The log cabin Democrat., 1917-03-02
FURIOUS FIGHT ON SUFFRAGE MEASURE APPROPRIATIONS PASS With Little Opposition, Legislature Shifting Burden of Reducing
 to Governor.
pecial to the Log Cabin Democrat.

Special to the Log Cabin Democrat.
 Little Rock, March 2.-The house |filibustered for two hours this fore noon, when the Riggs bill giving women the right to vote in primary elections was called up for concur renee in senate amendments. The opposition was led by Hardage, Ellis of Randolph, Waggoner, Gentry and others. The debate became so furious
 that pandemonium reigned and it was impossible for Speaker Cazort to re-
 store order.
 The senate amendments were final ly concurred in. The friends of suf- frage agreed that refusal to concur in them would result in the defeat of the bill.
 Little Rock, March 2.-Appropria- tion bills which are passed over to the senate by the house meet no battle axe brigade" there, and are passed with just as little argument as possible. In this way the prun- ing is left to the governor and val uable time saved for the passage of other measures of equal importance. In this way the senate is able to de- vote time to measures which will produce revenue with which to meet the appropriations. On Thursday afternoon the house bills making the biennial appropriations for the state school for the blind, the Arkansas Tuberculosis Santorium, the State Normal, and the medical department of the University of Arkansas, were passed without an item anywhere being changed The senate concurred in the amendments to the Whitaker bill making an appropriation for the four agricultural schools, but did so with a bad grace, because of an amendment which requires the pro- ceeds from the sale of farm produce be paid into the state treasury. The amendment also provides that the money can be drawn out again, but the friends of the measure stat ed this could not be legally done The amendment was accepted rather than endanger the passage of the bill.
 The actuarial bureau repeal, or the repeal of the section which would remove the trust feature" as one senator put it, was effectively killed when Senator Smith called it for vote. The bill was once before de- feated, but ordered reconsidered. The roll was called without comment, and the senators voted as follows:
 Aye-Bush, Cabiness, Duty, Ed mondson, Garrett, Goodwin, Great house, Kendall, King, Moncrief, Ruff, Slaughter, Smith, Utley, Vann-17.
 Nay-Adamson, Alexander, Brown, Barker, Caldwell, Carter, Carruth, Collins, Emory, Hester, Johnston, Jones, Owens, Ponder, Rogers, Walls, Smead, Ward, Whitaker, MT. Pres ident-20.
 Senator Smith gave notice that he would ask for another reconsidera tlOil OIl tludy HUI iIiiEs puC iSoi- dent Davenport declared his notice out of order for one bill cannot be twice reconsidered.
 The Adamson bill for the creation of board to prepare uniformity of the state laws, was passed, as was also the Duty bill to give the office of the attorney general an additional deputy and the Ruff bill to appropri- ate $500 annually for the mainte- nance of the Arkansas room in the Confederate museum at Richmond, Va.
 Senator Moncrief introduced bill appropriating $lO,000 for the purpose of gathering statistics to fight the movement to deprive the Arkansas Railroad Commission of it's right to establish and maintain intrastate rates.
 The house spent practically all of the afternoon Thursday considering the appropriation for the state hos pital for nervous diseases. Numer- ous items were attacked by the economy squad, and about $7O,OOo cut off from the total of approxi- mately $700,000.