Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-24
|;{Il10RS BEGIN
III0RK|NG overtime
urae to Hold Night Ses
s;o,,s on Tuesday and Fri
'y laws for Local Work.
FACING BILL PENDs

Until sawyer Measure Is Acted Upon
p.il-Law.makers Guests at Dinner
- Branch Normal Students.
,;tle Rock, Feb. 23.-The senate
...;aht PASSED the Wilson road i'm
..0vement district bill, completing
- chain of districts for macadam
,,d from Little Rock through Pine
duff 1uuf to Star City, a distance OF 70
niles. =
Little Rock, Feb. 23.-The greater
,ortion of the afternoon session Of
~ r. senate was consumed, like the
m VIZ session, in clearing a path
: ~ the Sawyer Hot Springs fair COM
~ss;on bill, in order that it may be
Shrmeht from the calendar, where it
,asts ready for third reading wnen
vav can be discovered to suspend
H. r,nies and reach it, Or it can be
sronaht ur on. regular order. The
sdvocates of the bill eased a little
closer to their goal, taking several
stps from their left over cherry in
order to accomplish their aims.
The first move toward this end
.,me after Senators Toler and Bush
sod consumed an hour in fulfilling
the fillbuster started in the morning
n DELAY all special order bills until
in the afternoon, moved by the
friends of the Sawyer bill. Senator
coing gave notice that he would On
thursday move to amend the rules o
that no senator could speak twice on
any subject, only two members couit
aebate each side of a subject and
none Of the talks be over 10 minutes,
Unless the, senate unanimously
,ereed This was followed by a
rotce from Senator Collins that he
would on Thursday afternoon under
lake to amend the rules so that a ma
hrity of the senate would control,
doing away with the two thirds vote
required to suspend the rules.
| House bill I'll, by Mr.. Condrav,
then became the goat for the aSher
ants Of the Sawyer bill, motion
being offered by Senator Edmondson,
when it was read a third time, to de-
Her further action upon it until II
o'clock Tuesday night. Senator
Yoer moved to table this motion, los
Ing on "a tie vote 1915. Senator
Moore then amended the Edmondson
motion to postpone the bill until Fri
day morning at II o'clock and this
Twas adopted.
Temporarily abandoning the plan
Ito block legislation until the Sawyer
hill was brought up the senate passed
|he Buchanan bill providing STU
|aOgrapher for the Tenth judicial dis
|trict, the Collier bill giving Prairie
|Grove a portion of the road tax col
|kcted there; also the Jones of Pl-
|lsski bill appropriating a sum to
|mfe for the deficiency in judicial
salaries in the Thirty-rirst district;
land the Pope bill for the Little Run
|nng Water Drainage district in Ran
|dolph county House amendments to
1.-The Harris, Monroe county road dis,
|ulct bill were concurred in.
Further consideration on the Rob
|eFson bill to repeal the child TABOR
act, SO far as it concerned certain
portions of the state, was deferred on.
motion of Senator Calvert until Tues.
|day morning.
Then the senate went back to the
|od fight to keep the Sawyer bill
Gown. Senator Edmondson, after
PRESIDENT Lundy had announced that
special orders had been disposed of,
and that regular order was house
|ols on first and second reading. Be-
l0re this could be entered into, Sena-
'or Lundy declared that it would take
a suspension of the rules to adopt
|'le motion, and stated that he had
already advised the senate of the
condition it found itself in for it is
aOw difficult to get to house bills
IN thlrd reading. The Edmondson
motlon was voted down 10 to Is.
A resolution by Senator Ashley CALL
ing Tor night sessions on Tuesdays
anu Fridays to consider house bust
aess' was amended to read 1ocal
=. bills and for the introduction
" local senate bills. and for the
aa tlme in history, the senate be-
sa vi working at night.
ine senate then accepted an invi
"a .alon from the colored students of
|sae Branch normal of Pine Bluff to
ealcken dinner in the basement
and adjourned
Filibuster Collapses.
Lunches had been ordered and
||.ys,sparatlon for a long siege made in
|,Se senate this forenoon as part of
~. allpuster to prevent the Sawyer
s ha. springs fair commission bill from
losa considered. Hunger overthrow
81 ,I'c lor the bill on the part of sever
|tbo '0natofs, and after ten minutes OF
~, 4oon hour had been consumed.
s ~; repented of their action in voting
ro Sn'ust a noon adjournment. Another
Is - eau was taken and by a vote Of
Tho ~ ~, 70 The senate adjourned with
ses s opponents of the bill still in pos
0's S OF the floor.
e, slou after the morning hour had
oN..o uu senator Edmondson arose and