Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-10
Issues Signed Statement E;x blaming How Name Was
 Signed to Document.
CAN KILL MEASURE
 BY NOT APPOINTIN z
Although There Is Difference oi Apin- ion as tu Status of Bill. Governor Gan Biork tctiUn by Refusing to
 Name Commission.

Little Rock March Ex-Governor Hays issued signed statement to- right. in which he said his first act Nas to veto the Hot Springs racing l>l, by writing the word 'disap- moved" with his signature.
 He said the six men who have signed affidavits that they saw him sien the bill probably r2ferred to his action in crossing out the syllable lis" from the word "disapproved. iIc said he crossed out this syllabi" end afterwards wrote it over again. lie offered no explanation as to why hn did this. S'
 '.l had my veto message prepared yt: terday morning, but it v'as not signed. When the Sawyer bill was presented me ] wrote my name on it.. Just before the word approved l wrote the word dis and just after it [ wrote and vetoed I explained ! could not sign the bill Then took my zen and scratched out the word 'd;s' and the words and vetoed I handed the bill then to MT. Stewart. He started to leave the room with it anG ] recalled him. I re-wrote the word dis and the words and vetoed where l had scratched them just previously. I then rolledup the bill, 1,lac ed it in my pocket and went hGme' .
 Speaker Sawyer last night declared the bill passed On the ground that .ne governor did not veto it within the constitutional time limit, and that the friends of the bill would make no effort to repass the bill in the legis lature.
 He said the matter probably will F., tested in the courts. However, it is pointed out that the governor could effectively hlocn the bill by refusing 10 appoint the members of the racing commission provided for in the bill.
 Hodges Refuses Measure.
 The clerk of the house presented tho measure to Secretary of State Hodges today for it's recordation as all act of the legislature, but the sec rotary of state declined to accept it until the attorney general has given an opinion.
 II was tacitly understood in the Ilt use uD uuLll yCotCiu udJ CNCIIu12 Governor Hays would approve the bili. In return he was to have cer- tain measures enacted. The house machine saw to it that his measures were passed. with one exception, when a cog in the political machine si rped.
 The Dowdv fiscal board bill was kiiied for the governor, the primary election bill was killed for the gov crnor. the board of control for state ctarit|es was passed for the gover- TOT. When Representative Dowdy first introduced fiscal board meas ure the house machine was backing it. The machine, however, had not acquired its full strength and the bill vas defeated. Then the second fiscal he ard bill had been introduced. This was defeated by the very machine that tried to pass the first one. It vas circulated freely that the bill Was killed at the behest of Governor Hays. The primary bill was killed .)r the governor, according to it's enemies, because he thought it was g direct sian at him: a retaliatory echo from the Hays-Brundidge con test.
 The bill to create the office of state accountant originated in the gover- 1cr's office. but this measure was defeated through inability of the ma cEine to organize it's forces. As usual denial was made at the same place that the governor was interest ed in the bill.
 Kirbys Digest says that when a governor approves a bill he shall s'fn it, hut if he disapproves he shall return the bill with a veto message. IL does not say he shall sign it aud ,eto it, too, as was done with the Sawyer bill.
 Kirby's Digest also says that the governor has five days in which to approve or disapprove measure. Ire Sawyer bill was submitted to him at 4:29 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon, Counting parts of days a., whole days, as is sometimes
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