The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-10-13

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PROPOSED Constitutional Amendments
To be uoted upon, at the nert General Election,
General LaWs of 1887
WHEREAS, it is made the duty by law of
the Attorney General to prepare a synopsis
OF all amendments prop ,sed to the cOnstltu-
tiOn, notice is hereby given that the following
The State OF Minnesota, to lie voted upon ut
tn. general election to be held in the year
1892
tIRSr-An act proposing to amend Section
8 OF Article four ~ OF the Constitution OF
the state vi Minnesota, prohibiting special
LEGISLATION.
The following amendment to Section S3 of
Article OF the Constitution of the State of
Minnesota is hereby proposed, which section,
when so amended, shall read as follows:
SEC So. In all cases when a general law can
be made applicable no special law shall be
enacted; aud whether general law could
have been made applicable in any case is
hereby declared a judicial question, and as
such shall be judicially determined without
regard to any. legislative assertion on that
subject. The legislature shall pass no local
or special law regulating the affairs OF, or in
of any county, city, village, township, ward or
school district, or creating the Offices or pre-
scribing the powers and Duties Ut the officers
OF: or fixing or I re.ating IT.. to the compen-
mode Of election or appointment thereto;
uut huriz:ng the la! ing out, opening, altering,
vacating or maintaining roads, highways,
streets or alleys; RENTING fines, penalties or
fOrfeiturss; regulating the powers, duties
and practices OF justices of the peace magis-
trates and constables; changing the names OF
and conducting of elections, or fixing or
changing the places Vi voting, authorizing
the adoption or IegitimatiOn OF children;
changing the law o. descent or succession;
comforting rights upon minors, declaring any
named person of age, giving effect to in
formal or invalid wills or deeds, or affecting
the estates of minors Or persons unuer dis
ability. locating or changing county seats;
regulating the management of public schools,
the building or repairing OF school houses.
and the raising Of money for s,.ch purposes:
exempting property from taAa'ion.'r regu-
laling the rate of interest -. money; Great
ing corporations, or amending. eiieW,ng ex.
tending or explaining the CHARTERS thereof;
granting to any corporation, as>.cld ion or in
dividual any special or exclusive ililege,
immunity or franchise whatever r author
iZing public taxation for private purpose
P,Uoidsd, hWUerer, That In. ini.bi,, MS of
| cal or special laws IN thi sec,i,n shall not
he construed to prevent the passage Of gel
eraI laws on any OF these subjects enumerated.
The legislature may repeal any existing
SpeClai or local law, DOt small nOt amend. eX.
tend or modify any OF the same.
The ballots to be used in voting upon said
shall have printed thereon:
Amendment to Article Four (4iYE,
of the Constitution TO prohibit I,---
And each voter shall vote upon by placing
a cross (X) opposite yes if he desires to
NO. if he desires to vote in the negative.
SECOND-The following amendment to
Section three O. of Article nine 80 of the
Constitution OF the State of Minnesota is
hereby proposed to the people of said State
for their approval or rejection, that is to say.
to add at the end OF said section the following
words:
annually tax upon the gross earnings in
this state of all railroads, sleeping, parior
and drawing room car companies, or owners
whose cars run in or into this State; on all
and telephone cOmpan. es, or own
ers. whose lines are in or extend into this
S; ate; on all express companies or owners,
doing business in this State; on all foreign
insurance companits doing business in this
State: on all domestic insurance companies
OF this State, or on either or any Ut such
companies. Or in lieu of such tax Oh the
or any Of them. All annual license fee or tax
Imposed on them. or either or any of them;
but no tax upon the gross earnings of any
corporation shall De construed to preventive
said corporation not used in the business of
the same. And there may be levied and col
lected in lieu of other taxation on mining
u specific tax upon the product of
all mines in this State, and no such tax shall
be construed to prevent the taxation by law
of any real estate belonging to the owners Of
such mine not used in the business OF mining
or in connection herewith
Section three (3) of Article nine (9) of the
State Constitution, which it is proposed to
amend as above, now reads as follows:
Sec 3. Laws shall be passed taxing all
moneys, credits, investments in bonds.
stocks, joint stock companies or otherwise,
and also all real and personal property, ac-
cordirg to it's true value in money, but public
buryiDg grounds. public school houses. public
academies, colleges, universities.
and all seminaries Of learning. all churches,
church property used for religious purposes,
and houses of worship, institutions of purely
public charity, public property used exclu
sively for any public purpose, and personal
property to an amount not exceeding in value
two hundred do,ials for each individual, shall,
BY general laws be exempt from taxation.
The ballots used in voting upon said section
have @ Of ane Of tho
providing for the taxation of
sleeping car companies and other companies:
YES-NO," and the voters in voting upon
scratch out one a. Of said words Eyes" or
no." If he desires to vote in the affirmative
ne shall scratch ont the word mo-" it he de-
,ireS to vote in the negative, he shall scratch
,ut the word ''yes.''
EXPLANATION.
1t will be seen that the manner of voting
Upon these two proposed amendments is en-
;irely different. The reason for this is that
he first amendment was proposed under an
let of the legislature passed prior TO the gem
sral election law of 1891, and is to be voted
lpon subject to the provisions of said gen.
,ral election law. But the second propOsed
amendment is submitted under an act of the
legislature passed after tn general election
aw of 1891. and in terms provides how it shall
,e voted upon, and as above in iicated.
The object of the first proposed amendment
S to restrict special legislation.
The object of the second proposed amend-
nent is to regulate the taxation of railroads,
sleeping. drawing room and parlOr car com.
,anies. telegraph and telephone companies,
Express and insurance companies. by taxing
he gross earnings or by licensed fee: and
st MOSES E. CLAPP,
July !, 1892, Attorney General.