The Spectator., 1915-02-19
AMENDMENT ID
 PUBLICITY AGT LEGISLATURE REQUIRES COST OF THE PUBLICATIONS TO
 BE PUBLISHED.
OBJECTED TO ITS SPIRIT
sociation Said Papers Do Not Ob- feet to Publication.
Little Rock

IHe uOuSe pdSSeu tue Seudte Dill by Edmondson, providing that the cost of all publications under the pro visions of the publicity act shall be printed in large type at the head of such publications. The vote was as follows:
 For the bill-Aleander, Armstrong, Belote Brawner, Brockman, Buchan an, Burrow Carruth. Condray, Cope land of lzard, Copeland of Howard, Creekmore. Crump, Davis, Dipboye, Ellis. Findley, Gentry, Gray, Hawk. ins, Helms, Holland, Hollensworth, Hooker Hudspeth. Hudson, Jeter Johnson, Johns, Joiner, Jones of Pu 1aski Jones of Washington, King, Lefier, Lewis, Little, Love, Willard, Moses, Mosley, Nicks, Pierce, Plem- mons Pollard, Pope. Reid, Robertson, Shaver, Shoffner, Shouse, Smith, Stafford, Steed, Street, Sulcer, Swep ston, Taylor, Teague, Bedford. Thorn asson, Waggoner, Walls Williams of Benton Williams of Cross, Woods, Yerger, Young, MT. Speaker. Total, 68.
 Against the bill-Beeson. Bell. Ben nett of Arkansas, Bennett of Poin- sett, Cazort, Collier, Dowdy, Dunlap, Dunn, Fair, Griffin, Halbert Hatley, Josephs, Miller, McGnl, Newberry Perkins, Posey, Reigler, Rogers of Logan, Ruble, Rorex. Wallace, Vii. son. Total 26.
 The bill provides that the publica- ton of the item of cost shall be in type twice the size of the type in the body of the report. and shall stand at the head of the article. It was this requirement. that called down upon the bill the severest criticism, even by those who had voted against Act No. g. and which led them to charac- terize the bill as one prompted by spleen and animosity.
 Representative Beeson of Morrilton, president of the Arkansas Press As sociatios, said the newspapers could haze no reason to object to the re quired publication, but what they did object to was the spleen back of the llll. Tt is not the fact that the bill requires that the cost be published, but the evident fact that there is back of the measure an unusual degree of animosity, a spirit of flying a red flag in the lace of the members of the State Press Association, that we oh iect to- he said. What excuse can there be for a measure that is charS- 1 tlA nsyft hot aHa ~D.a atAv.f fysa- this bill? The State Press Associa- tion has always dealt fairly with the people of the state, and will continue to to so. So far as l know, the news papers are printing free of cost and of their own volition the cost of every item, and are doing it to show that the campaign waged against Act. No. 8 was based largely upon a misrep- resentation of the cost of publicity"
 A new idea in examining boards has made it's appearance in the Senate. There are boards, active and proposSi. to examine lawyers. doctors dentists, veterinarians, osteopa.hs, homeopaths. barbers, embalmers. eclectric physi- clans, pharmacists, abstracters, chiro- podists, optometrists, drugless healers, and what not, and now comes Sena. tor White with bill for the appoint ;nent of a board of five for the exam nation and licensing of architects.
 After a biennially recurring con troversy, the first breach has been made in the mine-run act which pro- yided that coal mines shall be paid for coal as it comes from the mine, before it passes over screen Governor Hays has approved the Cazort bill which repeals the act in so far as 1t applies to Johnson county and several townships in Logan. Strong delega- tions appeared before the governor for and against the bill.
 The Budget Committee voted unani- mously to recommend the appropria- tion of $47.260 fer agricultural exten- sion under the Smith-Lever act. Should the legislature pass the appro- priation the state would receive from the national treasury an equal amount and in addition s10,00O per year for the two-year period. The state would receive this $10.OOO even if no appro- priation is made by the legislature ia The Senate virtually killed the Lei. Ter Sunday fishing bill on Tuesday ar- ternoon by sending it to the Senate i" Committee on Labor of which Sena- tor Calvert of Fort Smith, an ardent sportsman is chairman. This commit tee will bring in an unfavorable report on the bill. if it is reported back in time for further consideration.
 Senator Ruff is the author of a bill fixing the salary of the assistant at