The Marshall republican., 1910-07-15
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO the
CONSTITUTION OF MISSOURI.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION DE- MISSOURI.
To be submitted to the legal voters
OF the state OF Missouri for their ap-
ProIai or rejection aC the regular gem
erai election to be he'd on the rue sday
next following the first Monday in No
Nember, A. D.. 1910, providing for
striklng out and annuilit; Section IL
OF article 4 of the Cons.l lion OF Mis-
souri, and enacting and "u ling a new
sectlon TO be known as .,,..Jl II OF
as follows:
Section H. Article a. The senatorial
constituted and numbered as luGJwg:
Tho First District shall b, .o.nposed
OF the counties of Atchison, i.o.,. lSoda-
Second District. = The CON. les OF
Worth, Gentry. Dekalb, Da..y~- ana
Third District,-The counties Of Mer-
and Schuyler. ~
Fourth Distriet.-The counties o. SCOT
land. Clark. Knox, Lewis and Maroon.
Firth District.-The counties OF .Iacon,
Randolph. Shelby and Monroe.
Sixth District,-The counties OF H.. ing
Seventh District.wThe counties Of
rate, Gay. Ray. Clinton and CT .lwol.
Eighth District.-The county 81 Be-.
Jackson county shall be divided into
three districts. numbered respccu, cay ~
follows; Einth, Tenth and Eleventh.
Twelfth District.-.The counties OF john
son. Lafayette and Henry.
thirteenth District.-The counties of
saline, Pettis, Cooper and Benton.
Fourteenth pistrict.-The counties OF
Howard Boone. Audraln 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
zenith, Nineteenth Twentieth. Twenty
first. Twenty-second and Twenty-third.
Twenty-fourth District.-The counties
ington, Phelps. Maries and Usage.
Twenty-ffth Dlstrict.-The counties OF
Laclede. Morgan. Pulaski, Miller, Cam
den. Moniteau and Cole.
Twenty-sixth District.-The counties OF
Hickory. Dallas. Polk, Cedar, Dade and
st. Clair.
Of Vernon. Bates. Barton and Cass.
Twenty-elghth District.-The county OF
Jasper.
Lawrence, Barry. Newton and Mcdonald.
Thirtieth Distrlct.-The counties OF
Greene. Christian. Stone and fancy.
Thirty District.-The counties OF
Webster, Wright. Texas, Howell, Doug
las and Ozark.
Thirty-second District.-The counties
Of Dent. Iron. Reynolds, shannon, Wayne.
III Y - = thiPitg aHo SIEBOfs
Thirty-third District.-The counties OF
ST. Francois. Ste. Genevieve. Perry. Mad
ison. Bollinger ana Cape Girardeau.
Of Stoddard, Scott, Dunklin, Mississippi,
New Madrid and Pemiscot. "
This division OF the state into senator
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
nm Rad nv the GanQral Aasapnhlv no ra.
vised and adjusted on the basis OF that
census, n every ten years thereafter
upon the basis OF the United States CEN
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 1t
does not directly repeal 1t. 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, hat IL at any time, or
from any cause, the General Assembly
shall fail or refuse to district the state
for senators. as required In this section,
1t shall be the duty Of the Governor, Sec
within thirty days after the adjournment
of the General Assembly on which such
duty devolved, to perform said duty, and
W llc Ill tHS OIlCc VI Tie NoGCTtIdTY III
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
the Great Seal of State, and upon the
proclamation Of the Governor, the same
shall be binuing and effectual as II dona
by the General Assembly"
1t Is the notification OF this section
to which the Democratic leaders OBJ
1ect particularly, as it has been their
mainstay for many 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 ori.
gin of the senatorial districting amend
ment proposed by Republicans and of
the procedure by which 1t came to its
present status, al statements Of tho
opposition press to the contrary not
withstanding.
Governor Folk has been making
miscellaneous remarks about
President Taft's cabinet, alleging that