Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-03-18
SENATE PASSES
The RELIEF BILL
1T APPRoPRIATES THE SUM OF
$4,000 TO BE USED FOR THE
BENEFIT OF BRINKLEY
SUFFERERS.
HOUSE DEFEATS RACING BILL
Although "a Voted for Measure 10
Changed to mo" Before Result
Was Announced.

ed, Senator PatterSonS patent meul-
cine bill and Senator DilPs proposed
amendment to constitution providing
for the election of township assessors
were defeated and bill repeating the
semi-monthly pay day act, passed ear
ly this session, was introduced
The bill to repeal the semi-monthly
pay day bill came from the judiciary
committee as a substitute for some
what similar repeal bill introduced by
Senator Yopp. The substitute bill
provides for a monthly pay day for
all corporations in the state.
AS soon as the bill was introduced
and read Senator Toney objected to
it's second reading. The rules were
suspended and the bill read the sec
ond time, Senator Wingo offered an
amendment, Senator Toney moved to
postpone consideration of the bill in
definitely and Senator Freeman NOV
ed to refer the bill to the labor COM
mittee. The motion to postpone in
definitely caused the debate and when
the Senate adjourned a 4t:30 in the
afternoon the debate had not ended.
Senators Wingo and Patterson made
vigorous speeches against the repeal
of the bill and Senator Simms made a
speech favoring the bill in which he
denounced the idea that legislation
was needed at all as between capital
and labor. The debate for the after
noon closed with Senator Montgomery
nd ho will hn firct
to address the Senate when the bill
comes up for consideration again.
The Senate came within one vote
of placing the duty of assessing rail-
way taxes with the Railway Commits
sion of Arkansas, instead of with the
State Board, as at present. The mat
ter came up in Senator Meningitis
bill, No. 21S, with the State Board in
its present levying act except that it
strikes out the State Board and places
therein the Railroad Commission.
Senator Mcknight said the railway
the only objection they had to the
bin was the fact that it would place
more work on the commission, and
the State Board would be glad to be
rid of this duty in view of the fact
it was now overburdened with other
duties.
1t was argued that the railway COM
mission was in better position to
know the value of railway property
and could get at a more equitable as
sessment
On the other hand it was argued
that the commission ought to CO.
operate with the State Board in it's
present capacity. leaving the legal
status of the matter as it now stands.
There was also a suggestion that the
change might give the railways some
loophole whereby they might evade,
or at least postpone, the payment of
taxes. The vote stood 10 to IA.
The House defeated the bill provid-
ing for the re-establishmenJ of racing
at Hot Springs by a vote of So to IA.
Twenty-four voted for the bill on the
roll call, but before there was time
enough had changed from AYE" to
mo" to cut down the vote for the bill
to IA. A motion to reconsider the vote
by which the bill was defeated and
lay that motion on the table carried
and the bill is now entirely dead in
the house. The vote was taken at
2:45, after a part of the morning SEES
sion until that time had been con-
sumed in a continuance of the discus
sion of the measure, which was House
Bill No. 232, by Messrs. Wilmington
and Bouic of Garland. The motion to
postpone consideration of the bill for
one week, which was under discussion
when the House adjourned the day
before, was never put to a vote as
the motion was withdrawn by Mr..
Carl Lee of Woodruff as soon as the
bill was taken up. A striking feature
of the situation following the defeat
of the bill was the speech made by
Mr.. Bouic, within a few minutes af-
ter he had made his closing appeal for
the passage of the measure when he
issued a cordial invitation to the
members of the House to go to Hot
| Springs and be the guests of the bust.
ness men Of that city over Sunday
He was heartily applauded from all
parts of the House chamber as he
| took his seat
Four bills were introduced during
the day. One by Mr.. Parks of Lafay,
| cite provides for a new system OF
management of the penitentiary, TAX
ing that institution out of the hands
of the present board composed OF
| state officers.
| After more than two hours of hot
| debate, the House voted to reject the
| Simpson substitute bill, providing for
a submission of the question of state
wide prohibition to the people at a
| special election in July, the vote on
| rejection being Al to 80. Immediately
| following this, the motion to recon
slider that vote and lay on the table
| was made by Mr.. Thompson of In
| dependence, resulting in a vote of 4e
| to 20 in favor of tabling further con
sideration of the substitute. This