The Pulaskian., 1915-11-26
HOUSE MEMBERS REFUSE TO SIGN ETHER SENATE OR
 YOUNG COMMUNICATION.
THE OLD BOARD CENSuRED
Claims Controversy Resulted in pr. Greene's Resignation as Superin- tendent of the State Hopsitai
 For Nervous Diseases.
Little Rock


 committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the old charities board was filed with Gov. Hays by repre- sentatives Joe Joiner and Lee Casort. The report censures both Dr. J. L. Greene and the board for the contro- versy that resulted in Dr. Greene's resignation as superintendent of the state hospital for nervous diseases nearly year ago. The report of Senators John l.. Carter and J. o. A. Bush praised Dr. Greene, but did not censure the board. Representative w. o. Young's report, filed last week. praised Dr. Greene and censured the old board
 Relative to construction of the cen eral power and heating plant at the hospital, out of which a dispute be- tween the board members and Dr. Greene arose, the report says:
 "The controversy that grew out of construction of this plant was de- plorable affair and one that cast a stigma on the entire state. From the evidence it appears that feeling of
 
 Greene developed and to this un friendliness may be attributed the en- tire controversy.
 We find from the evidence that the plans originally contemplated by the Legislature were changed and enlarg ed by members of the board, Dr. Greene concurring in the changes; nc4o them. The committee does not censure these changes and only mentions them to show that they were responsible to some extent for the boards action in expending more money than was ap- propriated for that purpose.
 J. o. Osborne, convicted of boot logging in the Mississippi Circuit Court, lost his appeal. Osborne, partner of Andy Crum, who was lynched in the Osceola jail following the killing of Sheriff Sal Mauldin of Mississippi county, in fight with boot leggers on Island 37, lying in the Mis- sissippi River between Arkansas and Tennessee was convicted of operating a blind tiger with Crum and fined $500 and sentenced to 30 days in jail The Supreme Court affirmed the deci- sion Osborne has 26 similar convic- tions against him, making the total penalty fine of $13,5O0 and imprison- ment in jail for two years and 80 days. An appeal was taken in only one of the cases.
 An increase in the professional and the third-grade teachers licenses is shown in figures compiled in the State Department of Public Instruc- tion. The number of professl lonal and state licenses increased from 437 ln 1913 to 489 in 1914 and SIP in 1915 The number of first-grade licenses in the three years was 5,O7O 5,1SS and $500 respectively. The number of second-grade licenses in the three years was 3,736, 3,637 and 3,495, re- spectively. The total number of li- censes in 1915 was 10,662.
 Harry w. Stewart, secretary to Governor Hays, announced that his resignation, reported two weeks ago, will be effective December 1. He will be succeeded by Grady Hays, son of the governor, who has been acting as sistant secretary since the resignation last June of Dinner c. Burnside to become executive clerk at the Ar kansas building at the Panama-Pa- cific exposition. Grady Hays will be succeeded by Vivian Church of Cam den, the governors nephew. Drum and fife corps are to be add ed to each of the 23 companies in the Arkansas National Guard, it was an nounced from the office of the adju- tant general One drum, two flies and a bugle will be added to each com pany as soon as possible The ob- ject is to increase the drilling eff ciency of the companies.
 Efforts to obtain pardon for Mart Rogers of Mississippi county, serving six-year sentence for night-riding, were made by Major c. J. Little of Blytheville, commander of a battalion in the Arkansas National Guard.
 Governor Hays pardoned R. s. Capell, fined $25 and sentenced to 60 days in jail September 20 in the First Division, Little Rock Municipal Court, for petit larceny. The pardon was granted on condition that Capell return to his home in Memphis and never again return to Arkansas.
 Hugh R. Carter, state highway en- gineer. returned from Hamburg, where he inspected sites for two new steel bridges across Bayou Bartholomew at |