Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-03
Kill Requiring Corporation Employees to Announce
 Connection Passes.
pp0UGH DEPARTS
 FOR VICKSBURG
sonds Three Messages to Senate, One Urping Continuance of Doodle In. ycstigation, Committee Being
 on "HOt Trail"


 eial messages were received Friday afternoon by the senate from Gov. c. Trough. The first of these con- nlimented Senator Greenhouse highly and asked the senate to act favOrably upon his bill to continue the commit tee Investigating the charges of graft in the senate, or in connection with the government of the state. The sec ond notified the senate of the appoint ment of Chas. T. Abeles and Jas. B. Dickson of Little Rock and w. P Fletcher of Lonoke as members of the board for the newly created state general hospital, and B. w. Torreyson to succeed himself and Allen Winham of Texarkana to succeed Rev. T. O. Owen of Monticello as members of the State Normal board. The other mes sage asked the senate to pass the Ash Allen bill abolshing the county boards of equalization.
 Governor Brough also informed the senate that private business called him to Vicksburg, Miss, and that he would be absent from the state for two days, requesting President w. D, Davenport of the senate to serve as the states chief executive during his absence.
 | All kinds of general bills were passed in the afternoon session, some with strenuous fights, others went by As though they were a greased pig. The big battle was on the Waggoner and Holloway bill to require persons in any way identified with corpora tions, who may be candidates for the constitutional convention, to make statement of their connection and then have it published in a paper of the county. This bill was opposed on the ground that it was peanut politics and was offered to influence the vot- CTS against the best class of candi- dates that will be offered. Senators King, Smith and Caldwell spoke against the bill, and Senators Bush and Cabiness defended the measure The bill was passed, 15 to 12, and though number of senators who were against the bill were about in com mittee rooms, the advocates of the measure succeeded in getting it finally asposed of before they could be called in to ballot.
 The senate voted as follows:
 Aye-Brown, Bush, Cabiness, Car ruth, Edmondson, Emory, Garrett Greathouse, Jones, Kendall, Monchief walls, Utley, Yam and Whitaker
 Nay-Barker, Caldwell, Carter, Duty Soawln, Hester, King, Ruff, Slaughter Smlth, Ward and Mir. President.
 another lengthy debate took place oa the Emmerson bill to prevent over aarge on railroad fares, but agai1 senator Bush led a victorious battle.
 ~, Bills Passed.
 olner general bills passed were b. senator Carter, to create a board O mlee members to purge the Confed elste pension rolls; Monchief, appro ela1ng $l0,00O to fight an increase il melgnt rates; Baxter, to enlarge thu
 owers of the tax commission t. eauaize the rate of taxation in tn 'sf,ous counties of the state; Moor .,. .naependence, to remove the dis sI.ales s,',N Of married women; Cazort snlag county courts the right to pen s,ua ss., aependent mothers, as amended .,". .a o6 counties exempted; Bland, fo s'ate boiler inspection.
 ,. .cal bills passed were. Davies, t
 sta ss.mit Hot Springs to sell alleys an' in iaee's; York, creating school distric n,,,'. nj sackson county; Trawick, to sim m tue manner of making extension nso. 1ulaski county tax books: Cabi
 tr;o. as' permitting the Ogden levee dis mon.. ., Little River county, to borroy taaa tes; G Baxter, to enlarge the Hermi
 ns.n, .r special School district; Mathis
 And na",tling Augusta to sell its ligh
 ths water plant; Curtis, confirmin con,. proceedings of the Clay count
 Rlsas m the erection of a bridge acros
 tnrn", ue state charities committee re
 invastaiatnle iasa tne Davis (of Columbia) bill t
 tntio"a the state charitable insti
 ths ns ;ns With out recommendation, an
 Ho,larance committee sent back tn
 the H"ay t.Hy. Dill, for making equitabl
 win 'aaatlon on insurance companies
 . favorable recommendation.
 Tho neclde to Work Today.
 irvias senate spent an hour or mor
 .-s 10 decide whether it wanted t
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