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ARTICLE V.

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ARTICLE V.
LEGISLATIVE.
SEcTIoS 1 The Legislative rower Of
the State shall he vested IN two distinct
branches; the one to be called the Senate
and the other the House Of Representa-
tives; and both together the Legislature
OF the State OF Washington.
The style of all laws shall bc; "Be it
enacted by the Legislature OF the State
of Washington"
SEC. 2 The number Of members Of the
House OF Representatives shall never be
less than eighteen nor more than sixty.
The Senate shall consist of one third the
number of the House of Representatives.
SEC. The Legislature shall provide
by law for the enumeration OF the inhab-
itants of the State. in the year one thous.
and eight hundred and eighty five, and
at the end of every ten years thereafter;
and at its first session after such 'enumer-
alton, and after each enumeration made
by authority of the United States, the
Legislature shall apportion and district
anew the members OF the Senate and
House OF Representatives according to
the number Of inhabitants, excluding
Indians not taxed, and soldiers and off,
icers of the United States Army and
Navy.
SEC. 4. Elections for members of the
Legislature shall be held biennially.
When vacancies occur in either House
the Governor shall issue wri:s Of election
te.ill such vacancies.
Sec. Senators shall be elected for the
term of tour years, and members OF the
House ofRepresentatives for the term of
two years; provided that the members
of both Houses first elected shall hold
their office until the time fixed Tor the;
meeting Of the second Legislature, but
no longer.
SEC, 9. No person shall be member
OF the Legislature who shall not be
qualified elector of the district from
which he Is chosen and who shall not,
for at least twelve months next preced-
ing his election, have resided therein
propiged that any person who at the
time of the adoption Of this Constitu-
ton is qualified elector in the county
or district for which he shall have been
chosen, shall he eligible to the first Leg
islature.
SEC. 7. The first Legislature shall di.
vide the state into at least ten legisla.
tive districts, in each of which one Sena-
tor and three Representatives shall be
elected at the next general election en.
suing, and the districts shall be OF
convenient contiguous territory, to be
bounded by county precinct and ward
lines; and the number may be increased
but shall never exceed twenty. The leg.
islative districts shall be numbered in
regular series, and the Senators chosen
by the odd numbered districts shall go
out of office at the expiration of the
second year; and the Senators chosen by
the even numbered districts shall go out
Of Office at the expiration OF the fourth
year; and thereafter the Senators shall be
chosen for the term of four years.
Representatives shall hold their Office
for the term of two years. In all elect
ions of Representatives, after such divis.
ion, each qualified elector may cast as
many votes for one candidate as there
are Representatives to be elected in the
district, or he may distribute the game
or equal parts thereof, among tue candi-
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mitted within the same; and no conyic-
tion shall work corruption of blood or
forfeiture OF estate.
Sec. %. All lands within the State
are declared 10 he allodiaE and ieudal
tcnurcs with AL their incidents, are pro-
hibitcd. Leases and grants OF agricul-
tural lands Tor a longer term than fifteen
years, in which rent service of any kind
shall be reserved, and all fines and like
restraints upon alienation, reserved in
any grant of land hereafter made, are
declared void.
Sec. "A. No laws shall be passed.
granting to any citizen or class ol Citi
zrns. privileges or :mmunities which,
upon the same terms, shall not equally
belong to all citizens
Sec. 2j. The operation Of the law
shall neve. be suspended, except by the
authority of the Legislature.
Sec. 90. The enumeration in this
Constitution Of certain rights, shall not
he construed to deny, impair or dispar.
age Others retained by the people.
aDrrfy Il "
The New York herald., 1878-07-10
LIEUT.. GklPENBERG'S FUNERAL.

The remains OF Lieulensnt Gripcnbcrg, OF the Rus.
sian navy, were yesterday morning taken from the
Eversu House 10 The Lutheran Holy Trinity Church,
In Tyentyhrst street. ncar Sixth avenue, where ,he
funeral services performed prior to .he removal
Of the body 70 the Brooklyn Navy Yard for inter.
mont A large number OF the friends OF the deceased
assembled al tho motel last glance the face
of The dead. The Al the church simple,
ana at their conclusion tho pabesrers bore the cohn
10 the hearse and the funeral cortege proceeded
brooklyn. Arriving at the latter place about one y.
NJ the mourpers entered tho Navy Yard by the York
street gate aud the ocessou Was formed. The saR
OF Com modore Nicholson was out In full force, ana
uu Der Russian officers, including Captain Loman
the officers OF tho Colorado, tennessee P0wnatan
Constei citation, and large number Of mariaes aud
rhe procession proceeded through the main oi
the Navy Yard Tor about quarter OF a mils then
turned " tho right past the officers quarters. and
mile further on the cemetery oil the Naval Hospital
was reached where, with simple cermoniss, the body
was LAID in It's last resti NJ place.
The New York herald., 1878-07-10
SUICIDE OF A YOUNG HUSBAND.

William schaofer, n young married man hvips at
No 1859 First avenue, committed suicide yesterday.
lie had not been friendly terms win his wife, Mar
sarct. aud on Monday night the pair canp TO blows.
Mrs schaefcr then iet the house, teliin husband
that In the morning she would have him arrested
She appeared yesterday before Judge Kasmiro in the
Harlem Police Court, anu that agstratc after hear-
Ing her story. issued warrant Tor the ion
vi Schacter. Onicer Bennctt OF the court squad.
armed With the document, called ut Schaeers rest
dcnce, and on Deing ushered into hts bedroom found
tho latter In dying condition and attended by Dr.
Stoinert aud . female physician. SchaeIeI
had arisen early and swsllowed q quantitI
OF Paris green. His groans attracted attention
iron tho o,ner occupants OF tns house, VINO sum.
moncd assistance Tho closing sceue In Schaeieri
LIE was somewhat uranaic. Around his bed ~ ood
the physicians and awes,ruck ncigbbors STRIVING 10
restore tho ebb,ng lc, whic the representative o.
the I,w renamed 10 scizc the paticnt snouiu ihci
cfior,s prove successful Scbaeicr died ut tweuti
ininu,os past eleven A. NJ. rumor prevailed "a
Harlem during the afternoon that Scnaecrs vile had
administered the poison 70 her husband IN bowl OF
soup, but the iacts In the case " 10 claimed On al
AlaeA are g AboTe stated
The New York herald., 1878-07-10
= NATURALIZATION PAPERS.
Those members OF the Tsmmany Hall General Com.
nit,ee who have charge OF natu azation matters In
their several districts have bson served with copy Of
tie GLOWING circular:-


their several districts bson served with copy Of
tie following circular:-
No. 81 UnAxsEss STREET, NEW YoRk. July 5, 1879.
IR--ihe uuersigncd. committee appointed by the
Hrn Committee Organization 10 assict any
OF our citizens who believe that have been i'm
call your the Importance carefully exaniu
ing naturalization issued In tie SUPERIOR
Courts this city during the year 1868, aud
there Is circumstance connected win them
affect their regularity or vaioy II is advised
that reported ut once Al No New neHdo
timely ana Intelligent setion may DO taken
thereon.
the may be referred To any member of
The sss under Of the United states for VI
of the provisions Of tne Ss.urslzstion At are
the class OF cerLhcates the
or possession of wnicn 10 prohibited sre;-
Certificates which were forged or counterfeted. and
all the act Of the Court whose seat they
purport to bvar.
which, though genuine in all respects and
issued to the direction OF the Court were
by Tor the applicants named through means of
some impo ,ition or ir pructised Court.
issued by the cork other olccrs OF tho
without authority IN cases IN hicn there
L. certificates other the who
attempts to use the same.
and Invalid which holder cannot vote,
although may be inflicted Tor having the
Issued bv the Courts wher. the applicant
ha tnrougn ignorance fAhed 70 comply iuliy with all the
law aud the pre-
admiutered by the court. where
compete or entirely wanting through the omission neg.
lect VI tue Clerk of tne Court.
In all the holding tho ccrtihcat Ia
order avoid annoyance and trouble. should have tho
papers t oncs procured tue corrected Dy
application 10 the Court. without de.ay.
This be without the applicant, III he
will cali At No New kemdc street. whore clerk Is Ia
daiy attendance tor such purpose.
DENNIS QUINN.
HENRY y. PUnROf.
special Committee
The New York herald., 1878-07-10

A 1TENT1UN -Tiik UTMOST PUsIIfvELY OR
~ tsined for Csstoh Clothin Jewelry Books Can or
saaress M VI Ma HAERIs la0 OH a,, block below
The New York herald., 1878-07-10

and he was probably regular ofoer OF poiice-'n an
envelope bearing this inscription
10 his MAJESTY, THE EMPEROR.
FROM THE THIRD SECTION.
The New York herald., 1878-07-10

Aruis (wEDNEsDAYl MORNING., COMMANDING
AT 10 O'CLOCK RAIN OR SHINE.
AT LARGE FOUR STORY BkOWS STONE MANsIOS
l3l NEST I4fH ST.. NEAR 9TH Av..
EXPENSIVE CABINET FuRNIrURE.
TWO ELEGANT ROSEWUoD PIANOfORTEs.
PARLOR SETS. cHAMBER. LIBRARY AND DINiAG
ROOM SUITS. OIL PnINTlNGs. BnONzEs. MARBuE
Parors satin and silks. East
lake aud l.. Grecenne styes marqnetry Tables cianna
Marbles Pier Msntel Mirrors, 80 fine OIL Paintings II
pairs of imported bronze Figures Clocks French make
bois Cabinet Pedeta Jarcniere Lace Curtains.
velvet aud English Carpets Easy chairs. Lounges &c
Chambers-12 of solid wslnn Bedstcads, Drcssng
Cases Bureaus Washstands Wxrdrobes sprins and hair
Mattresses It"ws ingram ana brusses Carpets KEN
siou Dining Tables handsome Buffet cost 500; chairs,
Bookcases Desks silver and plated Tea Sets china Dinner
Sets. Giassware Kitchen anu servants Furniture All
The New York herald., 1878-07-10
uCrluN SALE THIS DAY (wEDNEsDAN.
ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

sTEINwAY sons UPRIGHr PlANOFORTE.
WINDSOR ROSEWOOD PIANO,
LIBRARY. CHAMBER AND DINING FURNITURE.
PAKLOR Suits covered in satin. silks cotelAine
styles Of Queen Anne Enstake marquctry Cabinets
and Tnnies Etagees Centre tables Pedestas real lace
Curtains Musical Boxes choice m Paintings Sevres AMI
0rmou Nantcl Sets Antique Bronzes. &c.
CHAMBERs-Ini"id and plain Dressing Gases, Bed
xy curisd hair Mattresses spring Bea. Pillows, Blsn-
Suits Brussels and ingram Carpets
Clocks Mirrors. Bookstands Tables Single Bed,te
DINING ROOM-Bunet, Extension Table, side Tables.
In leather; silver, china and glass Cutlery.
j. LUCIUs SMITH. Auctioneer.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
sODND LEE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Some of the recent criticisms Of life insur-
ance management have been strangely unfair.
This vast interest, involving the happiness Of
more than 100000 families, and the invest
ment of more than $4OO, 100000 of capital
should not be wantonly or maliciOusy sacTi-
feed by unjust criticism. 1t is peculiarly de-
sirable at this time, when all important
branches of business are struggling TO rees-
tablish themselves on a solid specie basis, and
when the insurance business, in particular,
has been subjected to most rigid examination,
that there should be sharp discrimination be-
tween the companies which have borne the
test with success. showing undOubted solVency
notwithstanding the general depression and
the great losses of the last four years, and
those which have been mismanaged or have
become insOlvent. Yet there are people who
still persist in creating distrust, so far as they
can, not of particular companies, but of the
management and condition ofinsurance business
generally. II is wildly asserted, for instance,
that the decrease in the assets of the COM
panies has been alarming, and that the de-
cline in their business has proved the in
ability of the companies, as now administered,
to reestablsh the confidence which their own
mismanagement has impaired. Now, no per-
son who has any knowledge of this business
will think these remarks just, as applied to
either of several companies the perfect
solyency of which no one has ever doubted.
1t would be easy to name dozen life COM
panies which all intelligent men know to have
been very ably, henOrably and successfully
managed. But the object here is not TO COM
mend any of the companies separately to
public confidence, but TO point out the ex-
ceeding injustice OF sweeping and random
censures which assail the credit as well of
the best and strongest as of the weakest
companies.
IL is the common fault to imply that life
insurance generally is to be suspected, because
some hte-fying OF swindling concerns, started
during the period of reckless speculation.
have gone down ia dishOnOr while some
others, formerly sound and honorable, have
fallen into knavish management. But this is
in the last degree unjust. No candid person
suspects the credit of A. T. Stewart g. Co.
because many weak or speculative dry-goOds
dealers have failed. On the contrary, it is
seen that the removal of an excessive and
desperate competition actually strengthens
the firms which have been able TO sustain
themselves. So il is in life insurance. The
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19

weeding-out process is at least as beneficial
to the best and most firmly-established con-
Germs in that business as in any other that
can be named
In time of general suffering, when the mil
lions are forced to deny themselves luxuries
pleasures, and even necessaries, it happens
that fewer persons are able to buy clothes,
houses, railway travel, or insurance. Does
this enforced economy of the people show
that there is just suspicion Of the integrity
of woOlen or cotton manufacturers, OF real
estate owners. railways or insurance compa-
nies Decrease in the amount of business
done is the necessary consequence OF n long
continued prOstration of commerce and ln-
dustry, and it inevitably extends TO life lnsu-
rance, ms to every other branch OF business
1t is not the fault of the companies that fewer
persons are able to pay for insurance; 1t Is
not the fault of the sound and unquestionabiy
well-luanaged companies that fewer persons
do maintain or take out policies.
In the face of long continued prOstratlOn,
the insurance companies now doing business
in this State have certainly sustained them
selves remarkably. They show that they have
actually increased every year in gross assets,
Notwithstanding reductions in valuation OF
property. The apparent decline in gross as
sets last year was wholly owing TO the with
drawal of the Charter Oak and others from
the list of companies reporting in this State
the remaining companies show larger assets
in the aggregate than they have done III any
year before, Their surplus as regards policy
holders is actually larger by about $2O,OOO,-
600 than il ever has been, and their reports
show that their assets are more carefully IN
vested, and their property Is more scrnpulously
valued. IL there are individual companies
which merit suspicion, a candid critic viii
name the companies and give the reason. But
it is peculiarly unfair and cruel, after the
better companies have SO manfully invited
criticism, 50 successfully borne investigation.
80 carefully conducted their business and
preserved the assets intrusted to them, to in
clude them with those which have failed, IN
one indiscriminate and wantOn charge OF un-
soundness. Certainly it is not for the public
good to create needless, blind, and unwar-
ranted panic.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
GENERAL NOTES.

When Trumbull, of the Yale crew, was
drowned In EewLondon harbor after the boat he
had $500 in his pocket II is now believed that the
body robbed and put back IN tho water before It
was finally discovered TrumDuU the eldest or -FOUR
brothers who were being educated IN New-Hayen
An old lady in San Francisco, who felt that
she was called upon to pay license, recently con-
suited the great philosopher, Drayman Kearney.
What am going TO do with my store T. she asked.
Madam" replied. you have got pistol aud when
these men come along to take your furniture, shoot
DS@ Inc Do 'S Sot6nS Of e KIND This he regards
as taxing the bun by the horns and twisting the
horns of.
The present temperature Is after all only
circumstances" At Adelaide last the shade range
of the thermometer for five successive days varied De-
tween 1909 ard 1862 IL has been warmer still at Nell
bourne whers 11Io recorded several years AGO.
while in the interior OF Australia the heat was even
greater At township in New South Wales ast year
the maximum shade temperature for q week was never
below 1922 ana on one day high as llSo and IN
Queensland 1852 has been recorded These statistics
prove that 1t ID now comparatively cool IN TINS iati
tude.
The Rev. j. B. Mann, preaching at RehobOth,
near Wilmington Del last Sunday, denounced dancing
as low and vulgar amusement, criminal waste OF
time, etc He would prefer 10 his daughter carried
to her graveayel he would shout Glory 10 God that
she was dead than have her breathe air polluted
by the breath OF dancngmaster. Heregarded dancing
the education OF the hoes, ana cOhueheu IL iVi wv
having bit OF head in it, although obviously he would
not have young people dance their heads He COM
planned that plous brethren were giving danolhg'
from $75 TO 500 year to teaen their endien
practice that led to ruin, and contributing only "a OF
$5 TO the work of God.
The Gambetta of forty is not the Gambetfa
OF twenty His Journal the Republque EraaeGse. threw
cold water upon YOtaire celebration and openly cen
demned the Rousseau festival Its opposition TO tae
second celebration was based upon these grounds;
l. 1t came too soon after the 1rsL 2. It was not tnc
proper date. 3. Rousseau paraaoxca theoria1
whose ideas have been refuted bV facts cbimericA
and dangerous mind retrograde sophist, whose sys'
TENS foundation, and whose politics and prn-
clpes send progress wrong track The festival AZ
Geneva was hearty and Joyous. Thousands Of oilgnF
eyed children escorted by all the Republic has 70 SHOW
Of mitary-a rev Of helmeted remen aud cooked
hated aud corpulent gendarmes-marched In process
sion through the town. and afterward feased on
the space round the base OF ROnsseaus statue Inc
Illumination, with Its myriads OF lights f1sng Tier avv
tier and reflected In the swiftly lyaOwing knOhe ane
shining tho dark blue waters OF the lake,
faryike scene Eugene Peletan delivered an eioquens
address Ia the Temple OF St GerYs, and etser
Victor Hugo read, In whoa V0itare was assiss IT, ~
TO the representative OF man ad k0usseaa tno IVY
reseDtatiye OF the people.
New Hampshire is an uncomfortable uys1-
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
M4KOUETTE IND THE MISsISSTpPL


The Historical Society of st. Louis had
made elaborate preparations to commemorate
last Wednesday the first exploration of the
Mississippi River, 205 years ago. But COM
memOratiOns of anything-unless it were the
invention of soda water-with the mercury at
1O3 in the shade and the Morgue full of
swollen corpses, would be ridiculous. The
celebration was postponed. Mr.. John Culinary
Shea, of this city, who had been aptly chosen
to deliver the historical address, was
stricken down by the heat almost Immediately
on his arrival at st. Louis; the speeches, the
music, and the festivities must wait for safer
times.
The voyage of Marquette and Joliet in 1878
was not the first that Europeans had made on the
mighty river of the West. Cabeca de Vaca
and his shipwrecked companions, in their four
years wanderings from Florida TO New-Mexico,
crossed the lower Mississippi 100 years before
the French missionary reached the mouth of
the Wisconsin. De Soto in 1912 was buried
in its turbid waters, and the chrOncler of his
expedition described the "strOng and always
muddy current, bringing down many trees
"and timber,n with a precision which the
modern traveller will not fail to appreciate.
1t is strange that for a century and a half
after the companions of De Soto hoated
250 leagues down the majestic stream,
the Importance of such channel of
traffic and adventure was overlooked by
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
THE NEWS THLs MORNING.

FoREIaN.-Lord Beaconsield made long
speech last evening on the Berlin Treaty.
The Irish team won the Elcho Shield
at Wimbledon 80 The occupation of Bosnia
ia 70 begin August l. - Prince Louis Napoleon
has gained a law suit against Paris paper
DoMEsTic.-Ihc temperature in the West is now
somewhat lower but yesterday was the hottest
day of the season in the Middle States factories
were forced to close in places; in Washington
the streets were almost deserted by human
beings - The testimony in the poisoning
case at Norwich, Conn.,, which is making
such great stir locally, is damaging to the pris-
oners. - The Republican Committee at Wash
ington hss received numerous campaign subscrIp-
tions and is working very hard - Secretary
Thompson has arrived at Newport. Ii is
discovered that the section in the Army bll
in regard to promotions is not what
Congress intended it to be. - Two witnesses
before the Potter Subcommittee at New-Orleans
swore that E. L. webber had tried to buy their tes-
timOny.
CRY AND SUBURBAN. The heat wave
reached the city yesterday; the day was
the hottest of the season; thirty-fye cases
of sunstroke were reported. -E. J. Oak
lev, the defaulting cashier Of the Merchants
Exchange National Bank, was arrested. ==- J.
Norman Lockyer, the English astronomer, and
w. Fraser Ray, arrived by the Baltic. = General
Merritt received his commission as Collector 60
Elizabeth Ayres charged her brother with IN
cest and child murder. == Three men have
died recently of yellow fever at the Naval
Hospital, and three Others are sick with the
disease. =- William III. Pace shot himself in
Jersey City. - James HOgg asserted his right to
an uptown pier. - Gold. 10OSs, 1909, 1908.
Gold value of the legaltender dollar at the close,
994lO cents. Stocks generally at first weak, and
then recovering and closing steady.
The Manufacturers local observations in
dieate partly cloudy weather, with chances Of oc-
casiOnal showers. Thermometer yesterday. S2O,
0To $40
New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
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