Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-02
Spend Forenoon Cutting and Afternoon Aiding to
 $915,548 Bill.
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 Senator GtcattGusc During Ses- / S;Ga C Ep:;ei' EioGse.

Little Rock, March l. Whiting here and there almost all day, the senate cut $t2,692 from tae general appropr5"ti bill, taen either put back items or made other changes until the appropriation exceeded the bill originally Introduced by $1.1SS. The appropriation recommended by the budget committee exceeded that Of 1913 for. all departnen S Of the sta:a government by $200.0J0, il calling for an expenditure of $S14.360. In the forenoon seasicn, the appropriation had t CT reduced f2l,041.
 The afternoon session began by taking d typeWfitar appropriation of $S5 and $1o00 from the printing fund of the tax commission. No change was made in 1T asurers appropr.a- tion. and the travelling eXpsnse fun6 of the railroad commission was jn- creased S1000 because tie bill pead- ing to prevent them from acceptin's free railroad transport is expect cd to become a law. The history commission items Wer2 all adopted, ard an additional allowance Of $259 for traveling expenses as well.
 Then came the big item of the afternoon, r of the week. ending lh tue discharge of II. ]. McMahon as deputy laboG commissioner and the reductipp of. t3fe 920o0 maintenance item of this department from Sz,oeO to $500. The fffsf item in this ap- propriation was for S2,400 salary for tho deputy commissioner. Senator Greenhouse. asked what were the duties of this official and Deputy Mc- Mahon, who Happened to be il the senate chamber walked up in rom o2 senator Greenhouses seat and said something to him. senator Greenhouse called for the sergeant at-arms, declaring that the Official had insulted him. A minute later Deputy McMahon was on the staa1 beside senator Bush, who WAS Tn thS chair presiding oyer the senate, as 2 committee Of the whole and started fn make an address to the senate Senator Moore of Phillips stoppat hin- and ordered McMahon down. motion was then made to strike IFoo the appropria tion the salary Of th' deputy, but as it was admitted tAa lhe motion was aimed at the man 3nt not at the office, t was defeated The maintenance of the office wal {hon reduced from the $2000 asked to $500. Roest Highway Engineers SaiaEy
 Instead of 3 general reduction II the state highway department as wat anticipated, the salary of the assls tant engineer was boosted from S2' A00 to S3.00O, and though the salaf. of four clerks was cut out two O these were later replaced, ana .h only reduction was in cutting olf @l' coo from the postage fund.
 From the state board of health ap nronr;ation S960 for a recelVlh' clerk in the bureau of vital statistic and s75O for travelling expenses the state board of health were taAea The mileage and per diem TOT LII trustees of the charitable institution was reduced from $10,OoO to $o'ooo.
 By oversight the blue sky depart ment f.the state banking offlce wa left out. and s6,3O0 was added for thl nurnose as we'll as $27,2SO for Inter est on the sinking fund.
 Commissioner J. c. Clary of LII 1abor department came into the sen ate chamber and announced to ssv eral senators that he had sum marily discharged his deputy an asked that $2,OoO be placed in m maintenance fund for stenographe hire. This was not done but ne ne ss; wa a allowed s1o0O The tax commisslo ua u,aa o1eo oiven back the amour taEen from it's printing fund. II,
 In this form the committee or LII m whole reported the bill back 10 .h soaoto mnoio w;t1, the recommendation tha it do pass" ;,,
 committee of the whole, the appfo nriation for the medical college C tbe University of Arkansas, wn1c went through unchanged. The az nronr;ation for the maintenance c inc tuberculosis sanitarium suffere cnTv o1e reduction, a $500 item lo road work. 1ob,so