The log cabin Democrat., 1914-04-30
NOT 4 CAUSE FOR WORRY.

general election next SeptemDer as strong as they did at the March pri- mary, Craighead county will obtain two representatives in the future This county has about 4,S00 taxpay- CTS, but after the primary interest lags and the people do not turn out at the general election. Everyone should make an effort to get the vote out this fall so Craighead can get two representatives in the general assem- bly in the future. The vote that Gov. Hays receives in September will de- termine the question, and will also de- termine our representation in the state and district onventions.-Jones- boro Tribune.
 If the Tribune will but consider the matter bit it will see, we think, that it really has no ground of complaint and should be satisfied with things as they are-at least will not seek to make things worse by contributing anything towards doubling the size of the legislature. The same ratio of de- creased vote in the fall election as compared with the spring primary ex- ists all over the state, so Craighead suffers nothing. On the other hand, it gains as does the remainder of the state in keeping down the number of legislators and it, and the whole state would be better off if the number sent to the capitol were cut in half. That would diminish in the same ratio the petty local legislation and the ill-con- sidered general legislation and tend to facilitate the dispatch of state busl.- ness.-Fort Smith Times Record.
 The Tribune is misinformed and the Times-Record falls into the same error as to the basis of representation in the general assembly of Arkansas. The number of representatives in the lower house does not depend upon the number of votes cast in the general election. The apportionment is fixed by Section 1 of Article of the con- stitution, the first two sentences of which read as follows:
 "The house of representatives shall consist of not less than 73 nor more than 100 members. Each county how organized shall always be entitled to one representative, the remainder to be. apportioned the several counties according to the number of adult male inhabitants, taking 2,000 as the ratio, until the number of representatives amounts to 100, when they shall not be further increased; but the ratio of representation shall, from time to time, be increased, as hereinafter pro- vided, so that the number of repre- sentatives shall never exceed that number"
 The constitution of 1874 itself ap- portioned 89 of the representatives, and the first session of the general assembly held under the present con stitution consisted of that number of members of the lower house. No re- apportionment of the representatives has been made by the legislature since the act of April 1, 1891, although two federal censuseS have been taken since that time. The 1891 apportion- ment took up the full quota of 100 representatives, so that no county could be given an additional member unless the representation of some oth- CT county were reduced. But the re- lative. population of the various coun- ties has changed considerably in the 23 years which have elapsed, and 1t was expected that the legislature of 1911 would pass a reapportionment bill. Such a bill was drafted, but on acceant of opposition from counties which would lose representative 1t never became law.
 At present Faulkner and Craighead counties have one representative each, while Conway county has two, yet both Faulkner and Craighead have a larger population of adult males than has Conway According to the census of 1910, Faulkner had 5,l72, Cralg- head 1909 and Conway 4,971 males of voting age. Washington county, with S,4S9 adult males, has three rep resentatives, while Benton county, with 231 more adult males, has only two representatives, and Mississippi county, with 429 more adult males than Washington, has only one rep resentative.
 Under a fair reapportionment Craighead and several other counties would doubtless have their represen- tation in the lower house increased, but they cannot do it upon the basis of the vote they cast next September.