Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-02
VOTERS TO PASS ON
THREE AMENDMENTS
Constitutional ChangesP roposed
at Next Tuesdays Election.
Plan to Double Salary of State Legislat
ors-New appointment Method,
ar I Conservation.

Three proposals to amend the con
stitution of Wisconin will be sub
mitted to the voters Of the state on the
ballot at the November election.
They are as follows:
No. Relating to pay of members
Of the Legislature.
No. 2-Relating to apportionment.
No. 3-Relating to internal i'm
provements.
DOUBLES LEGISLATORS PAY.
Amendment No 1 provides for the
amendment of section 21 of article 4.
raising the pay of members of the
legislature from $500 to 81, 600 per
annum. The original constitutional
provision was for the payment of
members of the legislature, senators
and assemhlymep, at the rate of So 30
per day for each days attendance
during the season and ten cent per
mile for every mile he shall travel in
going to and returning from the place
Of meeting.
That was the provision until 1881
when the constitution was amended by
making the sessions of the Legislature
biennial instead of annual and fixing
the compensation of membrs at $500 for
the biennial tenn with the original
provision for mileage. From that
time the compensation Of members has
remained as SO fixed.
CHANGE TIME APPORTIONMENT
The purpose of amendment No.2 is
really to provide way to abandon the
state census and accept the decennial
census Of the national government as
the basis of apportionment of members
Of the legislature. The proposal now
submitted will require an apportion-
ment only once in ten years The
amendment submitted on the ballot is
as follows:
Section 3 At their first session
after each enumeration made by the
authority of the United States, the
Legislature shall apportion and district
anew the members of the senate and
assembly, according to the number of
inhabitants, excluding Indians not tax
ed, soldiers. and officers of the United
States army and navy.
FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
The third proposition to be submit
ted is for the purpose of permitting the
legislature to appropriate money for
certain. specified internal improve
ments now forbidden by the tunda-
mental law
The constitution now provides that
the state shall never contract any debt
for works Of internal improvement or
be a party in carrying on such works.
The Legislature, having in mind. the
conservation of natural resources,
proposed an amendment which will do
away with this obstacle as it relates
at least to the class of Internal i'm
prOvements OF better.
Provided that the state may APP
propriate money for the purpose of
acquiring, preserving, and developing
the water power and the forests of
the state but there shall not be APP
propriated under the authority of this
section in any one year 40 amount to
exceed two-tenths of one mill of the
taxable property of the state as deter
mined by the last precedig state as
sessment.
These amendments all are submitted
on the big ballot for the November
election and must be voted for sepa-
rately by yes or mo- in squares
printed on the ballot for that purpose
The official ballots for Grant coun-
ty, 10000 of them, are being printed
in The Herald job department. this
week. The Democratic state ticket
occupies the first column on the bal
lot. the Prohibition second, the Re-
p0blican third, the Social Democrat
fourth. The last three columns are
headed Independent and contain the
names of candidates who did not re-
ceive a sufficient number of votes to
entitle them to a place on the ticket
under their party heading The
democratic ticket is printed in another
column on this page OF The Herald
The Republican ticket is as follows:
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
United States Senator Robert NJ
LaFollette.
Observation-Disclosures E. McGovgrn.
Lieutenant Governor Thomas Nor.
r;s.
Secretary of State-James A. Frear
State Treasurer-Andrew Il. Dahl
Attorney General-C. H. Crown
hart
Commissioner OF Insurance Her.
man L. Ekern