The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-07
T0-DAY'S SPECIAL ELECTION
THE THREE Q 0UESTIONS WHICH ARE
TO BE YOTED ON.

Concerning the Holding of II Constitu.
tionaI Convention and Acceptance o.
Amendments Concerning Plurality
Elections of State Officers and Increas.
ing Number of senatOriaI Distrlcts-
Three Ballots for Voters-The Polling 9
Places.
To-day the special election to decide
upon the question of holding a consti-
tutional convention and upon the ac-
ceptance by the people of the two con-
stitutional amendments adopted by the
last legislature will be held. There will
be three ballots, as follows:
Constitutional convention-'Yes" or
"No"
Constitutional amendment concerning
plurality elections Of state officers
Yes" or mo"
Constitutional amendment concerning
senators and senatorial districts--"Yes"
or mo"
The amendment concerning plurality
elections is as follows: "In the election
| for governor lieutenant governor, Sec
retary, treasurer, comptroller and at
| torney general the person found by the
general assembly, in the manner pro-
vided in the fourth article of the con-
stitution of this state, to have received
the greatest number of votes for each
of said offices, respectively shall be de-
clared by said assembly to be elected
But if two or more persons shall be
found to have an equal and the great
est number of votes for any of said Of
fees, then the general assembly on the
second day of it's session. by joint bal
lot Of both houses, shall proceed with
out debate to choose said officer from a
list of the names of persons found to
have an equal and greatest number of
votes for said office"
The amendment concerning senators
and senatorial districts Is as follows:
From and after the Wednesday af
ter the first Monday of January 1905,
the senate shall be composed of not less
than twenty-four and not more than
thirty-six members, who shall be elect
ed at the electors meeting held bienni-
ly on the Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November
"The general assembly which shall be
held on the Wednesday after the first
Monday in January 1908, shall divide
4 .to g,,to {ctr 1T
hereinafter provided; the number of
such districts shall not be less than
twenty four nor more than thirty-six,
and each district shall elect only one
senator The districts shall always be
composed of contiguous territory, and
in forming them regard shall be had to
population in the several districts, that
the same may be as nearly equal as pos
sibie under the limitations of this
amendment Neither the whole nor q I
part of one county shall be Joined to
the whole or part of another county
to form q district and no town shall be
divided unless for the purpose of form
ing more than one district wholly with
in such town, and each county shall
have at least one senator The districts
when esta blished as hereinafter pro-
vided shall continue the same until the
session of the general assembly next
after the completion of the next census
of the United States, which general as
sembly shall have power to alter the
same if found necessary to preserve
proper equality of population in each
district, but only In accordance with the
principles above recited. after which
said districts shall not be altered, nor
he number of senator's altered, except
at a session of the general assembly
next after the completion of census Of
he United States, and then only In ac-
with the principles hereinbe-
'ore provided"
The polls will open at 6 o'clock this
morning and will close at s o'clock this
afternoon. The voting places are as
ollows:
First district-61 Orange street.
Second district-City supply house,
,orner Oak and Spruce streets.
Third district-216 Congress avenue.
Fourth district--133 Cedar street.
Fifth district-35 Olive street
Sixth district-176 Chestnut street.
Seventh district-St. Patrick's Il. A. {
nd B. society hall wallace street.
Eighth d1Str1ct-9l4 SUale street.
Ninth district--63 Foote street.
Tenth district-441 Elm street. {
Eleventh district-204 Chapel street. t
Twelfth district-377 Grand avenue, c
orner Maltby place. {
Thirteenth Observation-Disclosures hall, v
Nestville.
Fourteenth district-Ensine house, 4
East Grand avenue. a
Fifteenth district Engine house, a
'orbes avenue. n
There has heen considerable discus s
ion among the liquor dealers in this 7
ity concerning the closing of saloons t
D. day. The prosecuting attorney and C
he city attorney have told the saloon
eepers that to-day is not an election
ay within the meaning of the law
.hich requires the closing of saloons on