The courier-index., 1919-09-26
FI ID REPEAL
 DISTRICT
|.u,ous ROAD FIGHT III IN IN
 lNvV TIRE RESULTS IN |iC'ssS .o.y FOR REPRESENTA- |ue ELLIOTT.

|rs ELLIOTT
 \. house of representatives ,as ns the special road act pre- { e'd'y ' !. q, committee representing ], '1 1saaudred n citizens of Lee @ E sss decisively defeated cate h;;, Gy E .s 4 B to 54. The il Dli'
 sar inc creation of an lm- < \, Y, district embracing prac- 'ss \. entire county and in in,
 .s. territory now embraced osI,. N road improvement dis { vas introduced Tn the n.nday by Senator Ward and s,.sdsy si it passed that body <, ooposition. In the house a..s,re was very strenuous ..sd by Representative Ei- .ao affected to the absorp- \ bh Delta district by the
 district. Representative I,re MeCulloch, who support
 h;ll, was sick and was un- }, ,ttend the sessions of the
 untiI Wednesday morning he appeared on the floor, |,sourh in a weakened physical tjon' took charge of the fight tse passage of the bill. FL moved to table the bill but |hs motion by a small margin. klloeh sought to have it passed second reading, but this mo- aaed of passage. On Thurs afternoon the real fight was when Representative El- ably assisted by Sullinger from ssippi, opposed the passage of biu. Those who witnessed the state the opponents of the ure put up a very strong fight. no more valiant than was the st waged by McCulloch for the ee of the measure. The state by department, Joe House, attorney for the Delta Dis Hugh Carter, the engineer he district, and the full force ov Trough and his lieuten- were thrown against the bill, D powerful was the opposition bn the final vote the measure sd scant support in the house. hediately upon the failure of nt bill to pass, another road J bill excluding the Delta
 from it's boundaries, was in- led in the senate by Senator
 This second bill will prob pa& the senate today and it anticipated there will be any non upon the part of Mir FL Q its passage in the house.
 week has been a rather ous one for those interested
 construction of a compre- system of hard surface ln the county. A delega-
 nearly half a hundred cit nom Marianna, Rondo, Mo- 2 Aubrey, and several large wners from the bottoms whose 3 are affected by the Delta
 appeared in Little Rock to TOT the passage of the bill le the Delta district and ostlng it with the proposed ustr'ct. Other land owners m the Delta district who 0sed to the repeal of that
 went to Little Rock to pre- as passage of the new bill. sn' was strenuous and at speetucular.
 opponents of the Delta dis 0asnt its absorption by the e new district because the ' 'ae thirteen miles of road instructed in the Delta dis a'es two important gaps 'es mile space between the
 ,0oundary of the Delta dis 4u 'ae point where the pro- '0aa reaches the railroad ,s" O'"er an eight mile gap as public road on the west VI n, the district and Peters
 ,.l me principal reason for ,;s. ae absorption of the Del ,es;s.. M was to provide for the N.Y. Va ,oi. or these two pieces of ,an r, Elliotts proposed road e,s point near his place 'a to Kokomo. "S' sal Elliott arguyl that he had
 of . y'u Tor g comprehensive
 H thls good roads in the conn proas % after 1t went to the ed .,, s owne@s in Marianna k ,ssa ssmong themselves over N lr's in ,t: to b. levied against
 sali. N 'als cits resulting in ksd i'''S s. that T mass ,,,e meetin~ ,~
 iD senator ,s Ward to xiii xiii e failaa as senate. When this the res,,ID aI%''ng the closing repsredde ddeeuiar , session, Mr. h'i. own eu aa a bill for a distr;ot . ioa; Toad leadino ta I con