Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-09
COFFMAN ONLY
 APPOINTEE WHO
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Wasson, White, Lundy-1S.
 On the motion of Senator Going fur
 ther consideration of the bill was forestalled by a motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill passed and
 to lay that motion on the tables. This carried on roll call, IF to 16.
 Cut Reform School Appropriation. The Jeter bill providing for the re- moval of the boys from the reform school, the purchase of a site where farming can be indulged in, and the turning of the present buildings over for a girls school, suffered reduc- tion of $25,OOO. an item which was cared for in another appropriation. There was practically no argument | on the Josephs blue sky bill, it being defeated II to IF. The appropriation for the maintenance of the Arkansas Hospital for the Treatment of Nerv- our Diseases was then passed, and Senator Going introduced bill which he stated was asked for by the at torney general and governor. It call ed attention to the 10 per cent in- | crease in interstate rates asked for l by the railroads and that it would cost the state $S00000 per annum if the petition was granted. The bill
 asked that the attorney general be al l lowed to spend $5 ,00O for rate experts | and expenses, and $2,50O for special | attorneys. The motion to indefinitely postpone was forthcoming immediate 1 ly after the bill had been read sec | end time, and on roll call it carried
 to 10.
 Rock Crusher Will Not Crush. 1 Special session clouds, which were gathering fast, were dispelled in
 the Arkansas senate Monday morning 1 by parliamentary tactics which cut
 of all amendments on several appro-
 priation bills, thus permitting their
 passage. The four state agricultural colleges appropriation was reduced to
 a lump sumSof $S5,O0o for each school,
 and the $157.0O0 appropriation for a l state rock crusher was indefinitely
 postponed.
 The first appropriation bill taken
 up was that for the maintenance of
 the state capitol for the biennial per
 iod This had been amended ia the
 committee of the whole last week so
 that the salary of one engineer was
 eliminated and the superintendent re-
 qliled to be an engineer. By moving
 the Tprevious question" on this bill
 all amendments were shut off. SO
 those adopted by the committee of the whole were eliminated and the bill passed over to the house.
 Wien the appropriation for def-
 ciency salaries of special circuit and
 chancery judges was reached, the ] name of an additional judge who had
 been" overlooked was added. This let
 down the bars and Senator Great house offered an amendment to add
 an appropriation of $2l,ooo for de- ficiency at the agricultural college of the university of Arkansas. He eX
 plained that the deficiency was creat-
 ed after an appropriation for the same purpose had been vetoed by Gov. G. w. Donaghey, but later Gov crnor Donaghey and his board of trus- tees of the university incurred the debt Opposition was made because the amendment was not itemi2ed, and because the deficiency had not been presented to the budget committed The amendment was voted down.
 The deficiency for the maintenance Ol the State ldpOf uepdtlHlSul LOT tile past two years was taken care of by an amendment, after which an effort was made to have added another amendment to appropriate $65,530 for the payment of deficiency at the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases. It was explained that this was due merchants for supplies furnished in accordance with contracts let to them by the state board of charities. The senate demanded an itemiZed state- ment, and it was furnished. President Lundy took the floor against the bill and stated that the only way to make the state institutions stay within their appropriations was to refuse to pay some of the deficiencies. which would force the merchants to refuse to sell them. He stated that under present conditions the institutions do not make an effort to obey the law with reference to deficiencies. The amend ment was then rejected. Senator Garrett offered another amendment seeking to have the Arka- ]