The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
LEGISLATURE
 OPENS MONDAY
VANGUARD OF LEGISLATORS AR
 RIVE EARLY.
SPEAKERSHlP CONTEST WARM
Legislative Politics are Thick Enough to Cut-Many Candidates for Offce-Presidency cf Senate
 in Doubt.

Little Rock.-The Thirty-seventh General Assembly of Arkansas will convene next Monday The vanguard of the legislators has begun arriving and majority of the candidates for office in the legislature have estab- lished themselves ill headquarters Organization IS now the talk of the hour
 Indications are that the Thirtysey- enth Assembly will see one of the hottest fights for speakership of the lower branch in years. A large num- Der of candidates for speaker and an apparently determined spirit on the part of each to capture the coveted position i3 expected to result in race that may go down in state political annals as a record breaker.
 Easing theie forecast on the fact that there are many candidates for speaker in the field, and that there is not even q rumor of deal politi- clans who are in touch with situation declare that they expect long po- rlo1 of. balloting before the speaker is finally elected.
 There are eight candidates for speaker They are: Epps Brown Of Prairie county, A. D. DuLaney of Lit tie River county, T. E. Parks of La fayette county, A. c. Martin of Veil county, J. s. Combs of Madison eoun- ty, Oscar Vim of Pulaski county, w. B. Owens of Miller county and T. w. Kendall of Johnson county.
 In the race for president of the sen- ate, there are only two candidates. Jesse Martin of Russellville and Lee Montgomery of Lafayette county Charles E. Bush of El Paso was ar announced candidate until recently, when he withdrew on account Of h!s wife's poor health. The interest in the race for president is anything but intense.
 The candidates for secretary of the senate are George Trevathan of Bates vile, editor of the Batesville Guard, who is candidate for reelection, and E. L. McHaney of Warren, former state corporation clerk.
 Bruce Greeson of Conway, T. J. Wesson of Hot Springs and Perry Chappell of Prescott arc candidates for journal clerk of the senate,
 w r. Nelson and II. Pinson of Fl Dorado are candidates for assistant secretary Mr Nelson is a candidate for reelection.
 In ha fhroa l. dates for chief clerk-J. B. Higgins of Conway, Ed Lucas of Osceola and Frank Dodge of Little Rock.
 Ed Stanley of Fordyce and J. r. Caldwell of Batesville are candidates for assistant chief clerk.
 There are three candidates for jour nal elerk-Otto Finley of Lawrence county. Frank Bates of Scott county and Ebert Smith of Hempstead county.
 > w. T. Hutchinson of Casa and Ed ward Gordon of Morrilton are eandi- dates for assistant journal clerk
 Mrs. Ella 5. Hurst of Fayetteville, wife of Representative Hurst, and Miss Minnie Y Ward Of Pulaski eoun- ty are candidates for enrolling clerk.
 Miss Beulah Taylor of Salem and Miss Alma Wilson of Hampstead county are candidates for expressing clerk
 Miss Popsy E. Matthews of Jeffer- son county is a candidate for post mistress.
 Among the candidates for sergeant at-arms are: Robert Williamson Of Pulaski county, j. F. Johnson of Como, J. D. Williamson of Union county and George A Henry of Altus.
 There are numerous other candi- dates for such positions as assistant sergeants-at-arms and pages.