The log cabin Democrat., 1917-02-17
LIBERAL WIIH ALL EXCEPT (. K. FUND OTHER FUNDS ARE EASY Senate Refers and Endangers Pas sage of Bill Allowing Women to
 Vote in Primaries

the overly abused general revenue, the general assembly is quite liberal. The Collier bill to regulate banks and trust companies, a measure which has the sanction of the Arkansas Bank CTS Association, reached the senate Friday afternoon 1t contained sec tion increasing the salary of the state bank commissioner from $3,000 to $4,O0O per annum. Senator Brown
 immediately offered an amendment to reduce it to the present salary, but when the senate heard that this comes out of the fund accumulated by the state banking department, it tabled the amendment post haste.
 Several days ago the senate voted down a bill by Senator Alexander, ap- propriating about $1S,000 to complete paving around the capitol, but Fri day afternoon 1t reconsidered the bill amended so that the $18,0O0 comes out of funds accumulated through taxes paid into the capitol fund, and the bill placed back on the high road to passage.
 The Riggs bill providing that wom- en vote in primary elections, received on Thursday afternoon after it had passed through the house amid much applause, was read in the senate Fri day afternoon. The petticoat lobby was largely absent, and although the senate was supposed to be cooked and primed for the passage of the bill, it was read twice and referred to the committee on elections. The bill now is at the mercy of the committee, for it can hold it ten days without re- port, and in ten days it will be so close to the end of the session, and the rush of business so great, that it will take much pressure to have it acted upon.
 To save the prohibition statutes from repeal, Senator Jones on Friday afternoon amended his bill which gives to cities the right to license non resident vendors, particularly horsetraders, so that it is relieved of the word "ale shop. Senators Cald- well and Greenhouse were afraid of this bill, giving cities the right to li- cense "ale shops, would nullify the prohibition laws, and Senator Jones stated that it had no such intention and promptly amended it to strike out the offending words
 The following counties have been exempted from the house bill which seeks to provide for the registration of county warrants, and their pay ment in the order issued: Baxter, Benton, Bradley, Clay, Cleveland, Col umbia, Hampstead, Hot Spring, h. dependence, Izard, Johnson, Lafay- cite, Lincoln, Nevada, Perry, Poinsett, Pope, Prairie, Saline, Scott, Sebas- tian, Sharp, St. Francis, Stone, Desha, Sevier, Grant, Logan, Faulkner, Cal houn, Searcy and Jefferson.
 More than half the counties of the state have been exempted from the Cazort bill, to give county courts au- thority to grant pensions to depend ent widows who are mothers of chil- dren.
 The following counties have been exempted from the Chambliss bill pro- viding for the time of holding sessions of the quorum courts: Clay, Fulton, Baxter, Lawrence, Crawford, Little River, Desha, Izard and Lonoke.
 The general fish and game bill had stormy passage through the house yesterday afternoon. It got through by narrow squeeze, the vote beng 42 yeas to Al noes. A motion to re- consider the vote by which the bill passed and to lay that motion on the table failed by vote of 43 to A.
 Mir. Vinson of Chicot was the cham pion of the measuH, and attempted to make a full explanation of its pro- visions, but on account of the uproar was unable to make himself under stood, and finally desisted when ob lection was raised to his continuing beyond the time limit permitted under the order of the previous question.
 The departments and institutions of the state are to be audited here after, at regular and stated intervals, under the direction of a state official, created by bill passed in the house yesterday. It is the Smead-Carter bill, an administration measure. pro viding for the appointment by the governor of an expert accountant not less than 30 years of age, of not less than five years experience, who shall be state comptroller. His salary is fixed at $3,OO0 per year and his term at six years. He shall appoint an assistant comptroller at $2,50O a year,