The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-18
LEGISLATORS MAY
 BE PUT ON SALARY
AMENDMENT IS PROPOSED
TO PAY MEMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY $750 FOR TWO
 YEARS.

Proposed amendment No. 15 to the constitution of Arkansas, offered by the legislature of 1913, to be voted up- on at the general election next Sep tember, changes the compensation of members of the general assembly from S6 per diem to $75O for each two years. The amendment is now being officially published. As a. mat ter of news, the Log Cabin Democrat prints it below:
 i PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CoN-
 sTITUTIoN OF THE STATE OF
 ARKANSAS
 Notice is hereby given that the fol- lowing joint resolution, proposing an amendment to the state constitution was passed by the general assembly at it's regular session of 1913, and that the same will be submitted to the electors of the state at the next gen. eral election, to be held Monday September IA, 1914, for adoption or rejection
 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 15.
 That the following is hereby pro- posed as an amendment to the consti- tuition of the state of Arkansas, and the same being submitted to the cleo tors of the state for approval or re- Jection at the next general election for senators and representatives, if a majority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendment the same shall become part of the con- stitution of the state of Arkansas, to- wit:
 That section fifteen (15) of article five (5) of the constitution of the state of Arkansas, as amended by amendment No. 13, declared by the speaker of the house of representa- tives on February 10, 1913, to have been adopted, be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 15. The members of the general assembly shall receive as their salary the sum of seven hundred and fifty ($750) dollars, except the presi- dent of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, each of whom shall receive as his salary eight hundred and fifty ($850) dollars, for fthe term of two (2) years; and in ad- dition to such salary the members of the general assembly shall receive five cents per mile for each mile travelled in going to and returning from the seat of government over the most di- rect and practicable route. Said sal ary shall be payable in the following manner, to-wit: Five ($5) dollars per day for the first one hundred days of any regular session of the general assembly,; Provided, the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives may draw six ($6) dollars per day for the first hundred days of any regular session. The re-
 
 mainder of their salary shall be paid to them quarterly on the first day of January, April, July and October of the year following any regular ses- sion of the general assembly, and the auditor of state shall draw his war rants in favor of the members of the general assembly on said date for the amount of salary due each at that time, and mail same to the members at their respective postoffice address es. No member of either house shall receive any salary or emoluments for his services other than is provided herein. The terms Q&all members of the general assembly shall begin on the day of their election"
 The above resolution was filed in the office of the secretary of state on March 6, 1913.
 Each elector may vote for or against the above amendment.
 Witness my official signature this 18th day of February, 1914.
 EARLE w. HODGES, (SeaD Secretary of State.