The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-10

assembly because it is not your duty to psss upon the question of it's validity.
 When the time comes for publish ing the acts of the genera assembly. unless in the meantime the courts de- clare the bill 10 be a law. | would ad- vIse you not to publish t among the acts of the general assembly, This advice is based upon the fact that the governor has disapproled the bill, and delivered a message 10 the house of representatives giving his reasons for withholding his approval; and l would not advise you 10 assume that this ance with the constitution and laws of the state"
 The validity of the bill was the ona topic of conversation in legal circles Friends of the measure have been urged 10 bring the matter into court. and they received today, unsolicited, too, the opinion of some of the states most eminent attorneys.
 Chief among the prominent legal lights who stated that, in his opinion, the bill was laaw was George M. Nose, while Senators Moore and Flu trell both reiterated their statement of the day previous that the racing Dill was a law and that taey believed that test of the case in the c0urts would so prove
 The following unqualified state ments are made by some of the men wlo were present w1en the bill was signed together with stat ments by the Arkansas Democrat:
 Justifying our course, we publish the following statements
 Governor Hays not only signed anl approved the racing bin in the pres ence of Judge Rolfe, Captain Rice, Thai Bradsher, Speaker Sawyer and myself, but he received our congratu- lations The pen he used to sign the bin was to have been given to Miss Ruby White of Hot Springs, one of the stenograpners in the House of Representatives as a memento of the occasion Surely Governor Hays does not mean 10 dispute the word of six or seven men who saw the bill signed and approved
 tSign5d) GEORGE R. BELONG.
 Of Hot Springs
 "I was sitting behind the governor when he agreed to sign the bill When he started to sign his name | stood up and looked over his shoulder After he had signed and approved it, tha men with me, including George R. Bedding. Frank Kitcnen 'Thal' Brad sher, Judge Rolfe, H. s Mobley and others congratulated him.
 " That's all right gentlemen he said. He gave the bill to Mir, Stewart. and Mr Stewart started away with lt. Governor Hays recalled him and talk ing the bill said he would take it home with him.
 CSigned) R. R. RICE. or Warner, Ark.
 Frank Kitchen was rendered a copy of the statement made by Captain Rice and said
 That's just as it happened. l was sitting directly in front of the gover- nor when he signed and approved the bill"
 II. s. Mobley gave the following statement:
 Yes, saw him sign and approve it.
 Speaker Sawyer's statement to w. T. Sitlington, representative of the Democrat, was as follows:
 Yes. l saw him sign and approve it There is no doubt about him hay. ing signed it. I believe Che bill legally is a law and also believe the circumstance surrounding the affair of yesterday worthy of an investiga- tion."
 Judge Eugene A. Rolfe of Forrest City. over long-distance telephone from Hot Springs today, in a personal conversation with the editor of The Democrat, declared.
 ''l was present when Governor Hays signed and approved the Sawyer rae. ing bill. l saw him sign it and ap- prove it"
 The Arkansas Democrat charges that Governor George W. Hays signed the Sawyer racing bill in the presence of several witnesses among whom were George R. Bedding ol Hot (Contnued on Page Two.l