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VOLUME V.
SENATOR KILLOUGH
HAS HIS INNING.
“As Black as Hell Itself” 2
The Cross County Sens
m About Governor,
^ Accusation.-!
Little Rock, May 4.—Rising to
*+ a point of personal privilege in
the senate yesterday afternoon,
and defending himself against
accusations and insinuations
made by Gov. Jeff Davis in a
message to the general assembly
( some time ago, in which the ex
ecutive pleaded for the defeat of
the St. Francis levee bill and
parenthetically accused the sen
ator from Cross of trying to
name a board who would elect
him president, Senator 0. N.
Killough denounced in the most
scathing terms the chief execu
tive of the state, referring to the
accusations as “cowardly at
tacks,” and “as black as hell
itself.”
He then reviewed the bill he
had offered, showing what it
would have meant for the citi
zons of the levee affected, and
then taking up the list of ap
pointees of the governor, de
clared that there were seven di
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cent of taxes in the district. He
emphatically denied that he had
attempted to name the board,
and declared that his name had
never been on it, and even after
. the senate insisted upon ail
m amendment placing him as one
| of the directors he had pro
I tested.
I One of the directors recently
I^Lppointed by Davis was stand
ing in the lobby at the time of
the bitter arraignment, and Sen
ator Killough pointed to him as a
“Dago saloon-keeper.” The
power behind the faction that
defeated the bill was two land
syndicates, he declared. Until
now he had kept quiet, but now
at the close of the session he felt
that he would be untrue to him
self to remain so longer.
Once Davis had called hi"- into
the executive chamber and said
to him that unless he cast his
vote for the McFerrin bill, a
measure similar to the peniten
tiary bill that was defeated, that
he (Davis) would “veto every
d—n one of your levee bills,”
and “he has never signed a bill
for me yet. In the six years of
my service in the two branches
of government here the governor
has never signed a bill that 1
have had passed. Is this being
a governor?”
NEGRO DISCHARGED,
, WHITE MAN HELD.
Texarkana, May 4.—John Bo
nanna, white, and Charlie Grun
dy, a negro, the two persons whc
were arrested Monday charged
with raising two postoffice money
orders, were given a preliminary
> hearing this morning before
United States Commissioner Som
mervell. The court discharged
the negro, but held Bonanna for
|v the federal grand jury in a bond
of $1,000.
h BEFORE THEY ADJOURNED.
The legislature will make a
mistake, and one which
can hardly be corrected, if it
should adjourn without making
ample provision for the immedi
ate completion of the new state
house. The members may as
’ mderstand now that the
vitally interested in
comp1, fion of this
Id that to leave this
d t •» leave the mat
tude where delays
J
I tainty surrounds the ^^plation
i proposed to advance zmk, work.
Let this uncertainty be tnspelled.
Let us^ have a clean-cut, decisive
declaration, carrying with it am
ple funds to complete the build
j ing. — Arkansas Democrat.
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5 THE LEGISLATURE. *
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I The bill increasing the salary
of the sheriff of Sharp county
from $1,800 to $2,000 a year was
passed just before the close of the
session.
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While speaking on the $4,000
appropriation to the Southern
Cotton association Senator Kil
lough said that it was buncombe
with a big B. The association,
he said, gave more correct infor
mation to Wall street about the
condition than it did any good.
The appropriation was finally
defeated.
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The members of the senate
held a caucus Wednesday night
and selected Senator John P. Lee
kof Clarendon for president pro
,tem., who under the constitution
becomes lieutenant governor of
Arkansas. He was elected on
the'second ballot, receiving 19
1 votes. Amis of Cleveland re
j ceived 9 and Senator Thompson
; 6 votes. Senator Lee is 36 years
of age and represents Arkansas ,
and Monroe counties, and is one
of the most prominent attorneys
in Eastern Arkansas.
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i Referring to the convict ques
tion the committee recommends
that the present lease system
under which the state leases the
convicts be abolished and the
present contracts canceled when
they expire and the convicts
worked “for account of the
state.” In regard to the treat
ment of the convicts the commit
i tee has little to say other than
I what was already brought to light
| by the special investigating com
mittee, but it is believed that the
j conditions as recently found were
the result of negligence on the
part of the board, and the com
mittee recommends that it take
the trouble to visit the farm and
different convict camps in the
; state each month and look into
the affairs existing there. The
penitentiary should, the commit
tee says, be managed like the
state charitable institutions and
be made a pride and source of
revenue to the state.
NEWPORT TRAVELERS
CARRY BRASS BAND.
The Newport contingent of the
Arkansavv Travelers, members
and friends, passed through the
city this morning en route to Hot
Springs, the Mecca of the trav
eling men. says the Little Rock
Democrat. They traveled in a
special car, and had with them a
brass band of twenty pieces.
The car was appropriately deco
rated, flying the white and pur
ple colors of the Travelers’ Asso
ciation.
WANTED.
A good coal property. Ad
dress T. B. Stillman, care M. P.
►Hall Cci, 52 Broadway, N. Y.
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’angerous.
anville. ^
telephone l
message was received yesterday \
by Sheriff Briggs that a mob was'
being formed in the county for
the purpose of lynching James
Ince, who murdered his wife and
three children.
Sheriff Briggs and Deputy
Tatum proceeded at once to the
livery stable and got a rig and
carried Ince out of town some-)
where. The impression got out
that the prisoner was taken to
Little Rock for safe keeping, and
the mob did not come to town.
Thursday was the day set for
hanging Ince here, but his attor
neys took the matter to the su
preme court only a few days ago
and finally succeeded in getting
a stay of execution until the
court could look into the matter.
The citizens of the community
where the crime was committed
are very much wrought up over
the delay in the execution, and •
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it AO Aval VU LAICAL 11kj VIVILilLU
will prevail if the present state
of feeling continues long.
UNUSUAL SCENE
IN ARKANSAS HOUSE. I
The Arkansas house of repre
sentatives was the scene of an :
unusual occurrence yesterday,
says the Arkansas Gazette, when
an aged darkey was called to the
bar of the house and given a
present and allowed the privi-;
leges of the door to express his .
gratitude. The darkey was Char- i
ley Goodwin, better known as
“Marse Charles,” who for the I
past three sessions has performed
the responsible function of shin
ing the shoes of the members. A
collection was taken for him and
$6 in nickels and dimes was
raised in a few minutes. Shortly
after the house was called to
order Representative Chaplineof
Monroe county arose to a ques
tion of personal privilege. Good
win was then brought to the
clerk’s desk and the gift pre
sented.
Mr. Chapline referred feeling
ly to his long acquaintance with
“Marse Charles,” who looked
after him as a servant in Lonoke i
county when the representative
was a boy. He praised the fidel
ity of the recipient and alluded
to the fact that he had been a
life-long Democrat and expressed
rne nope tnat ne woutct return to
the house many more sessions.
Goodwin good-naturedly called
“Mr. Speaker,” and, making a
most profound bow, expressed
his thanks in a manner that left
no doubt as to its genuineness.
He concluded bv asking all in the
house to join him in singing “I
Am Bound for the Promised j
Land,” which was done.
At the conclusion Speaker Cate
remarked that he hoped no ad
verse criticism would be made
by the northern press of a Dem
ocratic house of representatives
expressing its appreciation of the
services of a darkey.
ROAD FROM WARREN
TO DE VALL’S BLUFF. 1
Pine Bluff, May 4.—A number
of citizens from Warren met a
committee from DeVall’s Bluff in
this city Tuesday night to dis
cuss plans for constructing a
railroad from Warren to DeVall’s
Bluff. The Warren & DeVall’s
Biuff railroad^ was incorporated
several weeks ago, with a yjm
tal stock of $1,01$,000. H
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Lonoke to construct a road be
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road will conflict with the other.
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the bride’s sister, Mrs. Thomp
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M. W. Manville officiating. Mr.
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