The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-29
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SDhns and Futrell Tell How Parlia' mentary Proceedings May Mis-
 lead the Uninformed.
(From Thursdays Daily Press)

(From Thursdays Daily Press)
 Information comes from Little Rock to the effect that Representa- tive Tedford's bill to change Sec. 349O of Kirbys Digest, which relates to the fees that shall be charged by circuit clerks. passed the lower house of the general assembly yesterday and will now go to the senate. MT. Tedford is a prominent farmer and stockman of Lonoke county. Yester- days Daily Press contained an ex- planation of reference made in Mon days issued to this bill, in which it was stated that the original publi- cation was an error, and that no such bill had been introduced. It seems, however, that in fact Mir. Ted ford did introduce the bill, and that he has succeeded in having the house act favorably upon it. Both Senator Futrell and Representative Johns have written letters to The Press, in which they state that "They real ,saze we do not know what we were ~'talking about" and hence the expla- nation is given that MT. Tedford is not responsible for the act in any sense, but merely acted in the ca pacity of friend. In speaking of such matters, they say: "These are merely favors and accommodations rendered by one member to anoth- err MT. Johns further says:
 ''In the house, bills are introduced by roll-call It sometimes happens that members name is reached and he has no bill to introduce and he will >introduce a bill for some one else.p Sometimes there may be half a dozen different members trying to get up the same bill and whoever gets recognition calls it up. This al- so happens in the senate, upon the introduction of bills, the one getting recognition introducing it. This has been the uniform practice in legis- yatiye bo1ies ever since I have had any experience. I have frequently introduced bills for others, and oth- CTS have done the same for me. If I should not have any bills to intro dgee, some member might request me to introduce one for him and would do so, though 1 might be op- posed to the bill. There is no im- portance attached to the introduction of bills by anyone.'
 The Press is really surprised that either the Senator or MT. Johns should have felt that anything con- tained in Mondays issue should have been construed as criticism of their official acts. Certainly it was not our intention to say that either should answer for the Tedford bill. It was, merely, the presumption upon MT. Tedford's part that attracted at tention. That he, native of Lonoke county, should introduce measure to regulate the fees to be charged by Greene county's officials without making them applicable to his own county stood out so prominently in the days dispatches that comment upon the streets of Paragould be- came general and a newspaper could do nt of the incident Of course Repre- sentative Johns explanation that Bills are introduced by roll call' is entirely acceptable so far as We KNOW. Also the alphabet runs ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST - just as it used to run, and of course the name of Johns, in the roll-call, came before that of Tedford. However, as above stated, we are perfectly sure that, as MT. Johns says, When < a mans name is reached, and he has ~ no bill to introduce, he will intro duce a bill for someone else." Pre- sumably that was the condition of NJ MT. Tedford, who, having no DlllS to introduce for Lonoke county, intro duced one for Greene county
 We extend to MT. Tedford a most corajal invitation to move to Greene county and become acquainted with our people. Since he is able to leg islate for them, we feel sure that he would make a splendid citizen. Then, also, Greene county would in a meas ure>anow who fathered her legisla- tive departures.
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