The log cabin Democrat., 1917-02-16
GOOD ROADS BILL PASSED BY SENATE MANY MEASURES GET BY Bone Dry" Authors Introduce Bill Permitting Wholesale Druggists
 to Sell Alcohol.
pecial to the Log Cabin Democrat.

Little Rock, Feb. 16-The senate
 passed today, with only dissenting votes, the McFerrin committee bill appropriating $496,000, making pos sible federal aid under the Shackel- ford act for permanent highways in Arkansas. All of the amount ap-
 propriated is to be paid out of the
 automobiel taxes, the entire amount l of which, less 25 cents collectors fee, will go to the state instead of | being divided between the state and the counties. The measure has al
 ready passed the house and will be-
 come law when it receives the gov
 ernor's signature. This is a certain ty, as Governor Brough had sent special message urging the passage of the bill. Senators Cabiness and
 Ruff spoke against the measure.
 The senate today also passed the
 Ponder bill, amending the laws gov erning municipal improvement dis tricts; the Utley bill, forcing the listing of all property so as to get intangible values; the Adamson bill, giving the supreme court jurisdiction over examinations to practice law, and the Utley bill, providing the manner of filling vacancies when of Ulcers are suspended.
 Senators Greenhouse and Ponder. authors of the "bone dry" bill, in troduced today measure permitting
 wholesale druggists to sell alcohol for pharmaceutical, medicinal and scientific purposes.
 Little Rock, Feb. 16-The Arkan- sas senate is no place. for man with a weak heart, hot Mead, or a ten der epidermis. Things were said in that body in the course of argument during the sessions of Thursday which will make law deprive man. kind from parading with trousers which have hip pockets, popular They were passed almost unnoticed and the senate continued to grind
 The grist from the mill on Thurs day afternoon was not great, but the chaff which flew in the other direc- tion completely filled the air. The first squabble came over the Carter bill permitting travelling men to vote when away from home. This bill, | passed by the house, and supposedly | an administrative measure, was found to contain many flaws, and it | was placed back on second reading, | aft hainn ;cJ nd | roll started on it's passage, in order that the judiciary committe might | correct it's flaws. The principal ob- jection is that the bill permits the voter to cast his ballot and have it | mailed back to his home county, but | here a difficulty arises in the inabil- ity of the absentee is unable to get | copy of the ballot which is that | day being used in his home county. ] Then again, it will complicate the | count in the election to have votes | coming in by mail, so the committee to state and district offices, which votes may be counted where cast.
 The McFerrin and Cazort bill, | making an appropriation for the pur pose of securing the federal aid for road work in Arkansas, was read a l third time, and also deferred until Friday, for there are sections in it that are not approved in the senate, | and which were being pointed out | in the Utley and Alexander bill, a | copy which was introduced some time ago in the senate.
 The big thing of the afternon was | the defeat of the Buchanan bill from | the house, lowering the rate on contractual interest from 10 to s per cent. This was defeated by a vote of 10 to 13, and two members, Senators Owens and Edmondson, changed from the affirmative to the negative, in order to move recon sideration. Another lengthy squab ble followed which was fianally strengthened by the tabling of this motion, 17 to 12, and the bill was then dead for all time.
 By vote of Fl to 19, the house yesterday afternoon passed the Riggs bill to permit women to vote in the primary elections of the state. There was much oratory on both sides, the principal speeches in opposition hav ing been made by Choate and Ellis of Randolph.
 After years of effort, state uni formity of text books is assured by the passage of the Creekmore-Bla bill, through both houses, providing for the appointment of text book commission, and the selection of uni form books for the use of the schools of the state, on competitive bids. The house concurred in number of