The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-06-04
Hsborough, Highland County, Ohio, Thursday June A. 1874
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
Changes Made by it I'm the
Present Organic Law.

THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
Changes Made by it I'm the
Present Organic Law.
The work of the Constitutional Convention ha
resulted in the adoption of changes and new pro
visions not contained in the present Constitution
the State, as follows:
Article of the Bill of Rights is amended in thu
fifth section so as to authorize the General Assem-
bly, to limit the number of jury in Courts of recOrC
inferior TO the Common Pleas Court, in civil cases
where the amount in controversy does not exceed
one hundred dollars, to six persons.
/ This is no change from the present practice au
thorized by statute.
Section of the Article relating to suspension oi
the writ of hdbeGs corpus is amended SO as to re-
quire that the suspension shall only take place In
such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
The following new section was added to the Ar
ticle:
"Section 20: Jurisdiction to change property o
to affect rights in judicial proceedings shall not b
acquired by publication only, unless upon or afte
making proof of such publication it shall be foune
by the Court that the residence and post-ofhce ad
dress of the party to be affected are unknown, anc
can not be ascertained by reasonable diigence.--
LEGISLATIVE.
The following changes are proposed in the Legis
lative Article:
1. Members of the General Assembly shall bt
elected on the first Monday in November, instead Of
the second Tuesday of October, as now.
| 2. Senators and Representatives must continue
to reside in their respective districts during the
| term of service.
3. In addition to the qualifications of the old
Constitution it is provided that no person interested
in any contract with or unadusted claim against the
State shall be eligible to a seat in the General As
semby.
4. Joint resolutions can be passed only on re-
ceivng the votes of a majority of members elected
/ instead n each
House, and the vote must be taken BY yeas and
nays
resolution of either House shall be entered upon
| the journal by the Clerk.
6. A vote authorizing or dispensing with the
first or second reading of bill can be taken only by
yeas and nays. At present the readings may be dis
pensed with by mere UiUd vOce vote.
Z. Every bill. order or resolution passed by the
General Assembly, to which the concurrence OF
both Houses is required shall be presented TO the
Governor. If approved, he shall sign it, and there
upon it shall become law. If not approved, he
shall send it, with his objections in writing, to the
| House where it originated, which may then pass il
by three-fifths vote of the members elected to
that House, and if it shall be passed by like vote
| in the other House, it will become law notwith-
standing the objections of the Governor. If a bill
shall not be returned by the Governor within ten
days, Sundays excepted, after being presented to
him, It shall become law, unless the General As
sembly, by adjournment, prevent its return The
Governor may disapprove any item or items of ap-
preparation contained in bills passed by the General
| Assembly, and the item or items so disapproved
shall be stricken therefrOm, unless repassed in the
| manner prescribed in cases of disapproved bills.
8. The manner of voting upon appropriation
bills is so changed that separate vote is allowed
on the demand of any member, on their passage,
and every ltem or each item of appropriation voted
on under the division, failing to receive the
sary vote of majority of all the members elected
| to either House, shall be stricken from the bill
| This amendment is designed to remedy the incOr-
poration of Objectionable items in the appropriation
bill by bare majorities, in the of the sal
ary grab in Congress.
8. An additional section, No. 25, provides that
no extra compensation shall be made to any officer
public agent employee contractor after the serv-
ice shall have been rendered the contract entered
into; nor shall any money be appropriated or paid
on any claim the subject matter of which shall not
have been provided for by preexisting law, unless
such compensation or claim be allowed by bill,
passed by two-thirds of the members elected to
each branch of the General Assembly. No provis-
ion authorizing the expenditure payment of
money for any purpose not provided for by pre-ex-
listing law, shall be included in any bill making ap-
propriaton5 for purpose which shall have been so
provided for shall more than class of COM
pensation claims be included in the same bill.
Every appropriation for the payment of such COM
pensation or claim, included in an act making ap-
preparations of different class, shall be void.
10. The Chief Justice, and not the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, shall preside in cases of impeachment of the
| Governor.
IL. The regular sessions of the General Assem-
bly, are required to commence on the first Wednes-
day, instead of the first Monday of January as pro-
/ v1ded IN the old constitution.
r. Acts relating to public bridges are inclnded
in the list excepted from such acts to be
passed to take effect upon popular vote or upon
the approval of other authority than that of the
13. The General Assembly is required to provide
for ratabe deductions from the salaries of its men,
bers on account of unnecessary absence.
EXECUTIVE.
The following changes are proposed in Article 8,
pertaining to the Executive Department:
l. State officers shall be elected on the Tuesday
succeeding the first Monday in November, instead
of on the second Tuesday of October, ss now pro-
vided Elections of State officers shall be biennial
and such officers shall all be elected at once instead
of electing part each year, as now.
2. In case of the impeachment, removal, death,
resignation disability of both the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, the power shall be vested iu
the General Assembly to declare what officer shall
act as Governor during the interregnum. The pres
ent Constitution indicates the President of the Sen
| ate as such officer.
8. The Lieutenant Governor may vote in case OF
an equal division of the Senate, but not upon 8
bill or joint resolution in any stage thereof, in
| 4. The President of the Senate pro tempore shall
serve during its pleasure, and not merely during
each absence of its President.
JUDICIAL.
District Courts are abolished, and an independent
Court, with Judges elected for service exclusively
/ in it, takes its place.
The State is divided into seven circuit districts
| three judges to each, and each circuit averaging
about 250, 900 population The term of office of Su.
preme Judges Is extended to ten years, instead Of
five, under the old Constitution, and their salary
is fixed at not less than five thousand dollars pei
annum EACH
The Supreme Judges are to be elected by the re-
strcted plan of minority suffrage, at the first elec
| ton occurring under the new Constitution, under
which plan no electors can vote for more than three
| of the five Judges to be chosen.
| In consequence of the accumulation of business
| on the docket of the Supreme Court, commission
| shall be appointed, to consist of the Supreme
Judges in office at the time of the first election OF
Judges under the new Constitution, to dispose OF
all business then upon the docket which shall moi
| have been, by arrangement transferred to the new
Court. The judgments of this commission shall be
enforced the same as the decisions of the Supreme
| Court. Subsequent commissions may be appointed
| by the Governor.
Common Pleas Judges are required to hold, each,
not less than 24O days of open Court unless all the
business assigned to such Judge may be sooner
| disposed of, and tine General Assembly may assign
Judges to hold Court in any district other than that
in which they were elected, when necessary.
| Jurisdiction at chambers is vested in all Judges
of Supreme, Circuit, Common Pleas, and of such
other Courts as may be created.
| Drunkenness of Judicial officer during his term
| of court, or when otherwise officially engaged
works a forfeiture of his office.
| Probate Judges and Clerks of Courts shall re-
ceive fixed salaries, and all fees received by them
| shall be paid into the Treasury.
The term of office Of Justices of the Peace is
fixed at four instead of three years. as provided in
| the old Constitution.
new section is added to the Article as follows:
Section &c. All Judges of Courts of Record in
ferior to the Supreme Court shall, or before the
first day of June of each year. report in writing to the
Supreme Judges such defects and omissions in the
laws as their official experience may suggest; and
the Judges of the Supreme Court SHALL ON or before
| the first Monday of December of each year, report
in writing to the Governor such defects and omis-
sions in the laws they may find to exist; and al
Judges of Courts of Record inferior to the Supreme
Court shall report to the General Assembly, at each
| regular session thereof, the number of days they
have held court in the several counties composing
their respective Circuits and Districts the preceding
year."
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
The word "white" is stricken from the uualifca
| tions of electors.
No person shall be deemed to have lost his resi-
dence as elector by reason of his presence alb
sence for any temporary purpose. Electors in the
actual military service of the United States, not il
the regular army, may exercise the right of suf
frage in the manner provided by law.
| A new section provides that women possessing thu
qualification of electors as to age, citizenship anC
residence shall be eligible to any office under thu
school laws, except that of State Commissioner o.
/ Common Schools.
The article on Public Institutions provides fol
in addition to the present public Institutions of th
State, an asylum for the incurable insane, and
house of discipline, intermediate between the re
form schools and pentitentiary. 1t also establish
es the Reform School for Boys as permanen
institution under the Constitution.
No part of the sinking fund shall ever be trans
ferred to any other fund.- used for any other pur
pose.
A Superintendent of Public Works shall take tn
place of the present Board of Public Works, AM
shall be elected for four years.
, / The word white" is removed from the Quallh