The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-03
LATE NEWS FROM
 LITTLE ROCK


 to serve two years from the first Tuesday in April, comp!ica- tiOns will arise within the Board and an effort will be made to re- elect Prof. T. A. Plural as super inteDdent Of the Arkansas School for the Blind. This would start all over again the fight Of two years ago when Superintendent $. D Lucas was elected, but had tC appeal to the courts, even to the supreme court before secur- .ng the position. The majority Of the board seems to be of the i'm pressiCn that Gov, Donaghey will net appoint in time for the date, set by law for the first meeting Of the board by law. The law avs the cid board shall meet ,on the first Monday of April after the inauguration of a new gov arnCr and on the first day of the GEssiOn approve the bills Of the previous month and attend to all matters which have passed, and on the second day the new board appointed by the governor shall take office and serve for two years The majority of the pre- sent board seems to be confident Scv. Donaghey will not appoint by the 6irst Tuesday, which V Ou,GL give the old board the right to sit on tha second day, which they claim would make of it a new board. The calm that should such be the case the G new superintendent for the next two years, and it would be Plural, as four members of the board, Trout, Brawley, Duffie and Parsons are openly support ing him. The others are standing by Prof. S. D. Lucas who is giv- en the credit of being the most progressive and careful super intenent the schOoi ever had. They are working to see the Governor does not overlook the appointments for they say any OOol u W Ill lt-SAcCt Supt. Lucas. For the past two days many people have called on Governor Donaghey relative to the appointment of new board members, several members of the old board being among the most active.
 The House yesterday afternoon vent through with considerable Senate business, with one or two long arguments House bills 7 and 10S were withdrawn. The Keel bill to. remedy defects in drainage district of PoinSett county was passed after the de feat of motion to postpone ac- tion. Senate bill 122 by Holland was up for amendment. The Bush bill regarding stay of execution in personal injury suits, was passed 69 to 1. After considor- able discussion the Patterson bill to annex Cross county to the First Judicial district was post poned for one week. A motion to indefinitely postpone was lost Senate bill No. POS, Logan, to in- validate a franchise in Mena giv- en to H. w. Cargill, was read twice S. B. No, 191 by Toney | tC allow Jefferson county to lease a bridge across the Arkan- sas, was read once. The Turner | bill to remedy defects in the crea tion of drainage districts was read twice and referred to the committee on levees. $. R. No. l 195. Greenhaw read twice. :. B, No. 196 Wadley prohibiting the sale Of liquor within three miles Of Montgomery county school house, read once, II. B No ITS Clover to place officers of Hot Springs county on salary, was | read the third time and passed II E. No. 222 for biennial approp riation, read second time. H R. No. 1S6, providing for two ad- dltions, stenographers for the supreme court, was discussed at length by the House asl a com mittee of the whole, with Mar tin of Yell presiding. A substitute was proposed to allow one addi- tional stenographer. The House adjourned without action, until the next morning.
 Only once was the Gam State- vide Prohibition bill read in the senate and set aside until 300 cop:ea have been furnished the senators by the state printer, which will probably be a week