The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-29
Legislative Gossip

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.
 MT. Monroe of Hampstead was pre- siding officer in the house for 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 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 Rest Room as a place of meeting for the committee.
 
 and are getting down to work. From this time forward the Senate will probably find business confronting it at times when an adjournment is nee essary now.
 MT. Simpson of Scott was one Of the defenders of the S50,000 appropria- ton bill in the house. Mir. 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 1 be defeated The bill was intro duced by Senator Patterson and pro Vldes that corporations in Arkansas shall establish two monthly pay days
 petition was read in the Senate from persons at Thorton, asking that Senate Bill No. 1. to require corpora tlons to establish two regular monthly pay days, be defeated This was thf second petition read asking for the defeat of the bill
 Senator Greenhaws 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 Greenhaws ab- sence.
 MT. Glover of Hot Springs corrected the report that he had said it would only require 49 days for the state to make up the appropriation of S50,- 0O0 II the low rates are restored, figuring on the basis that the increase Tn rates cost the state $2,0O0,00O per year. Tt would only take nine days, instead of 49," explained MT Clover.
 There was not 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 postoffice. 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- diticnal mailing clerk has been put 10 work in the postoftice -o work during the Se sion 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 dispositions, the evidence having been taken prior to the opening of the legislature. The records contain 1 200 pages. The chairman of the Ee'ec tion Committee is Senator Montgomery of Lafayette The present contest will be disposed of before the hearing be- gins on the Greaves-Sumpter case
 Speaker Brown gained a reputation as a humorist one morning when he brought the house down by stating. in a mauter-of-fact tone when amend ments were being introduced on every side to bill up for consideration, that he would have to get out his rules and see where he was at' While anu ulOllOIS COllluS rom every side, the speaker calmly made an investigation to ascertain which motion or amendment had procedure and then made his ruling.
 The Senate in amending the reso lutioA adopted in the house providing for the appointment of committee from the legislature to visit the Uni yersity of Arkansas, provides the com. mittee shall pay particular attention to the agricultural department of the 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 become a part of the Senate journal. The resolution was amended jointly by Senator Kell of Jackson, and Fur ner of Craighead.
 q was born and reared in Calhoun already I am longing to get back to my farm for the purpose of looking after my cattle. If 1 get tired on the farm I can go hunting and fishing. In Little Rock I guess you might term me fish out of water for just as soon as the Senate adjourns I do not know what to do with myself until it convenes again. Senator Me Knigh, is a stock farmer He raises Shorthorn cattle for beef purposes. He says they feed out" well and two