The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-09-12

shall be called the legislature of the Stare
of Washington, but the people reserve to
themselves the power to propose bills laws,
AID to enact or reject the same at the polls,
Independent of the legislature, and also re-
serve power, at their own option, to approve
or reject at the polls any act item, section
or part of any bill, act or law passed by the
legislature.
lal Initiative: The first power reserved
by the people is the initiative Ten per
centum, but in no more than fifty thou
sand, OF the legal voters shall be required
to propose any measure by such petition,
and every such petition shall include the
full text of the measure so proposed. Initia-
tive petitions shall be filed with the sec
rotary of state not less than four months
before the election at which they are to be
voted upon, or not less than ten days before
any regular session of the legislature. If
filed at least four months before the election
at which they to be voted upon, he shall
submit the same to the vote of the people at
the SAID election. If such petitions are filed
not less than ten days before any regular
session of the legislature, he shall transmit
the same to the legislature as soon as if
conVenes and organizes. Such initiative
measure shall take precedence over all other
measures in the legislature except appropria-
ton bills and shall be either enacted or re-
ected without change amendment by the
Legislature before the end of such regular
session. If any such initiative measure shall
be enacted by the legislature it shall be sub
ject to the referendum petition, or it may
be enacted and referred by the legislature
to the people for APPROVAL or rejection at the
next regular election. Ii it is rejected or if
no action is taken upon it by the legislature
| before the end of such regular session, the
secretary of state shall submit it to the peo-
pie for approval or rejection at the next en-
SUNG regular general election. The legisla-
ture NAV reject any measure so proposed by
initiative petition and propose a different one
dealing with the same subject and in such
event both measures shall be submitted by
the secretary of state to the people for ap-
prevail or rejection at the next ensuino regu-
lar general election. When conflicting meas
ures are submitted to the people the ballots
shall be so printed that a voter can express
separately by making one cross (X) for eacn.
two preferences, first, as between either
measure and neither and secondly, as be-
tween one and the other. If the majority of
those voting on the first issue is for neither
both fail, but in that case the votes on the
! second issue shall nevertheless be carefully
| counted and made public. If majority
voting on the first issue is for either then
the measure receiving majority of the
! votes on the second issue shall be law.
CD Referendum. The second power re-
served by the people is the referendum, and
1t may be ordered any act, bill law or
any part thereof passed by the legislature
! except such laws may be necessary for
the Immediate preservation of the public
peace, health or safety, support of the state
government and its existing public institu-
tions, either by petition signed by the re.
quired percentage of the legal voters or by
the legislature other bills are enacted. Six
per centum, but in more than thirty
thousand, of the legal voters shall be re-
CURED to sign and make a valid referendum
petition.
(cj No act, law, or bill subject to refer
endum shall take effect until ninety days
after the adjournment of the session at which
is was enacted. No act law, or bill ap
proved by a majority of the electors voting
thereon shall be amended or repealed by the
| legislature within period of two years fol
lowing such enactment. But such enactment
may be amended or repealed at any general
regular or special election by direct vote OF
the people thereon.
| (d) The fling of referendum petition
| against one or more items sections parts
| of any act, law bill shall not delay the
| remainder of the measure from becoming Op
| erative. Referendum petitions against meas
ures passed by the legislature shall be filed
with the secretary of state not later thar
ninety days after the final adjournment of the
| session of the legislature which passed the
measure which the referendum is de
! manded. The veto power of the governor
| shall not extend to measures initiated by OF
referred to the people. All elections OIL
measures referred to the people of the state
shall be had at the biennial regular elections
| except when the legislature shall order {
special election. Any measure initiated BY
the people or referred to the people as herein
| provided shall take effect and become the
/ law ii it is approved by majority of thu
votes cast thereon; Provided, That the vote
cast upon such question measure shall
equal one-third of the total vote cast at suct
election and not otherwise. Such measure
| shall be in operation and after the thlr
tieth day after the election at which 1T II
approved The style of all bills proposed
by initiative petition shall be: BE 1t en-
acted by the people OF the State OF Wash
ington' This section shall not be construed
to deprive any member of the legislature O.
! the right to introduce any measure. Inc
whole number of electors who voted for gov
ernor at the regular gubernatorlal electlor
! last preceding the fling of any petition tol
the initiative for the referendum shall bt
the basis ON which the number of legal voters
necessary to sign such petition snail OF
counted. All such petitions shall be flee
with the secretary of state, who shall bt
guided by the general laws in submitting the
same to the people until additional Legislator
shall especially provide therefor. This sec
ton is self-executing, but legislation may b'
enacted especially to facilitate, its o-eratlon
| The legislature shall provide methods o.
publicity of all laws or parts of laws, ant
amendments to the constitution referred t(
| the people with arguments for and agalns
the laws and amendments so referred, so tina
| each voter of the state shall receive the pup
LEGATION at least fifty days before the election
at which they are to be voted upon.
There shall be printed on all ballots pro
vided for the said election, the words:
| For the proposed amendment of sectloi
1 of article II of the constitution of the STATE
of Washington, relating to legislative powers
and providing for the initiative and referen
dunn
against the proposed amendment of sec
ton 1 of article II of the constitution OF tn
State of Washington, relating to Legislative
powers, and providing for the initiative an'
referendum
For the proposed amendment of artlci'
II of the constitution of the State of WASH
ington, by striking section 81 therefrom
which relates to the time when laws tax
effect
against the proposed amendment OF ar
ticle II of the constitution of the State o
Washington by striking section 81 tnereIl ron
which relates to the time when laws tak'
effect
In testimony whereof have hereunto Sc
my hand and affixed the seal OF the o'a''
of Washington. 1910
Done at Olympia this 1st day of July, l91z
Secretary Of State