Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-05-24
SENATE SUSTAINS
KEMP" TONFY
Rules Capitol Completion
Bill Out Of Order When
It is Presented
NOT TN THE MESSAGE
Toney Makes Statement Saying Gov
ern0r Knew What He Wanted and
Should Have Included 1t.

ern0r Anew Wnat lie NanfcG ana
Should Have Included 1t.
Little Rock, Ark, May 23.-H3lding
n that a bill for the completion of the
new State Capitol could not be con-
sidered because i. was not included
u specifically ii the call for an eXt-a
Y session by the governor, President
Il Toney of the Senate today held out OF
u order a bill carrying $672,000 for The
completion of the new building With
II. the note" feature ST the bill intro
4 duced at the regular session. The
\ only difference, it is said, between
i the bill his morning and the bill in
I troduced in the regular session is thai
the rate of interest was reduced from
6 to 4 per cent on the money 10 be
borrowed fer completing the Capitol.
Discussion on this bill and It's at
tempted introduction were decidedly
he features Of the session in the
Senate and were regarded by many rs
among the most interesting and signi-
ficant incidents connected with the
extra session.
When the measure was offered for
introduction and after the title had
been read Senator Logan raised the
point of order hat it could not he
considered because it had not been
included in the call issued by Cover
nor Donaghey for a special session.
II can't tell What the bff1 is or
whether Or not il is in order until I
hear it read commented President
Toney, who directed the clerk to on
tinue reading it. When the clerk had
concluded Senator Logan again raised
his point of order.
81 shall hold the point we'll taken,'
observed President Toney, land de-
clare the bill as it stands out of or
der. The call for the extra session
sets forth specifically certains things
to be considered and it is a we'll es-
tablished fact that nothing can be con
sidered under that call except the
things specified. There is no refer
ence to the completion of the State
Capitol further than direction for such
legislation as will provide for the re-
moval of the offices of the Supreme
(NOurt and tho Cfoto traac ,1ror'c offioo
from the old to the new State Capitol.
II the author Of the bill will amend it
so as to bring it within the purview
OF Ithe governors proclamation the
chair will gladly entertain it."
Senator Turner interposed objection
to this ruling and contended that the
new State Capitol Or the State Capitol
Is a part of the state government CT
an institution of the state and thai it
would come within the meaning of the
proclamation under another head.
\ President Toney did not think this
point we'll taken.
"The governor" said President To-
% 4SyS ! p1OlAS UlulL u1du, WHO WOulu
N NOT go around a matter of this kind by
n lnd1reetion. If he had intended that
we consider a bill to complete the new
H State Capitol he would have said so.
He would not attempt to do by indir-
IN ection what he would NOT do directly,
4 and it would be presumptuous on the
part of the chair to hold that he in
n tended something when he did not say
M 1t. The reference to the Supreme
Court and the State treasurer's offices
is clear ard emphatic, and there Is n,
reason to believe or presume that more
Y. was meant, and the chair will rule
accordingly"
After the bill was held out of order
appeal Mas taken. The ruling of
1.-THE president was sustained, 22 to Z.
Holds Reunion Bill Out Of Order.
Just before the Introduction of the
State Capitol bill, or its attempted IN
PRODUCTION, a bill was introduced to
provide an appropriation to assist in
paying the deficit of $4,000 resulting
from the entertainment of the DID SOL
diers during the Confederate Reunion.
Point of order was raised on this
bill as not being contained in the cal
Of the governor f,s1 an extra s~ession
A point Of order wass raised on the
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