Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
TO BUILD HIGHWAY
DESPITE GOVERNOR
RAPS GOV. DONAGHEY
Toney Says Influence OF Corporation
Brought About the Veto OF His
Pet Measure.

Despite the action of Governor Geo.
! w DonagheY, who several months ago
vetoed State Highway Bill No. 1,
HchamPioned by President H x. Toney
of the Senate, it WAS announced here
Thursday by Senator Toney that the
highway will be built This statement
WIS made after Senator Toneys re-
turn from Pennsylvania, whore he has
been spending the summer and dur
ing his vacation he gave the matter
much thought
Governor Donaghey gave as his
reasons for Vetoing he measure that
the country through which il would
pass was sparcely settled and too
pool" extraordinarily speaking, to war
rant its construction, and intimated
that the people along the route did
nat desire il. The property owners of
this county, however, charged that
Governor Donaghey vetoed the mea-
sure in order 10 get back at Senator
'Eone2, who opposed him in his taxing
i and State Capitol bills in the recent
session ot the Legislature Even the
! Warmest friends Of the Governor here
did approve of his action
Senator Touey is preparing TO cir
culate a petition among the property
owners of the district, which viii ex-
tend from Pine Bluff TO the Saline
County line, a distance Of tWenty-six
miles. This petition will call for the
! formation of a special Improvement
district through which il is hoped to
construct the road not only from Pine
Bluff to the Saline County line, but
With similar petitions, through from
Pine Bluff to the State Farm at Cum
Minis, as originally planned. A pike
road now extends from Little Rock
to a point fifteen or twenty miles In
this direction and it is planned to have
a similar district in Saline County to
connect with the two highways. When
the road is completed from the Saline
county line to Cummins it will be
eighty-five miles long.
Senator Toney says that he will
! have no trouble in securing signatures
of the majority of the property own
ers, in value, in the District.
He said "There will practically be
no opposition except that Of the Iron
Mountain. | charged at that time that
this bill was vetoed that the property
owners had not brought about it's de-
feat, but on the otherhand demanded
it. | charged then, and | charge now,
that the Influence of the Iron Noun
tain railroad brought about the veto.
1t can now be easily determined Whe-
Their my charge was we'll founded or
not, when the petition is presented to
the railroads and the property own
ers for their signatures.
Under the vetoed measure the Iron
Mountain railroad would have been
required to have borne half of the en-
tire expense Incurred Ill lilt Uuiluiu6
of the highway, as 105 miles of its line
was to be included in the Improvement
district With what the county judges
of the various counties had agreed to
contribute to aid in its construction,
property owners along the route
have been benefited from it with lit
tie or practically no expense. Judges
Joe Asher, of Pulaski county, and c.
NJ Philpot, of jefferson, had signified
their willing to contribute $4,000
each out of the city funds OF botn
Little Rock and Pine Bluff to accom-
plish the good work. This is stated
merely to show the sentiment that ex-
lists for good roads in this part OF the
state"