafay- cite county, nominated by Mir. Rowell. Hon. Jas. II. McCollum of Hampstead county. by MT. Mcdaniel of Clark.
 Hon. U. P. Meade of Pope county, by MT Martin of Yell.
 Hon. w. A. Black of Sebastian eoun. ty, by Mir. Partain of Franklin.
 Hon. J. M. Black of Marion coun- ty, by Mir. Smothers of Barton.
 Hon. Horace F. Ruff of Independ- ence county, by MT. Thomas of lnde- pendence.
 The first ballot on tA speakership was taken shortly after 12:30, with the following result:
 Hamiter of Lafayette. 25; McCollum of Hampstead, IT; Black of Sebas- tian. 16; Meade of Pope, 16; Black of Marion, 16, and Ruff of Randolph, Il.
 Temporary Speaker Ross declared that 30 votes were necessary to elect and ordered another ballot
 The second vote resulted as fol lows;
 Hamiter, 26 Meade. is, MeCollum, 16; Black of Sebastian, 14; Black of Marion, II. and Ruff. 10.
 At this time motion for adjourn ment was made. but MT. Dulaney asked for the roll call. The vote on adjournment resulted as follows: For adjournment, 54 against adjournment. 45. The house then adjourned until 8 o'clock.
 The House reassembled at o'clock snd balloting for Speaker continued. After the eighth balot, with no imme- diate prospect of breaking the dead lock. adjournment was taken until 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.