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ESTABLISHED 1871
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VOL. XXXVIII.
FORREST CITY. ARK.. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1909.
NO. 22.
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Senators Talk State Capitol.
With the Senate in adjournment for
'wo davs the live subject under dis
cussion is the two pending State Capi
tol bills in that body, the last of
which was scheduled for its final
hearing some time the last of this
week.
One hill is by Senator Patterson. It
is the bill drafted by the committee >
along the line of recommendations of
Governor Donaghey in his message to j
the legislature. It provides for the
dismissal of the present State ( apitol
commission and the api>ointment of a
board of arbitration of three judges
tn settle the present controversy with
the contractors and makes provision
lor the completion of the State Capitol
independently of the capitol com
mision.
The other bill was introduced last
Monday by Senator DeRositt It pro
vides for the completion of the State
Capitol commission by the appoint- ;
ment of George B. Rose in the place I
of W\ R. Alexander, deceased, and the
appropriation of $350 to permit the
present contractors to go ahead and
complete the work.
It has been rumored, but not offi
cially, that a compromise measure
embodying concessions from both
sides, may be the result of the present
discussion of the State Capitol prob
lem from all sources. The Senate is
desirous that the building be com
pleted and some of the members have
said that they will not permit per
sonal animosity or personal differ
ences to delay it if it is in their
power to prevent it.
House Disapproves Proposed Changes
Two measures of statewide import
ance were defeated in the House Wed
nesday, hut not until after a vigorous
defense of each. One was the meas
ure by Mr. Cartwright of Slone
County providing for the general dis
tribution of the common tax levied
upou railroads, the other was a bill
by Mr. Hurst of Washington providing
for the right of cities and incorporated
towns to use within their respective
corjtprate limits four-fifths of the
j road'tax levied in the city, and the re
I inaining one-fourth to be expended
1 in the same township as that in which
the town or city is located.
Both the bill and the resolution
had been previously discussed, and
was brought up as unfinished busi
ness.
Mr. Hurst spoke in defense of the
bill urged that the original intent
of the present law was to effect just
what he intended to have his bill
secure, but that owing to a laxuesss of
the provisions of the law the county
judges could, and. in many instances,
he declared, did defeat the purpose of
the law by expending funds raised in
one township in some other township
! and generally transferring road tax
! funds where the\ pleased.
I On a final vote, the resolution lost,
I but the vote was much closer than
would have evidently been the case,
! had the measure been pressed to a
vote a week ago, at which time it
would almost certainly have been
overwhelmingly voted down. It had
gained considerable favor during the
past few days.
Senator Nance Dead.
The Senate received messages Irons
Governor Donaghey announcing the
death of Senator Nance of Benton at
his home at Rogers Tuesday morning
at <1:30 o'clock and after the mere
formal business of the morning had
been transacted the body by resolu
tion adjourned to met Thursday morn
ing at 9:30 o'clock.
Senator R. L. Nance, who was serv
ing his holdover term from the Thir
ty fourth senatorial district, came to
Little Rock in ill health at the open
ing of the session, H<‘ took an act
ive part in the organization of the
Senate and was the chairman of the
informal caucus held at the Hotel Ma
rion at 9 o’clock on the morning of
the day the Senate opened. At this
caucus he presided untii Senator Alex
ander Ropp of Prairie had been cho
sen as chairman of the formal Demo
cratic caucus that met in the Senate
chamber and elected the permanent
officers of the Senate.
Shortly after the Senate began its
work. Senator Nance became ill ami
went to the Little Rock (Battle
Creek» Sanitarium, where he spent
several days. He grew better, how
ever, and returned to the Senate.
Last week the senator became ill
again and was granted an indenite
leave of absence from the Senate and
as he was not in a condition to travel
by himself. Senator White of Logan
accompanied him to his home.
William A Fry, United Slates vet
erinary inspector, located at Rogers,
is in the city visiting among the leg
islators and working in the interest of
cattle tick eradication in Arkansas. A
bill appropriating money to be used in
placing certain portions of the state
north of the catle quarantine line will
be introduced, probably in the House,
within the next week or ten days,
according to present plans. In a writ
ten appeal to legislators for tick erad
ication.
IN THE HOUSE.
Bills Passed
House Bill No 118 (C'lerget). re
lating to levee districts in Conway
county.
House Bill No. 2 (Bellamy t, provid
ing for the establishment of four agri
cultural schools Vote. 84 to 7.
House Bill No. IT (McCracken), re
quiring larger bonds for county de
pository in Conway county, and pro
viding for change of depository if law
is not complied with.
House Bill No. 119 (Simpson i. re
lating to a school district in Scott
county.
House Bill No. 104 (Buerklel. re
lating to the fee to be charged in
surance companies for filing of arti
cles in the state and filing of pre
liminary notice.
Bills Introduced.
House Bill No. 122 (Bellamy),
amending Section 4732 of Kirby s Di
gest so that money paid to the state
for state lands shall be refunded in
the event it is learned that a clear
title to the land cannot be secured,
the property in question being in the
posaession of some one else.
H. B No. 123 (Bradhamt, amending
Section 3608 of Kirby's Digest so that
It shall be unlawful for any one to
shoot fish.
House Bill No. 124 (Brandham olim
inating "intolerable treatment," as
one ground for securing divorces; pro
viding that no one can remarry within
a year after securing a divorce, and
requiring all parties to a divorce pro
ceedings to appear before the chan
cellor and in public.
House Bill No. 126 (Brown of Cleve
land), prohibiting anyone from fishing
on Sunday.
House Bill No. 118 (Clerget). con j
ferring special power on Levee Dis- j
triets Nos 1 and 2 of Conway county i
so that those districts may issue $6.- i
000 worth of bonds, maturing from one
to six years after issuance, at eight
per cent interest, for the purpose of
raising money to bear the cost of
emergency levee work. Read twice
and made special order of business for
Tuesday morning
Bills Considered.
House Bill No. 103 (Morris), pro
viding for the employment of county
convicts on the public roads. Read
second time and referred to Roads
and Highways Committee. Five hun
dred copies ordered printed.
Resolution Adopted.
House Resolution (Leigh), providing
for the appointment of a committee
i of two. Messrs. Bouic and Whittington
i of Garland, to call upon the former
; secretary of state, Elihu Root, who is
at Hot Springs, and invif. him to ad
dress the legislature on any subject
he may choose at some future date
when agreeable to him.
IN THE SENATE.
Bills Passed.
Senate Bill No. 5 (Robertson), to
prevent the carrying and sale of con
cealed weapons.
Senate Bill No. 82 (Rowland), lo
appropriate $10,000 as a contingent
fund for use of the attorney general
In employing counsel to defend all
Arkansas acts that have been attacked
in the courts, excepting the railroad
rate eases. Only Senators Bush and
Catiock voted against the bill.
Senate Bill No 134 (Rasco). to
amend Section 6225 of Kirby's Digest
so that in a case a judge dies or be
comes insane, the judge who succeeds
to tb(> bench shall have the authority
to sign all pending bills of exception.
Senate Bill No. S'J (Henderson), to
punish wife deserters with a maxi
mum penalty of $1,000 fine or jail
imprisonment, or both. Vote, 20 to 0.
Senate Bill No. 131 (Rowland), to
amend Section 751 of Kirby's Digest
so that a married woman will not
be compelled to sign a relinquishment
of dower in the absence of her hus
band Vote. 10 to 1.
Bills Introduced.
Senate Bill No. 31 (Toneyi. making
$3,000 per year the salary of all clr- j
cuit judges and chancellors. Read
first time.
Senate Bill No. 137 (McKenzie), re- j
lating to children who are now or may
become dependent, neglected or do- j
iinquent, defining the terms and to j
provide for the treatment, control. |
maintenance, protection, adoption and
guardianship of the person of such
children. Bill is kown as juvenile
court bill. Referred to Education
Committee and 500 copies ordered
priuted.
Senate Bill No. 130 (Bush), to regu- i
late the attendance upon public |
schools. Bill requires children be- j
tween 8 and 16 years of age must be ;
sent to school at least half of (he re
gular school term or be given equiva
lent instruction at home or in private j
schools. Five hundred copies ordered
printed and referred to Education
Committee.
Senate Bill No. 154 (Rowland), to
appropriate $30,000 to eradicate the
cattle fever tick Aims to make ef
fective act 400 passed by' last legisla
ture. Referred to Agriculture Com
mittee.
Senate Bill No 153 (DeRositt). to
enforce more effectually the liquor
laws in prohibition territory If a per- ;
son caught with liquor in his posses
sion in such territory he shall be re
quired to tell a magistrate where he
got the liquor. Government license to
sell liquor shall be prima facia evi
dence against the person having the
same. Referred to Judiciary commit
tee for the purpose of having its
constitutionality passed upon
ON COUNTRY LIFE
SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM WHITE
HOUSE TO CONGRESS.
President Suggests Social and Busi
ness Improvements for the Bene
fits of the Dweller in Agri
cultural Communities.
Washington.—Accompanying the r**
port of the country life commission
the president sent a special message
to congress, substantially as follows:
To the Senate and House of Represent
ative* I transmit herewith the report
of the commission on country life. At
the outset I desire to point out that not
a dollar of the public money has been
paid to any commissioner for his work
on the commission
The report shows the general condition
of farming life in the op* n country, and
points out its larger problems, it indi
cates ways in which the government, na
tional and state, may show the people
how to solve some of these problems and
it suggests a continuance of the work
which the commission began.
Those engaged in all other industrial
and commercial callings have found it
necessary, under modern economic con
ditions. to organize themselves for mu
tual advantage and for the protection of
their own particular interests in rela
tion to other interests.
Now. whatever the state may do to
ward improving the practice of agri
culture. it is not within the sphere of
any government to reorganize the farm
ers’ business or reconstruct the social
life of farming communities. It is. how*
ever, quite within its power to use its
influence and the machinery of publicity
which it can control for ( ailing public at
tention to the needs of the facts For ex
ample. it is the obvious duty of the gov
ernment to call tlie attention of farmers
to the growing monopolization of water
power. Tlie farmers, above all, should
have that power, on reasonable terms, for
I cheap transportation, for lighting their
■ home*, and for innumerable uses in the
; daily tasks of the farm.
Necessity for Co-Operation.
The co-operative plan Is the best plan
of organization wherever men have the
right spirit to carry it out. Under this
plan any business undertaking is man
aged by a committee; every man has
one vote, and only one vote, and every
one gets profits according to what he
sells or buys or supplies. It develops in
dividual responsibility and lias a moral
as well as a financial value over any
] other plan.
T desire only to take counsel with the
farmers as fellow-citizens. It is not the
problem of the farmers alone that I am
discussing with them, but a problem
which affects every city as well as every
• farm in the country.
From all that has been done and
learned three great general and immedi
ate needs of country life stand out:
First. effective co-operation among
farmers, to put them on a level with the
organized interests with which they do
business
Second, a new kind of schools in the
country, which shall teach the children
as much outdoors as indoors and per
haps more, so that they will prepare for
1 country life, and not as at present, maln
| ly for life in town.
Third, better means of communication,
including good roads and a parcels post,
which the country people are everywhere,
and rightly, unanimous in demanding.
To these may well he added better san
itation. for easily preventable diseases
hold several million country people in the
i slavery of continuous ill health. ,
To Develop Country Community.
To improve our .system of agriculture
spejiis to ok* the most urgent of the tasks
which lie before us. But it cannot, in
my judgment, be effected by measures
which touch only the material and tech
nical side of the subject; the whole busi
m s and life of the farmer must also
be taken into account. Such considera
tions led me to appoint the commission
on country life. Our object should be
to help develop in the country commu
nity the great ideals of the community
life as well as of personal character. One
of the most important adjuncts to this
i end must be the country church, and I
invite your attention to what the <*om
| mission says of the country church and
j of the rn^ed of an extension of such work
as that of the Young Men's Christian as
j sociation in country communities. L#ei
! me lay special emphasis upon what th*
| commission says at the very end of its
1 report on personal ideas and local leader
, ship. K\* rything resolves itself in the
end into the question of personality
Neither sot l.-tv rum government can do
much for country lift unless there is vol
untary response In the person:'11 ideals
of the men and women who live hi the
country. In the development of charac
ter. the home should be more important
than the school, or than society at large.
When once the basic material needs have
been met. high ideals may be quite in
nepenucnt or income put iney i innot lie
realized without sufficient income to pro
vide adequate foundation; and vtiere the
community at large is not financially
prosperous it is Impossible to develop a
high average personal and community
Ideal. In short, the fundamental facts
of human nature apply to men ami wom
en who live in the country just as they
apply to men and women who live in the
towns. Oiven a sufficient foundation of
material well being, the Influence of the
farmers' wives on their children be
comes the factor of first importance in
determining the attitude of the next gen
eration toward farm life. The farmer
should realize that the person who most
needs consideration on the farm is his
wife. I do not in the least mean that she
should purchase ease at the expense of
duty. Neither man nor woman is really
happy or really useful save on condition
of doing his or her duty. If tie wom
an shirks her duty as housewife, as
home keeper, as the mother whose prime
function is to bear and rear a sufficient
number of healthy children, then she is
not entitled to our regard. But if she
does her duty she is more entitled to our
regard even than the man who does
his duty; and the man should show epe
cial consideration for her needs.
Welfare of Nation at Stake.
I warn my countrymen that the great
recent progress made in city life is not
a full measure of our civilization; for our
civilization rests on the wholesomeness,
the attractiveness, and the completeness, .
as well as the prosperity, of life in the
country. The men and women on the
farms stand for what Is fundamentally
t>ost and most needed in our Americas
Ilfs.
THEODORE ROOSEVEET.
Tha White House, February », XM.
ROBBERS SENT
TO PRISON
Three Plead Guilty to Charge and Get '
Sentence to Atlanta, and a
Fine of $500.
Hatesville. An adjourned term < f \
Federal court was held in this city j
for the purpose of trying Arch Wc.r '
tou, Charles Gregory, alias Ji:n
French, and H. B. Bertrand, who w« le
jointly indicted for robbing the post
office at Clover Bend In May last. All
of the defendants entered pleas of ’
guilty and were sentenced by Judge
Triebr to serve four years in the Fed
eral prison a! Atlanta, <Ja.. and were
also fined $500 each.
These men with two others attempt
ed to blow the safe of the Clover Be.nl
postoffice, and being unsuccessful at
that procured about $:io cash and post
age. The other two were recently
sent to Fort l>eavenworth for other
offenses against the Federal laws in
Missouri.
It is generally supposed that these
five men were responsible for many
of the robberies occurring over the
state during the past few months.
Bertrand had recently been pardon
ed by Acting Governor Pindall from
the state penitentiary.
AMATEUR OFFICER SHOOTS.
Escaped Prisoner Refuses to Halt and
Citizen Fires on Him.
Pine Bluff. —Guy Saunders, a young
white man. tried to arrest Lee Pick- |
: ering, another young white man who
escaped from the city chain gang Sat
urday, and when Pickering refused
to stop running Saunders tired the
contents of a double-barreled shotgun
at him. Many of the buckshot took
effect and Pickering fell to the ground,
painfully wounded. Saunders then
called tip police headquarters and ask
ed that the patrol wagon be sent for
j the wounded man. Pickering was
taken to police headquarters, where
he is being cared for. His back and
j legs are perforated with buckshot, but
his condition is not necessarily serious,
j Saunders may be arrested, as the rel
1 atives of Pickering say they will proy
{ ecute him.
RAILROAD SCORES 14 POINTS.
Judge Trieber Sustains Some of the !
Exceptions of the Iron Mountain. J
Little Rock—Fourteen of the 26 ex
' ceptions filed by the Iron Mountain
! railroad to the answer of the Arkan
sas Railroad Commission in the case
of Iron Mountain vs. .1. E. Hampton
et al were sustained by Judge Jacob
Trieber in United States District
! Court.
The case involves a temporary in
junction granted by the courts against
the railroad commission restraining
the assessments or fines against the
Iron Mountain for failure to furnish
cars at certain coal mining points
on the Fort Smith line in 1907.
The court granted the attorneys for
the commission 30 days In which to !
| prepare an amend' d answer in the i
cause.
HAS NOT SLEPT in 96 HOURS.
Peculiar Affliction cf a boy Recovering
From Mumps.
Blevins.—Ralph Tribble, a student ;
of the school here, is suffering from
a peculiar malady which is thought
to be the result of an attack of mumps
lrom which he i convalescent. He
has neither slept n ;■ been sleepy for \
the last !)t, hours a d the doctors are
anxious over his c adition. He was
apparent Iy well ■ i the mumps when
his present condi i-m attracted atten j
tion.
There is appa ally an epidemic of
mumps here a.: i it. is thought the !
schools will have to be closed soon
on that accoum Wallaceburg, near
here, is also n ;i irting many cases of i
mumps.
Bishop to A d in Raising Fund,
f'onwav Pre. dent Stonewall An
derson has received a letter front
Bishop E. K Hendrix stating iliai he
will come to Arkansas and spend sev
eral days during the latter part of
March assisting in the campaign for
$300,000 endowment for Hendrix Col
lege In order to assist in this work
Bishop Hendrix has canceled several
important engagements in his capac
ity as nresident of the Inter-Church
Federation of America
A rally will he held at Little Kock
on March 30, at which time the col
lege authorities believe they will be
able to announce that the desired
amount of endowment has been se
cured.
Camden —The Illinois and Arkan
sas Lumber Comimny may establish
a plant at Camden A. O. Beek
he company, has located here, and I
•■her officials of the concarn are ex
acted to arrive within a short time
i look the ground over.
NEEDS OF FARMER
SHOWN BY COUNTRY LIFE COM
MISSION REPORT.
Obstacles to Be Overcome Are Point
ed Ou*. Together with Sugges
tions for Guidance of the Na
tional Government.
Washington.—Report of the commis
sion on country life, cf especial inter
est to the farmers, was read In both
houses of congress. A summary fol
lows;
To the President The commission
on country Ilf.* herewith presents its
report. The commission finds that
agriculture In the tTnlted States, taken
together. Is prosperous commercially,
when measured by the conditions that
have obtained in previous >ears. al
though there arc some regions in
which this is only partially true. The
country people are producing vast
quantities at supplies for food, shelter,
clothing and for use In the arts. Tin
country homes are improving In com
fort. attractiveness and h. Llthftiln.es
Not only In the material wealth that
they produce, but In the supply of in
dependent and strong citizenship, the ag
rlcultufal people constitute the very
foundation of our national efficiency.
As agriculture Is the Immediate basis
of country life, so It follows that the
general affairs of the open country,
speaking broadly, are In a condition 1
of Improvement.
Most Prominent Deficiencies.
Yet it is true. not withstanding all
this progress as measured by his
torical standards, that agriculture is
not commercially as profitable as it is
entitled to be for the labor and energy
that flic farmer expends and the risks
that he assumes, and that the social
conditions in the open country are far
short of their possibilities.
The reasons for the lack of a highly
organized rural society are very many,
as the full report explains. The lead
ing specific causes are:
hack of good training for country
life In the schools;
r.ack of good highway facilities;
The widespread continuing deple
tion of soils, with the injurious effect
on rural life;
A general need of new and active
leadership.
Other causes contributing to ihn
general result are: Tarek of any ade
quate system of agricultural credit,
whereby the farmer may readily se
cure loans on fair terms; the short
age of labor, a condition that is often
complicated by intemperance among
workrfaen; lack of institutions and In
centives that tie the laboring man to
| the soil; the burdens and the narrow
i life of farm women; lack of adequate
supervision of public health.
Nature of the Remedies.
Congress can remove some of th*
handicaps of the farmer, and it can
also set some kinds of work In motion
such as: *
The encouragement of a system at
thorough-going surveys of all agricul
tural regions in order to take stock
and to develop a scientifically and
economically sound country life.
The establishing of a nationalized
system of extension work in rural
communities through ali the land
grant colleges with the people at their
homes and on their farms;
A thorough going Investigation by
experts of the middleman system of
handling farm products, coupled with
a general inquiry into the farmer'*
disadvantages in rtspect to taxation,
transportation rates, co-operation or
ganizations arid credit, and the gen
eral business system:
An inquiry into the control and use
of the streams of the United States
with the object of protecting the peo
pie In their ownership and of staving
to agricultural uses such benefits as
should be reserved for these purposes:
The establishing of a system of
parcels post and postal savings
banks;
And providing some means or
agency for the guidance of public
opinion toward the development of a
real rural society that shall rest di
rectly on the land.
Other remedies recommended for
consideration by congress are:
The enlargement of the United
States bureau of education, to enable
it to stimulate and co-ordinate the ed
ucational work of the nation.
Careful attention to the farmers'
interests in legislation on the tariff
on regulation of railroads, control or
regulation of corporations and of sim
ulation. legislation in respect of riv
ers, forests and the utilization of
swamp lands;
increasing me powers oi me [lit
eral government In respect to the
supervision and control of the pubic
health;
Providing such regulations as will
enable the states that do not permit
the sale of liquors to protect them
selves from traffic front adjoining
states.
In setting all these forces fn motion,
the co-operation of the states will be
necessary, and in many cases definite
state laws may greatly aid the work
Remedies of a more general nature
are- A broad campaign of publicity
that must bo undertaken until all Un
people are informed on the whole sub
ject of rural life, and until tJiere is an
awakened appreciation of the neces
sity of giving this phase of our na
tional development as much attention
as has been given to other phases or
inter, st.s, a quickened sense of re
sponsibility. in all the eourftry people,
to the community and the state in the
conserving of soil fertility, and in the
necessity for diversifying farming in
order to conserve this fertility and to
develop a better rural society. . ami
also in the better safe-guarding of the
strength and happiness of the farm
women; a more widespread conviction
of the necessity of organization, not only
for economic but for social pur
poses. this organization to be more or
less co-operative, so that all the people
may share equally in the benefits anil
have voice in the essential affairs of
the community; a realization on the
part of the farmer that he has a dis
tinct natural responsibility toward tho
laborer In providing him with good
living facilities, and In helping him in
very way to be a man among men;
nd a realization on the part of ail
lue people of the obligation to protect
and develop the natural scenery and
attractiveness of the open country.