Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-06
SENATE W|ELDS PRUNING KNIFE Cuts $71, 400 from Appropri-
 ation for Agricultural
 Department. AGGIE SCHOOL BILL Measure for Four District Schools Carries $iOs,O0O, Monticello Re-
 ceiving S10O,COO and Mag n0lia $06,00G.
AGGIE SCHOOL BILL


 days upon the appropriation for the four agricultural schools, the senate finally completed them in committee of the whole this afternoon without a change in the recommended apprO priations for the Jonesboro and Rus sellville schools with raise of $8,050 for the Magnolia school and reduc ton of $750 in the Monticello school. The senate went right back into a committee of the whole then and when they were through with the budget committee recommendation for the expenses of conducting the feed and fertilizer inspection under the depart ment of mines, manufactures and az riculture, it resembled nothing more than "what Johnnie shot at," for ev- cry reference to an appropriation had been removed. This bill carried an appropriation of $71 400.
 Senators Ashley and Lundy attempt ed to have the sections making appro- priations for the Jonesboro and Rus sellville schools reconsidered because the printed copies of the bills had not been delivered when they were considered and the senate thereby permitted them to slip by without re- duction, through ignorance of the it. ems. The senate declined, however, to permit this and the committee re- ported the bill back to the senate with the recommendation that it do pass. The four schools will receive about $4OS ,O0O, of which the Jonesboro school gets s113,OOO, the Russellville school $99,00O. the. Magnolia school $9S,00O, and the Monticello school, $100,000.
 Prune "Aggie" Appropriations.
 Senator Lundy led the fight on the feed and fertilizer inspection approz priation, first moving to take four in- spectors out of the first section of the bill leaving but one at a salary Of $10O per month. He declared that it was wrong for the commissioner of agriculture to collect a tax for the sole purpose of paying salaries for fourteen personal friends. Later I President Lundy nfovedato amend his amendment by striking out the entire section, which carried an NapPropria- tion for four inspectors. for the pur- , chase of tags, and for chemical andy sis, amounting to $40,200 to be pait from the fertilizer fund. This was adopted by close vote, after which he moved to take tho second section , from the bill. with it's four inspectors . their expense fund, the chemica , analysis as well as tags and shipping clerk. This carried an appropriatio, of S2l 200, making total of $71, ,40( for the two section, and it, too, was adopted. Confirm Burket Appointment.
 At o'clock the senate met with tht house in joint session to confirm tht |. appointment of John T. Burkett as penitentiary commissioner to succeed , T. P. Murrey.
 The senate Friday afternoon passed the appropriation for the Arkansas
 school for the blind. The house bill , for the Arkansas National Guard ap :, propriation, and the industrial schoo | to be erected after the sale of tho present reform school site, were reat , twice in the senate in order that the, , may be considered in a committee o
 the whole and passed as speedily a possible.
 Must Label "BOOze."
 Acrimonious debate fharacteriZe, , the second chapter of the agricultur I al appropriation bill in the senat' Friday morning, some wordy passage
 being handed back and forth that sig , zled. In addition to this the senate received a new prohibition bill tha will require all shipments of liquo f to be marked with a large label. tt