Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-13
SYSTEM CHANGED 0N ST, FRANCIS LEVEE Senator Going Passes Bill Affecting Management of
 Big Levee Affairs. LOYALTY DISPLAYED senate is Flooded With Measures at
 the Afternoon Session
 Wednesday,.
LOYALTY DISPLAYED

Little Rock, Feb. 12.-OvercOme by the oratory spilled on the St. Francis levee district bill, or affected by the heat, the Senate went wild this after noon and remained in session until after 5:30, introducing and reading after 3 30 in the afternoon 27 bills of all varieties.
 After Senator Going had announced absence for several days, in order to remove the embarrassment of an in dictment returned against him in Cross county and the bill changing the system by which affairs of the St. Francis levee district had been made special order by his request. Senator Melee spoke against the bill, CarlLee for it, and in the afternoon Senator Going made the closing speech. after which the bill was pass ed. Senator McBee claimed it was the large land owners who wanted to get control of the Board, the large foreign corporations owning 60 per cent of the timber lands of Eastern Arkansas, and if they gained control it meant the planter must pay for the building of the levees He stated the government admits the levees of the St. Francis Valley to be the best and cheapest built along the Mississippi river. He also charged Senator Go ing with playing upon the sympthy of the Senate to get the bill up for con- sideration, when there had been all agreement to hold it off for awhile.
 The reply of Senator Going was a D,o Of orof CQld thA people of the district did not want the additional bond issue, and preferred the water upon their lands to having their money spent. as it had been in the past Senator Going stated the members of the Board who would be removed under the bill will be only those who have been serving as col l lectors, attorney, treasurer, or offl- cials and for which they have drawn heavily in fees. He questioned the sincerity of the directors, when they went to the ends they have to get their appointments and hold them, when they are allowed but $5 per day for two injecting days a year. Senator Going devoted considerable time to the methods of accounting. in which the items were not itemized, but stat ed in expenditures per month.
 Senator Going charged the Board, after having by legislative act been forced to move the office into Arkan- sas, had moved it back from Marion to Memphis. He declared the con- tracts made there were not legal or binding, but the state courts could not reach them if the Board should make ,contracts by which it received re- bate upon the yardage of dirt moved into the levees.
 At the close of the speech the vote was taken and the supporters of the bill won with 23 votes to 8.
 After the vote had been announced Senators Covington and Jacobson in troduced a resolution expressing the confidence the Senate has in the loy- alty, honesty and intergrity of Sena- tor Going, and the belief he would soon remove the suspicion from him. self. The resolution asked Senator Going to reconsider his determination and remain with the Senate until the end of the term. Senator's Coyingtor F'riedell. Woods and CarlLee spoke upon the resolution. Senator Carl Lee stated he believed there was more or less politics connected with the in dictment of Senator Going, for hf knew something about the manipula' tion in Eastern Arkansas, Wlere h< and Senator Going had been polltlca enemies for years, belonging to op posing factions. He stated he was not friend of Senator Going either personal or political, but thought ht would soon be acquitted of thS charges against him. Senator Going is under indictment as an accessory before the fact in the shortage o Wood Hammett, former treasurer O. Cross County. Senator Going states he acted merely as attorney for Ham melt. and has heard nothing iron him. nor has he advised him since th' shortage became known and Treas urer Hammett disappeared. After th' resolution had been adopted by rol lcall all Senators voting for it, Sena tor Going made short address in eX pression of his appreciation. but dlt not intimate he would change his de termination to visit Wynne Thursda, and demand immediate trial.
 The other St. Francis levee distric bill, also a House measure wal amended so that county deposltor. is created in each of the seven coun ties of the district. and the stock holding directors in the banks whicl are made depositaries. shall be liabl for any shortage before the ordinar, stockholder may become liable. X Floor of Bills
 Then began the flood of the bill coming in as follows:
 By Clerget, creating the Little Roc
 and Fort Smith Highway commission to build a macadam road from Litti
 Rock to Fort Smith, with one com
 missioner for each county throug
 which the road will run, to be ap
 pointed by the governor.
 Friedell, of Miller, appropriatln
 $5,O00 to purchase suitable silve
 service for the battleship Arkansas
 and naming Chief Justice E. A. Nc
 Culloch, Attorney General w. l F Moose. Charles s. Stifft, president C , the Little Rock Board of Trade; Mr' T. c. Trimble, of Lonoke. and thre others to be named by the governor