The Springdale news., 1913-02-21

the laws enacted are of this na- ture
 One of the most important bil $, in the estimation of criminolosists, that has received the approval of the governor, is that championed by two of the young men of the House, Ragon Of Johnson and Kid der of Pulaski, abolisbing hanging and substituting the electric chair l for the execution of criminals con- Victed of capital offenses. The law 1 becomes effective the first of Jan uary, 1914, and provides that after that date all persons convicted of capital offenses shall immediately i be removed to the penitentary in i Little Rock and there confined un l til electroeuted in a permanent i death chamber 10 be provided for that purpose This will relieve the l seventy-ftve sherfffs of the state of the responsibility of execution. and thrroW it all upon the warden of the penitentiary or deputy des- ignated for that purpose. It is further provided that the executors shall be private except for certain specified witnesses, and that the newspapers shall be permitted to print nothing more than the mere fact that the man was executed The l a1t Il hn1 .h haf it is best to get such criminals out of the world in tie most expeditions, humane and least spectacular man. her possible
 There has been considerable dras- tie anti-saloon legislation, to such an extent that this has come to be known as a prohibition Legislature. The enactment of the Friedall bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within ten miles of the public school build ing of Texarkana vas the entering wedge. and this was followed by tie passage by both houses of the i Whiskey Bill fathered by Senator Going and seventeen other mem- bers of the Upper House There vas a spectacular fight for and against this bill in the House, and it's pas sage has caused more comment than anything else the Legislature has done
 This bill. which shifts the bur den of loeal=option petition from the prohibitionists to the saloon men, in counties that cast major ivy of votes for license" provides that
 When a majority of the adult white inhabitants living within tie incorporate limits of any ineorpor- ated town oreity= in this state shall have signed petition to the eo0n- ty in which said town or city is situated, asking that license for the sale of intoxicating liquors be isz sued for that town or city, then the said county court may issue such li- cense for period already pre- scribed by law.
 It should be observed that ne groes are denied the right of par ticipating in the petitions, and that white women have the same right as white men It is upon this exclusion of the negro that the opponents of the bill hope to secure a nulifiea- ton of the act in the courts, upon prohibitionists are convinced that this apt will result in practical pro hibition for the state and are great ly elafta over it's passage
 Mir Dipboye. of Crawford, how ever, has statewide prohibition bill which he proposes to call up for third reading and final passage at the earliest opportunity. He is suspicious Of the Going bill, and fears there is joker in it that will make il nou=effectiye when the courts have gotten through with it. He k convinced that he will be able to pas the state- wide bill, and thinks it will 20 through the Senate also In addition to thee laws for the regulation of the + quor traffic, =fhe =Hense has passed a bill by Repre- entatAe Joseahs or Miller making eboo,-leEginaA and blind 5issf ring i felony fua= ishable hy fine and imprisonment not to exceed two yeas The House a1#o Fass5 | bill by Repre- sentative Patterson to place q tax of $25 daily on persons in pro6ibi= tion territory who hold a federal lt- eense to sell liquor. but the seu- ate turned it down.
 There are dozen proposed amendments to the Constitution pending. but only two of them can be submitted The officers Of the