Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-07
BECAME LAW AT Ills
 ON SATURDAY. CAPITAL SALOON
 MEN 0UT.W|T PROS. Filibuster Against Bill Gives County Judge Opportun-
 ity to Grant License. GOVERNOR DEAF TO SALOONISTS' PLEA
Judge Jones' Request on Behalf of Pine Blufiians to Delay Signing Measure Brings Outbreak from
 Hays, Who Resents Criticism.

Little Rock, Feb. 6.-After hearing a delegation from Pine Bluff, who pleaded for delay in the signing of the Newberry statutory prohibition bilr Gov. c. w. Hays, at 11:13 Saturday morning began affixing his signature to the document, and two minutes later it was a law in Arkan- sas.
 1 The bill passed the house, after the senate amendment had been concur /, red in to make the bill effective Jan 1, 1916 instead of June l, 1915, at 1O:16 Ben l.. Griffin of Pulaski fill bustered through tile morning hour in an effort to have the bill go over for another day, but when the time for regular business arrived the house suspended the rules and pass ed the bill. Representative Griffin had been asked to cease the debate , in order that the bill might be passed, but he refused, and he was informed that if he did not, the pro- hibition element Of the house would pass ten mile act for Little Rock, making it dry immediately after the passage of the bill. He declined to listen and for almost an hour spoke against the passage of the bill.
 Engross Bill Before Passage.
 A special expressing clerk having been appointed Friday to engross the bill and write in the senate amend ment, the expressing committee of the house killed two birds with one stone, and had the bill enrolled at the same time, so that on Saturday morning, all that would be necessary after the passage of the bill was the signatures of Speaker l.. E. Sawyer of the house, President Elmer J. Lundy of the senate. and Gov. c. w. Hays. Consequently afte~ the bill had been passed it was rushed to Speaker Sawyer, who lost little time in signing it, and Representatives Newberry and Carroll Armstrong I then carried it to the senate cham Der. President Lundy went witt. Mr.. Newberry, the author oe the bill, to a crowd of ministers and others interested in the bill were waiting.
 Governor Hays was at this time in his reception room consulting with Attorney General Moose and Mrs Mluult u. fuIucIlOIu, pIcblucuI VI the w. c. T. U.. in Arkansas, aud several minutes were lost, before he retired to his private office to con- sider the bill. f Governor Hears Jones.
 I With the bill upon his desk. Cover nor Hays stated that there were some liquor men of Pine Bluff who desired to be heard on the subject be- fore he placed his signature on the document. Judge w. D. Jones, at- torney representing the Pine Bluff liquor men, declared that if the bill was signed it would work a great hardship on the saloon men of Pine Bluff. who had several hundred thousand dollars invested in this business, paid $32,000 in. rents anDu- ] ally in Pine Bluff. employed 110 men and who were now trying to get pe- tition for license acted upon. He stated that the petition has been , published twice, and pleaded for sew eral days time in which to have It acted upon, in order that Pine Bluff would not be the only town in the state shut out by the act. K
 Rev sam Campbell interrupted to
 state that it was better that dollars
 and dimes were lost than souls, and that open saloons in Pine Bluff
 would mean the loss of quite num-
 ber before the end of the year. Judge Jones continued to speak on , the charities of the saloon men, and A 1 declared that the blind tiger con-