Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-21
Special Session of the Legis- lature Will Not Be Called
 to Rebuild Levee5.
DONAGHEY REFUSES
Want Sf,500. .000 Memphis Wan, Fig Arkansas Land Owner, irO-
 tested Against it.

Ifgle Rock, May 20-After listeh- ing to arguments against the calling of q speeial session of the Arkansas legislature to pass an act aaltho.lz- ing thq St. Francis Levee District to jezud e1 800 .oG0 war@h of bonds Wt'h which to rebuild the levees of that q s sict, during the mcEning hours, and then continued arguments in the afternoon as to why the session should be called, Gov Donaghsy late Monday declined ito issue the call.
 Pres. o. N. ISilough. of Wynne, presented the case before Gov. Don aghpy in the afteanei0n session, which was at ended by a large number of levee board members as we'll as prominent property owners of East ern Arkansas and ito Lem Banks of Memphis, who is large property owner of the district, fell the question of answering the claims of the pro- testan-s who ella m that the goyern- ment is soon to take over The levees and build them Q better protection of the land.
 In his argument Mr. Banks reviewed | the levete question of other states which built evees long before Arkan- sas began the work showing that the people must first build he levees and then the government vert to work to protect these levees, prin- cipally through revetments, He stated ,eat the governmemt had no legal right to take over the levees, and could merely do such werk on them as would prcfect the s'.ream leveed against to keep it in condition for interstate commerce.. He said that all The states bordering on the stream would have to pass special ac3s before hhe legal restrictions OIL the government taking over the levees could be removed.
 Going further Ehe Memphis resident stated that by issuing $1500,000 in bends would just be placing an ad- ditional embargo of $1 on each acre of t,ile district. where the district would lose at leas $5 per acre if it became known the special session would no. be held in order to grant the people the relief they sought. or l o,,1I l,o nj ed from fae next high water. He fus- ther sta.ed that the St. Francis bot tom is now largely owned by Northern | people who could do more to get the Northern representatives in Congress to help Arkansas than all of those oE the South.
 Among other points touched upon by this speaker was the loss to the lumbermen through the high water of the recent overflow, and the prob- ability of he-occurence at any t.me. He further stated that if the fences of the district have been washed away, that alone will mean an out lay of an additional $10O'0O0.
 In conclusion, MT. Banks pointed Cut the only good feature about the floods, saying the ticks have been drowned in the overflowed districts and with the use of a few hundred dollars The cattle in Eastern Arkansas can be rid of this pest this year,
 ! l.. 11,,
 A. c. Lang, general manager of lhe Chicago Mill & Lumber Company,
 which has large plant at Blythe
 vile was ano, her of the most ln- teresting speakers. He said that hls company, which has hundreds q thousands of acres in Arkansas, had to have some protection such as was asked for and was heareily in favor