The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-09
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
STATE OF WISCONSIN, ! &C
DAnart1nant of Ctata %.

| NOIICE Is u0F0Dy g1V0Q GndG at general
| election to be held in the several towns
!, wards villages and election districts of the
State of Wisconsin on the Tuesday succeeding
| the hrst Monday, being the 4th day of Novem-
| Der. D. 1902 the following officers are to he
| 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. 1908
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. 1908
A State Treasurer in place of James o.
Davidson, whose term of Office will expire on
the hrst 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. 1903.
State Superintendent in place of Lorenzo
| L. Harvey, whose term of Office will expire on
| the hrst Monday of January A. ID. 1902.
/ Railroad Commissioner in place of Gra-
| nam 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, 4. D. 1903.
Representative in Congress for the First
| Congressional District, consisting of the
| counties of Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Rock
Green and LAFAYETTE
A tate Senator for the Third Senate Dis
| trlct, 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, Ozaulzee. Pierce, Richland St
| CroiX, Shawano, Trempeleau, Vernon Wash
lngton, 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 l. 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 made part of the
| foregoing notice, tO-wit:
NO SO A.) JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8.
| For the submission of an amendment to Sec
ton 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 Severally
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
| t1ce having been longest continuous member
I 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. IA. Al JOINT RESOLUTION NO. II.
| Proposing an amendment to section 3 of
article Ii of the constitution of the state of
Wisconsin, as amended by a 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-
! stltutlOn 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: s'or, if city containing
q 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 of article II, shall read as follows:
section g. It 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 in 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 aggreg9 tie 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 s. 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.
| mo. %, 81 JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 12.
Providing for an amendment of section 3d.
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:
| incorporated city of more than one hundred
| thousand inhabitants the legislature may es-
| tabl1Sh 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 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 vi lSUl, WHICH Sd1U chapters T0dQ DIS IOl-
| 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 a general banking law.
Whereas, at the biennial session of the egis-
lature of the state of Wisconsin for the year
1899. 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 a general banking law,
which was agreed to by a majority of the
members elected to each Of the two houses,
and approved April 10th 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 4 and 5
thereof, a new section to be known as section
and reading as follows:
section f. 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-thirds of all the members
elected to e7ch 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 1. 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
Section2 This act shall take effect and be