The Arkansas advocate., 1836-02-26

slolls nHaii iShuc. Where IS tlS provision, (except the general one,) for commissioning the Prosecuting Attorneys, Clerks, Auditor and Treasurer There is no special deelara- tion that either of these shall be commission ed--nor, after the general provision, was 1t necessary.
 Again, he.hss discovered, that, because it IS required that every resolution to which the concurrence of both Houses is necessary, shall be presentedto the Governor for approval,- therefore the two Houses, at their first ses- sion, cannot get together to count the votes for Governor, because '' it viii require joint resolution" Really Cannot the House of Representatives adopt resolution, that the Senate be informed that the House is now ready to proceed to count the votes, ,6oe.-and be requested to meet us for that purpose ''-- and then cannot the Senate resolve to adjourn to the Representative Ghamber-witheut any Joint resolution, or any concuaT'ence in reso- luton! Or,t take another vew--can that clause in the Constitution be construed to be in force at all, until there is a Governor = does it begin to operate before that time--and if it does, will not the President of the Sen ate be acting as. Governor, until the first Go vernon is naugurated!
 Such objectionsseemto be futile, and sone- what over-captious. They can hardly be considered radical defects in the Constitution. With regard to the mode of amending the Constitution, we highly approve of 1t. We think that it will not 'tepen door for endless demagoguing." A demagogie may desire changes in the Constitution, but two Legisla- lures, by yeas and nays, must sanction the change. As to the election of Clerks, we agree with the writer. Ifthere are any valid objections to the Constitution let them be made knowns and if possible let changes be made. We ourself have some objections to 1t, and we trust to convince the people here after, that there is here and there change which ought to be made. We would be will ling, however, to live under the Constitution as it is. It is far ill advance of the Constitu- tions of many of the Western States. There is imperfection in eVefy thing of human ori- gin--and it is better to begin thus and im- prove as we grow wiser, than to begin well and hereafter plunge sullenly into mobosraey.
 
 The following bill was twice read, and committed, ih the House of Representatives, on the 23d January
 \ BILL for the relief of sundry citizens of
 Arkansas, who lost their improvements
 in consequence of a treaty between the U. $. and the Choctaw Indians.
 Be a enacted, That every head.of @ family widow, or single man, over the age of twen- ty-one years, who resided south of the Arkan- sas river, and west of the present boundary line of Arkansas Territory, and in any organ ized county of the Territory at that time, and who lost their improvements by virtue of a treaty made between the U. States and Choe- Jaw nation of Indians, and who abandoned their improvements in consequence of said treaty, shall be permitted to enter in any landoffice in the Territory of Arkansas, one hundred and sixty acres, of the unimproyed and unoccupied public land, in full consider ation of their respective losses Prouided, It shall satisfactorily appear to the register and receiver, that the applicant for the afore- said donation granted by this act shall be a citizen of the Territory of Arkansas, and shall not have received donation of land for losses aforesaid, and that he, she, or they abandoned their improvements in conse- quence of the aforesaid treaty between the United States and the Choctaw Indians; this act shall be in force for the term of three years from the twenty-sixth day of May next
 WAsHINGToN GiTy, Jan. 22d, 1886.
 On Yesterday thesSenate adjourned to meet MAndn1r tI1o- -d t,o Eat...n p o,r,,,..s,.,