Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-23
NEWS NOTES FROM STATE CAPITAL McHaney Goes to Family Reunion and James Mehaf-
 fly Home From Tour. TAP LINE FIGHT IS ON County Examiners are Slow-State
 Tax on Dogs Act Talked of
 Sues Railway Co

A/AeeAS ASONh, 1AuS. A-.-IL lL. MCG1du- ey, prominent attorney of Little Rock and candidate for the secre- taryship of the senate, left Little Rock today for Gibson, Tenn, where he will spend week at a family re- union. The reunion will be held to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the birth of MT. McHaney's father and there will be about 50 lineal descend ants in attendance.
 Mehaffy Returns.
 James Mehaffy, son of Thomas Me haffy, one of the leading attorneys of Arkansas, and himself a rising young attorney with quite a reputation for oratory, returned to Little Rock Mon day after touring Europe for some months. Col. Mehaffy has made a number of trips to Europe and the son followed in the fathers footsteps, but profited by the experiences of the elder, and saw in a few months what it requires the ordinary tourist many months to come III contact With. Tap Line Fight.
 Stockholders in short line railroads ed by the Interstate Commerce Con- missions ruling on tap lines, will be in Little Rock in large numbers Fri day to attend the special meeting Of the Arkansas Railroad Commission which will at that time take up the proposition of taking some steps to aid the tap lines in their fight for a repeal of the Interstate Commerce Commissions ruling. Secretry Floyd states it will be the largest meeting of the commission held in a year, as every line of secondary interest in the state will be represented. There is to be a meeting of representatives of over 800 small lines in the United States, held in St. Louis Thursday and after this adjourns large num- Der of the representatives will come to Arkansas and have the local meet ing follow out tine recommendations of the national gathering. The tap lines are out in fight to win. ' County Examiners Slow.
 The tardiness of certain officials ov- CT the state in making reports is pre- venting the apportionment of school and pension funds from being made up, as until all reports of county ex- aminers and collectors have been made, it cannot be definitely stated what the pro rata will be. Five county examiners have not filed their annual reports and hurry up calls have been sent to them, telling them they are violating the state law in their tardiness. Notices have been sent to the delinquent collectors also, asking them to make final settlement with the state so the books can be closed for the year.
 State Tax on Dogs.
 The latest new act which is being fostered for the Arkansas legislature at the coming session, is one which will place a state tax on dogs. There is being prepared an act which will place a state license of $1 on every dog, and the assessors will be re- uuired to make the property owners list these dogs, which will be paid for at the rate of s1 per dog, instead of on the value of the cur. There sts such law in Mississippi, from which the Arkansas legislature llScopy. The legislator who contempaates the introduction sof such abiIl states that it will put the state on strong sn- nancial basis in few years, and les sen the dangers of there being so many dogs to run about and become lafflicted with hydrophobia.
 Sues Railway Co.
 Mary T. Haisten, as admintratrix ol the estate of Walter H. Haisten, has