The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-16
INVITATIONS EXTENDED
FOR BOOSTERS MEETING
Commercial Organizations and City
Officials Requested to Attend
Meeting in. Little Rock June
"a to Boost Amendment.

Little Rock, June 16.-If the city
officials and commercial organizations
of the state respond, there will be
large convention here on June "a too
boost the interests of Amendment No.
Ia, the municipal bond amendment.
Invitations have been extended to
the 125 commercial organizations of
the state, and the officials of the three
hundred cities and towns to send rep
resentatives to the meeting. The in
vitation is signed by the officers of the
Arkansas Young Mems Chambers of
Commerce, the Little Rock Board of
Trade, the Little Rock Chamber of
Commerce, and the Young Mems
Chamber of Commerce of Little Rock,
as well as by the following mayors:
Charles +. Taylor of Little Rock, Hen
ry C. Read of Fort Smith, Simon
Bloom of Pine Bluff, j. w. McClendon
of Hot Springs, James P. Faucette, of
Argenta, Hugh Martin of Helena,
Thomas Burress of Jonesboro, Her.
bert M. jackson of Paragould, and
John P. Kline of Texarkana.
ut will be remembered that an
amendment was proposed in 1872"
says the letter of invitation, land
voted on at the general election that
year, which would have given to the
people of the cities and towns similar
rights to those provided by the pres
posed amendment, however, in the
opinion of its friends, is a better mea-
sure than the other one, in that it is
more carefully restricted and safe
guarded. The proposed amendment
voted on two years ago was carried
by a majority of $4,000 of the votes
cast on the subject. Sixty-one coun-
ties gave majorities favoring the pro-
posed amendment, and there was no
question in the minds of its friends,
of its adoption, but the Supreme Court
later declared the proposed amend
ment imperative because five amend
ments had been submitted, when in
the opinion of the court only three
could properly be submitted. AS
the proposed bond amendment was the
fifth in point of time to be submitted
it and one other amendment were set
aside by this decision.
at is needless to point out to you
the urgent need on the part of the
people of the cities and towns of the
state for a change in the constitution
which will permit the people of the
cities and towns, at election held for
that purpose, to vote on proposed is
sues of bonds, and so make public inn
provements of a general character.
Many needed public improvements
cannot be made at all, owing to a lack
of funds, and it is regretable fact
that Arkansas cities and towns are
paying a much higher rate of inter
est for short time accommodations
than they would have to pay were our
cities and towns permitted to issue
bonds to a reasonable extent for GER
tain specified purposes, under the
strong restrictions and safeguards
provided in the present proposed
amendment
Perhaps no measure to be voted on
at the present election has been given
more careful thought by the people of
the state than has proposed amend
ment No Ia. We confidently believe
that it will pass at the September
election. We respectfully request that
you arrange to make the success of
the amedment at the polls certainty
| beyond a doubt"