Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-21
CONSTITUTION 1. |S OPPOSED Senator Jeff Davis Declares
 That Fight Against Lee Browning Bill Has Not
 Ended.
T A K E. s BIRTHRTGHT
Supporters of Measure >a, lt> Recent Passage Repealed HI Paris Rela- tive to lnsurancr. Davis sn- nOuncrs His Slogan
nounces@ His Slogan.

Little =Hoel,. Ark April 20. =.
 ! he opponents of the Lee Brown HE Dill, which became d law last week, appear to think they have hot been defeated. Nj the state= house today there were Manv who
 discussed tue question of requlr. lne the old line insurance compa- hles to file an affidavit to the if leet that they are not members ot any pool, combination or trust here controlling prices. T.. s. Senator
 Davis, who has been considered
 to be the leader in the opposition to this bll, was seen by a reporter at noon and asked for a statement regarding the cas-. He said The fight for tbe antitrust law has not yet ended. Before
 any old line fire insurance com
 hanles, d member of any trtst h9re or elsewhere can come to .S1l:;r- sas toi do business they must file with the Secretary of State an afii- dayit as required under the King Antitrust Act, notwithstanding the passage of the Lee Browning bill
 .The Lee Browning bill is tlncon- jstitutional because of Article ", Section 24 of the Constitution Of the State which provides: Nor shall the operation of any general law be suspended by the Legislature for the benefit of any particular in- divdual, corporation or association.
 ''It is indeed the hand of Lee and Browning but the voice of Balch. In olden times Frau was cheated out of his birthright by the connlv- ance of his mother Rebekah, when they perDetrated the fraud on Isaac, his father by presenting the hand of I1sau but the voice of Jacob. By a cheat and a fraud the birthright VI IIoclu WUo u dIloISI Cu IO JdCOu, and since that time to this good day, when a fraud is to be perperta- der the guise of the hand of Esau, but the vooice of Jacob.
 An attempt has been made to steal the birthright of the people, that for which they have fought. True. 1t is the hand of Lee and Browning, but it is the voice Of Balch.
 Thisc shall be the slogan in the against this deception ac practiced by tile Legislature. 1t shall en1eaVor to have the attorney general institute suit against the first oldline insurance company presenting itself and operating in this State under the Constitution above referred to.
 On thr et'9cr hand the friends of the measure declare that the pass age of the bill repealed all parts of the antitrust law applying to insu- rance companies. In support of this contention, Section ? of the Lee Browning bill referred to is cited. The section reads as follows:
 All laws or parts of laws thereof that are in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed, provided, that mo- thing herein shall be construed as in force from and after it's pass age"
 The contention of the opponents of the bill was called to the atten- tion of number of the members of either house today, among them be- ing most excellent lawyers. They claim that the final clause is very plain, that all parts of Act No. l, of the acts Iof 1905. commonly known as the King Antitrust Law, are repealed by it, and that the fil- Ing of this affidavit is not oblligato- ry under the law, as that is one part Of the old antitrust law which relates to insurance