Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-17
WHITES PET BILL BLOCKED IN SENATE Jefferson County Measure Must Be Sent to a Com
 mittee.
HIS SCHEME FAILED
Citizens of This County Prevent Senator From RaiIroading
 Measure ] trough.

! Realizing that when if became l known among he members of the i Arkansas Senate that he was trying 10 Railroad" an unjust measure i through tha, body witlout giving >h2 i people of Jefferson county an o3por- tunity 10 be hsall, he would hay, q hard road to trayel,' State Senator 1 Thomas c. White, of fif,y-one per cent fame, yesterday made repea ed and desperate efforts to call up his Free Bridge repeal measure" but he met with poor success each time. WiAen the Senate adjourned yesterday afternoon Senator White and his litt'e coterie of anxious opponents to the Free Bridge project went to their hotels dcwncast and wiser. It was MT. Whites plan. after presenting the bill that would, if i passed, sop all wolk that is in pro- gress on the Free Bridge at this place and result in a heavy expendi- tnra on the part of our people with cult any returns whatever, to have it read twice, placed On the calendar and call it up Thursday morning, quietly railroad" it through as a local bill and send ii to the House for approval.
 Put Senator Waite ~did not reckon with his host. He failed to carry out his well laid plan. And tn S is the reason why. When Senator White refused to meet 400 representative citizens of this county and make known that he would not consent to the measure being sent to com mit:ee that advocates Of the FreH Bridge might be given fair and i'm part al hearing, big delegation Cf Jefferson county citizens hurried to the capital yesterday morning on the same train wi. h Senator Waite aud got busy.
 The result was that within few hours every state senator had been given some information that prompt ed them to call 'cal. on MT. Whites tact cs. The senators declared in al- most every instance that if they fav- ored no',hng else they certainly would not be discourtcous 70 ;he:r own people or the residents of any other county and deny them the Amer can privileges of being heard-fairly and souarely They ale prepared to check any move on the A)art of Sena- tor White Ito prevent he bill be ns sent to a committee.
 Several times during the morning session of the Senate while bills were being introduced, Senator White call ed for recognition, 'h intention being to call up his "pet 51 per cent meas ure" ard urged it's passage, but each time anotaer senator would head hInl off bv securing recognition and ne would sit down only to arise again with the same resul.. The senators, who had been informed of his scheme, wanted all of the members of that body to hear something of the other S de and they prevented by parliament I4arv tactics t,1e move of Senator White to take "snap judgment" on his people at home.
 Finally the Senate adjourned for the day and Senator White realized that he had been defeated in scheme that would have been cIharaterlzed by unfilness.
 Senator White is said to have told Representatives Miller and W lson' of Jefferson, that the repeal act woul1 be fought out in the senate. Rut he changed his tactics suddenly and tried to unload the bill on the House members from Jefferson, with . view to having it left there to be dealt with as the representatives saw fit. He sad he wanted to get the thing off his hands. ,.. During the morning session while sneakine on local measure that was under consideration from Miller coun- tv Senator A.. c. Martin, brainy anu fair voung man from Conway county, declared that the people of every county should be gwen the right to