Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-15
Advertisement of Bond Is- sue Will Be Obtained by
 One of Two Ways.
BRANCH NORMAL
 MATTER SETTLED
Agreement Reached at Conference at Little Rock Last Evening. Which Bring to End Differences as to
 Rig Local School Questions.

| The bill relating to the iSsuancc of bonds for the erection Of the new high school building, which is now pending in the general assembly, will pass the house this morning and will pass tho senate before the end of the present
 week, if plans carry as they were agreed upon at the conference yester- day afternoon at Little Rock of the chamber of commerce committee with State Senator Caldwell and Repre- sentatives Magee and Newton.
 The matter was discussed in detail. It was decided that the amendment, to make it obligatory to advertise al! school bond issues in the state ana to demand that the bonds sell at not less than par, which has been tackled onto the bill by Representative Magee. will be satisfactory. Senator Caldwell eX- pressed the belief that this amendment will be accepted by the senate, which had passed the original bill. How ever, if the senate refuses to accept the amendment, the amendment will be dropped from the bill and the same ICoull W III Ut dCIlCNGu lHIOUSll d SeCI- eral bill that will be offered Such a bill has already been introduced in the senate, it was said.
 Members of the chamber of com- merce committee which made the trip to Little Rock yesterday returned home last night, delighted wiih the prospect that the bill would be finally passed before the end of the week, and that thereafter there would be nothing to interfere with the rapid progress of the work of erecting the new high school building
 Settle Normal Matter.
 The branch normal college com mittee of the chamber of commerce, which also went to Little Rock yes- terday, conferred with members of the board of trustees of the state uni versity, as a result of which decision was reached for the Jefferson county representatives in the general assem- bly, to support the appropriation bill now pending in the assembly. This bill provides an appropriation of $50,- 900 for buildings for the branch nor maj college.
 1 The conference reached an agree dlSO lllol luC OllC-IllIlLll IIllI pOl | ton of the educational tax which has been allotted the branch normal col lege and the medical school will be divided on the basis of one-third to the branch normal and two-thirds to the medical school. This will give the branch normal about $31.000 bien- nially for maintenance, in addition to the Murrell fund appropriation, or a
 total of about $25,0G0 per year.
 1 The trustees of the state university have tacitly agreed upon themselves
 to select one of three sites near Pine Bluff for the new branch normal col lege, and it is expected they will
 formally notify the chamber of com merce of their final selection within the next week or ten days. Two of
 the sites lie within less than two
 miles and the third is within three
 miles of the corporation line of the city of Pine Bluff, it is said and each
 of the three sites offers considerable
 increase in acreage for the institution
 to put into effect it's agricultural | courses.