Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-01
Do We Need a New Constitution?

 useless minor officials, and to sub. stitutc in their stead smaller number with larger pay and more enlarged powers. This is particn- larly applicable to justices of the peace.
 ?. To do away with frequent and very expensive special elec. tions which have already cost the State more thau the expense of d constitutional convention.
 3. To leave the people free to make neresSaY ublic improve ments, such az jails, court houses, levees, etc, by voting such tax for such purposes as they may deem necessary.
 1. To fix salaries for d term of years so that they will be beyond the pale of legislative tlnkerinGs.
 ,. To pay legislators by the term instead of day and fix no linn. it to the term.
 6. To permit the legislature to establish d board of pardons.
 :. To permit the establishment of a permanent bureau of a9ricnl- ture, mining, etc, as a separate department, with a competent head.
 5. To provide for a thorough and radical change in the pro- visions regulating exemptions, and to greatly reduce them.
 9. To provide for certain eX- empti0ns from taxation.
 10. To provide for longer terms ot State and county offices s--tour years for State officers, eight for supreme judges, four each for sheriffs, clerks, county judges, treaSurers, etc.
 II. To change the penalty for usury. Such a penalty exists in but two of the thirty.eight States of the Union.
 F. To strike out that provision of the constitution which declares that no law shall be passed where by the right to vote shall depend on registration. (This simply pre- vents the enactment of a registra- ton law.)
 l3. To strike out sundry pro- visions which are constantly y dis regarded of which have for years compelled members of the legislature to disregard their Oaths-such as the provision for bidding the conversion of certain funds from one use to another.
 II. To prevent judges from sit ting on the bench while they are holding the office of member of the legislature.
 15. To define with more accu- racy the eligibility of certain off cers.
 lG. To provide for an increase in the number of supreme judges at the discre ton of the legislature. as the increase iu business and population may make necesSa- ".
 r.. To provide for longer terms for prosecuting attorneys-four years, the same term held by cir cult judges.
 Is. To reduce county eXpendi- lures by changing Art. :, See. 30, in the matter of levying boards.
 l9. To change Art. :, Sec. A as to the jurisdiction of county courts,
 20. To regulate the number of notaries public.
 2l. To prevent the practical repudiation of honest debts by wiping ont See. 9,Art. lG, and See. I, Art. r., of the constitution,
 ?. To abolish ail exemptions m favor of young and unmarried men. They are so many premiums for rascality.
 23. To change Art. II, See. ?, which forbidS the levyIng ofmore than two mills for the common school fund. tIt is nonsense for a constitution to say that the State shall provide an efficient system of schools, and at the same time say to the people that they shall not vote the necessary funds.)
 24. To prevent the working of convictS outside the penitentiary, except in certain cases where they may be worked upon the public roads of the State.
 9. To reconcile many incOn- gruous and contradictory provis, ions in the present constitution. To illustrate: One clause provides that all officers shall continue ill office till their successors are elected and qualified; another pro- vides that the terms of members of the general assembly shall be- gin on the day of their election.
 The above are some of the req