The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-17
THE HOUSE.

W dS H6lQ at J O ClOCh III luS HUI hiAS' at which time Hon. John c. Ross or Hot Springs county was selected as the temporary speaker.
 At noon Hon. T. NJ. Campbell of Pocahontas rapped for order and de' 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 MT. Campbell read con- munication from Secretary of State o. c. Ludwig on which the regular elect ed representative were named. MT, Campbell read the names contained and then called for the nomination of a temporary speaker. Hon. John c. Ross being the caucus selection, he was elected without opposition.
 MT. Ross made 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 well. 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, Mir J. NJ. 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, M. 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, Ora ven and Anderson were appointed.
 The committee escorted the chief justice to the desk and the 100 new members appeared and took the oath of office.
 MT. DuLaney then moved that the temporary speaker appoint temporary officers of the house, which was car ried, and the speaker announced the following appointments: Temporary No 1f Cah tain; temporary janitor, Mir Harris; assistants, Messrs. Gray, Holbert and Harris; temporary pages Master Hugh Dedman, Lamar Sinner, Jeff Davis, John Burlington, Marcus Horn berger and Grady Forgy.
 Nominations for permanent speaker being declared in order, the following were made:
 Hon. Allen H. Hamilton of Lafay- ette county, nominated by Mir. Powell.
 Hon. Jas. H. McCollum of Hampstead by MT. McDaniel of Clark.
 Hon. U P. Meade of Pope county, by MT. Martin of Yell.
 Hon. w. A. Black of Sebastian coun- ty, by MT. Partain of Franklin.
 Hon. J. M. Black of Marion coun- ty, by Mir Smothers of Barton.
 Hon. Horace E. Ruff of Independ- ence county, by MT Thomas of Inde- pendence.
 The first ballot on the 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, II.
 Temporary Speaker Ross declared that 50 votes were necessary to elect, and ordered another ballot.
 The second vote resulted as fol- lows:
 Hamiter, 26; Meade, 19; McCollum, 16; Black of Sebastian, IA; Black of Marion, IA. 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 and balloting for Speaker continued. After the eighth balot, with no imme- date prospect of breaking the dead lock, adjournment was taken until o'cl Dck Tuesday morning.