The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-23
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
STATE OF WISCONSIN, I &C
Department. of State. %.

NOTICE is hereby given, that at a general
election, to be held in the several towns,
wards, villages and election districts of the
State of Wisconsin on the Tuesday succeeding
the first Monday being the 4th day of Novem-
Der, A. D. 1902 the following officers are to be
elected, to-wit:
A Governor in place of Robert LaFollette
whose term OF Office will expire on the first
Monday of January, A D. 1903.
A Lieutenant Governor in place of Jesse
Stone, whose term of office would have expired
on the first Monday Of January, A. D. 1908
Secretary of State in place OF William H
Froehlich whose term of office will expire on
the first Monday of January, A. D. 1909
A State Treasurer in place of James O.
Davidson, whose term Of office will expire on
the first Monday of January A d. 1908
An Attorney General in place of Emmett r.
Hicks, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D. 1908.
"A State superintendent in place of Lorenzo
D. Harvey whose term of Office will expire or
| the first Monday of January, A D. 1902
Railroad Commissioner, in place of Ora
ham L Rice, whose term of office will expire
on the first Monday of January, A. D. 1908
A Commissioner of Insurance in place OF
Emil G1lJOhann, whose term of Office will eX-
pire on the first Monday of January a. D. 1903
A Representative in Congress for the First
| congressional District, consisting of the
counties of Racine, Kenosha, Walworth Rock
Green and Lafayette.
A state senator for the Third Senate Dis
| tr1ct, consisting of the counties of Kenosha
and Racine
A Member of Assembly for each of the
counties OF Barron, Calumet, Clark, Crawford
Door. Dunn. Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jack
son. Juneau, KenOSha, Kewaunee, Lafayette
Ashland, Lincoln, Portage. Walworth. Mon
roe, Oconto, OZaukee, Pierce. Richland, st
crotx, Shawano, Trempeleau, Vernon, Wash
1ngtOn, WaShara and Wood. Each county
constituting a separate assembly district.
Also all County Officers required by law tC
be chosen at such election.
In accordance with section l, Of article XII
OF n 10 of IN
the following joint resolutions adopted by the
legislature of the state of Wisconsin at the
regular session of 1899, are made a part of the
foregoing notice. towit:
mo. 33 Al JOINT. RESOLUTION NO. s.
For the submission of an amendment to Sec
tlOn Of article VII of the constitution re-
lating to the justices of the supreme court.
Resolved, by the assembly, the senate con
curing, that section | OF article VII of the
constitution be amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
Section l. The chief justice and associate
justices of the supreme court shall be seyeraly
known as the justices of said court with the
same terms of Office of ten years, respectively
as now provided. The supreme court shall
consist of seven justices, any four of whom
shall be quorum, to be elected as now pro
V1ded, not more than one each year. The JUS
tlce having been longest a continuous member
Of said court, or in case two or more such
senior justices shall have served for the same
length of time, then the one whose commission
first expires shall be ex-officio, the chief JUS
tice.
(No!14, Az JOINT RESOLUTION NO. H.
Proposing an amendment to section 3 OF
article IL OF the constitution of the state OF
Wisconsin, as amended by vote of the peO
pie at the general election, November 3, 1874
relating to the Indebtedness of municipal
corporations
Resolved, by the assembly, the senate con-
curing, that section of article II of the con-
StitutiOn of Wisconsin be amended by insert
said section as printed in the statutes of 1898
the following words: 'Or, if city containing
q popQAatiOn of more than twenty-five thOuS-
and according to the last state or federal cen
SuS taken before such debt is contracted, with
in fifty years. so that when amended said
section 3 of article II, shall read as follows
Section 3. 1t shall be the duty of the legis-
lature aud they are hereby empowered, tC
provide for the organization of cities and in
cOrporated villages, and to restrict their power
OF taxa ton, assessment, borrowing money
contracting debts and lOaning their credit, sc
as to prevent abuses in assessment and taxa
ton. and in contracting debts by such MUM
cipal corporations. No county, city, town
village, school district or other municipal
corporation shall be allowed to become in
debted il any manner or for any purpose tic
any amount, including existing Indebtedness
in the aggreg9t e exceeding five per centum on
the value of the taxable property therein, tC
be aScertalned by the last assessment for city
and county taxes previous to the mourning OF
such Indebtedness. Any county, city, town
village, school district or other municipal
corporation mourning any Indebtedness as
aforesaid, SHALL before or at the time of doing
so, provide for the collection of a direct annual
tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt
as il falls due and also to pay and discharge
the principal thereof within twenty years. or
if q city containing a population of more than
twenty-five thousand according to the last
state or federal census taken before such debt
is contracted within fifty years, from the
time of contracting the same.
40 n
Providing for an amendment of section 30
article ~, of the constitution and for separ-
ate county government of certain counties
Resolved. by the senate. the assembly con-
curing, that section %, of article w, of the
constitution of the state Of Wisconsin, be
| amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing:
provided that in counties which contain an
incorporated city of more than one hundred
Thousand Inhabitants the legislature NAV eS-
tabish q separate system of county govern
ment' so that when so amended said section
will read as follows:
Section %. The legislature shall establish
but one system of town and county govern
ment, which shall be as nearly uniform as
practicable; provided, that in counties which
contain an incorporated city of more than one
hundred thousand inhabitants the legislature
| may establish, a separate system of county
government
Notice is further given that at said general
election the following propositions are to be
submitted to the people IN pursuance of the
requirements of chapters 70, 258 and 437 of the
laws of 1901, which said chapters read as fol
lows:
CHAPTER 70.
An act to submit to the people an amendment
to article XI of the constitution of the state
of Wisconsin, giving the legislature power
to pass u general banking law.
Whereas, at the biennial session of the legiS-
lature of the state of Wisconsin for the year
1899, joint resolution was passed proposing
an amendment to article X of the cOnStitu-
ton of the state of Wisconsin, giving the legis-
lature power to pass a general banking law,
which was agreed to by majority of the
members elected to each of the two houses,
and approved April goth, 1899, which proposed
amendment was in the following language:
Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate con-
curing, That article II of the constitution
of the state of Wisconsin be, and is hereby
amended, by substituting for sections and 5
thereof, new section to be known as section
and reading as follows:
section 4. The legislature shall have power
to enact q general banking law for the creation
of banks, and for the regulation and supervi-
sion of the banking business, provided that
elected to each house, to be taken by yeas and
nays, be in favor of the passage of such law.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact as fol-
lows:
Section L. The foregoing proposed amend
ment to the constitution of the state Of Wis
consin shall be submitted to a vote of the peo-
pie of this state in the manner now provided
by law for the submission of proposed amend
ments at the next general election in Novem-
ber 1902.