Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-16
Senate Yesterday Passes Newton Bill Which Had
 Already Passed House.
APPROPRIATION FOR
 EXPO. BUILDING DEBT
Members of Upper House, ill Scrappy Mood, Vote Money to Repay Indi- viduals, and Giving Hot Springs
 Commission Form of Govt.

Beginning in 1919 the city of Pine
 Bluff will receive each year, in addi- tion to other income, sum estimated lat approximately $12,C00, to be used exclusively for work on the streets and highways, including bridges and culverts, this money to be one-half of the three-mill road tax paid by own CTS of property lying within the limits Of the city of Pine Bluff.
 Doubt was removed yesterday as to whether the proposal would be car ried through successfully, when the senate at Little Rock passed the bill which had previously passed the house of representatives. Before the measure was adopted in the senate, however, it had received a number of amendments, in accordance with the agreement reached here Saturday night at the conference held by the mayor and members of the city coun- cil with County Judge L. E. Cheek. State Senator Creed Caldwell and Representatives Magee and Newton. The amendments in effect provide that pledges now existing against that half of the road tax collections, and which are payable this year and next, will be paid out of the city's half of the road tax fund. If a balance re- mains the city will have the use of it. There is assurance from the Jetfer- son county representatives that the house will accept the senate amend ments, and that the bill will be pre- sented to the governor for his sigma ture within the next two or three days. Little Rock, Feb. 15.-Members of the Arkansas senate ran to Biblical
 lore in their discussions Thursday morning, and in their actions were about as belligerent as the Philistlnes. They passed through a most heated argument on who should do the en- rolling, the enrolling clerk, under the direction of the enrolling committee, or the enrolling clerk under the dl- rection of the enrolling clerk. and ended in grand display of pyro- technics. by the passing of the deficiency appropriation to defray the expenses of the Arkansas building at the Panama Pacific exposition.
 The vote on the Panama-Paclflc ex-
 position deficiency was 20 to 9. Four senators sat in their seats and de- clined to vote, while two others were absent. The question of the Dill not being an appropriation necessary to the maintenance of the state depart ments, and thus required a two-thirds vote of all members, was raised. but
 President Davenport, though he voted
 against the appropriation, declared , that only a two-thirds vote of those
 voting on the bill was necessary. He cited a recent decision of the Arkan-
 sas supreme court to sustain his rul- ing. The senate recessed, with the
 opponents of the bill still arguing on the question. :,
 The debate on the bill was warm all
 the way through, and many prominent
 business men of Little Rock, who Will be paid money advanced by them II
 the bill finally becomes an act. were crowded about the room. Almost all
 the members engaged in the discus sion. with Senators Cabiness and
 Moncrief leading the opposition. The final scriptural thrust was made by
 Senator Ward, who left Ruth and Boaz in the grain fields of Europe and admitted they were there because
 he had seen them. The vote on this bill was as fol- lows:
 Aye-Adamson, Alexander. Brown
 Burgess, Bush. Caldwell, Carter. Duty
 Garrett, Greenhouse, Hester, Johnson
 Jones. Kendall, Owens, Ponder, Rog- CTS. Sims, Smith and Ward-20. Nay-Cabiness, Carruth, Goodwin
 King, Moncrief, Smead, Utley. Vann and Mr. President-9.
 Absent or not voting-Collins. Ed.
 mondson, Emory, Ruff, Slaughter and
 Whittaker-6.
 Scrap Over Enrolment of Bills. ] The debate on the deficiency bill
 was never SO heated, nor so personal as that over the Ruff resolution tC
 place all the enrolling of bills under
 the enrolling clerk. This resolution
 had brought a storm center into the | senate Wednesday morning. but pro-
 duced cyclone Thursday.
 It developed in the argument that
 several employees about the senate hac
 been enrolling bills, which incurred
 the displeasure of the enrolling
 clerk, who declared she would be re- sponsible for their mistakes. if any
 were made. Senator Yam, chairman
 of the enrolling committee stated that
 others had not been permitted to en.
 roll bills except in emergencies. and l fN..a..>I ~ D. AA 0N