The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-07-01
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF MISSOURI.

To be submitted to the legal voters
OF the state of Missouri for their APP
proval or rejection at the regula gen.
eral election to be held on the Tuesday
next following the first Monday In No
striking out and annulling Section IL
of Article 4 Of the Constitution of Mis-
souri,. and enacting and adopting a new
section to be known as Section IL of
Article 4, which is In words and figures
as follows:
Section IL. Article 4. The senatorial
districts of the state shall hereafter be
constituted and numbered as follows:
The First District shall be composed
of the counties of Atchison, Holt, Noda-
way and Andrew.
Second District. The counties of
Worth. Gentry, Dekalb. Daviess and
Harrison.
Third District.-The counties of Mer-
Ger. Grundy. Putnam, Sullivan, Adair
and Schuyler.
Fourth District.-The counties of Scot
land. Clark. Knox. Lewis and Marion.
Fifth District.-The counties of Macon,
Randolph. Shelby and Monroe.
Sixth District-The counties of Living
ston. Carroll, Linn and Charlton.
Seventh District.-The counties of
Platte. Clay, Ray, Clinton and Caldwell.
Eighth District.-The county of Blu
chanan.
jackson county shall be divided into
three districts. numbered respectively as
follows: Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh.
Twelfth District.-The counties of john
son, Lafayette ana Henry.
Thirteenth District.-The counties of
Saline, Pettis, Cooper and Benton.
Fourteenth District.-The counties of
Howard, Boone, Audrain and Galloway.
Fifteenth District.-The counties of
Pike. Montgomery, Warren, Lincoln. st.
Charles and Rails.
Sixteenth District.-The counties of
st. Louis and Jefferson.
The city of St. Louis shall be divided
into seven districts numbered respec-
lively as follows; Seventeenth. Eight
eenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty
first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third.
Twentv-fourth District.-The counties
of Gasconade. Franklin, Crawford, Wash
ington, Phelps Maries and Usage, =,
Laclede. Morgan, Pulaski, Miller. Cam
den. Moniteau ard Cole.
Twenty-sixth District.-The counties of
Hickory. Dallas, Polk. Cedar, Dade and
st. Clair.
REIMBURSEMENT District.-The counties
of Vernon, Bates, Barton and Cass.
Twenty eighth District.-The county of
Jasper.
Twenty-ninth District.-The counties of
Lawrence. Barry. Newton and Mcdonald.
Thirtieth District.-The counties of
Greene. Christian. Stone and fancy.
Thirty-first District.-The counties of
Webster, Wright, Texas, Howell, Doug
las and Ozark.
Thirty second District.-The counties
of Dent, Iron. Reynolds. Shannon, Wayne,
Carter, Butler, Ripley and Oregon.
Thirty-third District.-The counties of
/ I. rIdDCOIS, sue. NtlltNlcNe, Il 1 a.
ison. Bollinger and ape Girardeau.
Thirty-fourth District.-rhe counties
of Stoddard, Scott. Dunklin, Mississippi,
New Madrid and Pemiscot.
This division of the state into senator
ial districts shall continue until the
United States census of 1920 shall have
been taken and the result thereof as to
this state ascertained, when the districts
shall. by law enacted by the people, or
ppassed by the General Assembly, be re-
vised and adjusted on the basis Of that
a.a ND var ton ~ ftar
upon the basis of the United States CEN
sus, the districts shall be revised and
adjusted by a law enacted by the people
or passed by the General Assembly.
The latter part of the proposed new
section will annul section Z, though it
does not directly repeal it. 1t is that
section CD which authorizes the three
state officers to make the senatorial
apportionment. The latter part OF that
section reads as follows:
"Provided, That if at any time, or
from any cause, the General Assembly
shall fail or refuse to district the state
for senator's. as required in this section,
it shall be the duty of the Governor, Sec
Rotary of State and Attorney General,
within thirty days after the adjournment
Of the General Assembly on which such
duty devolved. to perform said duty. and
to file in the office of the Secretary of
State a full statement of the districts
formed by them, including the names of
the counties embraced in each district,
and the numbers thereof; said statement
to be signed by them, and attested by
the Great Seal Of State. and upon the
proclamation of the Governor, the same
shall be binuing and effectual as II done
by the General Assembly
1t is the notification of this section
to which the Democratic leaders OBJ
ject particularly, as 1t has been their
mainstay for man years. They could
always defeat redistricting bills in the
legislature and thus empower the
three state officers to form senatorial
districts and guarantee a big Demo-
cratic majority in the senate. How
such a majority can interfere with the
policies and work of a Republican gov.
ernor and state administration was
shown by the course of the senate in
1910, when nearly every special meas
ure proposed by Governor Hadley and
adopted by the house of representa-
tives was defeated by the Democratic
majority in the senate, for merely po-
litical reasons.
This is a true statement of the orr
gin of the senatorial districting amend
ment proposed by Republicans and of
the procedure by which it came to its
present status, all statements of the
opposition press to the contrary not
withstanding.
Governor Folk has been making
some miscellaneous remarks about
President Taft's cabinet, alleging that