The Forrest City times., 1911-12-08

SA H"u hS hei hdue Oue SluRle TeCOm- mendation to reduce the States ex- penses except the suggestion that the Land Of'ice be abolished, and that if the Legislature had appropriated money 10 cover all the matters sug- gested by the Governor, the State would be deeper in debt than it is.
 The speaker advocated the adop- tion of an amendment to the Consti- tuition providing that members of the Legislature should receive s6 day for the first sixty days of the regular session, and no pay thereafter, and stated that he would in few days begin the circulation of petition for the initiation of such an amendment
 He claims that its adoption would save the State sl35.o00 bi-annually,
 and that the Legislature would and could enact all necessary laws in 50 days. He advocated that the print ing of the Journals be discontinued and thereby save sl0,000 year. He called upon all in the house who had a copy of the journal Of any session to hold up their hands. and three men ] responded. He advocated q consoli. i dation of the Railroad and Tax Com mission; said that the Governor ve-| l toes appropriations for school and charitable institutions ana other expenses of the state government upon the ground that the state had no muney, and yet tried 10 force the Legislature To appropriate sG72 .ooo for the State Capitol, when seventeen hundred thousand dollars had already been appropriated
 He said that q campaign without discussion Of the Penttentiary would be like the play of Hamlet with Ham, let left out, that this institution had been investigated oftener and longer than anything else. He explained the manner of purchasing supplies under the law, and the working of convicts; that he did not claim the management had been perfect. but that the Board did not deserve some attacks that had been nade upon them; that he had no c ion to the management being changed, but he did object to the appointment of a Board by the Governor, which would increase too much power already in the hands of the Chief Executive. He said that he lad given attention to his duties as member of the Board and stated that the records would show who had discharged their duties and who had not, that they were open to the inspection of any one; he said that no member of the Board entered into the contract for the hire of the surplus convicts from a matter of choice, but as necessity under the law. He said that he had tried to serve the people faithfully as Attorney General, and that if he could not show from the records that he had collected for the State more money as result of litigation with which he had been connected than any Attorney General Arkansas ever had, he would quit the race; that if he could not show. that his office had l looked after more cases in the several courts since he had been Attorney General, than any other similar period, he would quit the race
 The Speaker stated that as early as April, 1910, MT. Robinson announced for United States Senator: that after this he stated through the paper that he would be candidate for Governor. that after that he had personal talk with MT Robinson and told Mr
 Robinson that if he had not fully de- termined to run for the Senate and wanted to run for Governor, to come and see him and that they would talk it over. That Mr. Robinson admit ted at Carlisle this conversation. but said why should he 20 to see MT. Norwood about running for Governor he wishes now, that he had come to see me- He read an article from tha Gazette of June 2nd. in which Mir. Robinson in a signed statement announces himself as a candidates to succeed Jeff Davis, and stated that he had made the announcement with out reservation; he said that Robin son had been the main cog wheel in Donaghey's big political machine, and should not be stopped from criti- cising the Governor for matters that were fully known to him when he was enthusiastically supporting Don aghey. Reading from the Gazette he stated that Robinson closed his speech at Philadelphia yesterday by discourSing on Arkansas resources and climate. He said that the eli mate was new issue in the cam paign, and he did not know what changes the Congressman proposed to recommend: he said that two of MT.