The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18

departments owe their lives to the Constitu- ti0n they are bound to 1t in their allegi- ance nor is there q word in the Consti- tuition which authorizes any department to concert its destruction. There you 1 will find this plain extraordinary power is reserved to the people. You cannot act. The power belongs to them. It is q reserved power It may be exercised only by the people when government becomes de- structive of the ends for which it was designated. The General Assembly has the power to propose amendments. And if there was nothing else more explicit in the Constitution, reserving this power to the people, this particular grant of power to the General Assembly by implication ex- cludes from your authority the power to initiate revolution It is true, l grant, the people in their political capacity may add to your general powers the special power to call q convention; but this they have not done In the late election the subject was not discussed, and therefore you are not commissioned to call convention THE RECENT QUARANTINE AND ITS COST.
 There was available, gentlemen, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of this quarantine out of the appropriation hereto fore provided the sum of 1,1o6.2S. This sum was found to be entirely inadequate, so I applied to the national government for aid in financial way, and received from them the sum of S27 TOO 9S, S16,36690 of which was due the State Guard under an Act of Congress providing for the equipment and annual encampment of the National Guard, of which our militia is a part. This sum of money was also used to help de- fray the expenses of fighting the yellow fever, making sum total expended for this purpose, both from the State and the national government, of $3S, S,So7.26. The nfr iyyn6f fpnp hn nat for a1 government in excess of the sum allowed to us as our regular allotment for en- campment purposes, viz: $11, ,364.0S, was given to me in the nature of a loan, with the express understanding that when your honorable body should meet the sum would be refunded and am sure that it will be your pleasure to pass speedily as pos sible appropriation bill refunding this amount generously advanced to Arkansas by the national government. In addition, gentlemen, there yet remain unpaid bills amounting to $o275.79, making the quar- antine cost us in round numbers $44 133. .05. These unpaid bills are miscellaneous items, together with small provision accounts an itemzed account of which can be furnished by the military department to any com mittee having this matter in charge. I trust, gentlemen, that delay will be had in paying, not only the national govern ment for the money borrowed, but also these unpaid bills.
 BUCKET SHOP EVIL.
 One of the greatest evils that exist in our State, to-day, gentlemen, is what is known the bucket shop. It is nothing more or less than sAnple plain gambling device by which men are permitted to gamble in the products of the soil and which largely determines the price of tkS products of labor. This is more especially true of the greatest commodity of the Southland to-day, namely; cotton. The til lers of the soil gentlemen, are making a gallant fight against this evil. Will you help them set an example for the other Southern State?
 CORPORATIONS.
 At common law corporations were char tered for specific and definite purpose They could not be authorized to do any act not within their charter provisions, and were limited to singeness of pur- pose. I would therefore suggest that sections S37 to S71 of Kirby's digest be amandad So fn limit tho ha rter nrOvi-