Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-03-01

at an hour past the regular time for
 adjournment. The vote was first taken lon the Barker amendment to end the session May 8. On this oues-
 tion 92 members voted. 6e aeainst and 23 for. It was declared lost and
 before the vote could be taken on the
 Hurst amendment, Mir. Brown, of Cleveland, offered his resolution for adjournment May 1. This also was
 voted down, 21 out of 93 voting against 1t. Them came the real fight
 on the Hurst amendment to adicurn
 May 16 There was no argument. but interest was so great the crowd about the desk of the clerk where the vote
 was being recorded was very large
 This announcement showed that the amendmet lCst by tie vote, II to fl.
 MT. Beale, of Perry, and Jones. of
 Pulaski, changed their votes to nav
 and Mr. Baker and Mir. Lackye, who
 failed to vote before, requested to be
 recorded as voting nay One vote
 was changed to aye, but the amend
 ment was dead. MT. Hatchett. who
 failed to vote On the first call, re-
 quested to be registered against the amendment but he was not permit ted to cast his ballot The advocates of the measure called for a sounding
 of the ballot, and when it was over
 the vote stood 47 against the amend ment and 42 for it. MT. Hurst made
 moticn that the House table the
 Kersh resolution for adjournment
 April 20 and this motion carried B
 to 34. The House then adjourned
 with threats from the leaders of the
 long extension resolution, declaring
 they we're going to force an ad-
 journment at the end of the 60 day
 session
 In the Senate, resolution was
 offered by Senator White to extend till May 10, contending that it was
 better to extend than to be called back for a special session. Senator
 Holland declared that there are cer- tain outside influences at work for am adjournment on March g. Rodg- CTS, of Benton, said that ordinarily he would be opposed to any exten- sion, but conditions make some ex-
 tension necessary, and he offered an amendment that it be for thirty days. Senator Woods said he was ready to go home, and thought he could dc more good there than in the legislature if the record of the past few weeks is criterion Senator Covington said that so much work has accumulated that 30 day eX- tension would accomplish nothing. He declared against peanut politics, and declared that so far as the sal ary is concerned, there is nothing in the legis lative job at $6 day, and the member has to sleep in a chip pile and take his meals in a two-bit hash house to have enough left to pay his fare home. He believed they should stay long enough to do the necessary work, and that the railroad interests are working against the extension. Senator Henderson said the past sixty days give no promise of any good to be accomplished and he thought the best thing to do would be Ito adjourn and go home. He would vote for 30 days and no more. Sem atcr Martin, of Faulkner, argued for an extension of 60 days, and declared he believed the people wanted them to stay as long as necessary, He de- tended the legislature from it's mem- bers who would brand them. as ras- calls and misfits and time-killers, and said the flag. should be lowered to half mast when they adjourned. Sen ator Keel favored staying until they got through. The Rodgers amend ment to adjourn at the erd ef 3O days more was defeated, 16 to IA, and the original resolution by Sem ator White was then voted down py a vote of Is to 10. Messrs. w. Fletcher, T. c. McRae and B. R. Dro- rell, of the State Board of Charities addressed the joint session, and urg- ed the sale of the present insane asy- lum and grounds and the removal or the institution as a business a'ao proposition.