Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 25.-A surprise was sprung in the senate this morning when the Greenhaw patent medicine bill was called up and rushed through after brief debate. The vote on the bill was only 15 to 1i. The Greenhaw bill and the Patterson bill on the same subject, have been the objects of bitter fight between the druggists and drug manufacturers on the one side and the physicians of the state on the other. The committee on public health endorsed the Patter- son bill, which would require the formulas showing the ingredients of all patent medicines to be printed plainly upon the bottles and pack ages containing the medicines. The committee hit the physicians. how ever, by adding an amendment re- 1uiring all physicians to write their prescriptions in plain English and
 
 prescriptions in English on the bot ties or packages containing the medicine when requested to do so by the purchaser.
 The Patterson bill had not been reported by the committed although a report had been decided upon and no action had been taken upon it in the senate when the Greenhaw bill was called up today The Green haw bill is very similar to the na- tional pure food law, and is accept able, it is said. to the druggists and drug manufacturers. Senator Patterson the author of the Patter- son bill, sprung somewhat of a sen- satiOn when the Greenhaw bill was called up by announcing that he statement had been made in a local club last night that the thing had been fXed" and that the Greenhaw bill would Oe passed today. He of fered to give the name of the man alleged to have made the statement, if called upon to do so, but he was anot asked to make the name pub Gc It is expected that the fight on Uhe two bills will now be transfer red to the house.
 Good Roads Bill.
 Tba sonata t1,ic ,,orp;Do ,,occo,, Senator Pattersons good roads bill. which provides for the working of the state convicts on the public roads. The chief feature of the bill, that differs from other good roaGs bills pending. is that one or more counties may form a district for the purpose of working the roads and retain in the district the state convicts sentenced in the sev- eral counties to terms of less than five years These convicts will not be sent to the penitentiary if their services are desired in the counties where they are convicted. The bill also differs from others pending in that it goes into detail as to the manner in which convicts shall be worked and cared for. It provides that they shall not be worked more than 10 hours a day and makes specific provisions for their care.
 New Capitol Quarters.
 After heated debate the house this morning passed bill setting aside two rooms in the new state capitol as a depository for Confed- crate records and relics. The bill as originally introduced provided that these rooms should be the headquarters of the Daughters of the Conefedarcy, but this was op- posed on the ground that it would establish a precendent under which all kinds of organizations would ask for room in the new capitol
 To Decline Invite.
 Representative Thomas of Colum- bia county introduced resolution in the house this morning. declar- ing that in view of the pending leg
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