The Little River news., 1923-02-28
UNIVERSITY MOEEMa
 MEASURE ES KILLED
Is Indefinitely Postponed by Vote 0f f7 to fI-Dead fer This
 Session,

On roll call ballot takon at { o'clock last night, after five hours continuous debate, the Senate voted, IT Ito 15, indefinite postponement of the IBogle bill, which would have submit ted the matter to the people at the next Democratic primary.
 The vote on the motion to postpone, which disposes of the measure as eff fectually as the defeat of the bill on its merits, was as follows: for post ponement-Austin, Caldwell, Cullum, Deisch, DuLaney, Emory, Johnston, McCabe, Mason, Milum, Norfleet. Par nell, Shuster, Thompson, Williamson, Wilson of Washington and Wilson of Union, total of IF; against postpone ment-Abington, Arnold Bailey, Barnes, Bogle, Golf, Grabiel Haley, Jackson, Knox, McElhanon, McGraw, Moore, Price, Watson, total of 15.
 The bill came up as special order lat o'clock yesterday afternoon pre- Esumably on third reading and final passage. President Wilson, who had taken the floor against the bill leav- ing Senator Thompson in the chair, immediately moved indefinite post. IpCnement and in the ensuing skirm- Iish, friends of the measure were IjockeyeG out of position. The ques- tion before the Senate Was declared by Senator Thompson as presiding oftic- CT to be the indefinite ostponement of the bill. This gave the proponents of the motion and the opponents of the bill the advantage of opening and closing of the debate Had the b.ll come up on passage or rejection on it's merits, it's friends would have o. .eled and closed.
 The galleries were packed befere the Senate reconvened after the noon re- cess, and the crowds remained until the announcement of the vote at 7:19 o'clock. Seators, gallery spectators and visitors on the floor of the Senate burst into frequent applause during the debate, athoulgh the session was lone of the most orderly which has been held.
 Friends of removal last night were Inoncommittal as to whether fu! ,hor steps are to be taken, but Senator Grabiel, during his argument in fsvor of the bill and against postponing it. Iintimated strongly that the matter will be submitted to the people on initiated petition.
 AttacH on Bii. Begins.
 Senator LuLaney, opening the argl,> ment in favor of the motion to post pone, declared that the bill had no business in the Senate; that it had been tabled in the House and that it was wrong to take up the time of. the Senate with "a sideshow that already has been killed" He said that the Ifegi.l2tuTe still is confronted with the three major problems of taxation, edu- cation and highways, and that none of the general appropriation bills have been passed
 Asked by Senator Deisch, chairman of the joint Budget Committee, if he knew why the appropriation bills had not passed, Senator DuLaney asked the budget chairman to answer the question.
 "Recause two of the biggest depart ments of the state government hare been in a fight ever since We have been ihere,' said Senator Deisch.
 Taking up the discussion of the bi ! Senator DuLaney charged that it was an issue manufactured by the Little Rock Board of Commerce and Little Rock real estate interests"
 'The bill provides that the proposed new university shall be located within
 l5 miles of Little Nock," he said, simply to give some real estate man a chance to sell $100-an-acre land at 5000 an acre.
 Other objections to the bill are that there is nc definite time in which Lit tie Rock is to raise the $1,000,000 fund to pay costs of removal. Under the provisions of the bill it may be five. 10 or l5 years-any definite time and in the meantime, the university wi | remain crippled. There is no fairness lt the bill. If it's friends simply want the institution removed to a more cen trally located part of the state, why didn't they submit the location to com petitive bidding, so that Pine Bluff, Conway or Hot Springs might have had a chance? Also the measure should not be voted upon at the Dem Iocratic primary. Coming up then it would simply cloud the other issues"
 The senator declared that the word ing of the clause providing for remov- : ing the university "as it then may ex- list" was plot, "a joining of hands