The Nevada County picayune., 1909-02-25
Legislative Gossip


 the vote is being copied into the om- cial journal.
 Early in the session Senator Car lock of Madison introduced a blii " provide for the discontinuance ot the state capitol tax. The capitol commit tee of the Senate met and deciaea " return this bill to the Senate withoat recommendation.
 Chairs were at a premium anu every inch of available space was nif ed in the House chamber for l9 mn utes before Hon Elihu Root arrived. The crowd was one of the largest. not the largest, that ever assenOieu in the House chamber.
 During the discussion of Senator Henderson's resolution declaring the seat of the Senate from the Ihlrty' first district vacant, not a single sena- tor thought to bring into the question the matter of the senator's bachelor hood. The lines were too closer! drawn for the usual puns
 Col ! R. Thornton of Camden, who was a member of the assembly rom 1879 to 1887, was visitor on tue Senate floor one day last week. lie exchanged "reminiscences with num- Der of the older members and enjoyed his visit to the floor immensely. lie was the guest of Senator Mcknight.
 Well" said one senator the other day, we will lay aside the shades oI Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jenefsoh' Julius Caesar and others for lew days and I expect will devote our at- tention 10 a few of the living celeDrl- ties who figure in later-day politics, referring to the coming state capltoi bill.
 The gallery in the House was filled one day last week with pupils of the Deaf-Mute Institute, who attracted considerable attention among the leg islators on the floor and who appar- ently took a great interest in the pro- ceedings. despite the fact that the ma jority of them were unable to near what was goinb on.
 Spare the state house lest we TOT get and ourselves be forgotten, read a telegram received by Representa- tive Tillman B. Parks Of Lafayette county. The message was sent Dy Mrs. s E. Ellsworth. president of the Arkansas Federation of Woman s Clubs, representing a membership or ,000 Arkansas women.
 Mir. Vim of Pulaski, formerly of Pope county. received a message or congratulation from friends al Russell vile. The message said: We are watching your efforts in the legisla- ture We congratulate you. and your Pope county friends are proud or you. The message was signed by Q business men of Russellyille.
 The capitol committee of the House met and decided to allow q sub-com- mittee. composed of the chairman. MT. Glover of Hot Springs, MT Hurst of Washington and MT. Brown of Cleve- land. 10 draw up a substitute for the bill introduced some time ago. This bill will be submitted to the committee and then sent back to the House.
 The subcommittee of the ways and means committee, composed of Mir. Rowe of Sebastian. Mir. Buerkle of Ar kansas and Mir. Leigh of Pulaski, ap- pointed to consider House Bill No. 3f (Thompson of Independence) provid- ing for state Repositories, met and de cided 10 refer the bill back to the committee that il be referred back to the House without recommends tion. IL was the expressed desire of the ub-committee that the bill be fought out on the floor of the House. The committee on education has re- ported favorably on the bill by MT Witt of Montgomery county, providing for a state textbook commission and a uniform series of text books. The bill is identical with a Senate bill in- troduced last session. IL provides that the commission shall consist of seven members, one from each congressional district. selected by the governor. Book contracts are 10 be good for six years.
 Senator Henderson of Randolph who solved the election contest mud ale from the Thirty-irst district. is re. ceiving the warm congratulations of the senators and their friends. AS a matter of fact. the contest fight on the floor of the Senate was growing | more bitter every nour and serious | split in the Senate ranks promised The discussion was growing more vit- riolic every moment and the close division threatened the good of other legislation which is now on the calen- | dar.
 Friday afternoon there was a group 1 of senators standing in the state 6iGpttgginn hD If ha Senate in sending the Greaves-Sump- ter contest back to the original dis trict. Clarence H. Henderson is just. ly entitled to be called the Henry Clay of Arkansas Senate" said Sen. ator Glover. He threw himself into the breastworks at the proper time and became the great pacificator of the cause of Democracy in Arkansas. '