Woodruff County news., 1909-02-18
Legislative Gossip


 from Fayetteville and will probably be in the city week. Her husband Is secretary of the Senate.
 During the adjournment of last Wednesday and Thursday many or the senators spent their spare time in the House, where they are directly interested in a number of measures.
 Mrs. John Quill of Mobile, Ala, who has been the guest of her niece, Mrs A. H. Mitchell, enrolling clerk of the Senate, at the Hotel Marion, has re- turned to her home.
 'Slaunchendicular'- that means-was the term used by mem Der of the House one morning in de- scribing the route of railroad through his county. It brought down the house.
 MT. Dunaway, chief janitor of the Senate, may be termed crank" on Immigration. If any germs of disease ever get into the Senate chamber, it is not probable they get out alive. He sprayed the room the other day with solution of formaldehyde.
 The desk of the late Senator Nance of Benton has been draped in crepe and the chair tilted forward against the desk. Everything about the desk in the way of books and papers has been arranged in orderly manner, and the desk will probably remain so un- til his successor is seated.
 L. M. Emerson, manager of the England Telephone Company: J. A. Beh, manager of the Bell Telephone Company of Lonoke, and w. H. Bel lamy of the Altheimer Telephone Com pany, were in the city few days ago attending a meeting of the Senate committee which was considering the Winn telephone bill. The bill reduces the rate on telephone in Little Rock.
 President Martin says it is by no means a "snap" to preside over body where each member is well in- formed On the rules of debate. There has been but one appeal to the Sen ate from the ruling of the chair and in that the chair was sustained. The president feels that if he was not giv- ing general satisfaction he would have soon found it out by appeals to the Senate.
 Senator Keel recently made one of those absent treatment trades in hats, and now he wants to trade back In the committee room recently some body took his hat, which was pur- chased at Rudolph's and having the letter TX" on the inside band, leav- ing in it's stead one which was pur- chased at Kahn's. He asks that the party now wearing his headgear ex- change once again.
 A bill appr9priating $2,00O to be used in the advancement of the har- bor, river and waterway movement throughout the country has been pre- pared. as the result of the recent visit of John A. Fox of Blytheville, promi- pently connected with the waterway movement, and will be introduced in the legislature soon The bill will probably be introduced in the House by MT. DuLaney of Little River and in the Senate by Senator Pindall.
 The judiciary committee of the Sen ate met and considered several bills, among them Senator Logan's bill, by leqeust, extending the time which the railways of the state were allowed by the act of 1907 to equip their locomo- tives with electric headlights. The bill met with opposition at the ime it was introduced, it being claimed by Senator Wingo that the act would throw out of courts all cases now pending for failure to conform to the late law. The committee reported that the bill do not pass, it being the opin- ion that the legislature should not pass bill which interfered with the workings of a previous law, unless it was to repeal or amend
 Clerk Swain Of the penitentiary committee has just prepared an inter- esting and valuable account of the re- cent trip of the committee to he state farm. His report is in nara tive form, telling what the committee did each day, and also gives some in teresting statistics regarding the farm. The report shows that the entire farm embraces about 11,000 acres of land, of which more than 5000 acres are in cultivation; that there are 546 convictS there, 22 of whom are negresses; that there are four stockades on the farm, located about three miles apart, the negresses being kept in a stockade by themselves; that nearly all the sick convicts are suffering with pneumonia, two dying while the committee was there; that the convicts all state that they are being well clothed and fed and treated in a humane manner; that the state has on the farm S5 mules, 200 head of cattle 10 fine bloodhOunds and many hogs; there are 125 trusty convicts; that 26 have died in the past l2 months, six of the number dy- ing of chronic diseases; that S65 bales of cotton were raised On the farm in 1908; that the state lost the crop of GOO acres on account of sipe water; that he levee which protects the farm is seven and one-half miles long and nearly completed; that Mir McCook warden, stated to the committee that with the same number of convicts and the same number of mules that are TOW on hand, the state can cultivate all the land that was cultivated iii