Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-13
EIGH1 BILLS ARE
 FILED IN SENATE
botn Branches s of Legisla- tlli'e Complete Organiza-
 tlon Yesterday.
FOR NEW CITY COURT
One Measure Presented Would Abol. ish Police Courts in Cities of First Class--J0ln E. King Loses Fight
 for Sergeant.at. Arms,

for Sergeant.at-A Arms.
 Little Rock, Jan. 12.-The senate ts organized. and eight bills were intro- duced today: To provide fer the c;- geslng Of the statutes. to reuuire more prompt settlement of claims ny railroads and express companies, tc borrow S22,000 from the fertilizer fund for legislative mileage and per diem, 1o charge for sand and gravel removed from streams and lakes, to regulate municipal courts.
 The house completed it's organiza- tion by the election of the following :: Chief clerk. Harvey Combs of Hunts vile: assistant chief clerk, G. Cleve- Hand Reid of Leslie; sergeant -at-arms F. Wooten of Pulaski; chaplain, Rev. F. M. Carter of Scott county; journal clerk, T. H. Ward of Bonneville; as- sistant journal clerk. Thos. H. Ray of Saarcy: postmisteress, Mrs. Anna Pitt man of Conway; enrolling clerk, Miss Mary Walls: expressing clerk, Mrs. l Kate Ref Eads of Fort Smith. :. 1 During the morning, immediately af- | ter the election of chief clerk, com- nlittees were appointed to wait upon Governor C. w. Hays and the senate and to announce the houses organiZa- tion Governor Hays replied he had no special message for the house, but that his message to the general as- Isembly would be submitted probably tomorrow. when the two branches hold ia joint session. The joint meeting will be held in the house chamber. The first squabble in the house started when C. c. Taylor of Searcy offered a resolution that selection of al clerks and other appointive officers be left to the speaker. Louis Josephs, defeated candidate for speaker, who was acting as speaker during a brief absence of Speaker Sawyer, declared the motion out of order and instructed the representatives to begin election Iof officers.
 JeffersCn Man Loses.
 Nine candidates were nominated for sergeant -at-arms, and it required five ballots to elect. The final ballot showed E. Wooten of Little Rock a winner over w. H. Harrell of Boone county. the vote being 52 to AZ. Oth- CT candidates in the race at the begln- ming of balloting were: Van B. lzard, St. Francis county; Capt. T. J. Thrash CT. Hot Springs county; M. c. Bizzell, Lonoke county; John B. King, Jeffer- son county; s. B. Dent, Woodruff county: M. J. Simpson, Izard county; W. c. Alien, Washington county.
 c. G. Reid of Leslie won over Pier son Council of Franklin county for the assistant chief clerkship on the first ballot. The vote was 6z TOT Reid and 32 for Council.
 At this juncture Representative Ro- rex submitted a resolution for the speaker to appoint committees 10 wat on the governor and senate ana an nounce the houses organization. Act- ing Speaker Josephs appointed Jones' Taylor and Joiner to wait upon the governor, and RoreX. Woods and Mc- Gill to announce the houses organlza- tion to the senate.
 Teller Fathers First Bill.
 The first bill of the session ihtro- duced in the senate was offered Dy Senator Thomas D. Toler of the Ninth district. It was read the second time and referred to the judiciary committee. The bill is for an act 10 require the county in which an injury occurs to pay certain part o1 the costs of any litigation caused by tne injury. It provides that if suit TOT damages be filed in any other county in the state than the one in Whlch the iniury may have occurred the county lin which the accident did occur must nav a portion of the costs Of the sul' where. at present, the county Tn "9lcn the cause is tried is required to pay such costs. These are deslgnated as inc services of petit jurors, time O. ol the court and services of the sherlH or other officer.
 Municipal Courts.
 The bill providing for the estaplls.l. ment of municipal courts in certaln cities of the first class was lntroauce9 as senate bill No. ? by Senator w. o Adamson of Pulaski county. It was read the second time and referreo 'e the judiciary committee. o.ho,
 The bill provides among otne' thin gs that all cities having a popuia. tion exceeding 45,00O, accordlng .e the latest preceding United states census, and all smaller cltles ol VI, n, first class situated in the saihe v. another county and lylng coh.lsu uo"t ot to any of the larger cltles' any VI
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