The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-03
EXPOSITION BILL
 AGAIN DEFEATED hARTJE IN LOSING FIGHT Faulkner County Senator Defeated in Effort to Reduce Cotton Acreage
 on State Farm.

Little Rock, Feb 3.-The house spent the entire day Wednesday in the consideration of two bills, one of which was passed and the other de- feated. There was great amount of oratory spilled in the house cham Der during the day and many speeches that had been accumulating in the systems of the members were gotten rid of.
 The forenoon was devoted to the Smith bill providing for the licensing of automobiles and that the licenses should be issued by the secretary of state instead of by the highway com- mission, also that all the money de- rived from automobile licenses should be retained in the county where paid. MT. Parnell led the fight to have the bill placed back on second reading in the highway department, but he was voted down and the bill was final ly passed with only eight votes against it.
 The house was more evenly divided in the afternoon in considering the Panama-P Pacific exposition bill for the appropriation of $24,000 to pay claims of those who had advanced money and had performed services for the exposition at San Francisco. MT Belote of Hot Spring County led the fight against the bill and there were many speeches for and against the measure. It was finally defeated by a vote of 49 ayes to 49 noes. The bill has been before four legislatures and has twice been through the supreme court, it having been held that 1t re quires a majority of two-thirds ot the members elect or 67 to pass the bill.
 The sentiment of the Arkansas scn' ate is apparently not that of bankers, planters and merchants when 1t comes to cotton reduction as state product. Senator Hartje made gallant fight for the Herring resolution from the house to reduce the cotton acreage on the state farm in accordance with what is known as the Memphis plan, but Senator Caldwell and others diff fered with him so convincingly that the Herring resolution was defeated
 Senator Caldwell argued that the state had men and must make money on it's farms so cotton was the only thing it could raise
 When it comes to abolishing the cor poration commission, the senate IS a busy little body. It scrapped for an hour over amendment to the Emory abolition bill Wednesday afternoon adopting committee amendment on a roll call by vote of IS to 12. I'm mediately after this was done two more bills to abolish commission were introduced; one by Senator Johnston, wiping the slate clean and leaving only the hole where the commission stood. He says this is what Govern or McRae advocated in his lnau- gural speech. Senator Stewart lntro- duced a bill substituting commission of three which has jurisdiction only over uIHllltS WHICH SlllNSt wv VI more towns or counties. Local fran chies are returned to the munlclpall- ties with right of appeal to the com mission and if an agreement can not be reached there the matter then goes to the circuit courts of the district from which the case came.
 A bill for the revision of the general revenue laws was introduced Tn the senate Wednesday afternoon by Sena- tor Vaughan. It contains 80 pages and 155 sections. It provides for an assessment at full value and reduction of rate in accordance with the increase of taxable property.
 Just before the senate adjourned Wednesday afternoon, Senator wilson of Calhoun introduced bill which has for it's purpose the abolishment of the Arkansas Actuarial Bureau It was referred to the insurance com