The Spectator., 1914-12-18
FOUR MEMBERS OF OLD BOARD REPLY AND DR. GREENE
 RESPONDS.
CLAIMS OF TWO BOARDS
New Board Elects J. B. Ferguson, Sec retary, and Secretary Hart De-
 clines to Surrender Books.
Little Rock


 the order of the day in the Charity Board controversy. The four mem bers of the old board answered Dr. Greene's charges Monday, and 2i hours later Dr. Greene answered them in an eight column article, dis cussing each feature in detail. He replies to all charges and presents letters showing his standing as an alienist in Nebraska and Illinois.
 That the Charity Board controver sy will soon be taken into the courts is certainty. There are two boards one just appointed by the governor and four members of the old board who deny his authority to remove them. They base their contentious upon the case of Bruce vs. Matlock fin 1908, when the Supreme Court held that the governor has no power to remove members of the Board of Charities "at will"
 Monday night, December IA, the four members of the old board, whom Governor Hays had removed, Messrs. Love, Dunaway, Shane and Parsons, made public their reply to the charges made by Dr. Greene on November 27, denying all charges of wrong-doing, defending all their actions, asserting that there were good reasons for not sooner answering the 'unwholesome vaporings of discontented and dis gruntled former official" and why the members of the board did not surrender their dignity as officials and enter into a newspaper contro- versy with disgruntled private cit izen and former Republican politician from Illinois, who had so recently abandoned the position held under the board without assigning causes" !"
 The old board, or the four remain ing members, Messrs. Love, Dunaway, Shane and Parsons, adjourned Mon- day evening until the regular date of meeting on the first Monday in Jan- uasy.
 Messrs. Parsons and Love remained to prepare the biennial report of the board for submission to the governor as required by law.
 At p. m. Tuesday. when Love and Parsons returned to the office with Secretary R. W. Hart, they found Messrs. T. D. Burress, Chas. D. James, Dougal McMillan, J. D. Doyle and C. P. Merriwether were present.
 Secretary Hart was requested by a member of the new board to call the meeting to order, but he replied that the board had adjourned, and that meeting. Asked if he would act as secretary, he replied that he did not recognize their authority to ask him to act in that capacity; the only ones whom he recognized as being mem bers of the board were Messrs. Love and Parsons. the old members, Messrs. McMillan and Evans. who had been appointed to succeed Messrs. Nc Corkle and Elsken, resigned, and Gen. Tom Greene of Pine Bluff, who had not been in any way concerned in the shake-up.
 JuuSe Jeptnd n. EVanS or Boone vile, one of the new members whose status is not in question, had notified the governor that he could not attend the meeting on account of the serious illness of his father
 Upon the refusal of MT. Hart to act as secretary, the five new members present. Messrs. Greene and Evans being absent, elected Col James as chairman, and Dr. Meriweather tenn porary secretary. Joe B. Ferguson of Magnolia was elected secretary of the board to succeed MT. R. w. Hart, and notified that he must make a bond for $10.000, which he said he would pro- ceed to do in a few days.
 The new board demanded the books and records, but the old board re- fused to surrender them, and refused to recognize the authority of MT. Fer guson as secretary. The board then adjourned until next Monday.
 Bruce Greeson Enters Race.