The Newark journal., 1909-01-29
Legislative Gossip

 sickness.
 MT. Bouic of Garland was granted leave of absence, in order that he might go home.
 R. W. McFarlane, chairman of the State Capitol Commission, who has been in the city for several days, returned home to Greenwood.
 MT. Monroe of Hempstead was pre- siding officer in the house for a short while Friday morning. He was called to the chair by Speaker Brown.
 Mir. DuLaney of Little River, one of the prominent members of the house, was Ill his seat again, after an absence of about a week. He was called home on account of important business.
 The bill for a semi-monthly pay day has been buffeted back and forth in the Sena e on one pretext or an other until it finally landed in the hapds of the committee on engrossed bills.
 Manager Wilson of the Marion has placed at the disposal of the com mittee on judiciary the Travellers Rest Room as place of meeting for the committee
 All the committees have organized and are getting down to work. From this time forward he Senate will probably find business confronting it at times when an adjournment is nec- essary now.
 Mr. Simpson of Scott was one of the defenders of the $50,000 appropria- tion bill in the house. Mr. Simpson, in his defense. declared that the bill was in the interest of the farmers of the state.
 ln the Senate a petition was filed representing persons at Eagle Mills, Ark requesting that Senate Bill No. l be defeated The bill was intro dueed by Senator Patterson and pro yldes that corporations in Arkansas shall establish two monthly pay days.
 A petition was read in the Senate from persons at Thorton, asking that Senate Bill No 1, to require corpora tions to establish two regular monthly nay days, be defeated This was tho second petition read asking for the defeat of the bill
 Senator Greenhaws bill creating the special school district of Leslie was passed unanimously by the Senate during his absence. Senator Dill and Patterson explained the purpose of the bill to the Senate and asked it's pas sage during Senator Greenhaw's ab- sence
 Mr Glover of Hot Springs corrected | tla rpnOrt that ho hoI T "a only require 49 days for the state to make up the appropriation of s5O,- 000 II the low rates are restored. figuring on the basis that the increase in Eates cost the state S2,O00. 900 per year. "1t would only take nine days, l instead of 49,' explained Mir. Clover.
 There was not a general exodus or legislators from the city Saturday night, as was the case one week ago. This was due not alone to the fact that the house did not adjourn for the week but to the fact that many or the senators and representatives nave taken permanent residence in Little Rock for the session.
 The legislature has materially in. creased the outbound mail from Little Rock postofiice. AS the session grows older the mails will grow heavier, as there will be printed copies of bills mailed out to many of the constituents of each legislator who introduces a fill of>statewide importance. An ad- ditional mailing clerk has been put to work in he postoftice to work during the session of the legislature.
 The Election Committee of the Senate met and took up the work preliminary to the hearing of the Boies-iioiiand senatorial contest. This contest is already in the form of depositions, the evidence having been taken prior to the opening of the legislature. The records contain 200 pages. The chairman Of the Eelec- ton Committee is Senator Montgomery of Lafayette. The present contest will be disposed of before the hearing be- gins on the Greayes-Sumpter case.
 Speaker Brown gained a reputation as humorist one morning when he brought the house down by stating, in a matter-of-fact tone when amend ments were being introduced on every side to a bill up for consideration, that he would have 10 get out his rules and see where he was at" While amendments and motions coming from every side, the speaker calmly made an investigation to ascertain which motion or amendment had procedure and then made his ruling.
 The Senate in amending the reso- lution adopted in the house providing for the appointment of committee from the legislature to visit the Uni 1 ...n.. H.. ..E A ,l-nncne rrnNidnS thn com