Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-23
Senate Passes Bill Giving
Juries Right to Save Lives
of Capital Offenders.
WHITE WANTS $4,000
FOR u. S. S. ARK ANSAS
Judge Kirby VIII Receive $4,000 In
stead cf xi.,5OO for Legal Services
in Rate Ltigation-M Married W0-
men Given New Rights.

Little Rock, Feb. 22.-The Duty
bill appropriating $4,000 to pay
Judge VIM. r. Kirbey for legal SER
vices rendered in the state rate liti-
cation, was reduced by the senate to
$1,000, when considered in Com
mittee of the whole" afternoon. All
appropriation measures must be sc
considered, and after this procedure,
the recommendation that the bill
pass as amended was made.
The senate also passed the Dave1,-
port bill permitting juries to assess
life imprisonment in cases which are
new punishable by death, and the
bill was ordered Immediately trans
mittel to the house in order that il
might be acted on without delay
This measure is now being pushed
fer it is a loophole by which several
criminals now awaiting electrocutloi
in the state penitentiary may secure
Communication to life Imprisonment.
The journal was corrected to show
the counties that had been exempted
from the Bush bill, extending the
power of city councils in regulating
public utilities, which was defeated
by the senate this forenoon. sena
tor Bush discovered exemptions III
had not made, and suspected the bill
had been tempered with. An investl
cation showed tho exemptions wer'
due to misunderstanding.
The senate also passed the ca Wer
bill applying the seven-year adj ers'
possession of property statute z
married women; the Ashley BIZ
changing the act regulating tn
county repositories; the Cabaniss bill
creating the Little River drainage
district: and the Slaughter bill
permitting a Forrest City school t.
mortgage property; and, private pen
sions bills bv Senators Harris ant
Posey of the house
The Adamson bill regulating tn
concerns which guaranty titles, wa
defeated, 4 to %.
Just before adjournment, Senate
Wagner put in a bill to abolish all o
the state highway commission excep
the highway engineer. dlstributin
the work of the commission aroun'
among other state officials. the sec
rotary of state getting the hon
share. Objection was made to a sec
ond reading of the bill, and the sen
ate voted ~ to 16 against suspsn
sion of the rules for the purpose Of /
second reading.
Senator Vahn introduced bill
amending the acts concerning tn
publication of notices for drainag
districts.
The senate, on motion of Senate
Toler. consented to reconsider tn
vote by which the Cabaniss bill, per
hitting the Memphis, Dallas & Gul
railroad to charge three-cent pas
senger fare, failed to pass last week
The bill was then amended so as t
give the Arkansas Railroad commits
sion the power to make investigation
and if found necessary. to grant tn
relief. The bill was made speclal or
der for Tuesday morning.
Senator White introduced bill ap
prcpriating $4,000 to purchase a sill
YER service for the battleship ArKan
sas. Objection was made to a sec
ond reading of the bill, and Senate
White moved a suspension OF tn
rules for this purpose, when motlol
, was lost IL to 49,
The Mccall bill increasing the sal
airy of the supreme court librarian
was passed, and Senator Moore in
troduced bill ratifying payment
made by the Helena improvement
district, for emergency levee an
drainage work.
The senate adopted a resolution OF
fered by Senators Jones and Adam
son of Pulaski, to adjourn at
o'clock in respect to the memory {
Judge William NJ Kavanaugh.
Defeat Text Book Bill.
The house defeated nv an over
whelming majority a bill introduce
early in the session by Representatlv
Bishop, providing for state print
ing board to publish school tex
books. It provided for commiss,o
to print books to be distribute
among the schools of the state at tn
actual cost of the publication. Oppc
sition was based upon the statemel
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