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ARKANSAS. 



ASSOCIATIONS, SCIENCE. 



" The action of the Legislature in refusing to ap- 

 propriate the interest on the general school fund, 

 amounting to about f 250.000, for the maintenance 

 and improvement of our public schools is a wrong 

 to the people." 



The ticket follows : For Governor, II. L. Remmel; 

 Secretary of State. II. A. Reynolds: Auditor, J. F. 

 .M ayes ; Attorney-General, E. H. Vance : State Treas- 

 urer, A. A. Tufts; State Land Commissioner, Mark 

 A. Sanders; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Charles F. Cole; Commissioner of Mines, Manufac- 

 tures, and Agriculture, Charles T. Duke; Chief 

 Justice, Jacob Trieber ; Associate Justice, 0. D. Scott. 



A resolution was adopted expressing confidence 

 in Gen. Powell Clayton, and satisfaction with his 

 leadership of the party in the State. 



The Prohibition State Convention was held May 

 7. Delegates to the national convention at Pitts- 

 burg were chosen, also a candidate for Governor, 

 J. W. Miller, and one for presidential elector, but 

 neither the State nor the electoral ticket was com- 

 pleted. After reaffirming the distinctive principle 

 of the party, the resolutions declared for free coin- 

 age of silver and Government ownership of rail- 

 roads and telegraphs. The platform also declared 

 in favor of restricted immigration, woman suffrage, 

 election of President, Vice-President, and Senators 

 by direct vote, reduced salaries to public officials, 

 abolition of official fees, taxation of property at its 

 actual value, a better State road law, and amend- 

 ments to the election laws. Recent Legislatures 

 were condemned for not providing for school in- 

 struction on the effects of alcohol on the human 

 system. 



The Democratic State Convention was held at 

 Little Rock, June 17. Three aspirants had been 

 before the people as candidates for the nomination 

 for Governor A. H. Sevier, who was not in favor of 

 free silver; J. II. Plarrod, a silver man who pro- 

 posed to abide by the action of the national con- 

 vention whatever it might be ; and Daniel W. Jones, 

 who was for free silver at all hazards. The first 

 withdrew; and as a large majority of the county 

 conventions instructed for Daniel W. Jones, he was 

 made the candidate of the convention. The re- 

 mainder of the State ticket was : For Secretary of 

 State, Alexander C. Hull ; Attorney-General, E. B. 

 Kinsworthy ; Auditor, Clay Sloan ; Treasurer, Ran- 

 som Gulley ; State Land Commissioner, J. F. 

 Ritchie ; Superintendent of Education, Junius Jor- 

 dan ; Commissioner of Agriculture : W. G. Vin- 

 cenheller ; Chief Justice, H. G. Bunn ; Associate 

 Justice, S. P. Hughes. Delegates to the national 

 convention were instructed to vote for Richard P. 

 Bland for presidential nominee by a vote of 420 to 

 327. An electoral ticket was also chosen. The 

 platform said, in part : 



" We favor bimetallism, and to that, end we insist 

 upon the free and unlimited coinage of both silver 

 and gold, at the ratio of 16 to 1, as money of final 

 redemption, with equal legal-tender powers, inde- 

 pendent of the action of any other nation. 



"We are opposed to the issue of interest-bearing 

 bonds for any purpose in time of peace. 



" We demand the repeal of the present laws dis- 

 crediting the silver money of the nation and legal- 

 izing private contracts payable in gold alone. 



"We are opposed to the national banking sys- 

 tem.'' 



It also declared in favor of an income tax, a tariff 

 for revenue only, the improvement of State high- 

 ways, the immediate creation of a railroad commis- 

 sion, and the submission to the people of such an 

 ainendim-t! 'institution as maybe necessary 



to remove all restrictions on legislation on this sub- 

 ject. 



The State ('(invention of the People's party, held 



at Little Rock, July 15, named candidates for presi- 

 dential electors, anil placed A. W. Files in nomina- 

 tion for Governor. 



The State election took place Sept. 7, and the en- 

 tire Democratic ticket was successful. The total vote 

 polled for Governor was 141,801, of which Daniel W. 

 Jones, Democrat, received 91,124; H. L. Remmel, 

 Republican, 35,836 ; A. W. Files, Populist, 13,990 ; 

 and Miller, Prohibitionist, 851. The number en- 

 titled to vote was 201.10.5. The Senate will have 30 

 Democrats and 1 Republican. The House of Rep- 

 resentatives will contain 87 Democrats, 11 Populists, 

 and 2 Republicans. The question of liquor license 

 was submitted to vote at this election with this re- 

 sult : In favor, 68,088 ; opposed, 61,862. 



After the State election, the question of fusion 

 between the Democratic and People's parties on the 

 presidential ticket was decided upon at a meeting 

 of the State central committees of the two parties 

 Oct. 10. It was agreed that the Democrats should 

 have 5 electors and the People's party 3, and ac- 

 cordingly 3 of the candidates on the Democratic tick- 

 et resigned and their places were filled by Populists. 



These electors were chosen Nov. 3, the vote stand- 

 ing as follows: Democratic and Populist, 110.103; 

 Republican, 37,512; Regular Prohibition (Levering), 

 839; National Prohibition (Bentley), 893. The total 

 vote cast was 149,347, the Democratic plurality lie- 

 ing 72,591. There were no Palmer electors. The 

 increase in the total vote for presidential electors 

 over l<s<)2 was 1,418. The increase in the Demo- 

 cratic plurality over 1892 was 31.641. 



The election for congressional representatives re- 

 sulted in the return of Messrs. MeCulloch. Little, 

 MeRac. Terry, Dinsmore and Brundridge, all Dem- 

 ocrats. Their majorities in their respective dis- 

 tricts were 14.236, 12,626, 11,077, 9,419, 8,479, and 

 12,066. The first five named were re-elected, having 

 previously served in two or more Congresses. 



ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE. American. The forty-fifth meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science was held in Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 

 22-29, 1896. The officers of the meeting were: 

 President, Edward D. Cope, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Vice-presidents of sections: A, Alexander Mac- 

 farlane. South Bethlehem. Pa. ; B, Carl Leo Mees, 

 Terre Haute, Ind. ; C, William A. Noyes. Terre 

 Haute, Ind. ; D, Frank 0. Marvin. Lawrence, Kan. ; 

 E, Benjamin K. Emerson, Amherst. Mass. ; F, 

 Theodore N. Gill, Washington city: G. Nathaniel 

 L. Britton, New York city ; II. Alice C. Fletcher, 

 Washington city ; I, William R. Lazenby, Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. Permanent Secretary, Frederick W. 

 Putnam, Cambridge (office, Salem) Mass. General 

 Secretary, Charles R. Barnes, Madison. Wis. Sec- 

 retary of the Council, Asaph Hall, Jr., Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. Secretaries of the sections : A, Edwin B. 

 Frost, Hanover, N. H. ; B, Frank P. Whitman, 

 Cleveland, Ohio; C, Frank P. Venable, Chapel 

 Hill, N. C. ; D, John Galbraith, Toronto, Canada; 

 E, William N. Rice, Middletown. Conn.; F, David 

 S. Kellicott, Columbus, Ohio ; G, George F. Atkin- 

 son, Ithaca, N. Y. ; H, George II. Perkins. Burling- 

 ton. Vt. ; and I, Richard T. Colburn, Elizabeth, 

 N. J. Treasurer, Robert S. Woodward, New York. 



Opening' Proceedings. The usual regular pre- 

 liminary meeting of the council with which the 

 association begins its sessions was held in the Iro- 

 qnois Hotel, which was the headquarters of the 

 association, on Aug. 22, at noon. At this session 

 the final details pertaining to the arrangements of 

 the meetings were sett led, and the reports of the 

 local committees acted on. The names of 54 appli- 

 cants for membership were favorably considered. 

 The general session with which the public meetings 

 began was held in the chapel of the High School at 



