The Prescott daily news., 1917-01-31
CONVENTION BILL
 TO THE HOUSE
Fight Expected on Tick Eradica-
 tiOn Bill Did Not Mature-26
 Affirmative Votes, No Mega tives-EXtends to All Counties

Little Rock, Jan. Without dan ger of legal complications to follow, the Senate Tuesday afternoon sent over to the House it's constitutional | convention bill, for the opponents to the bill withdrew their protest, and | President Davenport ruled that a majority vote passed it anyway. The ! bill was reported in the House before adjournment Tuesday afternoon The Smith bill passed the Senate Tuesday morning after several hours of heated argument, 21 to IA, after which the question was raised that it took a two-thrds vote to pass the bill be- cause it carried an appropriation not necessary to the conduct of the state government. This looked at the noon adjournment to be a knotty problem, but it was simplified whes the oppon- ents yielded to the pleasure of Gov. Brough and made no further fight on the measure in the afternoon session. When a fight was expected, and all hands were set for it, the Cazort tick eradication bill was called up. This bill extends the limits of the tick eradication districts so as to take in all counties not now included in the work and makes an appropriation sui ficient to conduct the work. A feeble effort was made to amend it, but the motion failed for want of second. The bill then passed with 26 votes in the affirmative and none in the nega- tive.
 The only squabble of the afternoon session came up on resolution to employ four additional committee clerks at $4 per day. Two committee chairmen, Senators Vann and Whit taker, of the levees and drainage and agricultural committees, declared that they did not need clerks, and if they did their committees could select them without having them thrust upon them and named by the Senate beforehand. The resolution failed on roll call, 15 to IT. This is the second time the same resolution has been voted down, and each time the vote against it grew yet the authors state they will try again to get their friends on the states pay roll
 All House bills which have been re- ported in the Senate were read twice and placed in position to pass with another reading. There were 29 bills in all The House bills. by McInturff, validating road improvement district | No. 1 in Searcy county and McFerin, creating depository for Newton county, were passed.
 At 1 o'clock, the hour when the Senate usually adjourns, it began to receive rev bills and only finally voted to adjourn on a F to 1 5 roll call. The new bills introduced were, by Sen ator Ponder, for an advisory pardon board, something similar to the ad- ministration measure killed in the Senate few days ago when the mem bers were peeved over legislative me- thods used to block action on certain gubernatorial appointments; Senator Moncrief. to add more territory to the White River levee district; Senator Ward, to create bridge district at Marianna; Senator Whitaker, to re- duce the percestage of funds withheld | from the settlement with the con- tractor in the Clay county drainage district from 20 to 10 per cent; and Senator Davenport, to authorize guar dians and curators to renew loans for minors and wards.