Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-02-23

spective counties.
Representative Martin offered Joint
resolution asking the West VIRGINIA
Re representatives. in Congress to secure
in this State site for one Of the per
manent camps Of the United States
O II e p re-
solution was aG1p
Proposed Amendments.
Charleston, w. Va, February l6.--It
has been definitely decided that there
will be no constitutional convention.
The cost Of convention and the scant
balance in the treasury have caused
the organization to issue decree
against any costly proceeding Ikea
constitutional convention. This has
been agreed to in caucus.
n Several resolutions will be submitted
to the people, however, proposing
amendments to the constitution. They
, will be voted upon at the congress
sional elections in 1902. The ticket at
this election will porbably be one
of the largest ever submitted to the
people, and some very important propo-
sitions will be pla ;ed before them.
The amendments which will most
likely be submitted to the people are
as follows:
Amendment to article Z, of the con-
stitution, relating TO the salaries OF
officers, (the object of which is to
abolish the fee system as a renumera-
ton for State officers
Section - The officers named in
vices a su to be established by
law, wLic shall not be increased or
diminished during their official
terms and rhey shall not after the ex-
piration of the terms of those in office
atthe adoption Of this amendment
receive to their own use any fees,
costs, perquisites of Office or other
compensation, and all fees that may
be hereafter payable by law, for any
service performed by any officer pro-
vided for in this article of the consti-
tuition shall be paid in advance into
the state treasury.
This amendment if adopted, will
put the auditor and secretary of state
on a specific salary to be named by the
Legislature.
| Amendment to article TX section
one OF the constitution.
& Section /. The voters of each
county shall elect sheriff, treasurer,
prosecuting attorney, surveyor of
lands and one and not more than two
assessors, who shall hold their respec-
tive offices for the term of four years.
This amendment creates the office
of County treasurer. 1t relieves the
Sheriff of the burden of caring for
taxes and enables taxpayers to pay
their 1.-THE in more convenient form
besides making a basis for a reason
able compensation for sheritfs instead
of the exhorbitant sums most of those
officials now receive.
Amendments to article VII, sections
two, three, four and seventeen. of
the constitution.
Section g An election for Cover
nor, Lieut. Governor, secretary of
State, State superintendent of free
schools, auditor, treasurer and attor
Dney general, shall be held at such
times and places as may be prescribed
by law.
This amendment makes the secre-
tary of State an elective Office and
creates the roffice of Lieut. Governor
the latter office was Senate amend
ment.
Another amendment follows:
The supreme court of appeals shall
consist of five judges. Those judges
in Office when this amendment
takes efect shall continue in office
until their terms shall expire, and the
Legislature shall provide for the
election of an additional judge of said
court at the next genreal election,
whose term shall begin on the first
day of January 1908, and the Cover
nor shall, as for a vancy, appoint
Judge of said court to hold Office UNI
til the first day of January, 1905. The
judges of the supreme court of APP
peals and of the circuit courts shall
receive such salaries as shall be fixed
by law for those now in or those here
after to come into office.
This amendment increases the
membership of the supreme courtroom
four to five members, and makes way
FOR increasing the salaries of both SUI
preme aud circuit judges.
Another amendment is; The ac-
, emulation of the school fund provid
ed for i'll section four of article II of
the constitution of this state shall
cease upon the ADOPTION of this
amendment and all money to the
credit of said fund over one million