The Forrest City times., 1913-08-29
lEVEE BOARD MEETS
Office of Secretary-Treasurer Declared Facant-DeRositt Makes Sensa-
 ti0nal Stand for Williams.

'Ao HUI GCodd9 anu utCldFtu lIlt Ol . nee Of secretary-treasurer, held by MT. Eugene Williams, of this city, vacant, and elected MT. H. A. Morri- son, Of Earle, to take his place
 The Commercial Appeal of Wednes- day morning, among other things, said:
 " It is not Che first time that an at- tack has been made on Williams, but yesterday the opposition found itself in position to put him out, and did so in short order.
 The resolution to declare the of tice vacant was made by John Me Donald, of Helena. The grounds named in the resolution for declaring the oh1ce vacant were that Williams had failed to comply with the order Of the board to turn over the funds Of the board to the proper deposito- ries, and that he had failed to make good his promises to the board to make good the funds which were tied up by the failure of the Bank of For rest City, of which he was cashier.
 The reason for the break coming yesterday was that it was alleged that several thousand dollars worth of checks issued by the president for the current expenses of the board on the authorization of Eugene Williams had gone to protest.
 At the previous meeting of the board Williams stated that if the board would grant him time enough he would pay all the indebtedness. He authorized the president to draw on the treasurer for 5000 at once and SoVo0 monthly and he would see that 1t was paid. He did not meet the in- terest coupons of the bonds which were presented in the Memphis bar $ for payment, but about two thous dollars worth of the checks of the board went to protest and the board was without funds
 " It was for those reasons, explained MT. Mcdonald, that the action was taken.
 State Senator F. ". DeRositt. of forrest City, who was seated as member of the board yesterday. gave his undivided support to Eugene Will Hams. He characterized the attempt to unseat Williams as nothing short Ql assassination, He said that al- though heretofore he had always op- posed Eugene Williams politically, he would not stand to see him slaugh- tered at the meeting of the board without speaking word in his de- fense.
 " He said that he was authorized by Williams, who did not attend the meeting, to make the proposition to the board that If it would allow him two weeks longer be would make every cent of his indebtedness good and then resign if the majority of the board wished it.
 resolution was also offered to make a demand on Williams for the remainder of the money in his DOS session, but the resolution was modi- fed so as to read that the boards at torney, H. F. Roleson, could use his own judgment as to when to make the demand
 Ex-Senator F. W DeRositt returned home Tuesday night from a visit of two or three days at Memphis and Marion, where he had been 10 attend a meeting of the St. Francis Levee Board. Senator DeRositt reports that this meeting of the board seemed to have been held for the express purpose of busting MT. Eugene Williams, of this city, as secretary-treasurer of that body. The board was swept of its feet, as it were, when DeRositt arose in the meeting as the champion Of MT. Williams, delivering a strong and forcible speech, in which he char acteriZed the proceedings to oust Mir. Williams as treacherous and ungrate- ful, referring to the resolution intro duced by Mcdonald, of Phillips coun- ty, as a move to assassinate this man Williams in the house of his friends. DeRositt's defense of Williams was the sensation of the meeting, because it is well-known fact that the two men have been political enemies for numbe of years, but the ex-senator's position was justified through a spirit of home pride and loyalty to the citi- Lenship of St. Francis county, and the gentleman was praised and compli- mented warmly by all the members of the beard upon the strong stand he made in defense of his townsman, NIT. Eugene Williams. Atone time during his remarks, Senator DeRositt de- clared have heard that when a pack of hungry wolves, in pursuing its prey, and one of their number becomes . T