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LEGISLATURE IS
IN SESSION NOW
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-Both Houses \Y ere Practically Or
ganized Before They Met, First
Time In History.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 13.—The Forty
p' .-second session of the Arkansas Gen
eral Assembly convened at noon to
day _
For the first time in the history of
the state, probably, so far as any one
■can remember, both houses were
practically organized when they met,
all that was necessary being a rati
fication of what had been done in
.-aucus. This is important, since it
will he the means of saving several
■days’ time for more important busi
ness than wrangling over organiza
tion.
H. L. Ponder of Lawrence county is
president of the senate, his elction
having been assured several months
ago. Ira Langley of Clay county is
secretary of the senate. Practically
all of the minor officers and em
ployees had been selectd in caucus.
C. P. Newton, of Little Rock, was
similarly selected for Speaker of the
house, all opposition having gradual
ly withdrawn as it was seen that his
election was a certainty. Similarly,
Harvey G. Combs ot r ayettevule, was
chosen for chief clerk without oppo
sition, and other places were filled
without the usual scramble.
There never was so small a number
of candidates for the various clerical
and other positions. This is largely
due to the fact that men and women,
young and old, who have usually been
^ active in pressing their claims, have
other and more profitable employ
ment that will last longer than sixty
days.
There is a big legislative program
before this session, enough to engage
the time and attention of the law
makers even though no local legisla
tion were considered at all.
Gov. Brough himself has outlined
an his message enough work to keep
the legislature busy for weeks.
An effort will be made to secure
hy statute many of the things that
were provided for by the proposed
constitution, where they may not be
in conflict with the present constitu
tion, where they may not be in con
£ flict with the present constitution.
There will be numerous proposed
amendments to the constitution.
Strange as it might appear to a prac
tical politician of ten years ago,
there is a scramble to see who shall
have the honor of first introducing the
suffrage measure in both the house
.and the senate. That it will be
adopted very early in the session is
•assured.
There will be no effort to submit a
prohibition amendment since the state
is already dry by statute. But one
.of the first acts will be, to ratify the
Federal prohibition amendment, which
will bring a dry United States nearer
io a realization.
f Gov. Brough’s message is a most
progressive document, and makes
many important recommendations for
Jthe good of the state.
Business men and farmers of ( am
>den have raised ?G,000 for the build
|l of a highway across the Ouachita
t river bottoms.
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SHERIFF MAKES HAUL.
Sheriff Harris of Batesville search
ed a south-bound White River pas
senger train, which comes from Jop- |
lin, Mo., one day last week, meeting I
the train at O’Neal, a station above I
I Batesville, and arrested the train j
| porter, Horace Ross, and another well'
| known negro character named Simon
Eason, from whom more than 100
pints of whiskey were secured. The
whiskey was found in suitcases, two
large sacks and one paper sack. The
negroes were placed in jail at Bates
ville.
Mia
NUBSEDBl BRIDE
Former Newport Boy and His Phila
delphia Wife Are Living Happi
ly Despite His Injuries.
The following account of the mar
ried life of John Younger, son of J.
L. Younger, formerly of this city, and
the recurrence of injuries received in
battle in France is told in a recent is
sue of the Philadelphia Bulletin:
In a modest single room, with a few
bits of furniture, Mrs. John Lafay
ci/uu iuuugci, til., ouuii ui an wiu emu
socially prominent Philadelphia fam
ily, is living -happily, nursing her sol
dier hero back to health.
Until her marriage nine days ago
to the soldier whom she met last
summer in Cape May, N. J., Mrs. 1
Younger was Miss Elizabeth Cadwal- :
ader Rowland, daughter of Mrs. Hen- '
ry J. Rowland, of 1607 Locust Street,
and a nice of John Cadwalader.
The bridegroom, who comes from '
Butte, Montana, was gassed near the
St. Mihiel salient on March 21. He
was then a horse-shoer attached to
Campany C, 2d Field Batallion, Sig- |
nal Corps, First Division, A. E. F.
On December 9 they were married ;
in this city, two months after Young- j
er had been honorably discharged j
from the army. They have since been ,
living in the second story back apart- <
ment at 120 N 21st Street. I
Last night Younger was stricken ,
with the recurrence of the effects of j
the German gas and the bride is at ,
his bedside administering medicine in ,
the place of nurse. (
Mrs. Younger explained today they (
will remain in their present modest
surroundings only temporarily until ]
she can find more suitable apart- ^
ments. s
How Mrs. Younger met the West- {
erner she declined to reveal. She
said it was at Cape May while she ■
was spending the summer there. <
Her husband was convalescing at the ,
Cape May base hospital. 1
“He is out of the service now,” she s
said, “and is employed as a detective ,
for the American Railway Express
Company. He began his work two ,
weeks ago and likes it very much.”
Mrs. Younger, who was educated in .
Miss Martin’s school. 20th and De- ,
lancey Streets, and is a member of .
the Philadelphia Cricket and the
Sedgeley Club, said she was never in
love before she met her husband.
She would not admit that it was a
traditional case of love at first sight,
but ventured, “It is one of those
things one cannot easily explain.”
When she was asked if she found
any difference between the Western
and Eastern men, she replied:
“Most certainly there is a difference.
I have found it so. Isn’t my husband
a real man from the West?”
Younger was born in Newport,
Arkansas, and educated in the public
schools there. He then became an
automobile mechanic, but gave that
up to become a blacksmith. Subse
quently he became an expert horse
shoer in Butte, Mont., and holds re
cords for shoeing draft horses used in
the mining section in Butte.
At the outbreak of hostilities with
Germany the young horseshoer re
sponded to the “call to the colors,"
and enlisted In the regular army. He
was trained at Jefferson Barracks,
in Missouri, and sent to France to the
replacement batallion, First Division.
This was last December, when the
unit was stationed at Hornville, ih
the St. Mihiel sector, with the Ameri
can reserve, behind the lines, which
were then held by the French. This
vis months before the campaign of
the American armies under Per-,
shimg for the reduction of the St. Mi-1
Disposal of Cummins
Farm Urged Bg Brough
In his biennial message to the leg
islature Governor Brough makes
many important recommendations,
the most striking of which probably
being that the state shall sell or lease
the state farm for negroes at Cum
mins and employ the convicts on
highway work. John McCuistion, a
citizen of Newport and formerly sher
if Jackson county, as one of the pen
itentiary commissioners is in charge
of the Cummins convict farm.
The governor says that the finances
of the state for the first time in years '
are in a satisfactory condition. He
reports that at the end of the first
fiscal year, July 1, 1918, there was j
a cash balance in the treasury of
$168,259, which, he says, is more than
sufficient to care for all unvouchered j
claims against the general revenue j
fund. He ascribes this happy condi- i
tion to the note issue authorized by
the last legislature, whicji put the
state on a cash basis, to the spirit o.f
co-operation of departmental heads,!
md to the creation of a state Audito-!
'ial department.
The governor estimates the re- j
ceipts of the general revenue fund
’or the next two years will be $3,000,-,
)00. Requests for appropriations j
imounting to about $3,800,000 have ■
seen filed. At a meeting of depart
nent heads in his office he says that'
ihese requests were reduced about j
5400,000 and that it will fall to the ■
egislature’s budget Committee to
cut off an additional $400,000. He
says the appropriation must not ex
eed the estimated revenues, and an
lounces: “I shall certainly use the
lower of veto to that end if it be- j
•omes necessary.”
Following are the recommendations
nade by the governor:
Sale or lease of the state convict
farm at Cummins and employment of
the convicts in building good roads.
Establishment of an executive bud
get system.
Various amendments to make more
effective the present tax laws.
Establishment of a central pur
chasing agency to buy all supplies
for state institutions and depart
ments.
Woman suffrage.
Removal of the limit as to the
amount that each confederate pen
sioner shall draw.
A constitutional amendment to al
low cities and towns to issue notes or
bonds to pay off their indebtedness,
then prohibiting them from spending
more than their revenues.
Provision for the maintenance of
roads.
Creation of an advisory pardon1
board.
Purchase of a farm upon which may
be employed epileptic and convales
cent patients of the State Hospital
for Nervous Diseases.
Selling of the property of the
State Blind School, moving it to a
site on the state land near the Deaf
Mute Institute and combining the
two institutions under one manage
ment.
Provision for the county superin
tendents of schools in every county
and the appointment of a school
commission.
Establishment of a corporation
commission, both of which he would
abolish.
Enactment of a workmen s compen
sation ret and other lavs for the pro
tection of workers.
Better snr.ltary laws.
liel salient.
Younger was unhurt until March |
list. He was then so badly gassed j
hat little hope was entertained for
lis recovery. He was taken to the
svacuation camp at Toul, and then
ent to Blois, where he remained un
it he was brought to the convales
:ent camp at Cape May in July. At
he time Younger was gassed 800
nen jn the division were physically
lisabled or killed during the German
ras concentration that lasted six
lays.
Younger said the Germans used at
east twenty-two kinds of gas in j
heir attacks during the war. He
aid he fell stricken with phosgenel!
;as.
While convalescing at Cape May,
founger was surprised to see his J
buddy” brought to the hospital, as- !
o gassed. He is Sergeant John
Mailman, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Both
oldiers were attached to the same
init.
A few days ago Sergeant Kallman '
vas discharged from the army. ;
founger wrote him of his marriage,
md invited him to come to the city
tnd see him. He arrived yesterday
md heartily congratulated his chum
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in winning such a charming bride.
The Cadwalader family of which
John Cadawalader is the head has
been prominent in Philadelphia since
Colonial times, two of its most noted
personages being Generals John and
Lambert Cadwalader, who fought in
the Revolution. The family is of
Quaker origin and several Welsh no
bles are included in its pedigree, as
well as Roger Bigod, Earl of Nor
folk; Hug Bigod, Saire de Queincey
and Robert de Vere, four of the Nor
man noblemen who became sureties
of the Magna Charta.
Richard McCall Cadwalader, who
recently died, was an officer of the
Baronial Society of Runnymede as
well as president of the Pennsylvania
Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
The Duke of Portland has Cadwala
der blood, while other local relatives
of Mrs. Younger are members of the
Fisher, Biddle, Elliott, McCall and
many more Philadelphia families of
high social standing.
Paderwewski, the famous violinist
and Polish leader, is reported to have
been wounded at Warsaw last week.
Thre is said to be a plot on foot to
take his life.
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| BARN BURNS NEAR SWIETON
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Just before midnight Friday night
fire of unknown origin destroyed the
barn belonging to Henry Looten. who
lives near Swifton. Three mares and
three colts, 20 bushels of corn, about
15 tons of hay, two wagons, one bug
gy and some farming implements
were burned up. The loss is estimat
ed at $2,000 and there was no insur
ance.
COUNCIL WILL FIX
STATUS OF GERMANY.!
Paris, Jan. 12.—The Supreme In
ter-allied Council met at 3 o’clock •
this afternoon at the ministry of for
eign affairs. Those present were:
President Wilson, the American sec
retary of state, Robert Lansing, Pre
mier David Lloyd George and Foreign
Minister A. J. Balfour of Great Bri
tain; Premier Georg'es Clenmenceau
and Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon
of France; Premier Vittorio Orlando
and Foreign# Minister Baron Sidney
Sonnino gjflPftalv. and Marshal Foch,
Georges *Laygues, French minister of
marine; Etienne Clementel, minister
of commerce and Louis Loueheur,
minister of industrial reconstruction.
The program France will propose
as host to the peace confei'ence is un
derstood to provide first for presen
tation of the status of a society of na
tions and the appointment of a com
mittee to concur, would make recom
men to the full confei'ence. The next
step wuuiu ue seuiemcui ul wits atatua i
of Germany, Austria, the Balkans
and other eastern countries.
The adoption of the recommenda
tions of the committee on a league of
nations, according to his program,
would! be the final act of the confer
ence. It is pointed out in support of
this method 'of procedure that while
the announcement of a framework of
a lague of nations must form the ba
sis of the other work of the confer
ence the completed plan of a league
logically will come up last, since it
must safeguard all the decisions of
the conference.
The proposal to give prefernee to
the question of the status of Germa
ly, after the appointment of a
eague of nations committee, is ex
plained by the theory that decisions
regarding Austria and the eastern
countries will hinge upon the conclu
sions reached regarding Germany. It
s suggested that it would, for ex
ample, be impossible to settle the
nature of German-Austria without
snowing th. decisions affecting Ger
many.
niREAT BRITAIN AND
ALLIES DO NOT AGREE.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Great Brit
ain’s proposal that the allies and the
United States enter into negotiations
with all Russian factions, referred to
at Paris yesterday by Foreign Minis
ter Pichon, with an emphatic state
ment that France would not deal in
any way with “the criminal regime of
the Bolsheviki,” was transmitted to
;he State Departmeent here on Janu
ary 3 by the British embassy. It was
aot sent to the American peace dele
ration because State Department of
ficials assumed it would be deliver
ed directly at Paris, but since it now
appears this was not done, it will be
'orwarded at once.
3NE DUROC-JERSEY
GILT BRINGS $500.
Nashville, Jan. 11.—Dr. W. B. Dor
nan, Nashville’s famous dentist
stockman, is receiving congratula- 1
ions over his recent sale of a Duroc
Fersey gilt for $500 spot cash. The 1
sale was made to R. A. Brown, a for
ner Missourian, who now is in the
>anking business at Washington, Ark.
Ie plans to use the sow as the foun
lation for a fine herd of Duroc-Jer
ieys. The gilt goes by the registry
lame of Miss Orion Cherry King, Jr.,
ind is said to be an almost perfect ,
specimen of the breed. She comes
rom the world’s championship blood
itrain of Orion King, Jr. She al
ready has proven her worth by far
owing a litter of 15 pigs, of which
she raised 12, all good ones. The
■heapest pig from this litter sold for
>100 when ten weeks old. Mr. Brown
lad purchased one of the pigs from
his litter and was so pleased with it
hat when he found h ecould pur
chase the mother, he promptly seized
he opportunity.
A Business Men’s Club has been
formed at Evening Shade.
TUCKERMAN TO
BE UGHTEB OP
Transmission Line To Newport Will
Be Completed This Week and
Connection Made.
By the latter part of this week the
thriving little town of Tuckerman
will be illumined with electricity, ac
cording to John Covey, who is con
nected with the Citizens Light &
Power Company of Tuckerman, and
who, with W. M. Shaver, has the wrork
of building a transmission line to
Newport in charge.
Work on the line was interrupted
many times during the past several
months by reason of labor shortage.
At present a force of ten men is at
work, and the line will reach Newport
this week.
Street lights in Tuckerman are in
stalled and many of the residences
are wired in readiness for the incom
ing electricity. Electric lights, how
ever, are not new to the people of
Tuckrman. The Citizens Light &
Power Company has been furnishing
the town with current for a long time,
but the little city outgrew the two
25-horse power motors, necessitating
a greater voltage.
37TH DIVISION NOW
IS AT ST. NAZAIItE.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Location of
all army divisions overseas on De
cember 1!) was announced today by
the war department. Combat di
visions of the Army of Occupation
nr. that date were located as follows:
P’irst Monta Baux; Second, Hed
lesdorf; Third, Andernach; Fourth,
Bertrich; Fifth, Merl; Seventh,
Kuvenzin; 28th, Heudicourt; 32d,
Rendegord; 33d, Grevenmacher; 42d,
Ahrweiler; 78th, Vacherauville. . '
Other combat divisions:
68th, Angnay-le-Due; 26th, Mon
;igny-le-Roi; 27th, Montfort; 29th,
Bourbonne-les-Bains; 3Qth, Ballou;
list, skeletonized, part on priority,
nart sailed; 34th, skeletonized, part
nn priority, part sailed; 35th, Com
nercy; 36th, Cheney; 37th, Worm
loudt; 38th, skeletonized, part; on
nriority, 77th, Chateau Villian; 78th,
3emur; 80th, Aucy-le-France; 81st,
Mussy-sur-Seine; 82d, Prauthoy;
14th to bo skeletonized at LeMans,
November 8; 86th skeletonized,
nart for rep-lacement, part to return
:o United States; 87th, St. Nazaire;
■8th, Lagny; 89th, Kylburg; 90th,
Berncastel; 91st, Rousbrugge; 92nd,
Marbache. .•
Depot divisions:
41st, St. Aighan; 83d, LeMans;
35th, Toul; 39th, skeletonized for
replacement and return to United
States; 40th, Revigny; 8th, Pons.
FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Opening of
;he Fifth Liberty Loan campaign
\pril 6th, the second anniversary of
he declaration of war against Ger
many is under consideration by treas
jry officials, but no decision has
ieen reached. The Third Liberty
Loan drive started on April 6, 1918,
he first anniversary. It is planned
;o have the campaign run for three
veeks and to ask for between $5,000,
)00,000 and $6,000,000,000. Whether
,he interest rate will be higher than
;he 414 per cent borne by the last is
sues depend partly on the movement
if the market price of Liberty bonds
luring the next two months. The
londs will be of short maturity in
lie neighborhood of five years.
Casualty List
Died of disease, Lonnie Hopkins,
Lrockett; Tom Collier, Clifton; Vir
ril Q. Kingsley, Oakwood, Clyde L.
Rowell, Nashville.
Died of wounds, Cran Walker, Eu
•eka Springs; Murray W. Watwood,
Helena.
Wounded severely, previously re
sorted missing in action, Wilson B.
Fullerton, Paragould; Joseph Frol
ett, Conway.
Killed in action, previously reported
missing in action, Thomas Alexander,
SValnut Ridge.
Died of wounds, Murray Watwood,
Helena.
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