The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-19
PENSION BILL
 DID NOT PASS
STATE OR ARKANSAS IN PIE cULIAR DILEMMA AS RESULT
 OF OVERSIGHT.
Special Legislative Session May Be CaIIed,-Plan Also Formulated to Secure Aid of Banks in Effort 10 Borrow the st,65o,00O.

Little B-lk. May l8-Couvinced that the 1917 legislature failed to make an appropriation for Conteder- ate pension~ for 1917 and 1915. Gov. ernor Broush today began efforts {. solve the situation with ut calling d special session of the legislature.
 The prop al hat the state depos.- tary board lend money derived from Confederate taxes tO banks. and bor- roA back the m ney under a defi- cjency proclamation was to he .ub- mtted 10 Arkansas and Little i ok bankers at meeting al the Hotel Marion Friday afternoon
 The pension m uey tor he bienuia. period will a-eregate $ITOO,O00. ap- prox mate.y The pension appropria- Ii n bill which was introduced in the Senate but which died on the House calendar called for an appr. prIatiUu Tor SlG50oou
 A spe ial session of the Legislature. should il be ca led, would rt not to exceed about $12.5U0 The so.ons could nc draw their per dem for m rr than lJ days and the salary would be S. a day. or one-halt the sala+E tr regular sessions.
 nless method whreby banks of the state agree to finance the matter .s found -tate officials agreed that a special scs5i WOu be a certainty The supreme court had ruled hat no money can Dc expended unless there Is a specific appropriation The state auditor U he should issue warrants
 n the pen ion fund wou violate the law and make himself and his O0ndaman liable
 Possibilities Of a special session of the legislature l0omed up today when an exhaustive search 1f legislative reco.ds failed 10 db close the pass age by he house. of Confederate pension appropriation measure
 Prior e. completion of the search. Governor Broush remained confident that such an appropriation mad been made Records showed to the con tIdIgt however.
 4 bill ealing for $1.65o0o0 for Con. federate pensions was introduced in the Senate by senator Tom Slaughter
 Palestine on January -4 and was passed by ,he upper branch of the general aesembls January 20. IL was called up in the house February 2 fer first and second readings. and f. re- ma.ned in that status N record could be found where it had been called for passage
 The house journal and minutes rec ord both showed that the bill was pending on the house calendar N hen the leeis ature adjourned The bill it. self rhOWed he same and the sen ate journal sh wed nothing t0 indi- cate that the bill had been returned 10 the senate after final action by tle house Bills are returned to the house Of their origin af.er final action by the other branch
 Harvey Combs chief clerk of the house arrived here Friday morning in answer to an appeal by Governor Broueh and conducted th rough eX- animation Of his records The result was that another record showing the bll had died on the house calendar. wa~ found Mir Harvey found re- ceipt signed by Ira Lang ey. secrc. t4ry of the senate, for ihe orig nal copy Of the bill. returned to him with .other senate bills which had died n the house calendar after final ad. j urnmcns of the assembly
 Governor Brough immediately call cd meeting of the state dep sitary board and the plan of lending the pen. sion funds which VII begin to pour l into ihe stale tcasuty u Juy Nas