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PRINCIPALS IN FAMOUS MURDER CASE
Photo of Mrs. Bianca Do Saulles, forme 1 ly of Chile, who shot and
killed her divorced husband, John 1.. I)e Saulles, well known wealthy
sportsman of New ) ork. (insert below) over a dispute as to the posses
sion of the baby son shown in Mrs. De Saulles arms.
MEET IN JULY TO
MAKE CONSTITUTION!
CONVENTION DECIDES ON RZ-:
CESS—PRESIDENT TO APPOINT
COMMITTEES TO STUDY PRO
POSED CHANGES.
—
Little Rock, Nov. 21.-—The sixth
constitutional convention of Arkansas j
adjourned today until 2 p. m., on
the first Monday in July, 1918, after j
having been in session three days. ;
That this course would be pursued j
has been evident from the first, but
actual adjournment came a little
earlier than some members expected.
This action was taken on the
adoption of the following resolution,
reported by the special committee to
which had been referred the several
resolutions pertaining to adjourn
ment, said committee consisting of
James D. Head of Miller, Joseph E.
Callaway of Clark, J. F. Sellers of
Conway, E P AUdredge of Pulaski
and George Webber of Miller:
“We. your special committee, to
whom was referred several resolu
tions pertaining to adjournment, beg
leave to submit as our report and
recommend the adoption of the fol
lowing resolutions:
“Be it resolved.
‘First—That this convention shah
stand adjourned until 2 o’clock p
ui., on the first Monday in July, 1938
at which time it shall reconvene in
the convention hall at the state cap
itol.
‘•Fourth—That the president of the
convention shall, within 20 days from
this date, appoint he various com
mittees provided for hv the rules
heretofore a lopted by the conven
tion.
“Third—That all proposals for the
constitution shall first be transmitted
to the committee on reference, after
the same is appointed, which com
mittee shall, without delay, submit
the same to the proper committee.
“Fuurth—That the president of the
convention shall call the various
committees together at the state Cap
itol not later than 60 days prior to
the first Monday in July. 1918, and
said committees shall submit their
recommendations to the committee
on phraseilogv not later than 40
lays before the reconvening of the
convention, and said committee on
phraseology shall cause the tenatiVe
iraft of the constitution thus made
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to be printed and distributed to th
members of the convention not late
than 30 days before said conventio
reconvenes.
"Fifth That the members of th
committees who attend the meetin
of said committees at the state cat
itol shall, during their attendancf
receive their per diem, and shal
also receive mileage to and frot
their homes attending same.
“Sixth—That the president of th
convention he and he is taereb
authorized to employ for the benefi
of the committees when assemble'
such stenographic help as may b
needed to facilitate the work of sai
committee.
•JAMES D. HEAD,
‘ JOSEPH E CALLAWAY.
"J. F. SELLERS,
“E. P. ELLDREBGE,
"GEORGE WEBBER.”
E. B. Mitchell of Boone oppose
the resolution, declaring that th
time is inopportune for writing
constitution, that the constitution n
1874 has served for 43 years and i
good enough for several more yea’>
and that it should not be change(
“However,” said he, if the constiti
tion is as bad as our worthy goveri
or says it is, we should not dela
until next summer the drafting of
new organic law. We should e>
pedite business now. or adjour
and go back home that we m.ay giv
our undivided attention to the sui
port of the government in this worl
crisis."
Col T. C. McRae offered a
amendment to th effect that th
convention meet-the first Monday i
; June and recess for 30 da-.as imfm
diatelv upon reconvening for coir
mi-tee work as provided in the rest
j lution. He argued hat otherwL
! there is a question of the inembe
| working on committees being ah!
i.to draw their mileage and per dien
| but several other d negates inolur
j ing W. II. Arnold, J. C. Belote, J. 4
Evans. John Tke M ore and J. (
j Williamson, opposed this and th
j amendment was withdrawn.
.1 R. WPros offered an amem
| inert thal the pres‘dent be ant hoi
stem graphic help for (he commi
' tees, but this was withdrawn h°
1 it was explained by Mr. Head thn
j the eue^tion of committee assist'-'nr
had been left to the president’
discretion.
The resolution was then adopter
on a viva voce vote, with a fev
scattering ’‘noes."
Salaries of minor employes wer
fixed as follows:
Secretary, assistant seereta y. c’iap
lain, journal clerk, assistant journa
clerk and sargeant-at arms, $4 eacl
per day; janitor and assistant jani
tor, $3 per day; pages $2 per day.
Joe McClelland of Grant was ap
pointed as the fifth page.
' W. H. Martin of Garland appeam
and took the oath of office. Thi:
1 completed the list of delegates witl
the exception of J. V. Walker o
Fayetteville, who is ill. and W J
Waggoner of Lonoke, who is in ar
j officers’ training camp.
A resolution by E. P. Watson thal
the secretary procure a flag to bf
displayed back of the president’s
desk was adopted, but the convention
adjournment before it could be done
O. L. Clement of Yell moved that
Wednesday and Thursday he devoted
to hearing expressions of delegates
in the features of the constitution
John Tke Moore, temporarily in the
chair, said he did not see how the
convention could resolve itself into
a debating society with nothing to
debate.
A resolution by Gustave Jones of
Jackson that the members donate
their per diem to the Y. M. C. A.
war work fund was withdrawn after
A. G. Mitchell had raised a point of
order thatthe per diem of members
could not thus be disposed of. and
Moore of Monroe and others argued
that it was a matter which should
be left to the discretion of the
individuals.
A resolution by George Dodd of
Sebastian was adopted to invite
Chief Justice McCulloch and Secre
tary W. F. Kirby and Joe T. Robin
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| son to address the convention, but
1 | as it was so near adjournment they
1' were invited to speak at the recon
- j vening of the convention.
It was explained by President Me
j haffy that the committees would
I consider not only such proposals as
: might be submitted to them from the
] reference committee, but any other
proposals from any source.
Gov. Brough, upon invitation, ad
dressed the convention. He said that
, he considered it the ablest body
; assembled in the state in recent
! years, and that all over the state
he had heard the most cordial ex
pressions of regard for its personnel.
He reviewed the conditions that pre
vailed in 1874, when the present
! constitution was adopted, and said
that at time there was a wholesome
I suspicion of all public officials, which
; does not exist now. He said that he
1 considered this an opportune time
to draft a new fundamental law,
and while it was out of place for a
governor to dictate what the conven
tion should or should not do, he
wished to give them an idea of
some of the things he thought should
go into the constitution.
The. governor favored the same
guaranty given to rural property
owners as to city property owners
in the levying of improvement taxes.
He decried the growing evil of
special legislation, and declared that
80 per cent of 2,223 pages of law
passed by the last General Assembly
is local and special legislation. This
should be checked by some manda
tory provisions of the constitution, j
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j ic. n«iu iiiui uuuci inn unci ju c*
tation of the courts the creation of
offices and boards is permitted in
violation of the letter of the constitu
tion, and this should be remedied.
He made an argument in favor of
a change in the constitution to per
mit counties and cities to issue
bonds for necessary internal im
provements. declaring that Arkansas ,
is the only state in the Union that
has an inhibition in its constitution, i
He said that the improvement dis-1
trict laws which exempt personal
property from its part of the burden
of taxation is a travesty and a farce. I
He advocated a rural credits sys
tem.
He declared that elections are too
frequent, that members of the legis
lature should be placed on a salary,
that tenure of office be increased
to four years and they be made
ineligible to re-election and that it
might be well to have quadrennial
sessions of the legislature
He advocated adequate salaries
for public officials, especially the ju
diciary, and declared that it costs
a governor $2,000 a year more than
his salary to live in Little Rock.
He approved the plan which he
understood the special committee !
would recommend for adjourning the
convention until next July, and said
the convention should then meet and i
adopt a constitution to be submitted
in detail rather than en bloc. In
his opinion it would be impossible to :
secure the adoption of any proposed!
constitution In its entirety. Ohio j
submitted a constitution in 4. pro
visions, of which three were de
feated and Elihu Root was quoted
as saying that the New York consti
tution was defeated because it was
submitted as a whole.
He expressed his unaltered oppo
sition to submitting the constitution
to a general election, which would
Involve it in politics. The saving of
; $20,000 would amount to nothing,
since the value of a constitution is
not to be measured in dollars.
Gov. Tlrough touched upon the war,
and said that in the opinion of mili
tary experts it will last until the fall
of 1919, or later.
“Germany, in some respects, is
stronger than ever before,” he said,
“and if it were not for the interven
, tion of the United States the out
V
come would be very doubtful. But
we will win, for Napoleon said God
is on the side of the heavy artillery,'
and we have the heavy artillery
the devices of Yankee genius, wealth
lofty idealism and unlimited re
sources. But shall Arkansas be per
mitted to walk in the valley of the
shadow of economic death, with this
inadequate constitution, until world
peace be declared? In my opinion
we should not delay longer than next
summer writing the new organic law
of the state.”
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LEGALITY OF SUFFRAGE LAW
TO BE TESTED IN FORT SMITH
Fort Smith. Nov. 19.—The legality
of the Riggs suffage bill passed by
the 1917 legislature will be put. to
test as a result of a suit J. H.
Wright filed late Saturday in the
countv court contesting the nomi
nation of Arch Monro for mayor of
Fort Smith. The complaint alleges
that under the constitution or the
state the law is invalid, and 1 ther
states that when the women's votes
are eliminated from the primary held
last Tuesday, in which Monro defeat
ed Wright by 199 majority, Wright
will be the nominee by 31 votes.
The primary was the first in which
women ever participated in Arkan
sas. The Wright petition asserts
that women are barred from voting
by the constitution as well as the
state law. and furthfer alleges they
are barred under the terms of the
commission form of government char
ter in Fort Smith The petition Is
accompanied by the names of more
than 300 women wtjo voted in the
primary.
The general election is set for
November 27. and through the result
of the primary Mr. Monro’s name
M' {11 Itn t Vl o Anltr An A a n IVi a HaLaI
County court has been adjourned un
til November 30. Judge Cleveland
Holland expects to remain away from
the city on his honeymoon until that
date.
The notice of the contest ’fras
filed a few hours after Judge Paul
A. Little declined to grant Mr.
Wright new trials in the caseR in
which he was convicted a month ago
and ousted from the office of mayor.
He was convicted of making a pre
election promise and of nonfeasance
in office. He was charged with prom
ising to support John H. Vaughn for
city attorney and with failure to
quell outbreaks in the strike of tele
phone operators.
During the hearing of these mo
tions Judge Little declined to per
mit Frank Coffey to testify. Coffey
was with Barney Dunn and M. C.
Burke when Wright promised to
support Vaughn, and it is stated
that he intended to swear that no
promise was made. Another feature
of the hearing for a new trial was
the testimony of witnesses who
swore J. H. Brockington. a juror,
was prejudiced against Wright.
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155 POUNDS PRESSURE
TO BREAK EGG SHELL
Apparently nothing in the world
is easier to crack than an egg shell.
But, says a scientist who has studied
the subject, it requires 112 pounds
pressure to break the shell of a
white egg, and about 155 pounds
pressure to break a brown egg shell.
Sime have been found which were so
tough that it required 175 pounds
pressure to crush this cover, and
ither brown shells yielded at a pres
sure of 125 pounds. But all brown
shells are made of stouter stuff than
the white.
These figures become the more
amazing when it is borne in mind
that the thickness of an egg shell
is just .013 of an inch, and the aver
age diameter of an egg one and
three quarter inches. Considering
the thinness of the shell, its resist
ance is pronounced as remarkable.
FIFTY-FIFTY
A man went to Louisiana on a
visit to a certain colinel there. It
was bedtime when he arrived at the
j house, and as it happened there were
no mosquito curtains to his bed, he
suffered severely a'l night long
i When the following morning the
j 1.^10 servant came into the room
with water and towels, the unhappy
victim asked why there were no
mosquito curtains in the room.
“Doesn’t the colonel have any in
his rooms?” he finally inquired.
“No, suh,” replied the negro.
“Well, howr on earth can he stand '
it?” asked the visitor.
‘Well, suh.” came the reply, “I *
reckon it's jes' dis way. In de (o’ {
| part ob de night de colonel’s mos1
j genl’y so ’toxicated dat he don’ pay
1 no ’tention to de skeeters. an’ in de s
I las’ part ob de night de skeeters is
genl'y so ’toxicated dat dey don’
j pay no ’tention to de colonel.”— ;
j Philadelphia Press. :
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The New York American says i(
one man in ten changes his mind
woman suffrage will win in the
state. Seems to have lost sight of
the fact that this is woman’s special
preogative and that she might do
! a little in th.it direction.
ARE THEY WEAK OR PAINFUL?
Do your lungs ever bleed?
Do you have night sweat*?
Have you Mini in cheat end aides?
Do you apit yellow end black mattar:
Are roe continually bewkine andcouffcjyt
Do you kovo point uncl«r your shoulder
These Are Regarded Symptoms oL
LUNG TROUBLE
You should take Immediate steps
check the progress of these simp
toms. The longer you allow them_
advance and develop, the more a v
seated and serious your condition
comes. # « * T«nr
There It PosttWt Proof ^‘1t,n.L".5
relieved completely and speedily caa*
after case of Incipient Lung W® ,be
Chronic Bronchitis, Catarrh o ‘
Lungs, Catarrh of the 1 ronch ml Tuoes
and other similar afreet Ion8. M•
ferers who said they had lost a» nop
and had been given up by ph>g‘f'f^
declare they have been completer !
relieved by Lung Germlne. *r.je t0
cough and other iymptoms ar ^ent)
weak lungs, seriousnw ls the time
may follow neglect. NO>Vi«^e and
to begin on LUNO GEItwi lungs,
build up and strengthen your nm*
Lung Germlne has relieved ‘nc^te
Lung Diseases, according as well
ments of sufferers themseRev tor8—
as statements from their o m
and the patients remain stioi t,
splendid health today. . voU try
You take no chances TV'lc,V0°ciieat>
LUNG C,ERMINE. It is notK“« | and
eough syrups. It Is a ’ merit
bronchial medicine of ptc' vourself
Try one bottle and see f» acts.
bow quickly and eplendld ■ formerly
A full month’s supply, which oniv
cost $5.00, can now be bad tor w)t(
$2.00. If you are not satisti^ gfter
the benefit you have derl ^rug
using one full bottle, ask
gist for your money back. have
Good druggists every whe:re (U
Lung Germlne, or can get it
from their wholCMalQrs.