Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-23
INSURANCE RATE BUREAU OBTAINS
 LEASE ON LIFE Senator Caldwell Leads in Fight Against Plan to
 Abolish Board.
CHARITIES BILL
 GOES THRU SENATE
Slaughter Measure, tppr0priating xl3O,OOO for Fish and Game COmmis. sion for Two Years. Is Also
 Adopted Before Senate Quits.

I Little Rock. Feb. 22-Again the Dill to abolish the actuarial bureau , has been killed. It was chloroformed two years ago, and earlier in the present session the house caught the fever and dealt it a death blow. The senate took it's second fatal stand Thursday afternoon, and while the I debate was spirited the senate did in go minutes what it took the house a day or so to accomplish The bill was killed on vote of IS to 15, Senator Smith, the author, changing to the negative when 17-to-16 result was about to be announced, in order that he might move for reconsidera- l tion
 Senator Carter followed the an- nouncement of the defeat of the bill that the vote by which it was de- feated be reconsidered and that mo- ton laid on the table. Senator Smith moved as a substitute that the motion be postponed until Friday morning. This prevailed after the roll had been called and the ballot sounded, 17 to 16. The first announcement showed that the motion had been defeated. Caldwell Raps Cotton Men. The principal speech against the bill was made by Senator Caldwell, who declared that among all of the opponents of the bill he had been un- i able to find the small property owner. He stated that the opposition was coming from the large cotton congresses and the men who had fire | hazards which were above the ordi- nary, who wanted to make the small man pay his insurance. MT. Caldwell declared that the insurance companies | were not making money, but they had 1 brought about a change in the meth ! pds used in the construction of | houses, in their wiring, and in the way inflamable material was stored on the premises, and if permitted to continue along these lines for several years more would reduce the fire loss 1 until the insurance in all classes could be reduced. Senator Cabiness kept up a running fire of questions, ! which made the speech of Senator Caldwell almost dialogue between 1 the two. One question asked by Sena- tor Cabiness was, if the lawyers had an organization to fix rates to De charged to the clients.
 "No. sir" replied the Jefferson county attorney and senator, they | are like the preachers-they just run at large on the public, getting them going and coming.'
 A. Co,,ator Co hinocc ic minister I this brought forth hearty laugh at his expense.
 ! Senator Smith spoke first for the bill, alleging that the insurance rates 1 have been greatly increased since the acturial bureau was created, and lntl- mated that it was a sort of insurance l trust.
 l Senator Carruth spoke briefly against the bill, stating that he 1 thought the bureau should in some manner be regulated, but that the good it had accomplished was far greater than the harm, and he could not oppose it for that reason.
 Vote on AbOlishment.
 The vote on the bill was as follows
 Aye-Burgess, Bush, Cabiness
 Duty, Edmondson, Garrett, Goodwin Greenhouse, Kendall, King, Ruff, Sims Slaughter, Utley and Vann-15.
 Nay-Adamson, Alexander, Brown
 Caldwell, Carter, lCarruth, Collins Hester, Johnston, Jones, Owens, Pon- der, Rogers, Smead, Ward, Whitaker and MT. President-1S.
 Emory and Moncrief were paired Emory against and Moncrief for. ] The senate then received new oil and gas inspection bill from Senator Hester, the second of the day. Sena- 1 tor Hester in his first bill introduced one new feature into a similar bill presented to the house some weeks ago by MT. Held, by establishing the office of gas inspector for indefinite
 period, whereas the Held bill pro vided an inspector for only four years. The afternoon bill added tc the former one a section prohibiting any gas company to use more thar
 25 per cent of the capacity of well
 in day.
 Amend Varsity Bill.
 Without argument, the amendment to the Alexander Edmondson bill tc create a $1,00O,00O improvement dis trict in Pulaski county for the cree
 tion of a new University of Arkansas
 in Little Rock, by which the total ex'
 penditures of the two universities the one at Fayetteville and the one ir
 Little Rock, should not exceed four
 ninths of a mill on the taxable valua tion of the state. This amendmen | fCAnfinnQd