Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-13
Representative Offers Sub stitute More in Accord
 With Peoples Views.
RESTRICTIONS AS
 TO JUDGE REMOVED
Any Good Elect0r Is Eligible for Judgeship Under New Measure, Which Provides That Judge and
 Clerk Shall Be Elected in 1918.

Little Rock, Feb. 12.-Pine Bluff voters will elect a judge and a clerk of the municipal court in the general city election of 1918, if the substitute bill by Representative I. x. Magee of Pine Bluff becomes a law. When the measure was called up this forenoon MT. Magee offered a substitute for the original, which provided that the judge should be an attorney of at least two years experience, and that the clerk should be named by the city clerk.
 The bill as it now stands makes any elector above 25 years of age and of four years residence in the state and city eligible for election as municipal judge. The clerk is also made elec- tive, and his qualifications are to be the same as those fixed for the judge. The salaries remain the same as in the former bill: $2,000 per annum for the judge, $1,800 for the constable, S1,200 for the clerk, $1,2O0 for deputy con- stable and additional deputies, if the county court decides any are needed, at $S0 a month each.
 Police Judge to Serve.
 The measure is to become effective January 1, 1918, and 1t is provided that 'the police judge serving at the time this act becomes effective shall become the municipal judge and shall hold office until a successor is elected at the regular city election in 1918, and qualities as such." The city coun cil is authorized to elect court clerk to serve from January 1 until clerk is regularly elected in the 1918 cleo tion and qualities. In the bill as first drawn the municipal judge to serve until the election in 1919 was to be appointed by the governor.
 The terms of both judge and clerk are to be four years.
 MT. Magee stated that during his visit to Pine Bluff, where he spent Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, he had become convinced that practically everyone is in favor of the municipal court, but that large majority op- posed the restriction making attor- neys only eligible to the judgeship. He said also that there was demand that the voters be given opportunity to name the judge in 1918, and, de- siring above all to meet the views of his people, he had changed his bill accordingly.
 For Uniform Assessments.
 The house passed a bill introduced oy MT. Baxter providing for the Ar Kansas tax commission shall annual y certify to the assessors of the vari- ous counties the proportionate rate of assessment for the property, that t may be calculated will be necessary 10 produce a sufficient amount of revenue to meet the requirement. Of the state. The purpose of the bill 's 10 provide system of uniform as- sessment throughout the state, so that m one county the average proportion or the market value shall neither be greater nor less than that in another county or section of the state. The house, this afternoon, by 2 vote Of 54 to 25, refused to sustain ,ne vote of Governor Brough of the hardage bill, to require the letting 0I contracts for the printing of l. and tn,:;, measures on competitive bids. The Dill was passed over the veto, and asalnst the opposition of Represen- estlves Meador, Riggs and Cok1r. SpeecneS m favor Of the bill, ana asainst the veto were made by Rep Inesentatlves Gentry, Josephs. Ellis of "an,dolph, Williams and Choate. me house deferred it's Monday nlsnt session until Wednesday night. on account of the reception rendered ,'onlgnt to the members of the legis' 1pa.ure in honor of Governor and Mrs.
 n, Legislators Favor Court.
 me entire Jefferson delegation rav ,avors the municipal court plan. Rep rssentative Niven said he favored it SSwwissonaily, and had been convinceu S;. S;u.'ing his weekend visit here that
 IS very popular measure"
 representative Newton asserted oo saturday evening that he favored the t;o. tt;Tart; but was opposed to the restrl;- vssa n hmlting the candidates to law