The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-05

AAOHA oih ouiu tHdt tucTt was great many who did not want the law and many did not know much about it.
 A day was agreed on for the committee from Polk county to return and go before the Senate committee, and they went home.
 l asked Logan if he had any fears of his blll, Depository bill No. 94, passing in the Senate. He said, "No, there will not be more than one vote against it" Senator Foney), aud for me not to worry, he would pass it sure. I told him l had scme friends in the Senate who served with me in the House in 1907, naming some of them that 1 would see. That would not have the bill fail to pass for 1000 out of my own pocket.
 ca the day set for hearing. the committee from Meua returned to appear before Senate committee; Scott county committee did not, as l know of. 1 then said to Lo- gan:
 'I believe while they are fight ing your bill before Senate com mittee, l will have Kendall go over to the Senate and call up House Bill No. Is, depository bill for Polk aud Johnson couu- ties, and have it passed. It would then be law.
 "Oh, he said, "that bill wa S referred to committee, too" This afterward learned was not true, and the Journal shows same. The next I knew the Logan bill, No. Is, for Polk and Johnson counties was amended in the Sem ate by Logan, dropping Polk county from the biii; and the bill with a few minor amendments, giving collectors more time to pay money into the treasury, etc., be- came law for Johnson and was in use before adjournment of the 1909 session.
 called to Logan in lobby of house and asked him why he treated my bill for Polk county as he had; that it put me in bad light with Kendall, etc., as 1 had assured him he (Logan) would not oppose it. He said he had a bill for Scott and Polk that was good one, that that bill, using his language, twas not worth a damn" 1 told him Judge Shaver and other lawyers said it was good and that 1t was copy of bill then in successful use in Washington county. He seemed to be angry and suppose he thought was, but said rather than have hard feelings about 1t he would go back in senate and call up Bill No. Is and have Polk put back in bill. I told him all right, but he never did as he said he would, but went home aud wrote me a letter about 1t.
 I then got hold of bill he had written and copied it word foi word making it for Polk county alone, Bill No. 297. I hoped tc get bill that would suit him, and passed 1t through House with uot vote against it. This bll went to senate for Polk county alone. 1 wrote Logan what l had done and and said as 1 was no seeking honors, the people hav ing honored me enough by elect ing me, he could sign his nam' to it if he wished the honor, al he stated in his letter that he dld
 This pill died in senate and witt senators from all parts of tn
 state telling me and some othe Mena people they would pass tn bill could get it called up b. l Logan or anyone.
 Logan's bill, which committe
 came from Mena to oppose, wa 1 returned from senate committe 1 without recommendation to pas
 or not pass. It was passed | 2 senate for Polk and Jackso counties with section IS added t it, making if read to take effec
 and be in force when the voter 1 at September election Tn l9l I voted for a depository law. A