Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-12
Hcuse Bill Provided Daily Tax of $z5 on Holders of
 Liquor License.
INJURE DBU G GTGTs
NJ :iniorS to'in2toa and GArll.cn Have Warm EXtcmparhneoUS DchAte
 Uther Bills Passed.

Little Rock, Feb. l1-Foliow ng two hours of heated debate, the Senate : Tuesday afternoon defa4tei House Bill, 2l7 Peterson and Belose N licn l,laeed a daily t Of $25 on sve.y i Aolde. of a Federal liquor license in tha state. by indefinat6 ly postponing turiner actin upOn il. inc pe0pl~ in the State w4o usually oppose pro-
 -libition measures were ag& nst the bill, even thCa 2A it Was 1aNorel Dy tae men Wno are at the head of he liquor lhttt ests Of the state. The statement YVES made that if bill bee me a jaw it would Iut every drug u ore in tae state out of business, as most of them carry liluot licenses, it be ing necessary to do so in order 70 comply wi,h the Federal iaN., as l.ley are frequently called upon to pl 4ce mo e tan ?. per cent of lcohol the government limi- in presct iptions.
 Many of t.,e rock ribbed prohibition r.ts of the S:nater 3upEorted the meas use, led by CarlLee, Woo@a, Raney and others, while on the other side we. e such men as Rodgers, of Ben on; Greenhouse, of Washing on; Lundy of Polk, and Ashley, of lzard, very un fam liar figures among tha opposition to bill which in any way deals with prohibition
 Sen tor Greenhouse opposed the bill Gecause he thought it was so dlasti, it would create sentiment in favor of the saloon man, and '.1e was not i'll favor of the saloon man, and he vas pot in favor of favoring them any way, for they d not deserve or need favOrs.
 Senator Rodgers likewise opposed the bill, because he had made an in vestigation and discovered i: woul~ Eut some druggists, who are obs 2erv' ing the law in every particular, out of business, and he would not sup port the measure which would ruin the bu; mess of S ngle citizen of the state.
 Having made he motion to indef- initely postpone, Sena5oT Covington made the closing argument, and sev- e. al time ha and Senator CarlLee eX- changed some very warm Won ls. In the forenoon Senator Covington had made the statement that the Federal laws required the druggists So have a license, which was disputed by Sena or CarlLee, and in reply he as- serted that the statutes would prove h contention to be correct, but if Senator CallLee would support hi.i motion he would prove it 10 him, making the remark that if il. was not so he would resign and leave the Sen ate chamber at once.
 During the closing speech by Sen ator Covington, Senator CarlLee in- terrupted him to ask when he was go- ing to make proof about the Federal statutes. He likewise asked f the Sena. or from Johnson was not ready to pack his grip and be on his way. This angered Senator Covington, who stated he had not been permitted to take the book from the Supreme Court library on account of the Senate hav- ing neglected to request it by re':olu- lion. He continued his remarks to the Senator from Woodruff, saying:
 q usually try to find out how you are go ng to vote and then vote on t!hja other side, and l feel l have done right. AS your name come before mine on the roll call, have the dead wood on you too.''
 This business out of the way the Senate star ed in on the passing of House bills which had been made special order for the day. The fol- lowing were passed: By Ragon, to eubstitute electrocution for hanging as the execution for crim nals con- victed of capital offense; By Wlllems, creating special school district No. 19 in Logan county; By Smith of Bradley to appropriate $500 10 pay ex- penses of Presidential electors; by Will amson, of Stone, creating g de- pository for Stone county; by Lefler creating Clinton special school dis trict in Van Buren county; by Nelson, creating Jeffersonville special school district No. in Lee county; by Mum to create the Bluff City special school strict in Nevada county; by Bogg,s, creating the Orton Levee dis trict in Little River county; by Cock burn, creating Repositories for Mont gomery and Sevier counties; by Cope land, providing that the estate of man who has died since assessing taxes cannot be held for h''s poll tax.
 There were only two dissenting votes to the Ragon electrocution bill; Holt and Hughes.
 The vote on indefinitely postpon ing the Patterson-Beloate high tax bill was as follows:
 Aye-Ashley, Calvert, Christian, Clerget, Coyington, Going, Greenhouse, Harris, Hughes, Jacobson. Lundy, Martin, M les, Moore. McBee, Mccall, Overman, Phillips, Rodgers of Ben ton; Smith and Ma:son-21.
 Nay-CarlLee, Deaton, Friedell,