Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-01-28
Legislative Gossip

sickness.
Mr. Bouic of Garland was granted
a leave of absence, in order that he
might go home.
R. w. McFarlane, chairman of the
State Capitol Commission, who has
been in the city for several days,
returned home TO Greenwood
Mr.. Monroe of Hampstead was pre-
siding officer in the house for a short
while Friday morning. He was called
to the chair by Speaker Brown
Mr.. DuLaney of Little River, one of
the prominent members of the house,
was in his seat again, after an absence
of about a week He was called home
on account of important business.
The bill for a semi-monthly pay
day has been buffeted back and forth
in the Sena e on one preteXt or an
other until it finally landed in the
hands of the committee on engrossed
bills.
Manager Wilson of the Marion has
placed at the disposal of the COM
mittee on judiciary the Travellers
the committee.
All the committees have organized
and are getting down to work. From
this time forward ,he Senate will
probably find business confronting it
at times when an adjournment is nee
essary now.
Mr.. Simpson of Scott was one of
the defenders of the $4,000 appropria-
ton bill in lne house. Mr.. Simpson,
in his defense, declared that the bill
was in the interest of the farmers
of the state
In the Senate a petition was filed
representing persons at Eagle Mills,
Ark, requesting that Senate Bill No.
l be defeated The bill was intro
duced by Senator Patterson and pro
vides that corporations i'll Arkansas
shall establish two monthly pay days.
A petition was read in the Senate
from persons at Thorton, asking that
Senate Bill No. l, to require corpora
lions to establish two regular monthly
nay days, be defeated. This was Che
second petition read asking for the
defeat of the bill
Senator Greenhaw's bill creating the
special school district of Leslie was
passed unanimously by the Senate
during his absence Senator Dill and
Patterson explained the purpose of the
bill to the Senate and asked its pas
sage during Senator Greenhaw's alb
sence.
Mr.. Glover of Hot Springs corrected
the report that he had said it would
only require 40 days for the state
to make UP the appropriation of $50.
600 if the low rates are restored,
figuring on the basis that the increase
in rates cost the state $2,C00,000 per
year. 1t would only take nine days,
instead of 49, explained Mr.. Clover.
There was not a general exodus OF
legislators from the city Saturday
night, as was the case one week ago
This was due not alone to the fact
that the house did not adjourn for
the week but to the fact that many
of the senators and representatives
have taken permanent residence in
Little Rock for the session
The legislature has materially in.
creased the outbound mail from Little
Rock pCstofiice. AS the session grows
older the mails will grow heavier,
as there will be printed copies of bills
mailed out to many of the constituents
of each legislator who introduces a
bill of statewide Importance An ad-
ditional mailing clerk has been put 10
work in the postOfice to work during
the session of the legislature.
The Election Committee of the
Senate met and took up The work
preliminary to the hearing of the
Boles Holland senatorial contest. This
contest is already in the form of
depositions, the evidence having been
taken prior to the opening of the
legislature. The records contain l, 200
pages. The chairman of the Ee,ec,
ton Committee is Senator Montgomery
of Lafayette. The present contest will
be disposed of before the hearing be-,
gins on the Greayes-Sumpter case.
Speaker Brown gained a reputation
as humorist one morning when he
brought the house down by stating, in
a marter-of-fact tone when amend.
ments were being introduced on every
side to a bill up for consideration that
he would have to get out his rules
and see where he was at" While
amendments and motions coming from
every side, the speaker calmly made
an investigation to ascertain when
motion or amendment had procedure
and then made his ruling
The Senate in amending the reso-
luton adopted in the house providing
for the appointment of a committee
from the legislature to visit the Uni
versity of Arkansas, provides the COM
mittee shall pay particular attention
to the agricultural department of the
university and see if appropriations
made for the experiment station have
been used for teachers salaries in
other departments of the institution
The committee is given power to eX-
anime witnesses and obtain the papers
in the investigation made by the
Board of Trustees and report their
findings to the Senate, the same to
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