The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-08-13

the duties of the Office, the President of the
Senate shall act as Governor until the va
cancy is filed, or the disability removed;
and if the President of the Senate; for any;
of the above causes, shall be rendered inca
pable of performing the duties pertaining to
the Office of Governor, the same shall de-
volve upon the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
Z Sec. IA. Should either the Secretary of
State. Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney Gem
eral, or Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton. become incapable of performing the
duties of his Office, for any of the causes
specified IN the thirteenth section of this
Article, the Governor shall fill the vacancy
until the disability is removed, or success
or is elected and qualified. Every such va
cancy shall be filed by election, at the FIRST
general election that occurs more than thir-
ty days after it shall have happened: and
the person chosen shall hold the Office for
the unexpired term. r. -
Sec. z15. The officers mentioned in this
Article shall, at stated tim s, receive for
their services a compensation to be estab-
lished by law, which shall neither be in=
creased nor diminished during the period
for which they shall have been elected.
Sec &c. The officers of the executive de-
partment, and of all public State institu-
tons, shall, at least ten days preceding each
regular session of the Legislature, severally
report to the Governor, who shall transmit
such reports to the Legislature.
ARTICLE If.-LEGIsLATIvE.
Section 1. The Legislative power of this
State shall be vested in House of Repre-
sentatives and Senate,
Sec. e. The first House of Representa-
tives under this Constitution shall consist
of seventy Eve members, who shall be cho
sen for one year. The first Senate shall
consist of twenty-five members, who shall
be chosen for two years. After the first
election, the number of Senators and mem
bers of tie House of Representatives shall
be regulated by law; but shall never exceed
one hundred Representatives and thirty
three Senator'S. ses aa'
Sec. 8. The members of the Legislature
shall receive as compensation for their SER
vices the sum of three dollars for each days
actual service at any regular or special ses-
sion,5 and fifteen cents for each mile travel
eled by the usual route in going to and re-
turning from the place of meeting; but such
compensation shall not in the aggregate ex
coed the sum of two hundred and forty dol
lars for each member as per diem allowance
for the first session held under this Consti-
tuition, nor more than one hundred and fif
ty dollars for each session thereafter, nor
more than ninet: dollars for any special
session. 4z ,f
Sec a. No person shall be member of
the Legislature who is not at the time of
his election qualified voter of and resi-
dent In the county or district for which he
is elected. ss7
Sec. 5. No member of Congress or Off
Ger. of the United States shall be eligible to
a seat in the Legislature. IF any person,
after his election to the Legislature, be cleo
ted to Congress, or elected or appointed to
any Office under the United States, his &C
ceptarce thereof shall vacate his seat.
Sec. 6. No person convicted Of an en-
bezzlement or misuse of the public funds
shall have seat in the Legislature.
Sec. z. All State officers, before entering
upon their respective duties, shall take and
subscribe an oath or affirmation to support
the Constitution of the United States and
the Constitution of this State, and faithful
ly discharge the duties of their respective
offices.
Sec 8. A majority of each House shall
constitute quorum. Each House shal!
establish its own rules, and shall be judge
of the elections, returns and qualifications
of its own members. ~ s a-.s s ba
| Sec. g. All vacancies occurring in either
House shall be filled for the unexpired term
by election.
Sec. 10. Each House shall keep and pub
| lish journal of its proceedings. The yeas
and nays shall be taken and entered imme-
diately on the journal. upon the final pas
sage of every bill or joint resolution. Mel
Their House. without the consent Of the 9th
| er, shall adjourn for more than two days,
Sundays excepted.
Sec. II. Any member of either House
shall have the right to protest against any
act or resolution, and such protest shall,
without delay or alteration, be entered on
the journal.
! Sec. l2. All bills shall originate in the
House of Representatives, and be subject
to amendment or rejection by the Senate.
Sec. IS. A majority of ali the members
elected to each House, voting in the afir-
native, shall be necessary to pass any bill
or joint resolution.
Sec. ID. Every bill and joint resolution
passed by the House of Representatives
and the Senate. shall. within two days
thereafter, be signed by the presiding Off
GERS, and presented to the Governor; If be
approve he shall sign it. but if not, he shall
return it to the House of Representatives,
which shall enter the objections at large
upon its journal. and proceed to reconsider
the same If. after such reconsideration.
two-thirds of tie members elected shall
agree to pass the bin or resolution, it shall
be sent, with the objections, to the Senate,
/ by which it shall likewise be reconsidered:
and if approved by two-thirds of all the
members elected. it shall become a law
But in ali such cases the vote shall be Ia
ken by yeas and nays. and entered upon the
journals of each House. IF any bill shall
not be returned within three days (Sundays