Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-06-07
TONFY STILL
RULES SENATE
Income Tax Amendment Re-
solution Prompts Him To
Rule It Out Of Order
STATE TEACHERS MEET
At Capital City-Deficiency RilI
Minus the l. and r.
Clause.

teresting question was raised Monday
in both the House and the Senate as
to the power of the governor to veto
the consurrent resolution prviding
IF an income tax amendment to the
federal constitution. A resolution
was introduced in the House direct
ing the Secretary of the Senate and
the chef clerk of the House to certi-
fy the passage of the resolution to
the proper authority in Congress-
This brought about spirited dis
cussion, and the point of order hat
the resolution was out of order vas
raised, and the morning hour expired
before it was passed ON.
In the Senate, Rodgers, of Benton,
author of the original resolution, Of
fered a resolution as a Question of
personal privilege, requesting the
Secretary of state to certify the re-
solution and all parts of the record
pertaining 20 it, to the proper au-
thorities The opposition to the re-
solution was based on the question
of its propriety or necessity of the re-
solution, and nearly all who spoke
fon it, in either house, friends or
political opponents of the governor,
agreed that the governor had no right
to veto IA resolution when the man
ner of its passage is prescribed by
the federal constitution Senators
Henderson said he had usurped the
power and never before had, Demo-
cratic governor vetoed such Demo-
cratic measures, in violation of every
principle of Democracy and the U. S.
Constitution itself. Senator Toney
held the resolution in order, but that
it could. have no effect other than
to be memorial expressing to The
Secretary of State the wishes of the
Legislature.
The House spent the day on the
revenue bill, rejecting an amendment
by Grant to submit TO the people and
by Brown to strike out the emergency
clause.
The Senate adjourned until We'd
nesdey morning, as Senators Friedell,
2 Woods, McBee and several others
had been subpoenaed to appear be-
fore the Grand jury. Speaker Mil
wee and Representative Hurst are
am ,ng the members of the House
who have been subpoeaned to appear
before the Grand Jury today and tell
what they know
Money for Attorney Generals Office.
Bills have been introduced in the
House and Senate to appropriate
$4,000 to pay costs. counsel fees eX-
pense of transcripts. and contingent
expenses of the Attorney General s
office, and $4,000 for clerk hire in
that department. IF passed. the total
will be only $3.50 incess Of the total
appropriated two years ago. The
governor vetoed the bill for $4,000
for the expenses of the office, and
the item providing for an additlo4al
clerk, which was created by an Act
passed by both houses, was by some
oversight not included in the general
bill which reached the governor
sNever before in the history of the
state said Attorney General Nor
wood today. has the office of Alto
ney General been without a contin-
gent fund If an act of the Legisla-
ture is attacked. the best we coulo
do would be to make a fight for II
in the circuit court. We would nave
no fund with which 10 carry II ever
to the Arkansas Supreme Court. VIC
now owe the clerk the TRANSCRIPT
fees in the Jrquhert case. In
statement presented to The Legis.a
ture I have mentioned several i'm
portant cases pending. The Ieg'sla-
ture Of 1907 passed a full crew ac
which fas sustained by the Clrcal
and the Sta.e Supreme Courts. Tht
railroads appealed to the U. S. Su
preme Court. represented the STATE
there, and won tho case. The &C
was sustained, but if we had not hat
a contingen. fund, it would probabl,
have lost, and the work of the lahal
organizations. The Legstl9ture ant
the state courts would have gone fol
naught The same Is true of th'
anti drumming act, passed for III,
benefit of Hot Springs It went t.
the U. s. Supreme Court since I be
came Attorney-general and mad
an oral argument before the cour
which sustained the sc!. All that w
want is enough TO carry on properl