The Nevada County picayune., 1909-03-11
Legislative Gossip

l House to the galleries of the Senate. It seemed to be the general impress | sion the bill would be transmitted to | the Senate on the spot and that the Senate would at once take up the question of the passage or the bill.
 Orto Finley, representative from l Lawrence county in the House in 1905
 and 1907 and assistant journal clerk | of the House in 1903, defeated as
 candidate for journal clerk at this session, is now located at Lewisville, where he has a position as secretary
 and assistant to Allen H. Hamiter, | speaker of the House two years ago. His family has moved to Lewisville. l Representative DuLaney of Little River received telegram to the ef- l feet that the firm of Perkins-DuLa-
 ney, in which he is a partner, had sold 12.000,000 feet of hardwood lumber near Ogden. MT. DuLaney is one Of | the most prominent lumber specula-
 tors and dealers in his part of the | state He is now prominently asso- ciated with the new Arkansas Invest
 ment Company which is being organ | ized.
 | All communications addressed 10 | Governor Donaghey can not be an l swered with satisfactory results for the writers, especially such letters as
 one received this week in which the | applicant asks the governor to SUD- | ply him with a rod which will locate
 lost treasure and minerals. Governor | Donaghey has answered the letter. saying the state has run out of such | instruments and he can not supply l them.
 A resolution introduced by Senator
 Wingo has been adopted in the Senate
 authorizing the finance committee to
 call for books, papers, examine wit
 nesses under oath, etc, for the pur-
 pose of getting to the bottom of the | tax revenue proposition of the state. | The committee wants to be able to
 draft bill at this session that will | increase the revenue of the state with
 out increasing the tax levy.
 There was one feature Of the pro-
 hibition fight that certainly did not | appeal to me" declared member of | the House, and that was the occa-
 sional hissing of guests on the floor
 of the House Kissing, to me, is the
 one unpardonable sin at any and all times, no matter who the speaker be
 or what his subject, but it was cer-
 tainly surprising to see and near hiss. Similar expressions were heard
 from other members.
 | The extension of the session for 60
 days is now one of the principal sub | jects of discussion in the Senate. It
 is believe dthe Senate will concur | with the House to extend the session
 as there is not time enough left for
 action on the state capitol and pro
 hibition questions. Several senators | who had expected to request leave Of
 absence remained over until this mat l ter is settled since 1t will require 23 | votes to carry the matter
 l One of the amusements of the mem bers of the House after business hours l is the game of checkers, which is
 played every night in the northeast corner of the House chamber. From 10 to 15 lovers of the game of check
 CTS gather there after supper each
 night and either play or watch some | spirited contest over the checker
 board. Several members already have
 reputations as being sharks" at the | game.
 | Senator Glover succeeded in having
 Senate Bill No 119, to create the | Woodson levee distrist passed. The | bill was opposed before the roll call | by Senator Toney of Jefferson. Sena- | tor Glover, in defense of his bill, said | it was monumental cheek" for the senator from Jefferson to oppose a | levee bill. On roll call Senator Toney | voted for the bill. The bill affects 1 the building of a levee in Perkins | township, Saline county. which is about 15 miles below Little Rock
 on the Arkansas river.
 The statement Tn concluding" has become a byword and joke in the House. Since the fight started over the prohibition measures pending be-
 fore the House some of the members who have been fighting the Gam bill have made some lengthy speeches, one lasting one hour and B minutes, and another two hours and 30 minutes Several of the anti-Gann members
 who were speaking against time cheered the hearts of their opponents shortly after they started to. speak
 by the phrase, In concluding" but the conclusion" was always slow in
 arriving. Tn concluding" stated Mir
 Martin of Yell at o'clock Saturday night and two hours later he was still on the floor
 Major J. c. Minor of Hot Springs,
 major surgeon of the Arkansas Ma. tional Guard and president of the Arkansas National Guard, is another of the prominent members of the guard who believes that the offices of adjutant general of the state militia and private secretary to the governor should he Sanaratad "I hplieun for