The Mena weekly star., 1909-03-18
HOT SPRINGS
 HOPE IS GONE
p.c;ro Bill Killed in House After an Amusing Filibuster- Senate Passes Prohibition Sub
 mission Bill.

committee of the whole the sen a,e bill appropriating Slo,oOo fol inc relief of Brinkley sufferers, T. will be passed ana the money made available Friday morning
 Parks of Lafayette intro iuced bill providing radical chang n peuiteutiary management and dpsigped to remove friction from he mana cement of that institu- ian Instead of five constitu- ,;onal efficers as the board, the hill provides that affairs shall be manaped by a commission of ,brec appointed by the governor, ,o he known as president. finan- c;al agent and superintendent, wi,h quarterly inspection by an oficlal designated by the gover- nor.
 Neoro males are to be worked inc state farm; the whites on onblic roads of the state, If feasi be.
 II is believe q the bill will take inc management out of politics.
 The flbuster against the Gar land county racing bill which started yestefdav, continued until noon. when Carl Lee withdrew his motion to postpone, saying, "We merely want to show the bill is designed tor the benefit of high class gamblers at Hot Springs"
 At 2:40 Mir. Thompson of In- dependence, who with MT. Carl Lee of Woodruff led the fight against the bill yesterday took floor and 20 minutes afterwards announced that 'when the house adiourns tonight l will still be on the floor." Every effort was put forth to take him of the floor ou the grounds that he was taking for purposes of delay only and he had practically ac- knowledged as much by hrs state- ment that he intended to talk until the house adjourned. He kept bls word, however, and yielded the floor only long enough for motions to adjourn, which were frequent. A motion to adjonrn finally carried by vote of s to B
 The gallery which was packed, greatly enjoyed the situation, especially the last half or three quarters of an hour, when MT. Carl Lee in assisting Mir. Tomr- son, asked the latter if he knew wheather the original racing bill pending before the house was idedtical with the bill published in Hot Springs newspapers which the Garland county rel- rtseutalives distributed among the members of the house in lieu Of printed copies of the bill. MT. Thompson replied that he had not and Mir. CarlLee then asked him to hold the original bill while he read from the news papers to see whether the bills We're alike. The bill is an un- usually long one and ihe support CTS Of the bill immediately en. tered strenuous protest. Upon each protest a cry of ''louder" MT, CarlLee would remark that he was doing the best he could, that he wanted to accommodate every one, and desiring to do so ne would just read over what he had read" As the result, amid the laughter of the specta- iors and many of the membars to whom the situation appealed, i, whether they were for or against the bill MT. CarlLee would read the first section of 'ne bill over and over. He never even read further than the first section as he would be interrupt ca oetore finishing it and begin anew Alter efforts to stop the reading failed, an attempt was made to have the clerk to read 'he oiIl instead or him, but he managed to stick to his guns and was still reading when the house adjourned. Efforts were also