Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-17
Senators Unable to Dispose
of Measure, Which Goes
to Aggie Committee.
CONVENT BILL IS
LIKELY TO PASS
Advocates OF Measure Succeed in Hay-
ing 1t Referred to Temperance Com.
mittee, which Will Report FayOra-
bly-Busy Day For Senators.

Little Rock. Feb. 11.-Three dis
turbing elements unsettled the com
posture OF The all-serene senate Tues
day afternoon, the Hot Springs state
fair commission bill escaping indefi-
mite postponement by vote of IA to
20, the Posey convent inspection bill
overcoming the objection and going
; to a second reading by vote of 20
to 10, but failing in an effort to- be
made special order, though winning
cut again over its opponents, who
sought to send it to the cities and
towns committee, going to the tenn
perance committee instead; and the
Yerger constitutional convention bill
which was rejected after the first
reading, by vote of % to 10.
Just to show how it can work when
it gets right down to business, the
senate took up every bill brought over
from the house and read them a first
and second time. Twenty-eight bills
were dealt with in this manner, after
which the senate passed three house
bills just to ill in the time.
The discussion Of the Sawyer fair
commission bill in the afternoon SEES
sion was brief. 1t was pretty thor
oughly threshed out in the forenoon
session, and there was nothing left
in the afternoon but the vote ON the
indefinite postponement. Senator Cab
aniss yielding part OF his time to
Senators, Toler and Bush. for the
closing under motion for previous
question" which limited the debate
to 30 minutes.
AS soon as the motion to Indefinite
ly postpone had been so decisively
defeated. the Moore of Phillips motion
was renewed, to be substituted with
motions for reference to other COM
mittees, but the opposition subsidized
and it was so referred, to be taken
up in public hearing Thursday night
Pesey Bill Strcng.
The fur then flew and bills were
read so rapidly that the journal clerk
took On dropped shoulders trying to
keep off the avalanche. A sudden
check came when the Posey bill was
read. Objection was made to a Sec
ond reading. This was defeated On
a two-thirds vote and the bill read a
second time.
Ayes-Ashley, Bush, Cabaniss, Car
ter, Davenport, Duty, Edmondson,
Ferguson, Garrett, Greathouse, Ham
ilton, Kendall Mccall, Overman,
Slaughter, Smith Of Columbia, Toler,
Vann, Wagner, White, Lundy-21.
Nays-Adamson, Burgess, Calvert,
Going. Harris, Jones, Moore, Smith of
Union-10.
The proponents of the bill then
made an effort to have the bill made
a special order for Friday, but they
failed, Is to IA, a two-thirds vote be-
ing necessary. The bill was then sent
to the temperance committee, winning
II to II over the cities and towns
committee. The temperance commit
:, tee is favorable to the bill, while the
members Of the other committee were
not.
Jefferson Read Bill Passes.
After the Yerger constitutional
amendment bill had been read, mo-
ton was made by Senator Edmond
son to Indefinitely postpone, but this
| was ruled out of order as the bill bad
been read but once. The bill was
! then read a second time and rejected.
on motion OF Senator Going, Senators
Adamson, Calvert, Carter, Edmond-
1 son, Ferguson. Harris, Ruff. Slaugh-
ter and Smith of Columbia voting
against the motion, and Senators Flu
trell and Jones being out of the room
at the time and not voting.
The bills passed by the senate
Tuesday afternoon were those Great
ing the Almyra special school district
| Arkansas county; road improvement
district No. Z, Jefferson county; an6
the Gray bill requiring corporations
to pay for sand, gravel and oils TAX
en- from lakes and navigable streams
of the state.
The senate virtually killed the LET
Ter Sunday fishing bill on Tuesday
Afternoon by sending it to the sen
ate committee on labor. of which
! Senator Calvert of Fort Smith, ar
ardent sportsman, is chairman. This
committee will bring in an unfavora'
BILE report on the bill, if it is report
ed back in time for further considera-
ton. The members of the committee
are not in favor of prohibiting thu
working men of the cities from enjoy
: ing the Sabbath in innocent pleasures
| Senate Works Rapidly.
| Fourteen bills were introduced and
read in the senate in one hour Tues
day morning, after which six bills