Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24

printing board to let 1y contract all printing under the initiative and ref erendum. This has heretofore been done by the secretary of statC, who parcelea oHt tho printing. Senators declared this built up too much Of q political ma ahinc, 2nj the bill passci without a dissenting vote.
 Municipal tou,t for Helena. The only other house measure passed wa the Adams bill cycatiny q municipal court for HeeRa
 Three house bills were indefinitely postponed, two of them hy }lr. John son of Sehaatiau. undertaking to reGU late street car traffic and rates for electric current in Fort Smith. They were killed at the request 9f the 2e''9 tors frcm the affe ted district. Tho ether measure placed Fl the tomh from while DO legislative mcasuros return was tho Humphrey bill repeal ing the act creating a read improve ment district in stone and lzard coUn ty. Senator Edmondson explained this was an attack upon him person ally, ard tho senate went to his res cue
 Quite 2 little argument took place when the Cazort statewide tick eradi. cation bill was read TAero were some who wanted this to ao to tho judiciary committee where it's legal bumps miaht bc examined. Others tbGuc.ht tho agricultural committco should lock down it's throat and mako the proner diaanoais. The jdici2rv committee hos the bill
 Tho balarce Of the afternoon wac spent in rcadir% bills q fjret ard sec end time that had come over from the hcuec dri'ir~ the day,
 iPre5i'cnt Davenport. .,iSt before ad iournmcnt &0nounced the foiloWin& members of the committee which % iunketing Thursday, to visit Inc state institutions:
 University committee - Caruth. Slaughter, Yam.
 State normal-Utley, Ponder.
 Colored normal-DroWn Caldwell.
 nitontiary-Bush Jones.
 State charities-Greathou Adam son.
 Tuberculosis sanitarium - Whit taker. Rogers.
 Monticello agricultural school Johnston, Collins.
 JonesboTo-Cabiness. Goodwin.
 Magnolia-Smead, Garter.
 llville-Emory. Ward
 McCarr0Il Holds Job.
 Nothing less than acrimonous will describe the debate which took place in the senate this morning when Sen ator Adamson introduced 8 resolu tion to consider the appointment of Z. M .McCarroll, as a member of the board of control, on next Monday morning. Senator Ponder immediate ly offered substitute resolution, cen vening the senate eXedtive session at 11:30 today for the purpose of either confirming Or rejecting the appoint ments of Governor Hays.
 In the debate which, followed Sena tors Davenport, Bush, Adamson and Cabiness favored the postponemenJ until Monday, while Senators Pon- der Smith and Goodwin, favored i'm mediate action.
 President Davenport opened the dis cussion by stating that Governor Brough has requested the postpone ment, because there were charges made against MT. McGarroll, which would require several days 10 inYesti- gate, and for the persons nakinG them, to present the evidence. He stated that until the eridence was or. fercd. no senator lould vote intelli- gently.
 Senator Ponder opposed tho post ponement, asking who made the charges, an" none of ~t1fose favoring the postDonement could say. In the discussion which followed there was considerable reference made 10 8 "gentlemen's agreement '' which Senators Adamson, Ponder and Smith did not agree upon. It was claimed by the senators favoring i'm mediate action that tho senators who have been termed administration ists" had entered into an agreement, 1 by which those favorins the donfirna. ton of MT. McCarroll. were not to call the matter un for eight days after the Inauguration cf Governor Brough, and the only after three days notice. Senator Adamson admitted that such notice had been given Friday. i The difficulty was finally straight ened by Senators Garrett Utlev and Rogers of the administration forces stating that they considered them selves bound by such an agreement and they would offer no further re sistanda. The senate then voted as follows on the Ponder substitute:
 Yea-Alexander Brown, Burgess