The log cabin Democrat., 1913-02-13
SENATE DEFEATS
 TRICKY MEASURE
HOUSE BILLS ARE PASSED
SENATOR'S CONVECTION AND CARL-LEE ENGAGE IN E EAT
 ED CONVERSATIONS

two hours of heated debate, the sen ate Tuesday afternoon defeated house bill No. PIT, by Patterson and Be}ote, which placed dasly tax of S29 on every holder of federal liquor H. oense in the state, by Indefinitely postponing further action upon 1t. 1 The people in the senate who usually oppose prohibition measures were against the bill, even though it was favored by the men who are at the head of the liquor interests of the state. The statement was made that | if the bill became a law it would put every drug store in the state out of business, as most of them carry b- quor licenses, it being necessary to do so in order to comply with the 1 federal laws, as they are frequently called upon to place more than two per cent of alcohol, the government limit, in prescriptions.
 Many of the rock-ribbed prohiDJ- tionists of the senate supported the measure, led by CarlLee, Woods, Ra ney and others, while on the other side were such men as Rodgers of Benton, Greenhouse of Washington, Lundy of Polk and Ashley of lzard, very unfamiliar figures among the opposition to a bill which in any way deals with prohibition.
 Senator Greenhouse opposed the i bill because he thought it was SC | drastic it would create sentiment in favor of the saloon man, and he was not in favor of favoring them any way, for they did not deserve or need favors.
 Senator Rodgers likewise opposed the bill, because he had made an in vestigation and discovered it would put some druggists, who are ooserv- 1 ing the law in every particular, out of business, and he would not SUD- the business of single citizen of the state.
 Having made the motion to indef- nitely postpone, Senator Covington made the closing argument, and sev- eral times he and CarlLee exchanged some very warm words. In the fore noon, Senator Covington had made the statement the federal laws re- quired the druggists to have license, which was disputed by Senator Carl Lee, and in reply he asserted that the statutes would prove his conten- tion to be correct, but if Senator Carl Lee would support his motion he would prove it to him, making the remark that if it was not so he would resign and leave the senate chamber at once.
 During the closing speech by Sena- tor Covington, Senator CarlLee inter rupted him to ask when he was going to make proof about the federal statutes. He likewise asked if the senator 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 resolu- tion. He continued his remarks to the senator from Woodruff, saying:
 I usually try to find out how you are going to vote, and then vote on the other side, and I feel I have done right. As your name comes before mine on the roll call, have the dead wood on you, too
 This business out of the way, the senate started in on the passage of house bills which had been made spe- cial order for the day. The follow ing were passed:
 By Ragon, to substitute electrocu- tion for hanging as the execution for criminals convicted of capital of lenses.
 By Smith of Bradley, to appropri- ate $500 to pay expenses of president ial electors.
 By Copeland, providing that the es- tate of a man wuo has died since as- sessing taxes, cannot be held for his poll taxes.
 There were only two dissenting votes to the Ragon electrocution bill Holt and Hughes.
 The vote on indefinitely postponing the Patterson-Belote high tax bill, was as follows:
 Aye-Ashley, Calvert, Christian,