The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-29
BILL TO REPEAL
 PUBLICITY ACT IS
 KILLED IN SENATE
President Lundy for First Time Went on Floor Advocating Measure. Attacks Press COmmittee.-
 Bush Also Spoke.

debate which eclipsed anything yet displayed in the liquor fight, the Sen ate Thursday afternoon voted down the Edmondson bill to repeal the Pub licity Act II to 23 and then the mo- tion by which the bill was passed was reconsidered and laid on the table. eff fectlvely killing the measure, and preventing any of its parliamentary ghosts to return to disturb the Sena- torial body.
 For the first time of the session President Lunday went on the floor in advocacy of a measure, and for a half hour he unmercifully poured oratory into the legislative funnel. He as- sailed the Publicity Bill from almost all angles, starting with it's concep- tion, which he declared was within the chambers of the Arkansas Press As sociation, and conceived by a foreign corporation which supplied much of the sinews of war, at the same time wringing from the newspapers of the state untold sums in order to secure the passage of the bill. He took up members of the campaign committee | of the Press Association and paid his respect to them individually and col lectlvely. He read from letters writ ten to them by members of the com mlttee to editors over the state, and declared that the people had only hard ones idle of the question, conse- quently it had not been fairly put up to them. President Lundy was ire quently applauded when he made some fiery assault upon the bill.
 The opening statement was made by Senator Edmondson, and in the three hours of debate which followed, Senators Calvert, Lundy, Going and Ashley spoke against the bill, and in addition to Senator Lundy, Senators Bush, Smith of Columbia and Great house spoke for it's passage.
 The repartee was sparkling and ap- plause followed many of the replies which followed questions put to the Speaker on the floor The debate soon filled the galleries, where ap- plause broke out many times.
 Senator Collins and Senator Bush had quite a clash upon the proposi- tions which constitute good Democra cy, to which Senator Bush replied that he was willing to take the Will liam Jennings Bryan standard and with the use of yardstick, measure up with any of those in the Senate.
 The main argument against the bill was that the people had adopted the measure and that it was without the province of the Senate to set aside the voice of the voters. The supporters of the bill declared that such an ac- ton on the part of the General As Isembly was not unconstitutional, the Initiative and Referendum giving the Assembly and the people equal rights and that the people have the right to initiate an act to repeal an act of the legislature hence the legislature can do the same for the people
 The parlimentarians, likewise the constitutionalists of the Senate, Sen ators Moore and Futrel did not coin eide with this statement of those sup porting the bill, and Senator Moore declared that he had drawn up a bill which would soon be presented to the Senate, correcting the Publicity Act, as best it could be done, as he saw it. His measure will require all publica- tions to carry at the head of the pub lication, in heavy type, the cost of the artcle which follows, to the tax pay ers. He said this would let the peo- pie see what they were having to pay, and he believed it would soon influence them to act in their own behalf. Sen ator Moore stated he had been against the bill at the beginning, and his coun- ty had gone heavily against it, but he saw no chance for the Senate to make change.
 The vote on the question was;--
 Aye-Bush, Cabiness, Edmondson, Greenhouse, Hamilton, Overman, Smith of Columbia, Toler, Wagner, White, MT. President.
 Nay:-Adamson, Ashley, Burgess, Calvert, Collins, Davenport, Duty, Fer guson, Futrell, Garrett, Going, Har- ris, Jones, Kendall, Moore, Mccall,