Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-05-14
LEGISLATORS END
THEIR SESSION
State Capitol Bill And Keal
Bill May Cause Donaghey
To Run Again
EXTRA SESSION TALK
TOney Gets His Enlarged CabOose
Car Bill Through At The
Last Moment.
EXTRA SESSION TALK

Little Rock, May 13.-The 3Sth.
General Assembly adjourned sine die
E, at ~ o'clock noon today, with feast
of good will and personal felicitation
All animosities were laid aside, and
the bitterness that had at times ruled
in the deliberations of the two houses
were laid aside as farewells were said.
There We're presentations for the
Speaker md the President, for en-
ployes and clerks and members. The
valedictory in the Senate was deliver
ed by Senator Henderson and that in
the House by Representative Kerwin
two of the most eloquent speakers in
the Legislature.
AS for business, there was prac-
tically none. The Senate met at 10
am, and at once went into the clos
ing exercises In the House pursuant
to resolution adopted Friday evening"
the only business transacted was the
consideration of few unimportant
special orders, and the closing exer-
ciese then began and continued till
II m.
The Friday sessions of the two
Houses were among the most notable
of the entire session. because they
encompassed the defeat of tive of the
most important measures that were
up FIR consideration during the clos
ing days of the Legislature. In the
House Senator Covington leading the
opposition to the capitol completion
bill, ably seconded by Senator Logan,
talked if to death. Adjournment
was taken at noon till Friday MORN
ing with the bill still in committee
of the whole. The anti-administra-
ton were in control and played their
parliamentary cards we'll, thoroughly
out generating the other side, al
though majority favored the bill,
The bill carried an appropriation OF
$672,OO0 for the completion cf the
capitol, As it stands, no work can
be done on the capitol for the next
two years, md even the present tenn
porary furniture must serve the pur
pose No provision is made for heat
ing and lighting, and the state Off
GERS ale wondering what shall be
done.
In the House, the Keel bill passed
by the Senate and urged by the gov
ernor as measure of financial re-
lief, was killed under the leadership
of Representative Hurst and few
others. This is the bill introduced
late in the session, providing "a speci-
fic amount Of taxes to be raised dur
ing the next two years, on the certi-
fled levy of the State Auditor. The
bill raised the amount of general re-
venue from 100000 to $1,000,O0O, and
the capitol fund from $165,000 to $780,
900, but made no change in the
amount to be raised for school pur-
poses. 1t was condemned as most
vicious bill by it's opponents, and a
strong combination was formed for its
defeat.
Representative Parker declared that
he would net permit the Governor or
any one else to dictate to him what
he should or should not do, and he
resented the effort that had been
mada to put rope around his neck
and lead him. A motion was offered
by Hurst to strike out the item Of
100000 for the capitol fund. H.
: ton to table this, which would have
l carried the bill with it, failed, but a
motion to read the amendment the
second time lost, and no further action
could be taken. That left it dead on
5 the calendar. as no business could
: be transacted to-day under the re-
solution subsequently adopted.
There WIS an echo of the recent
bribery charges against the Senats
when the committee on claims pre-
sented a bill for $34276 for the print
ing of $4,000 copies of the speech de-
flivered M9y 8 by Representative Lit.
tie. Hurst fought it on the ground
that it was unconstitutional, not be-
ing a necessary contingent expense
Of the state government. He opposed
using the peoples money to print thu
speech of a member, which was de
signed only as means of relieving
y himself of personal spleen. It wa
:, argued. however that the House b.
" practically a unanimous vote lad Or
IS dered the speech printed, and tina
n not to do so would threw the bnrdel
. on the chief clerk and would be
l.
c. reputation of an obligation, TIL
bill was ordered paid, by vlte o
2 sc to 9.
= Among the bills passed. by ta
House was one by Senator Dill 10