The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-12
Representative Little Makes Sc
 Sensational Charaes.

Representative Little Makes Some
 Sensational Charges.
 The Milwee-Hardage prohibition submission bill passed the house without opposition. One of its au- tLors, MT. Milwee, made brief state ment, declaring it the best bill of the kind ever drawn Under the provis- ions of the bill, if adopted by the pe0- pie, it will be unlawful to manufac- ture or sell liquor in the state after January 1st, 1913. The bill also makes it unlawful for dealer out side the state to sell to a person in the state and forbids railroad and express companies from delivering intoxicants from the outside to the people in the state. Justices of the peace, sheriffs and prosecuting at torneys are subject to severe penal ties for failure to enforce the law against the illegal sale of liquor. Taking this bill as his cue, RepTesen- tGtive Little delivered an eXtraordi- nary speech against the liquor inter ests and made sensational declara- tions regarding the senate, declaring that body to be owned and controlled, body and soul, by the wholesale li- money had changed hands on matters Of legislation at this term. He said it had been reported that S1, TOO was expended during the consideration ot the game warden bill and that one senator was reported as having said his vote for the Bradham-Hurst bill cost him $1,500, indicating that he could have gotten that sum for vot- ing against the bill. He brought the strength of the governor into ques- tion, declaring that he is as weak as a new born babe as against the pow CT of the president of the liquor deal CTS association in matters of state government. The president and clerks of the senate, he said, were named by the liquor interests and that the secretary of that body spent public funds with reckless eXtrava- gance, knowing that his organization would stand by him. He asserted that the president of the State Uni versity had suddenly ceased making prohibition speeches after the intro duction of a bill to move the univer- sity to Little Rock at a former ses- sion, and that he had made no pro hibition speeches since. In connec- tion with his statements regarding incidents of alleged corruption in the senate, he said he hoped the people would be fair enough to not ask or expect him to go into details and meLtion names, but that from mur- murings and rumblings which had Oeen current for some time one could form his own conclusions. The Com mercial Appeal was denounced as the greatest enemy of the people in the South, owing to it's attitude on the liquor question, and the Gazette and Democrat were charged with SUD- pressing news unsatisfactory to the liquor interests, but he credited the country papers with being fair and independent, although adding that they have no influence. In conclu- sion, he said he felt that he was Isaying the part of a coward in sup porting a submission measure, but after four years of futile effort to se- cure statutory prohibition, he took this course as a last resort and with but little hope of its success. After he had finished his remarks. many members congratulated him on his splendid effort, and 25,00O copies Of the speech were ordered printed, to be paid for out of the contingent fund