The Green Forest tribune., 1913-01-31
MANY LOCAL, FEW
 GENERAL BILLS
LEGISLATURE BUSHES THROUGH SOME LOCAL LEGlS-
 LAYTON.
SEVERAL MEASURES PENDING
way Department May Be Established.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Little Rock-In the first two weeks the thirty-ninth general assembly was in session in the house 132 bills were introduced, while the senate has considered 91. Besides these there have been numerous resolutions, con- current resolutions and joint resolu- tions. Of 10 bills which have passed both houses, eight have been local bills. The general bills were Senate bill No. 1, by Senator Friedell to ap- propriate $70,000 with which to con duct the general assembly, and senate Bill Mo- 35, by Senator Ferguson, pro viding that improvement districts may advertise in any newspaper in the | county, if none is published in the town of the improvement.
 And the local bills. House bill No. IT provides Crawford county with a wire | fence law. Senate bill No. 24, by Sen ator Toler, is to guarantee two trains each day past Sheridan. Two of them have to do with drainage or levee dis tricts, one repeals the law protecting fish in Sharp county and others have to do with the holding of court in va rious counties.
 / Bills which, if they pass, will have an important bearing on the states fu- ture have been introduced. Senator | n of n6 hill providing for the creation of State | Highway Department Senator Lun- | dy introduced a measure providing a complete system for working county convicts Senator Ashley introduced a l bill to increase Confederate pensions to the maximum of $100 a year. A bill by Senator Friedell would change the apportionment of state taxes. Senator Jacobson presented measure proyld- ing for the introduction of the kinder garten system in the public schools. | Senator Rodgers of Howard introduced measure for the purchase of two blocks of property in front of the capi- tol. Senators Raney and Oyerman would make the penitentiary board consist of the attorney general com missioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture and one elector and would do away with the convict lease system.
 George Trevathan, former secretary of the Arkansas senate, was relieved pf all suspicion regarding the disap- | of h0ord of hno1tk hill at the end of the last session, when Chester w. Taylor, former deputy sec cretarv of state, presented a state ment showing he had borrowed the bill from a clerk to make copy and forgot to return it before the end of the session.
 This bill was passed through both houses and just at the close. Of the session it disappeared so it was never signed by the governor. Being the custodian of all bills, George Treva- than. secretary, was blamed for the vanishing of the bill. He denied the assertion stoutly and for the two years following the medical fraternity sought for the bill.
 In his explanation, Mir. Taylor states the failure to return the bill was a mere oversight, and when he discov- cred he still had the measure, the session of the legislature was over and knowing the bill was useless then, he said nothing about the matter. He took all the blame upon himself, say Ing he was negligent. G. Walter Hen dricks, secretary to Gov. J. T. Robin son, and Ed Stanley, deputy secretary of state, also presented written state nents, saying they had been taken into the confidence of MT. Taylor, when he discovered the lost bill still | in his possession, and were aware that no ulterior motive was attached to the taking of the bill by MT. Taylor. Chester w. Taylor is one of the most popular young politicians in Ark ansas, and so high is he held in the esteem of everyone that no member of the medical fraternity, of the Arkan- sas senate, or attache of the state gov srnment hesitated for minute to ac- eept his statement. The senate took an evident pleasure in the way the riddle had been solved, and resolu- tion which expressed high regard for the integrity of MT Taylor, and ab- solving him from censure, was passed. Another resolution showed the com- plete exoneration of former Secretary Trevathan.
 The original bill was returned to the senate by Senator Harris, to whom it had been handed for that purpose, and the incident was closed.
 Local bills granting additional ap- propriation for clerical hire in the offices of the county and circuit clerks