Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
Wisconsin to prohibit the pass system.
Resolved by the Senate the Assembly

Resolved by the Senate the Assembly
concurring. That article Kill OF the
constitution be amended by adding a
new section, to the numbered ana 70
read as follows: Section IL. No per-
person association, cOpartnefshlp or CO
corporation shall promise, offer or give
for any purpose, to any political com
nittee, or any member or employ tnefe-
of, to any candidate for, or incumbent
of any office or position under tue con
stitution of laws, or under any oful-
nance of any town or municipality. OF
this state. or to any person at the re
quest or for the advantage OF all or any
of them, any free pass or frank. or any
privilege withheld from any person Tor
the travelling accommodation or trans
portation of any person or property, OF
the transmission of any message Or
communication.
No political committee, ana no mem
Der or employee thereof. no candidate
for and no incumbent OF any ONCE OF
DositiOn under the constitution or laws
or. under any ordinance OF any town OF
municipality of this state, shall ASK TOT
or accept from any person, assoclaIloh'
co-partnership or corporation, or use
in any manner, or for any purpose, any
free pass or frank: or any privilege
withheld from any person for the braV.
cling accommodation or transportation VI
any person or property, or the 1rano-
mission of any message or communities
tiOn.
ANY violation of any of the above pro-
visions shall be bribery and punisneu
as provided by law, and il any officer or
any member of the Legislature De gulloy
thereof his office shall become vacai!.
No person within the purvleW OF TINS
act shall be privileged from TESTIFY ing
in relation to anything therein promo
tied: and no person having so lesolheu
shall be liable to any prosecution or
m,nishment for any offense concerning
which he was required to give his tesbl-
mony or produce any documentary evil
dence. :.
The railroad commissioner and his
deputy in the discharge of duty are ex-
cepted from the provisions OF this amen
ment.
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 13
Proposing an amendment to article
II of the constitution of Wisconsin CIV
ING the legislature power to pass gen.
eral banking law.
Resolved, by the Assembly, and the
Senate concurring. That article IL OF
the constitution of the state OF Wlscon-
sin be and is hereby amended, by sub
stituting for sections and Thereon a
new section to be knoWe as section +
and reading as follows:
Section 4. The legislature shall nave
power to enact general banking law
for the creation of banks, and for the
regulation and supervision OF the
banking business, provided that the
vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house, to be taken by
yeas and nays, be in favor of the passage
of such law.
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. l6.
Proposing an amendments section l
of article 10, of the constitution OF the
state of Wisconsin relating to educa-
ton.
Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-
bly, concurring, That section /, OF art
icle 10, of the constitution OF the state OF
Wisconsin be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section l. The supervision of public
instruction shall be vested in a state
superintendent and such other officers
as the legislature shall direct; and
CllciE manufacturers pO"SAo oooAco e''N
compensation shall be prescribed by
law. The state superintendent shall
be chosen by the qualified electors of
the state at the same time and in the
same manner as members of the supreme
court and shall hold his Office for four
years from the succeeding first Monday
in July. The state superintendent
chosen at the general election in No
VEN Der 9O2. shall hold and continue j n
his office until the first Monday in July
1905, and his successor shall be chosen
at the judicial election in April 1905.
The term of office, time and manner of
electing or appointing all other officers
ofsupervision OF public instruction shall
be fixed by law
Given under my hand and official
seal at the Court House in the Town Of
Eagle River, this second day OF August
A. d. 1900
JOHN RADCLIFFE, County Clerk.