Arkansas Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 1

DEMOCRAT mil 4 11 A Today's Hews Tcday Read It in the Arkansas Democrat KORTi'-aiLliD YEAR. LITTLE ROOK, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1913. PRICK IN CITY 1 CENTS ON TRAINSi 3 CENT! 7 rm vTmfhTrhnnTrUT: nTnn iOv rmnn Ovtti OvTnmnnTn rmiOvmv ttt I I 7 a (lllU II IHI (Ml fl III III I A STATE BOARD OF HEALTH PROPOSED "Speeding the Parting Guests" AS 1ES WERE ACT, SIGNS mm vi I i 00 DONAGHEY SIMPLE CEREMQU IfJ PRESENCE I nr i It I i ii iiu i Lllllll BILL HEW Both Branches of the Legislature Got Down to Fast Work Thursday House Adopts U. S. Senatorial Primary Resolution and Senate Gets Bill to Create State PER MM BILL Also Adds Two More Pardons to List of Clemency Cases By Pardoning Ned Smith and Ed Brown.

Would Consist of Seven Members and Have General Control Sanitary Conditions in the State. Prison Board and Abolish Convict Lease System. $70,000 EXPENSE Bill-FIRST LAW Thursday's political and legislative developments at the State Capitol were marked chiefly by the inauguration of Governor-elect Joe T. Robinson, who took the oath of office in the House of Representatives at 2:30 p. m.

The Senate and House met jointly to witness the simple ceremonies of inducting the new executive into high office, Chief Justice McCulloch of the State Supreme Court administered the oath. Governor Robinson was escorted to the speaker 's desk by a joint committee representing the two branches of the General Assembly. After taking the oath the new executive read his inaugural; address, which is printed in full elsewhere in this issue of the Arkansas Democrat. He looked very inch a governor as he addressed the packed house, There were many women present and everybody commented on the Jeffersonian simplicity of inducting the new governor into Outgoing Governor George W. Donaghey received many callers during the last day he spent in office: They wished him well in private life.

In the legislative Mill. The Senate and the House each recessed at noon. In the House the Patterson resolution calling for a senatorial primary was adopted without a roll call. No fight was precipitated on the floor. This is the resolution- that was declared out of order 'by the speaker Wednesday.

The first bill to get over the plate in the House was the. one appropriating $70,000 to defray the operating expenses of the legislative session. It toad already gone through the Senate. A bill to abolish the State land office was tossed into the hopper. So was a bill to abolish hangings in the county seats.

The bill provides for the electrocution of criminals within the State prison walls in Little Rock and is in accordance with a resolution passed by the State Association of Sheriffs which met in this city a few weeks ago. The Senate Hopper. The Senate received the proposed sanitary code bill, ,000 copies of which will be immediately printed for general distribution. The senatorial primary resolution adopted by the House also showed up in the. Senate and automatically went over until later in the day, the vote indicating that the resolution will be adopted when it is pressed home.

A bill to repeal the Fourche- Drainage District act also appeared, while a delegation was present to oppose the abolition of the Jefferson County bridge district law. Two bills were passed finally early during the morning. The important measure tossed into the Senate hopper was one to create a COUNTY BOARD WOULD BE DISPENSED WITH Hygienic Laboratory Would Be Established Tor the Analysis of Foods and Drugs as a Protection. The health lull introduced by Sena tor Hughes provides in general that the State Board of Health shall con sist of seven members, one from each ongressicnal district, all to be.erad uate physicians to be appointvd by the governor, and. shall hold term for four years.

-Each shall receive a remuneration of $10 per day and mileage when the board is session. They' shall, have geiiefar supervision and control "over pertaining to public health, shall study diseases and epidemics and direct Th bill provides for the establishment of a bureau of vital statistics. County and county boards of health are abolished and a county health of ficer is who works under the direction of this general board. The same applies to cities where health officer is created. In cities the first class the bill provides health boards of five members.

All health and members of boards of health are supposed to be graduate physicians. A hygienic laboratory is to be established by the State Board for the analysis of- foods and drugs. The board is empowered to adopt a sanitary code which shall.be uniform throughout th State. The secretary of the board is the executive officer who shall have power to enforce the regulations prescribed by the code. Especial power is kiven to investigate suspected cases of contagions disease.

An appropriation of $20,000 is called for to provide for establishment of offices for the board and to pay expenses for the first two years. PROPOSE AUTOMOBILE SERVICE AT OOTTFR Mountain (lXom.T Jan. 16-rAutomor tjjle service between this point and Cotter, on the White river Railroad, will be 'established within' the next few days. W. M.

DeLapp, a former grocery-man of this place, has ordered a five-passenger car. with which wilt make regular trips between the two towns: At -4he present time two hacks han dle the passengers, express and mall Automobilfr.servlce was put on Beveral years ago: and was continued for year, but was stopped on account of the high cost of repairs for the car. The distance between Cotter tin Mountain Home is 11 miles, and the present time by hack 1b from three to four hours. The machine can easily cover the distance In an hour. BO 0 AMENDMENT H00SEW1VE5 3.000 WHILE HUBBY IS AT "board of penitentiary commissioners." The Prison Management.

The bill provides for three commissioners to be named 'by the governor, each to be bonded for $25,000 and to take an oath that he will not be interested in any contract concerning the conduct of the prison. The commissioners are to devote their exclusive, time to managing the prison and shall choose such employes as are necessary. Each commissioner hall receive $3,000 a year. Bid for supplies and materials for the State farm and prison proper must be advertised thirty days and the bid of the successful bidder must printed for one week in some Little Rock paper. i The commission shall-, work all convicts on the State fann, which; shall be drained and cleared, and the commission may lease or purchase additional land contiguous to the farm.

No convicts shall be leased or hire) out. The provis- ion breaks up the lease Bystem at a single i All moneys received by the-comnussion shall be deposited in tlie State treas- nry to the credit the penitentiary fund nnd shall be drawn oat on properly made toui i Tht-re other whifeW'fo id as merest. An amendment to the Constitution was proposed stipulating that no State shall be eligi'ble for a second the justices of the Supreme Court. It stipulates that the recall shall apply to all. State officers, the judiciary included.

A term of four years applies to all except thi 3upreme Coiirt'justices. (Continued on Page 7.) TO BE JiDUSSRESSI Decides On Definite' Plans in Support of Measure at Concluding Session of Convention. 'An aggressive' campaign to bring the proposed city-4ond amendment to the pArtansas constitution, before the voters of the State was decided on at the concluding session of the Arkansas Mu nicipal 'Officers' Association, held in the office of Mayor Taylor in the cityl hall this morning-. The' attendance ai Contlnnrd on Paxe 7.) CIPAIG NEW OFFICERS TAKE UP DUTIES TODAY Judge Moose Succeeds Attorney General Norwood, and Col. Oathout Becomes New State Auditor.

Among the final acts of Governor George W. Donaghey, performed in an official capacity, were the signing pt the appropriation bill carrying $70,000 as the per diem expenses of the present legislature, and the pardoning of two convicts, Ned Smith and Brown. These-acts were performed about I 'lock today. Smith is a negro at the State farm, sent up on a charge of grand larceny in Calhoun County, and sentenced to six years. Brown is from Ashley County, and was sentenced on a charge of aggravated assault, and.

fined $50, with an addition, of six months in jail. Governor Donaghy retires immediately with the inauguration of Governor Robinson this afternoon. The other new officers to take their places in the State cnpitol will be -Judge W. L. Moore, succeeding Attorney General Norwood, and Col.

John M. Oathout, succeeding State Auditor John R. Jobe. Colonel Oathout has been a deputy in the office since December 15, just "getting onto the ropes" about the detailed conduct of the office. Hon.

George B. Cook, will today also assume his duties as superintendent of puklic instruction, under re-election, and Secretary of State Hodges will begin his new term as head of his depart-ment. FIRST DEGREE MURDER Jim Reed arid JRdgar Jordan Answer Grave Prescott. Jan. 16.

Grand Jury ofv Nevada Circuit Court Tuesday made its first report to the court, showing that It had returned Indictments against Jim Reed and Edgar Jordan, negroes, charging them with murder In the first degree; ReedlBehargedwith kllNng Cleve Gentry, another negro; Jordan Is charged with killing Jewell Shack- leford, a negress. Both cases are set for trial Monday. January 20. An indictment was' returned against Mark Hicks, charging him with, assault with intent to kill. Hicks Is a negro, and it alleged that during September, 1912, he way laid and shot William Gee, a promi nent merchant and citizen of this city.

While he was Incarcerated In Jail Hicks was called to the jail window about two o'clock one morning about a month ago and shot with a shotgun. He has recovered from the wound sufficient to appear in court. No clue has been found as to who shot Hicks. SOUTHERN TRUST CO. ELECTS ITS OFFICERS At the annual election of officer by the Southern iTrust Company yesterday afternoon, the following offl-' cers were cbosen: W.

M. Kavanaugh. president; A. C. Read and C.

G. Price, vice presidents; J. R. vice president and treasurer; J. C.

Conway, aecretaryr T. G. Embree, assistant seo retary and assistant treasurer: J. H. Stanley, trust officer.

The executive committee Is composed of the following: W. M. Kavanaugh, AL C. Read, C. G.

Price, J. R. Vinson, R. C. Bright, M.

B. Sanders and H. M. Bennett. The directorate follows: M.

B. Sanders, A. C. Read. J.

J. Kress. Niley M. Bennett, C. G.

Price, Gus M. Gans. Fred Rossner, J. M. Meyers, R.

C. Bright. W. J. Driver.

A. R. Levy, C. ft Myers, Ludwig. W.

H. Langford. E. A. Robblns, W.

M. Kavanaugh, J. R. Vinson, C. C.

Kavanaugh, H. Splvey, W. R. Tucker. A.

J. Wilson. J. Stanley, C. R.

Ledbetter, w. D. Cam-mack, J. C. Conway, T.

G. Embrand Fred Rossner Jr. The Weather r. For Little Rock: and Vicinity: Unsettled weather with- rain tonight or Friday; warmer tonight. For Arkansas: Unsettled with riln tonight or Friday; farmer In east portion.

Thursday's Temperatures. 7 a. m.iTr.cT, .58111 m.rr.. .63 8 a. noon tf 0 a.

...61 1 p. 10 a. 62j 2 p. 68 Wiliest yesterday .61 Lowest yesterday 43 Local record for January 16, 1911: Highest temperatures, 28; lowest temperature, 19. Conditions Elsewhere.

Highest Lowest MONEY SYSTEM IS MENACE TO THE COUNTRY" committee for" endorsement, and it is not expected here, that today's action of the committee will have any effect upon- the- vote, of -either the State-sen- ator or representative. No mass meet ings or conventions were held the different townships to instruct for anyone and the action of the committee was wholly informal and represents the wish of a very small per cent Carroll County's Democracy. This Is Our Governor IT TO 1 Help YoiiMen nave uuite Ideas! checked over and the awards made to the most successful. is absolutely no work connected with this -contest in any way. There is no solicitnig or canvassing concealed aboutttp no-subscriptiohgetting canT-paign.

It is simply whai ifr purports to be a game of solving seventy-seven clever pictures, each of which repre sents tue title of a book. You do not have to be a subscriber to the Democrat in order to compete. Of course, you will get the paper regularly each day if you subscribe and get it at just half the price it would cost you to buy it day after day on the street. Then, too, the pictures come right to your door in your paper each day if you subscribe, and that is a big feature. No incomplete sets will be accepted, remember.

You must have a complete set of the seventy-seven pictures or your set will not be considered. Watch for Picture No. 1 it is coming soon. But TODAY turn to the sample picture printed in this issue of the Democrat. It was drawn for this contest, but then it was decided to use it as a sample before the contest itself got under way and to publish its title.

Beneath "that sample" picture today- is printed the very book title it, was drawn to represent. i Turn to it and so learn how to solve the seventy-seven pieturpi when they appear one by one day after day in the Democrat. LAW IS ENDORSED BY THE COMMITTEE Committee On Child Welfare of the United Charities Adopt Important Resolutions Wednesday. Resolutions recommending to theGen- eral Assembly the passage of the uniform child labor law, which has been adopted in a number of States and which has proven successful in every instance, were adopted by the t-ommit-tee on child welfare of the United Char ities Association held yesterday. The resolutions were- unanimously adopted, and an effort wilf be made to secure the introducing of16e rthild-labor law in the legislature.

The matter will be taken up at, once with a num ber of the legislators and a eaihpaign. started to secure its passage. The child-welfare committee is very much interested in the uniform child labor law, and thinks that this is the solution 1 of the gTeat problem which (Contlnaea Page in IRK? UNIFORM Or Let Hubby" onreiimcsr Bright In most households the men are the money-makers and-the women are the money-savers. It isn't often that a wife, for instance, gets an opportunity to make $500. But here a chance.

The Arkansas Democrat otters it to all its readers. Here is ajmance for the housewife to make a killing." There are $3,000 in prizes to be awarded to those coming closest' to naming ine seventy-seven dook titles that seventy-seven pictures represent. First prize represents as much as hubby makes in half a year. Any of the grand prizes represents hubby's salary for several months, at least. And whatever you win in the Book-lovers' contest game will be "velvet." There will be no household expenses to pay out of it.

You can use it to realize your dream of owning a home, invest the proceeds or do whatever you please with it. There will be thousands of men in contest, but it will offer best opportunities to women a chance to win a great deal of money all their own. The best thing about it is the fact that the contest comes right to' your door. It consists, you see, of seventy-seven pictures, one of which appears each day in the Each" picture represents the title of a book. Picture No.

1 will appear very, very soon. You clip out the pictures as they appear, save them, solve them- and send them all in together after the last picture has appeared. Then the sets are HAS A SOLUTION OFTHE GURRE PROBLEM IN 0. S. W.

A. Nash of Corn Exchange Bank Says We Should Have 20 Clearing Houses Over Country. WaBhlngton. Jan. 16 An organisation of twenty geographically located clearing houses with authority to la-sue loan certificates convertible on demand Into government currency on SO cent, of their face value, waa proposed to the House currency reform committee today as the natural solution of the currency problem by W.

A. Nash, president of the Corn Exchange Bank. New York. Mr. -Nash declared there was ao necessity for a central bank; depreated the Idea of copying European methods and urged the committee not to seek the plan of some theorist In finance who.

he said. "Is. more to be dreaded than a bull In a china shop." Mr Nash said the clearing houses contemplated In bis plan practically would be the regional banks. ICY President Geo. M.

Reynolds of Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago Before the Committee. Washington, Jan. 10. That the pres ent concentration- of money and credit is a potential "menace to the country" was asserted before the House money trust committee today by Geo. H.

Reynolds, of the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chi- knew of the trend toward "concentration of and and that he thought it a dangerous thing. "I am opposed to the concentration of any sort of he said. "I believe that concentration to the point it has alreadv corn is a menace. In aying that I do not: wish to sit in judgment on- the men who hold that power. Mr.

Reynolds said that he was opposed to the principle of interlocking directors in' potentially competing concerns and' that he had adhered to that principle throughout his banking ca-' reer. Mr. Reynolds could, not make any pecific recommendation as to reme dying the concentration of money and; credits, but was sure the prevention of i interlocking directors in competing concerns would have a good effect. In conclusion, Mr. Reynolds said be believed that "competition was not 4ead," but he believed banking would be improved by a return to -competitive conditions.

Mr. Reynolds said he would approve of a law giving minority stockholders in national banks the right of repre-. aentation on the" board of directors and Z-tonldrapprove a law incorporating clearing houses so long is it did not literf ere with the free, conduct of lns-iness. (, "I am in favor of utmost regulation and publicity," he said. COUNTY COMMITTEE ENDORSES NORWOOD Berryville, Jan.

15 At a meeting t)f the Democratic County Central, Committee, held at- the courthouse here Tuesday, a resolution endorsing Hal isorwood for the long term to succeed the late Senator Davis was presented and upon roll call twelve of the twenty members of the committee present" vot- in the affirmative, eight refusing to east a vote either way. 1 No other name, was presented to the Wednesday. Wed Night. New York, N. 42 SS New "Orleans, "XA.7.r.68 64 Chicago.

111. 44 42 St. Louis, Mo 62 60 Louisville, 62 49 Fort Smith, 60 60 Fort Worth. 0 SO Memphis. Tenn.

62 64 Washington. D. 60 42 Oklahoma City, Okla. 62 64 San Francisco, 60 44 Denver, Colo 69 1 GOVERNOR JOB T. ROBINSO.N.

'With JefferaoalM lmpllrtty, the retiring consreaaman took the oath of of (lee an chief exeentive Thursday afternoon la the new eapltoL.