Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-24
S0L0NS CONSIDER
 STATE WIDE E--b|LlS Capitol, Prohibition, Pay Day, National Forests, Pardon Board.
KILL PAY DAY REPEAL
Senator Montgomery Introduces Dras.. tie Statutory Prohibition
 Bill.

Little Rock, Mar"h 225.. The senate today took the .njjiative in the matter of statutory prohii ton when Senator Montgomery tHt ouuced Senate Bill No. 3l0, a bill providing for statutory prohibition on and after December 3i.
 The introduction of this bill was clearly the feature of the Tuesday forenoon seGS on of the senate, and while the senate objected tO it's be ing read mol" than oece, and sus tained the objection by T vote, the bill held the attention of everyone during the time t,e clever sections were being read th" first time
 The bill differs materially from the Gam bill. although the general feat nres are the same. IL is further reaching than the Gam bill in that it strikes directly at the shipment of liquor into Arkansas from points out side the state.
 One section of the bill is based upon nc recent bill in the national con. Iress which seeks to make the place of delivery the place of sale, thereby prohibiting illegal shipments from a wide open" state to "dry" state. In this manner the place of shipment is held as the place of sale, although the packages may be collected for on delivery by express and other agents of railway and transportation com. panies.
 The bill also exempts liquors used for sacramental and medicinal pur~ poses under the usual conditions, and provides that it shall be in force and effect from and after Dec, mber 1 1909.
 When the bill was read the first time Senator Montgomery moved the suspension of the rules in order that it might be read a second time and referred to a committee. The major fly Of the senate was against this proceeding, however. and the motion lost. The bill remains on the calen- dar under it's first reading.
 To Abolish Forest Reserves.
 Senator Logan threw a scare into the senate during the forenoon by in troducing a resolution memoralizing congress to abolish the national for est reserves and lh,Gw these lands open to the public again.
 The resolution, which is given in 'uli in the senate proceedings, called a dozen senator's to their feet, asking for postponement of action, and de- claring that the resolution was bad 1 n principle. Senator Logan was in s'st ng for immediate hearing on the matter when the morning hour ex- pirod, and under the rules it went o.or until the house business for the day had been transacted.
 Payday Repeal Bill in House. |, After a sharp fight over the ques- tion of indefinite postponement of the bh providing for the repeal of the 5 ii -Hlcnthly payday law the oppon- ents of the repeating measure suc- ceeded in carrying their point in the ' house this morning. and the chances for the repeal of the law are about as promising as the chance of a fat man to win a Marathon medal The 1 repeal was opposed on the ground l that the house had only recently acted 1 on the measure and it would not be wise to reverse so soon Those op- posing postponement insisted that at any rate it would be nothing but courtesy to give the bill consideration, as 1t had been sent in by the senate