The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-02-13
GOING, INDICTED,
QUITS THE SENATE
WOULD CLEAR HIS name
ST. FRANCIS LEVEE BILL IS
MADE SPECIAL ORDER
AND PASSED.

Little Rock, Feb. 13.-Overcome by
the oratory spilled on the st. Francis
Levee District bill, or affected by the
heat, the senate went wild Wednes-
day afternoon and remained in ses-
sion until after $50, introducing and
reading after $3.50 in the afternoon
27 bills of all varieties.
After Senator Going had announc-
ed his intention of obtaining a leave
Of absence for several days, in order
to remove the embarrassment of an
indictment returned against him in
Cross county, and the bill changing
the system by which affairs of the
st. Francis Levee District had been
made special order by his request
Senator McBee spoke against the bill,
CarlLee for it, and in the afternoon
Senator Going made the closing
speech, after which the bill was pass
ed. Senator McBee claimed it was
C440 idl &c ie'Hu oWiielS WuO wanted TO
get control of the board, the large
foreign corporations owning 60 per
cent of the timber lands of Eastern
Arkansas, and if they gained control
it meant the planter must pay for the
building of the levees. He stated the
government admits the levees of the
st. Francis valley to be the best and
cheapest built along the Mississippi
river. He also charged Senator Co.
ing with playing upon the sympathy
OF the senate to get the bill up for
consideration, when there had been an
agreement to hold it off for while.
The reply of Senator Going was a
masterpiece of oratory. He said the
people of the district did not want the
additional bond spent as it had been
in the past. Senator Going stated the
members of the board who would be
removed under the bill will be only
those who have been serving as collec-
tors, attorneys, treasurer, or officials,
and for which they have drawn heav-
lily in fees. He questioned the sim
cerity of the directors, when they
went to the ends they have to get
their appointments and hold them,
when they are allowed but S. per day
for two meeting days a year. Sena-
tor Going devoted considerable time
to the methods of accounting, in
which the items were not itemized,
but stated in expenditure sper month.
Senator Going charged the board,
after having by legislative act been
forced to move the office in Arkansas,
had moved it back from Marion to
Memphis. He declared the contracts
made there were not legal or binding,
but the state courts could not reach
them if the board should make con-
tracts by which it received a rebate
upon the yardage of dirt moved into
the levees.
At the close of the speech the vote
was taken and the supporters of the
bill won with 23 votes to 8.
After the vote had been announced,
Senators Covington and Jacobson in
troduced resolution expressing the
confidence the senate has in the 10y
atty, honesty and integrity of Senator
Going, and the belief he would soon
remove the suspicion from himself.
The resolution asked Senator Going
to reconsider his determination, and
remain with the senate until the end
of the term. Senators Covington,
Friedell, Woods and CarlLee spoke
upon the resolution, Senator Carl
Lee stated he believed there was more
or less politics connected with the in
dictment of Senator Going, for he
knew something about the manipula-
tion in Eastern Arkansas, where he
and Senator Going had been political
enemies for years, belonging to oppos-
ing factions. He stated he was not
friend of Senator Going, either per-
sonal or political, but thought he
would soon be acquitted of the charg-
es against him. Senator Going is un-
der indictment as an accessory before
and after the fact in the shortage of
Wood Hammett, former treasurer of
he acted merely as attorney for Ham