The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-05
SUFFRAGE WINS IN
 HOUSE TEST VOTE
PONE LOST BY A VOTE OF 67 TO 25.
IT WILL NOT BE SUBMITTED
Federation of Labor Filed Amend ment to Change [. 6 R. Laws Be
 fore Suffrage Was Acted Upon
Little Rock

Little Rock
 The equsl suffrage amendment will
 not be submitted at the next general election, although the resolution pro-
 yiding for iys submission was passed by the sena'e, and had won a victory in the house, with the chances good
 for it's. passage. A motion to indefi- nitely postpone after it had been read
 he second time was defeated by a
 vote of 67 t0 25 It was then referred 70 the committee on constitutional
 amendments which reported that it do pass. Y would have come up on
 Friday morning for third reading and final passage but on Wednesday the Federation of Labor filed with the 'ecretary of state an initiated amend
 nent for curns defects in the present
 Initiative trd Referendum amend
 ment. by taking the limit off the
 number Of amendments that may be submi/ed s' any one election. The filing of this amendment had
 .he effect of killing further considera-
 ion of the suffrage amendment pass ad by the senate. the Carruth gradu.
 ated land taN amendment passed by
 he house. and any other pending amendments The three submitted Hill be:
 By the Department of Education
 To incr/ rom 10 12 mills the minimum school tax.
 By the L.. slatnre To permit road districts to issue tfirty-year bonds
 By the Federation of Labor-To amendment
 To vote on the notion to indefinite
 V postpone the suffrage amendment indicative ot the sentiment in the house. was as follows:
 Ayes: Brockman Buchanan. Con. dray Copeland of Izard, Creekmore. Dipboye, Dunlap, Gray Helms, Hol-
 lensworth, Hooker Jeter Joiner Jo- sephs Jones of Washington, Lefler.
 Love, Nixon, Pierce. Stafford. Street. Thomasson, Wallace, Wilson. 25. Nays: Alexander. Angelo, Arm ! strong. Beeson Be'ate. Bonnet of Ar kansas. Rennett of Poinsett. Bishop. Bland. Brawner, Burrow, Carruth Ca zort, Collier, Cope and of Howard. Cresswell, Crump, Davis. Dowdy.
 Dunn, Ellis, Findley, Gentry, Griffin, Halbert. Hatley. Hawkins. Holland. Hudspeth, Hudson. Humphreys, Johns. Jones of Pulaski King, Lewis, Little
 Willard, Miller. Moses, Mosbey, Me. | Gill, Newberry, NiCks. Perkins. Plem- mons, Pollard. Pope, Reigler, Robert son, Rogers of Desha. Rogers of Lo- gan. RoreN. Ruble. Shaver. Shoffner. Steed, Swepston, T"ylor. Teague. Ted | ford. Waggoner, Walls, Williams of Benton. Williams of Cross, Woods.
 Yerger, Young, Mir. Speaker
 Not voting: Bell Fair. Posey. Reid, ShOuse. Smith and Sulcer
 The Senate Judiciary Committee ! killed the Hollensworth House Bill, which permits the state law on num- I Der of hours to be worked a day 10 , exempt Ouachita county.
 Two former speakers were guests of the house last week Hon. Jo Hard age of Philadelphia, 1913, and Hon
 A. F. Vandeventer of BartlesviHe, l Okla, 1899.
 | An effort was made in the house to , kill the bill by Sena or Smith of Union 1 county. providing for the pay of ser vices of convicts in the state peniten. l tiary, the principle of the bill being
 that the state should charge the con.
 vict only for his board and clothes
 and pay the remainder of his earn, fngs to his family. MT. Belote oppos.
 ed the bill, as measure that Twill
 make Arkansas refuge of the scua l of the criminal world, by insuring all law-breakers a pension for their fami- lies" He moved the indefinite post ponement of the bill, but this was op- posed by many members who thought 1 the action would be discourteous to the Senate and that the bill should be further considered on it's merits. The
 motion to indefinitely postpone was finally withdrawn and the bill allowed to go to the Penitentiary Committee. During the discussion of the sui frage resolution in the house, pr. Bishop asked MT. Gray if he ever ex- pected to want to marry again, and he retorted. "It do, it will not be one of these suffragettes