The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-01
CREATE INHERITANCE
 TAX ATTORNEY
Bill to Allow Judges Additional Pay Defeated-GenerOus Sal ary Bill Comes from Senator Hester, Sebastian.

Little Rock, Feb. 1.-The Fl Paso high school band, after morning spent in screwing it's courage up to the point, waylaid the Senate Wednes- day afternoon and opened the session with Dixie. This martial air put the Senate to work with more vigor than has been demonstrated heretofore, and right off the reel the Adamson- Utley bill creating the office of State inheri- tance tax attorney was passed. There had been considerable argument on this bill in the morning session, the opponents claiming that it would take from the widows and the orphans, and the friends of the measure arguing that it would save the state many thousand dollars annually, which is now going to special attorneys all over the state. The Senate voted IS to 16 in favor of the bill.
 Considerable good argument was spilled on the Adamson bill to provide a contingent fee of $5 per day for chancellors and circuit judges when away from home. This bill was de- feated IS to 16. but notice was given that a reconsideration would be asked for. It was asserted by those who opposed the bill that it was only an effort to evade the salary law for the judges, and that it gave them too fuch latitude. One Senator declared that it would furnish incentive for some of them to be away from home all the time. Those who favored the bill argued that the judges do not re- ceive sufficient salary to pay their ex- penses when away from home. To this the opposition replied that they knew the salary before they sought the office, and hence had no complaint on that score.
 The Greenhouse bill to require the Frisco railroad to construct a trestle across Wall street in Fayetteville, was passed, the only local measure to receive time of the Senate.
 The Senate went into executive ses- sion about three minutes, just long enough to call the roll on the confr- nation of Monroe Smith as a mem- Der of the tax commission. He was confirmed without dissenting vote.
 Women may practice law in Arkan- sas if the Brown bill, passed with only Senator Burgess voting in the negative, receives as much considera- tion in the House.
 Twelve bills were introduced in the i Senate in the afternoon session, the most important of which is the Gar rett bill to create a public utility com mission. This bill, 251 typewriter pages, extends the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Railroad Commission to in clude public utilities of all kins, gives it more clerical help, and provides for better system of regulating rail- road rates.
 The most generous salary bill for county officers came from Senator Hester, who would give the Sebastian county officials, county judge, $4,250; clerk, $4,600; circuit and chancery clerk, $4,6OO; sheriff, $4,500, and $4,- 250 as collector and 30 cents per meal for prisoners; treasurer, $4,000; as- sessor, surveyor, county superintend- ent, $2,O0O.
 Other important general bills were by. Burgess, to permit plaintiff in personal injury suit against electric company, to bring action in county where he resides; Bush, providing state aid for rural high schools; Cald- well, requiring sheriff to collect taxes of improvement districts outside cities and towns; Carter, Collins, Brown, creating Southeast Arkansas levee dis trict, absorbing all districts now exist ing in that section of Arkansas; Ward, permitting improvement dis tricts in cities to purchase electric and water plants; Duty, creating 18th chancery district composed of Wash ington, Benton, Carroll and Madison counties; Smead creating office State comptroller; Goodwin, exempting Izard, Fulton and Baxter counties from gen. eral tick eradication bill, and Senator Garrett introduced bill to prohibit the operation of pool rooms within three miles of Henderson-Brown and Ouachita colleges. Senator Alexan-