Woodruff County news., 1909-02-25
Legislative Gossip

l He Journal clerks are now convir.
 each days proceedings almost as ~ rap sus
 Idly as the work is done in the Honsp l Within few minutes after a roll ooI,
 the vote is being copied into the o# @
 cial journal. oI''l
 Early in the session Senator c..
 lock of Madison introduced 9 bi,I TaE
 provide for the discontinuance of n
 state capitol tax. The capitol commit
 tee Of the Senate met and decided to
 return this bill to the Senate without
 recommendation 0u | Chairs were at a premium and
 every inch of available space was 6n,
 ca III the House chamber for 15 min
 utes before Hon. Elihu Root arrived
 The crowd was one of the largest isl
 not the largest, that ever assemhIoS
 In the House chamber.
 1 During the discussion of Senate.
 Henderson's resolution declaring tbo
 seat of the Senate from the Thirty
 first district vacant, not a single snno
 tor thought to bring into the ouestion
 the matter of the senator's bacbalor
 hood. The lines were too closalv
 drawn for the usual puns.
 Col. J. R. Thornton of Camden wbo
 was member of the assembly from | 1879 to 1887, was a visitor m tba
 Senate floor one day last week Es
 exchanged "reminiscences with num Der of the older members and eniovod
 his visit to the floor immensely ua
 was the guest of Senator Mcknight
 Well" said one senator the othar
 day, i've will lay aside the shades of
 Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson | Julius Caesar and others for few
 days and I expect will devote our atI | tention to few of the living celehri | ties who figure in 1ater-day politics r
 referring to the coming state capitol
 bill. f'''
 The gallery in the House was filled
 one day last week with pupils of thaN
 Deaf-Mute Institute, who attracted
 considerable attention among the legl islators on the floor and who apparl | ently took great interest in the pro- | ceedings, despite the fact that the ma | jority of them were unable to hears what was goinb on
 l OPoiO IhC SCdI0 uOuSc leSJ we I0r-H | get and ourselves be forgotten" read dk
 a telegram received by Representa-
 tive Tillman B. Parks of Lafayette
 county. The message was sent byF
 Mrs. s. B. Ellsworth, president of the s l Arkansas Federation of Woman's | Clubs, representing a membership ofA 4,000 Arkansas women.
 MT. Vim of Pulaski, formerly ot Pope county, received a message o6s congratulation from friends at Russell vile. The message said We arsN watching your efforts in the legisla- ture. We congratulate you, and yours Pope county friends are proud ofN
 you" The message was signed by 35 business men of Russellville. The capitol committee of the House
 met and decided to allow subcom
 mittee, composed of the chairman, Mr Glover of Hot Springs, MT Hurst ofE | Washington and MT. Brown of Cleve l land, to draw up a substitute forH the bill introduced some time ago. k | This bill will be submitted to the ! committee and then sent back to thea House.
 The subcommittee of the ways andE l means committee, composed of Mr.
 Rowe of Sebastian, MT. Buerkle of Arr \ kansas and MT. Leigh of Pulaski, ap1 pointed to consider House Bill No. S4A | (Thompson of Independence), providi ing for state Repositories, met and del
 cided to refer the bill back to theE committee that it be referred back
 to the House without recommendaI tion. It was the expressed desire ofs
 the subcommittee that the bill be7 fought out on the floor of the House
 The committee on education has re- pCrted favorably on the bill by MT Witt of Montgomery county, providing | for state textbook commission andE a uniform series of text books. TheE bill is identical with a Senate bill ln1k troduced last session. It provides tharS the commission shall consist of seven | members, one from each congresslonaI district, selected by the governor Book contracts are to be good for SIX
 years.
 Senator Henderson of Randolph
 who solved the election contest mud AIc lIOlu IAG HI SI uA9tAAN1' A@ ceiving the warm congratulations ol | the senators and their friends AS II
 matter of fact, the contest fight onE the floor of the Senate was groWnsa
 more bitter every hour and serlousa split in the Senate ranks promISeu The discussion was growing more VH
 riolic every moment and the cloS7 division threatened the good or otnei legislation which is now on the calen1 | dar. Friday afternoon there was group of senators standing in the stal7 house yard discussing the work ol ln7 Senate in sending the Greaves-oumpI 1 ter contest back to the original ul' trict. Clarence H. Henderson IS Jus.I | ly entitled to be called the HehrsI | Clay, of Arkansas Senate" sad oen | ator Glover He threw himself ln'o the breastworks at the proper tln1 and became the great pacltcator o | the cause of Democracy in ArkanSas. There was ample opportunity lu oratory during the recent three ua!o | fight and the occasion developed ana brought to the fore the eloquent anI | forceful speakers of the Senate. oent | tors who have not heretofore atteinp, ,,,aro hoard on Iuo1