The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1909-05-14
LEGISLATURE
ENDS SESSION
ThiRTY-SGvENTH GENERAL AS
sEMBLY RECORD BREAKER
FOR AMOUNT OF MONEY
APPROPRIATED.
AGGREGATES $5,OOO,OOO
Failure to Pass Appropriation For
Tax Commission May Cause An
Extra Session OF Legislature.

James 7. Robertson of Lee county
was elected president pro tenn. by the
Senate on Wednesday. the closing
day of the Thirty-seyenth Arkansas
Legislature. The passage of three
local measures and the usual cere-
monies of the last days session were
all that was done by the Senate on
the last day. =
The passage of the Toney bill pre-
venting mob violence and lynching.
the Rowland bill providing for the
establishment of home for tuber-
culosis sufferers and the Fletcher bill
extending jurisdiction over the Mis-
sissippi river. the defeat of the Keel
bill preventing corporations from CIV
Ing information in regard to destina.
tion of shipments and the usual clos
ing exercises were the features of
Wednesdays session in the House.
The House was declared adjourned
sine die at Is minutes Of l o'clock.
the closing exercises consuming more
time than was anticipated.
The thirty-seventh General Assem-
bly, Is the leader of all former ones
in SO far as money appropriated goes.
The total appropriation of the 1907
assembly, including $4,000 for the
state penitentiary, amounted to Ss..
| 10000. However, no appropriation
was made for Confederate pensions
or for the state capitol by the 1907
! legislature, These two items. for the
present session, amount to $1,795. 900.
List Of Appropriations. -,-r-
Mileage and bef diem Of assembly,
$155,O00; railway rate case, $4,000;
constitutional amendments deficit.
$6,612; clerks deficit 1907, $4,946:
relief of people of Brinkley, $4,000;
,, four agricultural schools, $1,000
general appropriation, 100000; Re-
form School deficiency, s3.704; State
University, $223,000; Supreme Court
librarian, $3.50; Carroll d. Wood, sal
ary, $416; assistant literary teacher
In Blind School, $1,000; deficit in as
SCISSORS salary, sl,23S; salary of Gov
ernor Pindall. $3.50; private relief.
S310; laundry man at Deaf-Mute
school, $500; tick eradication. $l0.-
600; Blind School, S1O1.6s0; Insane
Asylum, s40S,52S; Deaf-Mute Insti-
tute. s11s000 penitentiary deficit.
50 800; State Normal deficit, S2.100;
State Reform School. s38,000; State
Capitol, s795,000; Branch Normal
s25, 800; State Normal School, $751;
600; experiment station. $4,000:
Confederate pension. sl,000,000 re-
lief of A b. Crowder. $4,000; Insane
Asylum No. 2, $4,000; State Penlten-
tiary, $330,000: payment on state
farm $65 900; Confederate Home, $780,
665 tuberculosis Sanitarium, $780,
000.
Governor Donaghey says unless the
Tax Commission, just created. in
creases the revenues materially a de-
felt in the general revenue fund of
more than $l,000,000 is inevitable
before the meeting of the next leg
islature.
Governor Donaghey has announced
that he had decided upon three men
TO comprise the State Tax Commits
sion, created by the thirty-seventh
General Assembly under the proyis-
ions of the Bradham Smith bill, and
that practically everything depends
at the present time on the question
as 10 whether these three men. whose
identity he is not willing TO disclose
for the present, can finance the COM
mission and system provided under
the new statute. The announcement
leads 10 the belief that the Bradham-
Smith bill will become effective and
that within a very short time, despite
the fact tha, the legislature failed to
pass the bill carrying nearly $4,000
appropriation TO bear the expenses of
the new system.
All Arkansas is deeply interested
In the outcome of the tax commits
sion act Ii that act is put into e.
feet it will mean relief for the pres
ent financial condition of the state
This will do much toward relieving
the need of an extra session of the
Legislature. II the act is not put into
effect there is practically no new
source of revenue, as the result of
the recent session of the legislature
and the state can have no other
course. It is argued. than to plunge
into debt. This would result. 1t is
we'll understood from friends OF the
administration. in an exsa session TO
relieve the shortage of the state treas
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