The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

which 10 discharge il. The result should
be distinctly beneficial TO the state Az
instance is the power given 10 the gov
ernor TO veto separate items In appro-
priation bills. This imposes the duty
OF careful scrutiny of the appropriation
of state funds upon the governor and
gives him power To make his objections
effective unless overrued by a two
thirds vote Of each house.
The requirement that banks holding
deposits or state money shall show the
amount thereof In their published state
ments as a SEPARATE ITEM IT is be-
leyed imposes a most wholesome re-
straint upon the use OF the state funds.
Under this provision the public moneys
will serve political and personal ends
to a less extent in the future than they
have heretofore. Greater care, also
will be observed by state treasurers in
the selection of repositories for state
funds and like care in the amounts de-
posted in each. This whole subject
under the revision, will be brought out
in the open, and become a matter OF
common knowledge among the people
as il certainly should be. The people
have right TO know what banks are
holding the public moneys and the
amount held by each. The effect Of
this provision, it is believed, will prove
helpful to public officials as well as TO
the people of the state.
The legislature. under the revision,
will be placed upon higher level and
freed from the annoying burdens of
petty local measures and will have am
pie time for the study OF legislation
and be better prepared TO determine
what laws on the statute books should
be repealed and give more mature con-
sideration to general measures.
The broad powers Of home rule con-
ferred by Art. VIII, it is believed, will
conserve the highest interests Of the
cities and villages of the state 1t
places the responsibility for local legis-
lation in the hands OF those primarily
concerned, and thus permits each mu-
njcipality, under well guarded general
provisions, to legistate for itself The
provisions OF this article received most
careful scrutiny at the hands OF the
convention and like scrutiny is invited
at the hands Of the people.
We invite comparison OF the schedule
of new matters written into the revi-
sion and the obsolete matters eliminat-
ed from the exist ting constitution sched-
uled, respectively, at pages 4 and 80
OF this address. 1t will be noted that
much useless material in the existing
constitution has been discarded and
much that is wholesome and even vital
to the state has taken its place. These
two schedules present this question:
Is it desirable TO change the one for
the other? This the people OF the state
of Michigan must answer. The revi-
sion should be judged, we submit, not
by proposals OMITTED from dts pages
but by the value and wisdom OF its
NEW PROVISIONS. Judged by this
standard II is submitted that all that
is material in the old instrument is pre-
served In the new; that the revision
is simply the present constitution
brought down TO date and carefully re-
formed TO meet the demands of a state
grown beyond the limitations of its
fundamental law.
VICTOR NJ. CORE,
Benton Harbor, Mich.
LEVI l.. BARBOUR,
Detroit, Mich.
NATHAN 5. BOYNTON
Port Huron Mich.
GEORGE b. HORTON,
Fruit Ridge, Mich.
VICTOR HAWKINS,
Jonesville, Mich.
WALTER r. TAYLOR,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
CALVIN f. HOUK,
Ironwood, Mich.
FRANK r. MONFORT,
Ithaca, Mich .
LAYTON T. HEMANs,
Mason. Mich.
Z. j. ADAMS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CHARLES c. SIMONS,
Detroit, Mich.
CHARLES THEW,
Alleean, Mich.
LOUIS Z. TOSSY,
Detroit. Mich.
j. NJ. G. SMITH,
Charlotte Mich
FRANK s. PRATT
Bay City, Mich.
COMMITTEES on Submission and Address
to the People.
Adopted by the Constitutional Con-
vention at the Capitol at Lansing,
Michigan, February twenty-frst, nine
teen hundred eight.
JOHN ]. CARTON, President.
PAUL II. KING, Secretary.