The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-28
All the Amendments.


are three Amendments, to be voted upol
separately. A vote "for the Amend
he ment' is no vote at ALT will be cas-
out, and not counted. IF you wish to ait
Soldiers in the use of the elective fran
- chise, vote the ticket headed "First A
mendment," and containing, Uithtn it
: the words "For the Amendments" Nol
II will voting "For the Amendments" in &
lump, answer-each amendment must be
j voted for or against, by itself, to have the
r vote cast of any avail.
G The FIRST Amendment is for the Sol
diers, to be voted on accordingly.
The Second and Third Amendments
are designed to aid in proper Legislation,
: to prevent ambiguity and confusion, and
; check the frauds and trickery practiced
by some men, in and out of the Legisla-
ture. They are therefore very import
ant.
, The Second Amendment is as follows:
"No bill shall be passed by the Legis-
, lature containing more than one subject,
,ohich shall be clearly oppressed an the IT,
tie, except appropriation bills"
). The exception is the only Objectionable
feature in this section-for money is
sometimes voted, in an appropriation bill,
which could not pass in bill by itself.
We believe the Executive, the Judiciary,
the Legislative, and other Departments,
the Charity donations, and all Laws,
should be passed in separate bills, at diff
ferent times, so that each one should
stand upon its own merits, and not, as
now, be smuggled in, and allowed to pass
upon the spur of necessity, by log roll
ing, at the end of the session.
To show the deceptions practiced by
bills relating to different subjects, and
under unsatisfactory titles, We notice
few on our last Senate file:
can act to authorize the sale Of certain
real estate" Where? and whose? are
reasonable inquiries, not answered by this
title, aud for all public benefit the bill
might as we'll have had no title If the
act was proper, why was not the title full
and fair?
AN act to change the venue in certain
case" Whose case? what country p
Very many, having suits in Courts, would
be alarmed by such a nugatory yet an
noying heading bill.
can act for the promotion of anatomi-
cal science" was to give certain bodies |
for surgical dissection, and might as we'll
have said so at once
In the House, 'An act to lay bounty
tax" referred to one township only but
one would suppose might cover the State.
Why not say what township it concerned,
for the information of that township, and
to set all the rest of the State at ease?
A further supplement to an act relat-
ing to Sherifs, does not refer to Sheriffs
at all, but gives the Commissioners of
Carbon county power to pay 1925 per
week for boarding prisoners, past as well
as prospective. Instead Of ''relating to
sherfs," the bill should have read "An
act to confer special favor upon one
Sheriff by raising the usual compensation
for boarding prisoners, in his case only"
"An act to repeal Sec +, of an act re-
ative to certain election districts, ap-
proved April u, 1855" Why not say
what the bill was for, instead of such
verbiage to hinder legislators
from knowing what it was-for who
wants to hunt up old law books uselessly?
Or who has time in the usual hurry of
legislation?
can act relating to passenger rail
ways" repeals the law against running
them on the Sabbath.
Another act favorable to public NOR
ais, as one would suppose by the title,
had exactly to opposite meaning in the
dill, in our opinion.
There sre t,eo bills reported, entitled
An act relating to ,caste'" Waste of ,
What?
can act relating to Allegany county"
aises the salary of one officer to 81 500, ;
mother to SO 1000, &c.
"An act relating to certain alley
But what about the alley? And is the
llley in Philadelphia, Reading, Pittsburg,
Harrisburg, Centerville. LewiSburg, Erie,
n where? I,
There arc perhaps dozen bills passed, :
ZACH year, headed "a further supplement :
o the act incorporating the city of Phil
on all imaginable subjects
aising salaries, legislating men out and {
n Offices, making certain Offices compati- t
lie OF Incompatible with others, opening /
nd closing streets, alleys, &c. No. ll26, t
/. r., embraces three or four different
one of which is indicated I
y the bill, some of which may be right n
Ed others wrong, but each of which, of G
curse, deserves to be considered and de-
ided by itself.
Now, is it not manifest that in common
onesty, and for the protection of the I
lass of the people in legislation, the OBJ
sct of bills should be fairly seen on their G
zee, and that every subject matter should f
tand or fah on its own merits? No fair z
ian, it seems to US, should hesitate to Il
ote. on eSecond Amendment-For the n
.mendment." "
The Third Amendment reads: Il
"No hills shall be passed by the Legis- b