The Pulaskian., 1917-01-19

1 within a few days take up and settle l the questions of confirming or reject ing appointments made by Gov. c. w. Hays, and with this out of the way, there will be no further reason for a division in the ranks.
 The very best evidence of adminis- i trative control, is the absence from the Senate cloak rooms and halls Of l the leaders on the outside who en- 1 deavored to control the organization. 1 No session in many years has been 1 so free from the influence of the lob 1 byist. Tn fact, there are very few old l timers about There are few scouts on hand to look out for labor legisla- tion, and several organizations also have been stationed at the Capitol to 1 keep them informed as to legislative action, but they are few in compari- son to the number in past sessions.
 The 1917 session of the General As sembly has all the earmarks of a clean, business like body, one deter mined to give the new governor every chance to make good. The House has always, and probably always will be-, friendly to the governor, and when Senate shows disposition to pull off it's coat and get into the trenches for the chief executive, there is nothing more to it.
 We'll Have a Constitutional Con-
 vention Yet.
 Out of the rush and crush to get proposed Constitutional Amendments 1 through the legislature, will certainly come 8 Constitutional Convention, to be held some time in midsummer or the early fall. There is already bill pending in the Senate calling the con vention and prescribing how it's mem 1 bership shall be selected, and when 1 the convention shall convene. but amendments will in all probability be made before the bill meets with Gov. Brough's ideas Gov Brough favors Constitutional Convention, and the sooner it is held the better it will please him, but a gathering of this kind is of vastly too great importance to be rushed through without all pro per safeguards.
 There were eight proposed Consti- tutional Amendments pending in the | General Assembly on Monday morn l ing. and from all appearances they will be still pending at the end of the week. It is natural that the House hold back on Senate measures, and for the Senate to delay House meas. ures which have been passed on to it, ! to try and force the other to act first. i The Senate sent a land tax amend ment to the House last week, and the House read it twice the first day and l referred it to committee that will not organize until this week The House then made up for the time the Senate was taking a Saturday off, by sending several of it's measures to the Senate. where they will be just as i accommodatingly referred to a com mittee.
 And while all of this is going on the framers of Constitutional Amend ments which are to be initiated by the people, have been exceedingly busy, and it would not be at all surprising 1 to see filed with the secretary of state i the required number of signatures to place the measures for increasing the powers of the people under the hi | tiative and Referendum, for the issu. ance of bonds for municipal purposes. and the one increasing the number of members of the Supreme Court, on the ticket at the next general election. If this is done it will shut out all of the amendments proposed by the legisla- ture, and the legislators will then be forced to pass the bill for constitu- tional convention to get their meas. ures passed upon.
 The Constitutional Convention Bill is .fathered by Senator Walker Smith The most attractive feature about the bill is that it allows the members only $3 per day for their services. The question of per diem will not influence Der of Constitutional Convention, to make it a success To make attend ance at the convention compensation to him. the per diem would have to
 be well up in the figures. The mar who looks to such convention fol compensation, will hardly be attracted
 by the S3 per day, but he would be if the figure was boosted to $5 or SIG per day.
 Arkansas To Be Second Sahara. While many DpOnIe he1iovpd Da-nor Rum had received a knockout blow in the General Assembly in 1915, it is evf dent that the old despot has vigor
 our constitution, and that somewhere spark of life still exists, from the number of liquor bills which have
 been introduced, and which are yet to
 come. Practically all bills are now aimed at the shipment of liquor into the state, and to prevent it being ad