The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-09-18
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
STATE OF WISCONSIN, !
Department. of State. {

Der, A. D. 1902 the following officers are to be
elected, to-wit:
A Governor in place of Robert M 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
A Secretary of State in place of William H
Froehlich, whose term of Office will expire on
the first Monday of January A. D. 1908.
A State Treasurer in place of James O..
Davidson, whose term of Office will expire on
the first Monday of January, A. ID. 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 on
the first Monday of January, A D. 1902
A 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 GiljOhann, whose term of office will ex-
pire on the first Monday OF January, A. D. 1908
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
trict, 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 Ozaulee, Pierce, Richland, ST.
CrOiX, ShaWano, Trempeleau, Vernon, Wash
ington Washara and Wood. Each county
constituting a separate assembly district.
Also all County Officers required by law to
be chosen at such election.
In accordance with section /, of article XII
Of the constitution of the state of Wisconsin,
the following joint resolutions adopted by the
legislature of the state of Wisconsin at the
regular session of 1899, are madesa part of the
foregoing notice, to-wit:
CNo. 39 Az JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8.
For the submission of an amendment to sec
ton l 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 1. The chief justice and associate
justices of the supreme court shall be severally
known as the justices of said court with the
same terms of Office of ten years, espectively,
as now provided. The supreme court shall
consist of seven Justices any four of whom
shall be a quorum to be elected as now pro-
vided not more than one each year. The JUS
t1ce 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-off1cio, the chief JUS
tice.
(No. IA, Az JOINT RESOLUTION NO. H.
Proposing an amendment to section 3 of
article II of the constitution OF the state of
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
ing after the word years in the last line Of
said section as printed in the statutes of 1898,
the following words: "Or, If a city containing
population 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 g. 1t shall be the duty of the legiS-
lature, and they are hereby empowered, to
provide for the organization of cities and in
cOrpOrated villages, and to restrict their power
of taxation, assessment, borrowing money,
contracting debts and loaning their credit, so
as to prevent abuses i'll assessment and taxa
ton, and in contracting debts by such NUM-
cipal corporations. No county, city, town.
village, school district or other municipal
corporation shall be allowed to become in
debted in any manner or for any purpose to
any amount including existing Indebtedness,
in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on
the value of the taxable property therein, to
be ascertained 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 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 a city containing 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
mo. %, 81 JOINT RESOLUTION NO IL.
Providing for an amendment of section 49,
article w. of the constitution and for Separ-
ate county government of certain counties.
Resolved. by the senate, the assembly con-
curing, that section %, of article ", 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 may es-
tabliSh separate system of county govern
ment'' so that when so amended said section
will read as follows:
Section 3d. 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 49, 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 general banking law
Whereas, at the biennial session of the legiS-
lature of the state of Wisconsin for the year
$780, a joint resolution was passed proposing
an amendment to article XI of the cOnStitu-
tion of the state Of Wisconsin, giving the legis
lature power to pass q 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
thereof, a new section to be known as section
and reading as follows:
Section 4. The legislature shall have power
to enact general banking law for the creation
OF banks, and for the regulation and Supervi-
sion of the banking business, provided that
the vote of two-thir6s of all the members
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 /. 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-
Der, 1902.
Section g. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after, it's passage and pub
LEGATION.
Approved March %, 1901.
CHAPTER 258.