Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-08

he believed in measure kat would give releif, but thought the Baleh bill would make the people eower before the insurance trust and is not strong enough to cope with it. He thought the bill was pre- mature. If the insurance trust came back to Arkansas, Mir Rowell said, the first thing it would do would be to crush the local compa- nles and sap the very lifebIood out of estess,9t. enterprise in the state It wanted t3 return, he stated, free
 unhampered and uncontrolled and unless it could dictate terms and rates it would not want to come. He said the state should be proud of the record of it's local companies and that their progress should not be impeded Mir. Rowell claimed the local companies are in compe- tition with one another. He believ- ed the suspension of the Adams & Boyle Fire Insurance Company was for the purpose of forcing the passage of the Balch bill. He con- cluded by reading a telegram from R. w. McFarlane at Corpus Christi, Texas, to the effect that Governor Little favored letting the antitrust law alone.
 MT. Pinney, also representative of Jefferson county, spoke in favor of the bill, saying he wanted to set the business interests of this county right before the house. He stated that 95 per cent of all the people who have business interests in the county are. praying for relief, and said he did not understand the atti- tude of MT. Powell, because the people whom he should represent were clamoring for the Balch bill. He also said he could not explain the change of attitude of the local insurance companies, which two years ago did not have so much to say about the antitrust law.
 Referring to the petitions filed by MT. Rowell, MT. Pinney said they were brought to Little Rock by delegation of Pine Bluff business men and that MT. Rowell took them and put them in his pocket after the three representatives held conference with the delegation. Wednesday afternoon when he thought the bill was coming to vote, MT. Pinney said he asked Mir. Rowell for the petitions for the pur- pose of filing them, but that Mir. Rowell refused to let either MT. Hunt or himself have them. He also took exception to Mir. Rowell's statement in his speech that the petitions were given to him.
 MT. Rowell took exceptions to MT. Pinney's statement, and asked for an expression from MT. Hunt. Later in the proceedings MT. Hunt said the whole affair had been brought about through misunder- standing.
 The Balch bill,. would have per pitted the foreign old-time insurance companies to re-enter the state. A motion to reconsider the vote and lay that motion on the table was then made. and carried, effectually killing ffx heas6t 4ssse,f' hardest flights of the present session was made on the Balch bill, delegations of commercial organizations in'all parts of the state having been sent to Little Rock to work for the passage of the measure. The bill was fought. by the local fire insurance companies and by that element of the Demo- cratic party which has objected to any legislation which might impair the operation of the antitrust law in any respect. 1t was contended by some of the opponents of the meas ure that it would repeal the entire antitrust law but this was denied by it's author and others who cham pioned it.
 After the bill had been killed, Rep- resentative Killough offered a reso- lution, directing the attorney general to enforce the antitrust law rigid!y and expressing it as the sense of the house that reinsurance is violation of the antitrust law. The resolution was adopted. The purpose of this resolution was obviously to make the law as obnoxious as possible, in the hope that this would cause reaction in feeling and result in the enacting of legislation along the line of the