Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-03
lelief Prevails That People Twill Decide It Is Best to
 Put Legislators on Salary.
bTATE LOSING MONEY
Is Result of Financial Condition, Ar- kansas Gets Only $1 Worth of Value for Every s1.33 Spent, and
 May Lose More.
(By A. w. Parke.J

# Little Rock, April .2.-One more iyty days session of the Arkansas legislature, ani then never again. bne more collection of sixty-day mis- akes and the people of Arkansas will sss constit ltional amendment put Hing the legislators on salary Wlth q hai ioritv reaching up to the Skies. 83rhe 1913 session of the legislature Fl xnded with a score or more bills that were ,o messed up in their nasty pas age chat tle supreme court has been busy ever since strengthening them mi The 1915 general assembly left matters even worse, and all is due hirectly to the short time in which the legislature had to do it's work
 While it is too late to submit a Constitutional amendment this time, ehanging the one limiting the length bf legislative sessions, it will be the krst filed two years from now. One bf the amendments to be voted on in he next election provides for the talk ng off of the .nree-amend1ent limit, nd if this is adopted as many may be ubmitted at any one election as the people initiate or the legislature re- CTS to them. If this is not adopted he people will still have the right to tote on three, and it is safe to predict hat two of these will be the bond is- ue for cities, an dthe placing of leg slafors on salaries. Those who favor kese will not wait for the legislature b refer others, but act immediately that no. others will be submitted head of them.
 Penty of legislation is enacted in ixty day sessions, but it is faulty ill aany cases, and in the rush of the losing days all employees are used in nrol,lng and expressing bills, Whe- her they are familiar With the work r not. and this le2ds to the contn- ion from which tne state is now suA- ering on minimum wage and other bills. Tie sixty day session is false conomy.
 Practically every article purchas- Id byz-ths--sSata ta ,3QN ~iis-pI1ced. at at an n. dvance of cne-third over what it can e secured for by the cash buyer. Ihe easons for this is the seondi,ion of tie Arkansas treasury and the long walt he creditor of the state must under To to set his money, or the discount er must acceptsrin order to get cash lpon it. aThe price of state warrants going down continually, and after he annual settlement of tl1e county Collectors in Juy, and the cash they bay in has been consumed in redeem ng outstanding warrants, the state paper will go down to about 60 per ent This is the estimate placed up n it by Little Rock bankers. This hardship is not upon the states cred alone, but it is burdensome in the Extreme to the employees of the state. They work for average salaries, and must accept what they can get for heir warrants. They have hereto ore been preferred creditors for the different state officers could receive honey and hold it to take up their alary warrants. Now they must pay li money received into the treasury Immediately or be guilty of felony.
 Prospects for a special session are Indeed slight, and. without something Ii this nature to relieve, the financial ondition of the treasury, the value Sf warrants will continue to drop ana he states debt to climb. It is estl- hated that by the next session Of the legislature that the deficit in the gen. ra revenue fund will have been ln- reased by $500,000 due to the ad- lance in prices on state supplies. his could be saved if the state paid ash for it's supplies. ..
 During the last session of the leg s1atureq one of the leaders made the emark that, he would not propose a
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