The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-21

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 Aside from local measures at Is sue, the state is now publishing ir fevery one of the 75 counties of the state, nine general measures, at cost ranging from $7S750 to 44,756.25, az gregating $76,337.50. The state say. ed $20,343.75 by the decision of the attorney general that the proposed banking act initiated by Represents tive R. s. Warnock was not legally drawn, as each sheet of the petition did not contain the full text of the law, only a syllabus. The acts and amendments that are being published are as follows:
 Proposed Measures.
 Act No An act to reduce the rate of taxation and to revise and amend the revenue laws of Arkansas, known as the Turner-Jacobson bill, passed at extraordinary session of the general assembly, and submitted by 10000 voters under the referendum.
 Act No. 2-To prohibit the manufac- ture, sale or giving away in the state of Arkansas of alcohol, or any spirit ous, ardent, malt, vinous or fermented liquors, or any compound or prepara- tioh thereof, commonly called tonics, bitters or medicated liquors. This act was initiated by the anti-saloon league, with nearly 10000 signers, whereas only 12,046 are required, being 8 per lcent of the total vote cast in the last general election for governor. But complications have arisen. If the en- abling act is upheld, then the act is invalid under the quoted provision concerning local option laws; if it is unconstitutional then there is no re- striction, and the liquor men, whose strength is in the cities, may initiate saloons back into many of the 66 coun- ties now 'dry' by operation of the county local option law. So the anti saloon league has repudiated the act. Two local prohibitionists sought to enioin the secretary of state from cer- tifying it out, but the lower court held that all provisions for it's submission had been compiled with, and that it cannot be withdrawn, but must go to the people.
 Act No. 3-Amending the election laws of the state. This was initiated more complete representation of the minority party in the election machin- cry of the state.
 Act No. 4-Creating a popular edu- cational committee; creating a text book commission; prescribing the manner if it's election and it's duties, and providing for uniform text books for the public schools of the state, and for furnishing the same to the school patrons of the state at actual cost of production and delivery. This was in- itiated by the Federation of Labor.
 Amendment No. 11-Providing the so-called grandfather clause and edu- cational test for voters, submitted by the legislature.
 Amendment No. 12 - Exempting from taxation for ten years capital invested in cotton factories, submit ted, for the second time, by the legis- lature
 Amendment No. 13-Limiting the sessions of the legislature to 60 days, initiated by Attorney General Nor wood.
 Amendment No. 14-Providing for the recall of all elective public off cers, including the judiciary, and pre- scribing the procedure. The Arkansas Bar Association has gone on record in opposition to this measure, having adopted the following resolution pre- scented by George B Rose:
 Opposed by Bar Association.
 Resolved, by the Arkansas Bar As sociation, that we condemn and de- plore the agitation in favor of re- call of the judges or a review of their judgment by popular vote, and that individually and as a body we will endeavor to maintain the independ- ence of the judiciary, which we recog- nize as the supreme safeguard of our government, and the only effective se- curity of our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
 Amendment No. 15-Providing for the issuance of bonds by municipal corporations for purposes of internal Improvements. This measure was ini- tiated by representatives of the cities and towns of the state, and this will be the second time it has been sub- mitted to the people. Four years ago it failed of adoption because of the discovery of a joker" in 1t, which has been eliminated this time.
 And so, from the crucible of law interpretation, the state is attempting to evolve a workable system of popu- lar lawmaking, the materials are pe- culiarly conflicting, antagonistic, loose- ly constructed, obscure, ambiguous and contradictory, but from the mass of material at hand the advocates of the pure Democracy believe the courts will be able to devise plan that will bring the government closer to the people, who, theoretically, constitute the government.
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