Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-03

Little relief can be anticipated rom the Arkansas banks, for they reel as though the last assembly should have considered the matter more seriously than it did. There is only one hope for relief now. and that is a special session that will provide for bond issue. Such bonds would be sold at par, or perhaps at a premium, and the saving on state supplies would more than pay for them in ten years.
 The S590,O0O vetoed by the gov ernor covers period of two years, and this will be practically offset by the increase in price of all commodi- ties sold the state, 50 there will be little decrease in the states debt at that time, in spite of declarations to the contrary.
 Much of the state scrip that is now out, is being turned over to collectors over the state, who will use it in mak- ing settlement with the treasurer, and in this manner holders of war rants will get almost face value, or perhaps par value for it, but it will materially decrease the cash fund in the treasury at the time when the state is usually flush.
 The worst hit by the veto mes sage on appropriation bills were the agricultural schools, but there was a feeling in the assembly to force those who subscribed to these schools to pay up their pledges.
 No act ever passed by the Arkan- sas legislature will be so unpopular for few years as the new game law, and it will require diplomatic hand ling by the commission to survive the next session. The commission realizes the feeling the people will display when the provisions of the act are enforced, for it certainly does destroy all freedom of the hunter and fisherman who have considered the entire state their hunting ground in the past.
 It has always been the same, but the commission will start on cam paign of education to demonstrate to the people that their actions are ab- solutely necessary to protect the game in order that future generations may know the pleasures of quail shooting and game fishing.
 The complaint so far has come from the market fishermen and out of state sportsmen who have long pillaged upon the state. These classes will give the commission little trouble, for they can be easily controlled, but it is the farmer and the small town hunter that will be hard to convince that he must leave something for his grandchildren.
 Fishermen who supply the market from the Arkansas river, a spawning place for those classic aquatic ani- mals, the buffalo, drum and grinnel fish, are raising quite an uproar ov7 CT the curtailment of their rights. The act. so far as they are concerned, may well be termed one for "the pro- lection of public peace and health' of the community.
 +s-4-- Mest#sealeulations on the coming gubernatorial contest have not seri- ously considered Stephen Brundidge, Jr., as a possibility, and in doing so have overlooked very live prospect While the Searcy citizen has had lit tie to say on the subject, and is doing remarkably we'll with his law prac- tiee, it is known that he is muck dis pleased over the defeat of the pri- mary election bill, and other actions of the recent assembly, which may influence him to champion them be- fore the people. With information he has been supplied with, Stephen Brundidge would be foe few could meet on the stump.
 Real baseball opens in Little Rock next Sunday when the New York Gi- ants meet the Travellers in an exhibi' tion g|ame. The proceeds of the game will go to the city entertain ment fund, which will be used to provide entertainment for conven- tions. On the following Tuesday the Travellers will meet the regular team of the Chicago White Sox.
 The Travellers will journey about among Arkansas towns during the next ten days, and be in prime condl- tion for the opening of the Southern league on Wednesday, April IA, when Memphis will be the opponent. Ar engagements are now being made to make this 8 gala event, in celebration of the return of the Litte Rock team to the league. It is planned to make if an Arkansas, instead of Little Rock or Pulaski county affair, and nun dreds are expected to motor in from Lonoke. Carlisle, Hazen, Stuttgart, England, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, Benton, Conway and other places within reach of Little Rock, while