Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-07-21

Pertinent comment on the Supreme Courts action on the Hot Springs rac- ing bill is contained in a dissenting opinion from the Judgment of the court by Chief Justice E. A. McCul- loch. The court announced it had ordered the case dismissed because the action sought, that of compelling Secretary of State Earle w. Hodges to include the bill in the published Acts of 1915 could not be granted. The court announced that it had sus- tained the decision of Judge Guy Fulk in the Pulaski County Circuit Court In denying the petition. Justice J. c. Hart concurred with the dissenting opinion.
 'The case of Powell vs. Hays is controlling" says Justice McCulloch's opinion. "The writer did not agree to the decision in that case, and the views set forth ill his dissenting opiH- ion have not undergone any change, ject should not be SO lightly overturn- ed nor whittled away to suit the exi- gencies of particular cases. It would be far better, though, to overrule it outright than to make refined distinc- tions which leave the law on the sub- ject in state of hopeless uncertain ty If the decision was the law flr a case involving the veto of a bill to transfer county from one judicial district to another, it still ought to be the law in a case where there is in- volved a veto of the race horse gam. ing bill, however objectionable such legislation may be to many citizens of the state.'
 An indication of the awakening of Arkansas farmers to the value of scientific treatment of diseases of live stock is shown in a report made by State Veterinarian R. M. Cow to the Board of Control of the Arkansas Agri- cultural Expriment Station The re- port shows that during the last six months the sale of hog cholera serum. manufactured at the state serum 
 from 10000 to 10000 cubic centime- ters per month.
 The supreme court in an elaborate death knell to the state aid to high schools proposition; at the same time and in the same opinion the court re- fused to tie up the $1,250,000 to the credit of the common school fund in the state treasury. In the former case tive appropriation was necessary. while in the common school fund case the state constitution covered the matter.
 Eve enjoyed my trip to Arkansas Marshall has, too," Vice President Thomas R. Marshall said in Little Rock en route to Indianapolis. We like it so well that we are coming back again. We both had little rheuma- tism when we went to Hot Springs,
 
 us We enjoyed our day in Little Rock very much, only I'll confess, the sun was powerfully hot during the time was speaking out of doors."
 The Supreme Courts comment on the governors power to issue defcien- e. proclamations may tie up the work of repairing the rooms of the old state house occupied by the Medical Department of the University of Ar kansas, according to Dr. Morgan Smith, dean of the institution Foi- lowing the fire which partly destroyed the building last April, Governor Hays issued a proclamation authorizing the issuing of vouchers for $5,000 to pay for making repairs On the building
 The comment of the Supreme Court on the governors right to issue def- ciency proclamations will have no ef- feet on Governor Hays action on request from the State Highways Commission asking for deficiency proclamation for S15,OOO, he said. q do not know whether I shall issue the proclamation. I have not considered it. fully But my action will not De governed by the courts comment on another case"
 Much activity in road building in the state is shown in the reports re- ceived at the office of the DaDa rt1neut of State Lands. Highways and Tm- provements. Plans for roads to be built by Road Improvement District No. 12 in Washington County have been finished and the work of making estimates begun.
 More than $12,00O mostly in war rants, was paid into the general rev enue fund. The collector of Benton