Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-16
To the President and Members Of the Press Con.


ization beg leave to present for your con.
sideration the ,ubjoined:
CONSTITUTION OF THE LOUISIANA PRESS
ASSOCIATION.
The object of the Louisiana Press Association
| is to encourage fraternity among publishers and
editors, to adopt means for eevating tho stand
ard of journalism and secure just and adequate
COMPENSATION TO all persons engaged in the pro
fession whether as publishers or editors; but this
Association shall restrict its legislation to these
purposes
SECTION 1.-The officers shall consist of a Prcsi
dent. two Ficc.Prcsidcnts, and Secretary, who
shall also be Treasurer.
SEC. 2-Thcse officers shall be elected annually
and shall hold their positions until their success
s0,s are duly elected and installed.
See g. The first election under this COnstitu
| ton shall be held on the occasion of the adoption
of this Constitution or as soon thereafter AS may
! be practicable
Sec. d. All officers shall be elected by ballot,
and majority of legal votes shall be required to
| elect
See. s. Should any vacancy occur by death,
resignation or otherwise, in any office of this
Association the same shall be filled be appoint
mcnt OF the Executive Committee,
Sec. 6. In all elections. OF upon all questions
voted upon by the Association, each newspaper
brlonuin. to the Association shall be entitled to
| cast one vote.
MEMBERSHIP
Sec.l Any person Of good moral character,
who is publisher, editor or associate editor VI
al established aud legitimate newspaper, may
be elected 4 member of this Association. Appli.
Secretary in writing, accompanied by the mem-
bcrship fee. The Secretary shall refer the ap'
plication to the Executive Committee, TO be
reported on by said committee at the next reg.
ular meeting Of the Association, when the same
| shall be acted upon. All elections of members
shall be by ballot. Seven uhtavorable ballots
shall reject.
Sec. . The annual membership fee shall be
five dollars.
DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
Sec. I. The President shall preside AT all
meetings o: the Association, decide all Hues.
tons OF the Constitution aud Bylaws, and
perform such other duties as may be required
of him by the Association. In the abscnCe of
the President, the vice.Presidents in the order
named shall perform the duties OF the Prcsi
don't.
Sec. o The Secretary shall keep faithful
record Of the proceedings OF all meetings, re.
ccvc all monies due the Association and dis.
bursc the same OH the order Of tho President.
He shall conduct all correspondence of tho As.
ISOLATION and at the end of each year shall
render an account of his receipts and disbnrsc.
mcn's, :ogcthe: with report Of his Official &C.
tions.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Sec |. The Executive Committee shall con
! sist OF tive members. to be appointed by the
President ut each annual meetin. of the Asso.
citation. Besides the duties hctcinbefore pre-.
scribed respecting applications for membership
| they shall have power to require the President
| TO call special meetings when they deem il
| necessary they shall, during the vacations o!
| the Association, be charged with the duty OF
considering matters by them deemed important
to the Association, ard report the same, With
! recommendations, at any regular or special
meetings.
MEETINGS.,
At I'll meetings twenty members snail con
stitute a quorum for the transaction o! business
At each regular meeting the time and place OF
| holding the next annual session shall be fixed
by the Association,
AMENDMENTS. y
This Constitution may be amended at any
regular meeting by majority OF two'thirds Of
the members.
% g. W. MCCRANIE, Chmn
Z. A. BURKE.
&. w. REESE.
u. II, CUSGHOVE,
Wv. c. ANNIS a
L. a. SANDOZ.
l., On motion Of Mr.. Jastremski. the re,
port was received: and on motion OF
Ma ior Burke, it was resolved to take
the same mp for consideration section by
section.
The various articles and sections OF
the report were read and adopted with
out opposition until the section referring
to amendments was reached, whcI
Col. Smallwood moved to strike out tn,
words, ''of two-thirds," leaving it with
in the option of a majority of members o.
the Association to amend the Constitu
ton. After discussion the motion was
rejected by q vote Of ayes to Ia nays.
On motion of Mr.. Bentley, the C0nsti.
tuition was then adopted as q whole
there being no opposition.
Col. Smallwood moved that the Sccrc.
tary take the signatures of the member,
present, on Il blank sheet Of paper and
attach the same TO n fair copy of the Con
stitntion to be prepared by him-a'loptcd
The Chair announced a recess for the
purpose Of receiving the signatures OF
the members.
The Convention being again called
to order, the Secretary reported having
received the s. signatures Of eighteen mem
bcrs, accompanied by the membership
fee of - each, as follows: G. w. McCra
Tie, Mrs. Ava II. Hildcnbrand, Mrs. NJ
X. Field, Mrs. Ella Bentley, W. NJ
Smallwood, +. a. Burke, Leon Jastrcm.
ski, W. B. Bailey, O. +. Woodcock,
Robc,t Benefited, W. c. Annis. l.. A,
Sandoz, S. Lambert, G. w. Reese, l.. +.
Bentley, Chas, A. BGuslc, A. J. Latarguc,
}. H. Co,grove. 0
Major Burke moved that papers repre-.
sentc! by proxies be notified by the Sec
rctarY of the adoption of the Coustitu.
ton, and to request that the member.
ship fee hc RENTED to him, the editor,
of those papers to have the privilege Of
signing the Constitution at the next
meeting of the Asspciation-aAortcd.
Col. Smallwood moved to proceed to