The Springdale news., 1914-02-06

called newspaper and stationery fund furnishes an estimate of his motives and standards Fl said that the alary of a congressman or senator consisted Of his salary his mileage and an independent allowance Of Sl25 q year denominated as sta tonery and newspaper fund The latter is as much part Of the sal ars as the other two items. The money received is blended with the others and constitutes the fund up- oa which the senator draws ta da fray his expenses. No account is kept of how jt is spent, or where f soes, but it is | fact within the knowledge of every repr sentative and senator that 1t is regarded as general utility fund and is spent many times over in Che proper dis= charge of the duties Of senator
 For instance, during the past three months he said that he had eXpend cd $500 for sending out garden seed and that he had sPeAt four times that amount in= having printed q speech recently deliF#f red b5 him in support of his effort to suppress gambling iH cotton futures. There are q variety Of expenses 10 which q senator is put for which no spe= cific fund k provided He must supply tn m out of the allowance made 10 him, including this $125. He said that the use that was made Of this item Was t0 create the impress lon that he had be- Il guilty of some thing dishonest when he received from the Senate paymasfer al part ef this fund in money.
 He maintained that he had IS much right to receive all of II fn money as he had to receive his sal afy or his miteage, because that MS the plain letter oI the law that govern q the sabje L He thought he might look little into Candidate kirbY7s career III handling money With the view Of determining Uheth= IT he=held to as scrapuloas stand ard as he was prescribing for him
 He said he desirs to call attention to the case of Winter ys. Kirby. re ported in 6Hth Ark, page Ill. Hh r full and detailed measure of the mot ives and morals of Candidate Kirby could be obtained in the language of a chief justice He said that the curious would there find recorded the fact that the ed dar Kirby Nas owner of q saw mill destroy q by fire i'll September, lN93. that the firm of which he was q member Was largely ill debt that after tke=fire the members Of the firm were called into the office of q bank under de mandZt8 make some proFislGH-Iaf the payment of outstanding debtsi that after q discussion which reached
 into the night II MAS determined that the firm should makf d gener al assignment of all its property for the benefit Of it's CT ditors that sub sequentIy the ns mbefs ot tUe firm went to th@ office of this highly IT. sItiye mOrallst, Who Vas tAe sou ot Of tle principal me mber ot tIa=tirm and he sasgt tsted that aH insurance policy for S2.900, the only really cash asset m tHe business, should b. Withdrawn and assigned to some person WHo WouId collect the amount and turn it=oVer to the saw mil owners, they in turn 10 participate in it upon the bass Of new debt thus created in tIo administration of the assets This all was done uP- on the advice Of Candidate Kirby as d lawyer Mir Winter became duo ious and caused an attachment to is aue upon sey erai grounds, one of which was that the firm had made disposition of it's property with fraudulent intent to cheat. hind and delay it's creditors The circuit court failed to sustain the attach ment, attempting to draw distinct ion betWcen legal and neral fraud Nint4r appealed the case to the supreme court and that court re " what Was done Was fraud in law. might have thought they were do- ing right, they Atre in fact doina Uroue In other words Candidate kirhy stands pi.lared by q decision of the supreme court as q man who doas not know right from wrong un= til he has met q real distinction by decision of the supreme court
 Kirby and the People.
 He next rel rr6 q 10 the fact that candidate Kirby never kept a con tract with the people or anybody else in a.a whole lie lie said that in 1903 the House ot Representative Of the Arkansas Legislature passed an act providing for tho revision Of the la#s Of the state. which was in troduced by Judge Harry Cook of Ghieot County, and named therein as the digeSter Dwight Crawford. a mos competent lawyer and skill ed digester When the bill got oy- CT to the Senat a small coterie of the assiciates of candidate Kirby caused an amendment to be offered, striking out Crawford name and in serting that of Kirby s which was adopted after much log rolling and trading by vote of I3 to 12; that he entered upon the work for the compensation named in the act, and was glad to get it, because he never maintained a selfsustaining career as lawyer; that he received the $2.000 provided by law for the ser vice, that he was not content with this, and appeared at the next sess- ion of the Legislature with the tears Of supplication in his eyes, and the tremor of want in his face. imploring the members of the Legislature to give him an additional s3,000 for the service The Legislature allowed H.