The Forrest City times., 1909-02-26
Legislative Gossip

! each days proceedings almost as rap l idly as the work is done in the House. Within q few minutes after roll call the vote is being copied into the off cial journal.
 Early in the session Senator Car lock of Madison introduced bill to 1 provide for the diseontinuanee of the state capitol tax. The capitol commit tee of the Senate met and decided to 1 return this bill 10 the Senate without recommendation.
 Chairs were at premium and every inch ot available space was fill ed in the House chamber for 15 min utes before Hon. Elihu Root arrived. The crowd was one of the largest, if not the largest that ever assembled III the House chamber.
 During the discussion of Senator Henderson $ resolution declaring the seat of the Senate from the Thirty first district vacant, not single sena- Tor bought te bring into the question the matter of the senator's bachelor hood. The lines were too closely drawn for the usual puns.
 Col. ]. k. Thornton of Camden, who was a member of the assembly from 1873 to 1887. was visitor on the Senate floor one day last week He exchanged "reminiscences with q num- Der of the older members and enjoyed his visit to the floor immensely He was the guest of Senator Mcknight.
 We'll" said one senator the other day, we will lay aside the shades of Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson. Julius Caesar and others for few days and 1 expect will devote our at tention to a few of the living celebri- ties who figure in later-day politics" referring to the coming state capitol bill
 The gallery in the House was filled one day lass week with pupils of the Deaf-Mute Institute. who attracted | considerable attention among the leg islators on the floor and who appar- ently took q great interest ill the pro- eeedings, despite the fact that the ma l jority of them were unable to hear what was goinb on
 Spare the state house lest we for 1 get and ourselves be forgotten" read
 a telegram received by Representa-
 tive Tillman B. Parks of Lafayette
 county. The message was sent by
 Mrs s. E. Ellsworth, president of the
 Arkansas Federation of Woman's l Clubs, representing a membership of
 1000 Arkansas women.
 Mr Vim Of Pulaski, formerly of Pope county, received a message of congratulation from friends at Russell mo Don 5ai npa watching your efforts in the legisla- ture. We congratulate you, and your Pope county friends are proud of you. The message was signed by 8 business men of Russellville
 The subcommittee of the ways and means committee. composed of Mr. Rowe of Sebastian. Mr Buerkle of Ar kansas and Mir. Leigh of Pulaski, ap-. pointed 10 consider House Bill No. 34 (Thompson of lndependence), provid. ing for state Repositories, met and de cided to refer the bill back to the committee that it be referred back to the House without recommends. tion. It was the expressed desire of the subcommittee that the bill be fought out on the floor of the House.
 The committee on education has re, ported favorably on the bill by MT Witt of Montgomery county, providing for state textbook commission and a uniform series of text books The bill Is identical with a Senate bill in- trodueed last session. It provides that the commission shall consist of seven members. one from each congressional district, selected by the governor Book contracts are 10 be good for six years.
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