Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-13
KILLS RAILWAY TAX MEASURE
 Bill to Make Railway Com mission 3 Tax Lo2rd Fails to Pas.,.
RELIEF BILL PASSED
House Passes Brinhlc, el0,G0D Relief Mra>ure nate Adjourn,
 ,,.,, Till Monday.

l'lftc Rock. Hareh t2 The senate fh!S atternoe'i eame 9ittIn one vete ' Of leaving ti4 duty or ;,sstss.nG rail , Way rates with the railway colunls- sioners of Arkansas, instead Of with the state board aa at prtsent. Tnc
 matter csnc Il? in Senator Mcknight'a tHl, No. 9l&. with tn. state board in
 fE present l"vying act except that it
 strikes tHi the state bear! and places
 therein tine railroad ecu4mission Senator Nrknieht sad the railway commissioners bad stated 70 hin1 that the only object ton t!,e> had to the bill was the fact fiat it would place moro work on th" comn,iS sion. and the state board would be dad tn be rid of this duty in view nf the fact that
 it was now overhlrdtned with other duties.
 It was argued that the railway commission was in better position to know the value of railway Drop-
 'heS ailu Cou.O !~cl al more Sultlbl0
 assessment
 On the other hand IL Has urged that
 thf. commission ought to co-operate , with the state board in it's present capacity, leaving the leeal status of the matter as It now stands. There was also q suggestion that the change | pi hole whereby they might cyade or at least postponc. the payment of taxes. On roll call the bill was deft ated by , q vote of II to 2,
 The remainder of the forenoon was
 spent with local senate bills and
 house bills, it being house day A considerable time was spent in the argument of local depository bill, the discussion taking a wide range,
 Including the conslitutionality of any county depository in the state. At noon the senate adjourned till
 Monday morning at 9:3o o'clock. Roll
 call was had on the motion to ad-
 iourn, carrying by q vote of l6 to 12.
 Quite number Of senators desired
 adjournment in order that they might
 go to Hot Springs to take part in a
 political conference to he held thero
 this evening, while others wanted to
 devote the remainder ot the after
 noon [" cleaning th' calendar of
 pending house b4tis.
 Relief Bill Passed.
 The first act Ci the house was to consider the senate biil for the relief
 Of the citizens of Brinkley tue bill being unanimously passed Want Bill Amended. An interesting discussion was prompted by the suggestion of Speak er Brown to make an amendment to
 Mir. Wits bill, providing for the cre- ation of uniform textbee''. commis sicn. So that the selection Or the com missioners would not be confined ex- cklsive1y to public school men. l1a said that his experience had indicated to him that school superinteudents in
 many cases were In sympathy with the book trust. and he iidnt believe it wise provision to put the selec- tiop of the textbooks solely i'll their hands MT Witt and others objected strenuousls to the amendment and in- sisted that school teachers were the only persons qualified to fill the po- sition. Mir. DuI.aney favored the amendment, and urged that it would not prevent the governor from appoint ing school men on the commission. but would merely give him wider scope iIh his selection. The discus sion of the anne nument was not con- cluded at the time of the expiration of the morning hour.