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VOLUME 40, NUMHER 113THORN BEL»PAIRED VOTEQUESTIONEDW. M. Thompson, Batesville, Brings Up No. 1944If Case To Court”REVIEWS HISTORYSays Journal Records That Carter Whose Vote Determined Bill Absent and PairedNO RhX'ORI) AT CAPITOL I Little Rock. April 4 (/P)-An | inspection of the official house |journal today failed to showthat Rep. V. N. Carter of Pulaski county was ‘“paired | with another member in vot- j in* for the Thorn liquor mea- | sure. The journal merely j reflects th^t Cartefr * Voted | “aye,” and makes no refer-ence to a *pair’\ 1* Chief Clerk Hal P. Smith !r.aicf Ihe remennbered fallingthe coll on the Thorn bill, and that Carter, at the conclusion of the first calling of the roll, arose and said he de- |sired to vote “aye.The journal show# no pair- ,e^ vote* on the Thorn hill, iRep. O. K. dates of Cleveand Icounty was the only vote not cast, the journal showed.IHurst’s Recollection Was for “Paired” VoteRep. F.lla B. Hurst of !Washington county said thisI afternoon that it was her i I recollection that Rep. Pete |I Carter of Pulaski county was |1 absent from house when vote |I on the Thorn hill was tak- I I en and that he was voted as | A pair, and tiiat this fakt I | was requested recorded in the house journal. IIt is barely possible that in |I a matter so intporrtnt and 1 ! hanging on A singly vote that I 1 the journal record was not | j kept according to Mr. Thomp- I son’s request. ^Question as to whether the Thorn liquor bill “really passed by the required 51 votes’* may he raised in the local “three mile” tect suit recently filed in Chancery court here.Attention of the press has been called to a material point.When the bill was on final passage in the house it received only50 votes. After it was discovered that one vote was needed, a pair was presented in which W. J. (Pete) Carter of Pulaski county, who actually was absent from the house, was paired in favor of thebill.The journal of the house records this fact. The item was ro entered on motion of W‘. M. Thompson, Independence county. Mr. Thompson in a letter re-ceiveH in Fayetteville contends that the hill failed to pass under Amendment No. 19, for th** reason that it did not actually receive 51 votes of the members-(CONTINUED ON PACK EIGHT)
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Apr 04, 1935
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