ARKANSAS. 



ASSOCIATIONS, SCIENCE. 



We believe in a free-school system, and the fur- 

 nishing of school-books by the State to the citizens 

 at cost. 



"We condemn the present barbarous convict lease 

 law, instituted by the Republican party and continued 

 by its servile imitators, the Democratic party, and de- 

 mand its immediate repeal. 



We suggest that in lieu of the present system a 

 penitentiary farm be provided, upon which a sufficient 

 number of the convicts be employed to make a sup- 

 port for the whole body, and that all surplus labor 

 above the farm needs be used in building State roads. 



We demand a State reformatory institution for 

 young^ convicts, who under the present system come 

 out of prison worse than they enter. 



We condemn the present unjust road law, under 

 which those least able have to bear all the burden, 

 and demand in its stead a just and equitable system 

 of taxation for road purposes. 



We demand an amendment to the State Constitu- 

 tion, making our elections for four-year terms, and 

 forbidding a re-election on the part of any officer to 

 two consecutive terms, and in this connection we de- 

 mand consolidation of State and national elections. 



In the present impoverished condition of our tax 

 payers we think it would be nothing less than a crime 

 ior our Legislature to appropriate moneys for luxuries 

 like the World's Fair at Chicago, but we approve the 

 course of those citizens who out of their abundance 

 contribute to that exposition. 



We condemn in unmeasured terms the looting of 

 the State treasury by Democratic officials, who now 

 go unwhipped of justice. 



We deny that the Democratic party in Arkansas 

 has given us fair elections or believes in them, and 

 we assert that their boasted election law is but a serv- 

 ile imitation of the Lodge force bill, and was devised 

 to enable them to perpetuate their wicked lease of 

 power, despite the will of the electors. 



Upon reassembling on July 6, the Republican 

 State Convention nominated candidates for presi- 

 dential electors and the following State ticket : 

 For Governor, William G. Whipple; for Secre- 

 tary of State, James Gates ; for Auditor, Samuel 

 A. Williams ; for Treasurer, Charles N. Rix ; for 

 Attorney-General, E. H. Vance ; for State Land 

 Commissioner, Jacob H. Donahoo ; for Commis- 

 sioner of Mines, etc., D. C. Gordon ; for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Zadock P. Free- 

 man ; for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Wilbur F. Hill. The canvass following these 

 nominations was uneventful. At the election on 

 Sept. 5 the entire Democratic State ticket was 

 elected. For Governor. Fishback received 90,115 

 votes, Whipple 33,644, Carnahan 31,177. and Nel- 

 son 1,310. Half of the State Senate and all the 

 members of the House of Representatives were 

 chosen at the same time. The Legislature of 

 1893 will be divided politically as follows : Sen- 

 ate Democrats 29, People's Party 2, Republi- 

 cans 1 ; House Democrats 88, People's Party 7, 

 Republicans 5. A proposed amendment to the 

 State Constitution requiring payment of a poll 

 tax as a prerequisite for voting was submitted to 

 the people at this election, and received 75,848 

 affirmative and 56,589 negative votes. As it 

 failed to receive the approval of a majority of 

 the total number of persons voting at the elec- 

 tion, it seems not to have been adopted. 



At the November election the Democrats were 

 again successful, electing their candidates for 

 Congress in every district and their presidential 

 electors. The vote on the electoral ticket was : 

 Cleveland, 87,057; Harrison, 46,359; Weaver, 

 11,831. Cleveland's plurality, 40,698. 



ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. American.-The forty- 

 first meeting of the American Association was 

 held in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 17-23, 1892. The 

 officers of the meeting were : President, Joseph 

 Le Conte, of Berkeley, Cal. ; Vice-presidents of 

 sections : A, John R. Eastman, Washington, D 

 C. ; B, Benjamin F. Thomas, Columbus, Ohio ; 

 C, Alfred Springer, Cincinnati, Ohio ; D, John 

 B. Johnson, St. Louis, Mo. ; E, Henry S. Will- 

 iams, Ithaca, N. Y. ; F, Simon H. Gage, Ithaca 

 N. Y. ; H, William H. Holmes, Washington. D. 

 C. ; I, Lester F. Ward, Washington, D. C. Per- 



JO8EPH LE CONTE. 



manent Secretary, Frederick W. Putnam, Cam- 

 bridge (office, Salem), Mass. General Secretary, 

 Amos W. Butler, Brookville, Ind. Secretary of 

 the Council, Thomas H. Norton, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Secretaries of the sections : A, Winslow Upton, 

 Providence, R. I. ; B, Brown Ayres, New Or- 

 leans, La. ; C, James Lewis Howe, Louisville, 

 Ky. ; D, Olin H. Landreth, Nashville, Tenn. ; 

 E, Rollin D. Salisbury, Madison, Wis. ; F. Byron 

 D. Halsted, New Brunswick. N. J. ; H, William 

 M. Beauchamp, Baldwinsville, N. Y. ; I, Henry 

 Farquhar, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, Will- 

 iam Lilly, Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



Opening Proceedings. The meeting began 

 at noon on Aug. 16 with a preliminary meeting 

 of the council, at which the names of 69 new mem- 

 bers were passed. These, with the 33 elected on 

 April 20, made 102 new members elected since 

 the meeting a year ago. The first general ses- 

 sion was held at 10 A. M. in the chapel of the 

 University of Rochester, where the gathered sci- 

 entists were called to order by the retiring presi- 

 dent, Prof. Albert B. Prescott, who briefly intro- 

 duced his successor, Prof. Joseph Le Conte, with 

 a fitting tribute to the latter's eminence in geo- 

 logica Iscience. In taking the chair President 

 Le Conte expressed his appreciation of the kind 

 and courteous way in which the mantle had been 

 transferred to him, and thanked the society for 

 the honor conferred upon him. He said : 



There were three, and only three, things which 

 passed beyond the material and entered the spiritual. 

 They were fine art, religion, science. Art perfected 

 the ideal of beauty in the mind. .Religion perfected 



