The Nevada County picayune., 1909-05-20
THlRTY-SEVENTH GENERAL AS. SEMeLY RECORD BREAKER FOR AMOUNT OF MONEY
 APPROPRIATED,
AGGREGATES $5,0o0,oOO
Failure to Pass Appropriation For Tax Commission May Cause An
 Extra Session of Legislature.

Senate on the closing day of the Thir. ty-seventh Arkansas Legislature last week. The passage of several minor bills and the closing exercises fea- tured the last days session in the Senate
 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 Dill preventing corporations from giy- ing information in regard to destina- tion of shipments and the usual clos ing exercises were the features of the final session in the House.
 The thirty-severth General Assem- ply is the leader of all former ones in so far as money appropriated goes. The total appropriation of the 1907 assembly, including $192 ,000 for the state penitentiary, amounted to $2,- 1 192 2,000. 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 S1,795 ,000.
 List of Appropriations.
 Mileage and per diem of assembly, S155,000; railway rate case, $50,000, constitutional amendments deficit s6,G12; clerks deficit 1907, $4,946; relief of people of Brinkley, $10,O00; four agricultural schools, Sl60,000; general appropriation, $500,000; Re form School deficiency. $3,70+; State University. $223,000 Supreme Court librarian, $550; Carroll D. Wood, sal ary. $4lG, assistant literary teacher in Blind school $I000; deficit in as sessors salary, S1.23S, salary of Coz crnor Pmdall, S5.5l0; private relief, S310; laundry man al Deaf-Mute school. SG2o; tick eradication, $10,- oo0; Blind School. S1oI.GSo; Insane Asylum, $40S,-gS; Deat-}IUte msd- ute. S1lS00O; peuitentiary deficit, Sa.S00 Stale Normal deficit, $2.100; State Reform School $&S.900; State Capitol, $195,00Q Branch Normal S25.50o, State Normal School, SOL GOO; experiment station, $52,O00; Confederate pension. $1ooQ,oo0 re- l lief of A. B. Crowder, $2.060; Insane Asylum No. 2. $200oQ; Sta.e Peni,en- tiary, $&&0oC0: payment on. state farm S65 900; Confederate Home, $G0,- 665: Tuberculosis Sanitarium, ESQ., coo.
 IL is reported that the governor be lieves that unless the Tax Commis- sion. just created, increases the reye- nues materially a deficit in the gen eral revenue fund Of more than $l,- GOO GOO is inevitable before the meet ing of the next legislature.
 Governor Donaghey has announced that he had decided upon three men to comprise the State Tax Commis- sion, created by the thirty seventh General Assembly under the proyis- ions of the Dradham Smith bill, and that practically everything depends at the present time on the question as 10 whether these three men can finance the commission 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 that the legislature failed to pass the bill carrying nearly S5O'00O appropriation to bear the expenses or the new system.
 All Arkansas is deeply interested in inc outcome of the tax commls- sion act. If that act is put into el' feet it will mean relief for the pres ent financial condition oI the state. This will do much toward relieving inc need of an extra session ot lhe legislature If the act is not put into effect there is practically no new sourco of revenue, as the result Of the recent session of tAe legislature and the state can have no other course, it is argued, than 10 plunge into debt. This would result it is well understood from friends of the administration, in an extra session to relieve the shortage of the state treas ury.
 The bill to repeal the act making cornorations pay employees every two weeks instead monthly failed to pass.
 A resolution was offered in the House regarding the special message of the governor to that body on the prohibition question: This resolution called attention to the House having passed two bills and a resolution covering the prohibition question and that the Senate has lail-