Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-09
i. .ao;slators Conclude With Program, Including Gifts
 to officers, Employees.
wAGEE MUNICIPAL
 COURT BILL PASSED
Pine Bluff Legislator Leads in Suc- essful Fight Against Repeal of Inti.Cigarette Law-BrOugh
 Compliments Assembly.

Little Rock, March S.-After the stormy sessions of the preceding 59 days, the closing session of the house of the Forty-first general assembly, Thursday forenoon, was frolic. Only limited amount of business was transacted in the morning hour, including the formal roll call on the passage of a number of house bills which had been amended by the sen- ate. Among these are the Cazort bill to permit county judges to grant pen
 sions to needy mothers of dependant children, after more than half the
 counties were exempted; the Trawick
 bill, to raise the salary of the county
 iudge of Pulaski county from $3,600 to $O0O a year; the Magee bill to
 establish a municipal court in Pine Bluff; aud the bill for the support of the state Hospital for Nervous Dis cases. MT. Leigh of Pulaski cast the only negative vote against the Trawick salary bill.
 The only contest was over the bill by Senator Collins to license the sale of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco. and to repeal the present law prohibiting the sale or giving away of cigarettes. Mr. Magee led the fight against the bill, insisting that Because Walker v. Powell is working for the bill is asuficient reason for voting against At" He said that if it is true that the lnr ic 1f0rond voaifhnr would the proposed law. The bill was defeated by vote of 16 to 60.
 Two bills by Senator Jones, in which local officials were very much inter- ested, were passed, one of them to allow cities having population of 10000 or more to refund their city warrants and the other to permit Pulaski county to refund it's county warrants.
 Towns Can Suppress Pool Halls.
 A bill by Senator Brown was passed which gives cities and in corporated towns the right to sup press as we'll as regulate and license bedrooms, billiard halls, bowling alleys and similar places of amuse- ment
 The house also passed the bill by senator Utley empowering the State Normal school to issue to it's grad uates rural teachers certificates good TOT two years, which, it was argued, VIII do much toward encouraging higher ideals for the teachers of the state.
 The last two bills passed by the house concerned corporations. one of mem by Senator Smead to require the ROCK Island to build a. 150-foot switch at Beard's crossing, on the Camden branch in Ouachita county. The other was by Senator Caldwell to extend tae statute of limitations from two to tnree years in which suits may be brought for personal injuries.
 At 11:25 MT. Andrews of Nevada moved that the house suspend further business and begin the closing ex- erclses, which carried, and the speaker surrendered the chair to Representa- uve Louis Joseph of Miller, chairman ol tne committee. For the next three .uurs there was an interchange of .sellcltous speeches on the part of .uose who had so recently been pitted ssalnst each other in harsh debate qua llerce legislative battles. All the .ancor was gone, the utmost good will prevailed, and frequently an especial y tender expression of sentiment "uugnt tears to the eyes of many. !. roiiowlng speech by MT. Joseph, hm winch he thanked all the mem- n ue1s and the speaker especially, for Me consideration shown him, MT. SsIawell SSsIawell of Washington presented on ueaair of the house, handsome gold h, hHa'cn to Speaker Cazort, who thanked .a 4,s friends for it, concluding with the 'ear-choked statement:
 nave baby only four months old, E. nu l shall keep this watch and give .n .o nim on his twenty-first birthday as asa tell him that it came from a body oi honest men,"
 so mr' Harrison of Cross then pre- 'I.ed 2 as' to Chief Clerk Harvey G. Combs rpd sold Elks' pin, to Assistant Chief .slAs pa;. Jim" Higgins and Cleveland cIau 1sI,G gold cuff links, and to Journal naa .e,k Tom Ward gold fountain pen. sr"a en or the recipients made brief wesce wvescnes Of appreciation, and Tom clrss, a won applause when he con- s.uued by moving ''that the conditions