The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-25
ABOUT ARK ANSAS PEOPLt lRd DOINGS
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Little Rock, Jan. i9-Much has
 been said about administration and
 nti-administration forces in the
 General Assembly, but to one on the inside, looking out, the 1917 As-
 sembly appears to be about the most peaceable one in the past decade.
 There might have been lines pretty
 closely drawn in the organization of
 the Senate, but they were not
 drawn on administration policies. It is true that the natural oppon- ents of the executive department were lined together, and with them,
 as a nucleus, an effort was made to build machine to further the in- terests of certain individuals. The opposition to the administration, all
 ways in the minority, willing to make trades, naturally made it's best showing in the contest for the presl- dency of the Senate. Senators who approve almost all policies of the executive office, aligned themselves
 with the opposition, being unable lo get any sort of pledge from the so-caled administration forces. As soon as the President of the Sen
 ate was elected, they began to drift back to the fold, and today it is hard
 Co find a Senator who is willing to
 be termed an "antl-administration- ist.n All see that Governor Brough has constructive legislation ahead,
 and personal feelings have been buried in the desire to build for
 Arkansas.
 The very best example of the good
 fellowship manifested in the Senate,
 and the obliteratiOn of even an
 imaginary line dividing that body
 into factions, is written in the per- sonneI of the committees appointed
 by President w. D. Davenport. The committee lists show that when the
 race for president was over, every
 thing was forgiven and forgotten.
 Those who opposed Senator Daven-
 port, altho slightly in the minority,
 have been honored with a majority
 of the appointments. Of the B committees in the Senate, i9 are
 headed by Senators who supported
 the opposition, and IS show major
 ity membership given to the Sims supporters.
 Voting on motions and measures,
 at no time since the result of the
 race for the presidency, has shown any inclination to uphold the all legged round robin agreement by which a number of Senators were supposed to have banded themselves together to control the legislation There are a few Senators who vote alike on all measures, but they are ! in the hopeless minority, 50 far as control IS concerned, but this little band has shown itself as strong for others.
 It is probable that the Senate will
 within a few days take up and settle 1 the question of confirming or reject ing appointments made by Gov. G. w. Hays, and with this out of the
 way, there will be no further reason for q division in the ranks.
 The 1917 session of the General Assembly has all the earmarks of a clean, business-like body, one de- 1 termined to give the new governor every chance to make good. The House has always, and probably all ways will be, friendly to the Gov ernor, and when the Senate shows a disposition to pull off it's coat and
 get into the trenches for the chief
 executive, there is nothing more to 1 it.
 Out of the rush and crush to get proposed Constitutional amend ments thru the legislature, will cer-
 tainly come a Constitutional Con- IVention, to be held sometime in mid
 summer or the early fall There is already a bill pending in the Senate calling the convention and prescrib- ing how it's membership shall be selected and when the convention
 shall convene, but amendments will in all probability be made before the bill meets with Governor Brough's ideas. Governor Brough favors a Constitutional Convention, and the sooner it is held the better fl will please him, but a gathering of this
 kind is of vastly too great import anee to he rushed thru without all proper safeguards