The log cabin Democrat., 1913-02-20
GOING. INDICTED
 QUITS THE SENATE
WOULD CLEAR HIS NAME
ST. FRANCIS LENEE BILL U
 MADE SPECIAL ORDER AND PASSED.

Little Rock, Feb. 13.-Overcome by the oratory spilled on the St. Francis Levee District bill, or affected by the heat, the senate went wild Wednes- day afternoon and remained in ses- sion until after 5;30, introducing and reading after 3:3O in the afternoon I27 bills of all varieties.
 @After Senator Going had announc- ed his intention of obtaining a leave of absence for several days, in order to remove the embarrassment of an indictment returned against him in Cross county, and the bill changing the system by which affairs of the St. Francis Levee District had been made a special order by his request, Senator McBee 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 1t 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 Co., ing with playing upon the sympathy of the senate to get the bill up for consideration, when there had been an agreement to hold it off for while
 The reply of Senator Going was a masterpiece of oratory. He said the people of the district did not want the additional bond 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 collec- 1 tors, attorneys, treasurer, or officials, and for which they have drawn heav- | fly in fees. He questioned the sin cerity of the directors, when they went to the ends they have to get their appointments and hold them, when they are allowed but S5 per day for two meeting days year. Sena- tor Going devoted considerable time to the methods of accounting, in which the items were not itemiZed, ut stated in expenditure sper month.
 Senator Going charged the board, after having by legislative act been forced to move the office in Arkansas, had moved it back from Marion to Memphis He declared the contracts made there were not legal or binding, but the state courts could not reach them if the board should make con- tracts by which it received a rebate 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- atty, honesty and integrity of Senator Going, and the belief he would soon remove the suspicion from himself. l The resolution asked Senator Going to reconsider his determination, and remain with the senate until the end of the term. Senator's Covington, Friedell, Woods and CarlLee spoke upon the resolution, Senator Carl l Lee stated he believed there was more or less politics connected with the in- dictment of Senator Going, for he knew something about the manipula- l tion in Eastern Arkansas, where he and Senator Going had been political enemies for years, belonging to oppos- ing factions. He stated he was not friend of Senator Going, either per sonal or political, but thought he would soon be acquitted of the charg- es against him. Senator Going is un- der indictment as an accessory before and after the fact in the shortage of Wood Hammett, former treasurer of Cross county. Senator Going states he acted merely as attorney for Ham melt, and has heard nothing from him, nor has he advised him since the shortage became known and Treasur- CT Hammett disappeared. After the resolution had been adopted by roll call, all senators voting for it, Sena- tor Going made a short address in eX- pression of his appreciation, but did not intimate he would change his de- termination to visit Wynne Thursday