Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-06
LAW MAKERS
 AFTER THEATERS Bill Introduced In The Sen ate Yesterday Regulating The Prices of Admis- sion.
CIRCUSES INCLUDED
New rncers At Penitentiary and Re. form School Approyed-Argument When Longer Term Was Suggest. ed-Some Other News,

Little Rock, Ark. March 5.-Tbe General Assembly will not adjourn on March IA, the time prescribed by law, but will remain in session until
 May 16. This was decided this
 morning when the senate adopted the resolution offered in the house
 by MT. Jackson, extending the ses-
 sion sixty days, which places the 1 time of adjournment at May 16.
 The resolution had comparatively easy sailing in the senate, being adopted by vote of 27 to 6. It mad previously been adopted by the house yesterday afternoon by mar gin of one vote. There is no doubt but that Acting Governor Moore will approve the resolution and the ieglsiators are now ready for an- other two months of work. The ar. guments advanced for the extension were chiefly that the legislature could not hope to uncover all the graft and rottenness that had been charged in connection with certain Of the states affairs, within the time Of the regular session. It was contended that the state capitol in- sVest1gatfng committee could not complete half of it's work within that time and that if the legislature adjourned before this investigation was completed, it would have failed to accomplish the most important work of the session. Senator Car lock moved to amend by making the extension forty days, but when Senator Oldham, chairman of the joint capitol Investigating commit tee declared that it would require the extension of sixty days for the committee to do it's work properly, Senator Carlock withdrew his oppo- sition and voted for the longer ex- tension. Senator Wingo, in calling up the resolution, declared that if the legislature killed the resolution, it would be said that it did SO for the purpose of killing the state capitol affairs and to kin the. Ar genta annexation bill. It was con- ceded that the legislature could not: complete it's work before the regu- lar time of adjournment and the only question was as to the length of the extension.
 Senator Montgomery :. introduced bill in the senate today regulating the prices of admission to theaters and circuses. The bill provides that in theaters the maximum prices shall be $2.50 for box seats, $1 for the dress circle and parquet, 50 cents for the balcony and 25 cents for the gallery. For circuses the maximum prices shall be 50 cents for general admission, 25 cents for reserved seats and 10 cents for the. concert The bill also provides that no charge shall be made for menag- cries and side shows, connected with circhses.
 The subject aroused so much in- terest in the house that the mem- bers abandoned their work and crowded the senate chamber to hear the discussion. As a result a quorum was broken in the house and busi- ness was suspended for time this morning.
 zs4s' The senate this morning passed the bill introduced by Senator Amis. making the commissioner of mines, manufactures and agricul- ture also the commissioner of immi- grafton, and giving him authority to arrange for the importation of la- borers from foreign countries for Arkansas farmers. Under the fed eral law, private citizens in this country cannot bring foreign labor CTS into the country under contract but it has been held that state off,