Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-06-02
SENATOR'S WILL
 RECONSIDER IT Vote To Adjourn Sine Die At Noon Saturday But Would Recall Action TO GUST REMMEL
Secretary of State Hodges, ReeOm- mended For Capital Commission
 Near Fight In Senate

Little Rock, Ark, May 31-Sen- ator Raney offered a resIolution be- fore adjournment Wednesday even- ing to the effect that the legislature adjourn sine die at noon Saturday. It was put without a roll call and declared adopted. No one believes that the house vii concur. More over, there is an indication ,lat the senate may reverse itself, as the ad- ministration forces got busy after the resolution had been declared adopt ed, and eighteen of them signed an agreement to recall it at today's ses- sion.
 Much time was spent in both houses in a consideration of the rev enue bill The administration, hold ing their forces we'll in hand, have succeeded in adopting every one of their amendments, and defeating those offered by the other side. Among the amendments defeated was one by Senator Henderson to strike out all the bill except sections 2S and 29, about three pages, whereas the bill contains 110 The two sections re- tained providing that the Tax Com mission shhll tax all corporati ona, Senator Henderson said he was sin cere, as it had been asserted on the floor that the public service corpo"- ations were endeavoring to kill the bill, and he faVored passing only that part of it to show them that the cor porations were not controlling Sen ator Covingon urged it's iadoptfon, but Senatr CarlLee raised the point of order that it changed the purpose of the bill, and the chair sustained him, ruling the amendment out. Oth- CT dilatory amendments will be Of fered, in the hope that an adjourn ment can be forced with the bil1 pending.
 
 time "Wednesday aftd drnoon, with a bunch of amendments. Considerable opposition is developing there to the measure, and lon the final passage 1t is not likely to have as many as it had in the regular session.
 The principal attack was made on the bill by Representative Grant, of Jackson, who asserted that the Tax Commission is not sincere in pretend ing that it wants to assess the cor poratlpns. He said the Commission was really seeking the power to reach it's hands into the poor mans pocket. He aaid the Commission really now has ample power to as- sess property at its full value, as it had assumed the power to assess, or have assessed, all property at uni. form rate of 50 per cent of the full value.
 During Coving.on's remarks, he al luded to the fact that Senator Fur her had voted for Republican, when, earlier in the day, he voted against Covingtons amendment t, the capitol bill substituting Secre-, tary of State Hodges for H. L. Rem mel on the Capitol Commission. There was sharp passage of words between them, in which Senator Woods, who also voted against the
 amend0nsant., participated. Condi- tions looked squally for few mo ments, and there Were threats Of fighting being banded about, when President Toney restored peace by saying, "We must have order. It's ROO hlot to fight, anyway, and the sergeant-a is directed to get that gig back there and keep the men apart The ensuing laugh caused the belligerants to desist
 The bill under consideration came from the House, appropriating sS0.- ooO to move the Supreme Court aud .Ho state treasury to The new capi- flol, and the Senate increased it to s7000O.
 One of the incidents of the day was President Toney's arising 10 a question of personal privilege on an item that had been published to the effect that the reason the Senate 
 was not passing bills favored by the administration is that it wanted t1 pass a bill allowing the claims oi Caldwell & Drake, to which inc gov. ernor would not consent.
 T want 70 say that this is untrue, said the President, "and a slande, on the Senate. There is no bill il here for Caldwell and Drake, and shI,uld certainly declare one out o