Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-01-21


single bloom in the lapel of his over
coat.
T. p. Parks, representative from
Lafayette, is considered to be one OF
the leading authorities on parliamln-
airy law in the House.
Ed Lucas of Ola, chief clerk of the
House two years, has returned home.
He has been here this week assisting
in the clerks work at the opening
of the House.
The first commission issued by Gov
ernor Donaghey was one making Paul
Little, the retiring secretary to the
governor, captain of inspection OF
small arms in the First Regiment.
Senator Bush of White left Little
Rock on an early train Friday morn
ing. On motion of Senator Rasco
leave of absence was granted Sena-
tor Bush, as his wife is i'll.
Just before retiring from the office
of acting governor, Jess NJ. Martin
president of the Senate, granted an
additional pardon, making "a during
the three full days he acted as the
governor.
The legislative committees of the va
rious labor organizations Of the state
are in Little Rock and the majority
Of them has opened headquarters and
announce the intention of remaining
as long as the legislature is in session.
Senator Patterson of Woodruff will
probably not bring his entire family
to Little Rock to live during the ses-
sion Mrs Patterson and daughter,
Eloise, arrived Friday and will spend
several days in the city. Eloise was
mere baby two years ago and was
called the Baby of the Senate.
While many of the senators call
upon various stenographers to get up
their clerical work, Senator Logan OF
Polk is his own stenographer. He
has typewriter on his desk. With
this he attends to his correspondence
and prepares the bills or resolutions
he submits from time to time
Of the legislature Friday resulted in
a general exodus of senators and rep
resentatives last night. 1t is prob
able the House will hold seven ses-
sions a week during the remainder OF
the General Assembly, and it is also
probable the Senate will adjourn for
the week every Friday at noon.
On account of the infirmity of deaf
ness, Senator Simms of Chicot has to
pay close attention to all proceedings.
He has called the attention of his fell
low senators to his deafness and has
asked them to speak as distinctly as
possible when talking on any measure
in which he may be particularly in
terested.
Attorney General Hal L. Norwood
Saturday rendered his opinion in re-
gard to the authority of each house of
the General Assembly to provide for
committee clerkship by resolution, the
clerk to receive his pay out of the
contingent fund, holding that each
house had that right and that the
auditor should issue the warrant for
the pay of such clerk when certln-
cate properly signed is presented to
him.
1t is thought probable chat some at
tention will be paid during the pres
ent session of the legislature to the
divorce laws of Arkansas. Governor
Donaghey in his inaugural address de-
this subject now in force in this state
are too lax. He recommended that
the legislature make a careful inves
tigalion of the matter and pass such
laws as will make it more difficult
to secure a divorce.
Senator Montgomery has prepared
State banking bill modelled after the
Oklahoma law, which he expects to
submit to the Senate soon. The law
is regarded in Senate circles as a
good one, but the members expect the
bill to be seriously opposed by lead
ing bankers of the State. The princi-
pal objection lies in the fact that
every bank guaranteeing depositors'
money places all on practically the
same footing, making weak banks as
safe for depositors as the strong ones.
The youngest page in the Senate
is Bennett Burton Patterson son of
Senator Patterson. Burr, as his faith
err speaks of him, was named after
Aaron Burr, a man whom Senator
Patterson thinks was lily used. The
lad will be 10 years old his next
birthday, but he has reasoning pow
ers not to be expected in one of his
age.
Senator Keel of Jackson is one of
The apt story tellers of the Senate. In
defending his newspaper and stamp
bill he told a story in substance as
follows: When he was member of
the lower house, one of his constitu-
ents wrote and told him that in the
distribution of garden seed he had
been missed Thinking the voter had
been overlooked by his congressman,
Mt Keel informed him that the seed
would probably arrive in due course
of the mail. The seed did not arrive
and Mr. Keel was taken personally
to task for it, with the result that
the present senator bought so cents
worth of cabbage seed and gave the
package to his constituent During
the last campaign, Senator Keel rode
up 10 the house of the man to whom
he had given the seed. You don't
need to get down from your horse,
Senator" said the man, heartily,
am for you and so are the boys" !
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