The Forrest City times., 1912-09-20

ins ihem part of the law would be aI'hple. Tie returns must he can. s"SSed Officially by the state board ol election commissioners. composed o' me governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Then the governor issues proclamation stating that these acts have been adopted by the People and are laws of the state.
 lhese amendments will not be in- eofporated in the constitution until the legislature eonvenes The legisla. ture when it convenes in joint ses. sloh To deleare the result Of the cleo ton, will declare the votes on the amendments also and they will be ot. tlcially adopted Attorney General Nor"ood. who circulated the petition Tor the 60=day session amendment. says this will save the state S20O poo hlennialiy. It will be adopted by the Incoming legislature and will apply 10 is session.
 Attorney General Norwood declares that he Is not sare at present whether the amendments must have q majority oi the highest vote cast for any state office. as he has not made com Piete Investigation some lawyers hold that the amendments will require majority of the highest vote cast for auN state office. while others. in eiuding Mayor Chas F. Taylor, who tas consulted several attorneys. says that only majority of the votes cast on that particular measure is required.
 Attorney General NorBood still holds to his orinsinal opinion. how ever, that Amendments Nos. n and l. had no place on the ballot. and are not legally adopted, and says this will probably be tested in the courts Y someone interested. Mir Norwood says that the constitution specifics that only three amendments may be submitted al any general election, eept No. II, 12 and l3
 Need Simple Counting Plan.
 The first election under the initia- tive and referendum has brought forth many complaints about the time re. quired to canyass the returns, and many political economists have been laboring upon patents to improve the present mode of counting the vote some of these probably will be sub mltted to the next legislature, and some better system may be adopted The long time required to count the ballots causes greater work and ex- pense to newspapers and worry to the people who are particularly interested in the measures. It is also said to give opportunity for fraud Charges ot fraud were made last week on some of the measures in which the people were interested. but no proof was shown.
 Prohibitionsists Lose Ground.
 The fight over the prohibition meas ure was perhaps the most interesting. The result in many counties was a surprise Not only did the state.wd- CTS lose on Act No. ?. but 2l counties that are now dry" voted wet" while only one wet" county voted dry. The one county formerly wet and voting dry" is Cross. It was thought Lee county had voted dry but later returns indicate that this county will remain in the wet column Dry counties voting for license this year are: Arkansas, Bradley. Carroll, Gle bnrne, Crittendon, Calhoun. Madison. Newton, Searcy Stone. Hot Spring,
 
 Lonoke, Polk, Seyier, Miller, Ouachita. Perry and possibly Yell. This will make 33 CT 34 wet" counties instead Of l2 as at present, although special acts will Keep saloons out of Hot Spring and Ouachita counties, and pos sibly four others. and the net result will probably be l5 dry counties ad-