The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS WITH FlLlBUSTER AND VETO AS
 FEATURES.
WON'T RESUBMiT ACT NO. 3
Reeson of Conway Consumed All of the Time to Defeat the Ed
 mondson Bill.

| tive session in many years. Singular ly enough the House this time is rec ogn1zed as the conservative body, whereas that distinction usually be- longs to the Senate.
 During the session 75i bills were introduced. Of this number, PIP were Senate bills and 4S2 were house meas ures. The total number of bills passed by both houses was $40. Of these 12G were introduced in the Senate and 214 in the house. A total of 13S bills had been approved by the governor when the Legislature adjourned. The num- Der of bills passed that will become laws will be 338 unless some are we. toed. Two of the bills which passed both houses, the racing bill and the St. Francis levee election bill, ve- toed, and another, the state capitol ap- propriation, which passed both houses but failed to become a law because the house refused to accept the report of the Conference Committee to rec ommend the receding from certain amendments in which the Senate re- fused to concur, chief among which was the abolition of the present Capi- tol Commission.
 Of the bills approved, 55 are Sen ate and 83 house measures There are yet 206 bills passed to be approved or vetoed by the governor
 Representative Beeson of Conway county, president of the Arkansas Press Association. was the hero of the dramatic incident which closed the business session of the House It had been agreed that the House would at II o'clock conclude the consideration of bills, and begin the closing exer- ciseS.
 At 1G:40 o'clock Representative Creswell of Stone called up Senate Bill No. 139, by Edmonson, to resub- init to the people the Publicity Act No. g. It was general bill, but there ap- peared to be a nGmber of the nie1rft-> i bers that were in favor of the pass aga of the bill, and who were clamor- ing for roll call. MT. Beeson secured lllO HUI ciid iIClQ IL dSd11SI dll Pl- forts to dislodge him, until the Speaker rapped the gavel at II o'clock and de- clared that the business session was closed. And the bill "died" on the calendar"
 The closing exercises in the Senate and House were extremely interesting and at the same time impressive Just before adjournment both houses sang God Be With You Till We Meet Again, after various farewell speeches by retiring members, and ad- dresses oI presentation of gifts to of ticials, employees and members. Per haps the most affecting scene was in the Senate, when J. Monroe Smith of Union county delivered his farewell address, which on account of his fec ble condition, was read by Senator Greenhouse. Senator Smith is an old Confederate Veteran, and was pre- sented with a gold-headed cane by ad. miring friends in the Senate. The feature of the closing was the appar- ent good will which prevailed among
 
 stormy debates of the session, in which personalities were freely in- dulged in.
 Gov. Hays, within a few hours af- ter the adjournment of the Legisla- ture, vetoed the bill providing for the election of the Board of Directors of the St Francis Levee District, and the reduction from "A to 16. He said:
 "1 am in favor of the election by the people of directors of the St. Francis Levee Board, and I hoped the present bill would be one that could be ap- proved by me, but after strenuous ob- | tections to 1t were made, I called upon one Of the bond attorneys in the city Of Little Rock, and also the attorney general, and their opinions, which CO., 1ncided exactly, caused me to veto the measure.
 "They said if the present bill be- came a law the bonds of the St Fran cis Levee District, amounting to $465,- coo, authorized by this legislature, could not be sold, for the reason that no one would have authority to issue or sign the bonds."
 The bill was supported in the house by eight of the nine members from the district and in the Senate by Senators Yam and Slaughter Senator Going |
 Among the general bills which pass ed the Senate and were defeated or left on the calendar in the house were the primary election bill, the bill to abolish county boards of health to extend the time for paying 1914 taxes; the Greenhouse bill to establish a state printing board; the bill regulating changes of venue in felony cases; the bill to prohibit the delivering of al
 coholic liquors to minors; to require railroad engines to be so constructed that the engineer and fireman may