The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-26

~ proposed amendment providing for the welfare of employees and for the enact ment of minimum wage.
 Under the proposed home rule for cities, municipalities could adopt any one of the three following forms of goyernment: t.t
 l. They might. upon the vote of the electors, elect fifteen citizens to frame charter which would then have to be submitted to the voters for ap- proyal.
 9 They might adopt. by a majority vote, a form of government provided by the legislature.
 8. They might decide to be governed as at present, by municipal code framed by the legislature.
 Removal of Officials
 The removal of all public officials, including the judiciary, upon complaint and hearing. is provided for in an amendment, which was passed by the convention after the recall, as in effect in the western states, had been de- feated,
 Another proposal which is causing much campaigning throughout the state is the one providing for a liquor license. The proposal provides for lim- iting the number of saloons, one to ev- cry 800 population. In the larger cities it would decrease the number of sa- looms from two- thirds to one-half.
 Other proposals which will be voted upon, provide: reform in civil jury system-provides for a verdict in T civil case, upon a vote of three fourths of the Jury. 5-,
 Abolition of capital punishment provides for life Imprisonment at hard labor as punishment for first degree T Of ala ion
 Dispositions by state-provides that the state may have the right to take dispositions in criminal cases. Also provides that the judge shall take mo- tiee of the failure of the accused to testify.
 Suits against state-proyides that suits may be brought against the state. Such suits cannottnow be brought
 Damage for wrongful death, and places no limit.
 igations--provides that the leg islature may investigate along lines of proposed Legislative action.
 Veto Power Increased
 Governors veto-provides for a three fifths instead of a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature tN pass a bill over the governors veto.
 Mechanics and builders liens-giyes laborers, builders, mechanics and ma terial men liens upon the property upon which they work
 Workingmen's compensation-pro yides that Ohio's present workingmen s compensation law ,be placed in the states charter
 onseryation-provide for the con servation of forestry, water power, and for state regulation of the mining, ~-------~~------r---------- and thugs" who were engaged in the thft of the republican nomination. Then after said thieves and robbers had run the roller over him and his lead CT, and after going the utmost limit in denunciation of their methods and ras- cality, he meekly lays down and per mits them to dictate to him as to his own candidacy in Idaho. He is com pelled to openly support Taft after de- nouncing the method he used-obtainine the nomination as the greatest crime in political history"
 Is Consistent l Would Bailey do that? Not so as you could tell it. If Bailey had taker | the extreme stand taken by Borah al Chicago, Bailey would bave followed Roosevelt out of the party, and il Roosevelt had not gone out Bailey would have gone by himself. Whenever 1 Bailey goes to the extent Of denuncia tion that Borah went, there is no fur ther alliance between himself and those he has denounced. And Bailey can de nounce an enemy as strongly as car Borah, if not more so. for when i comes to denunciation when Senator Bailey rises in his seat and goes afte the opposition as a denouncer he leavel little to be desired.
 There is genuine regret in the Senate that he Is retiring, and 1t is freely pre- dieted that he will yet return to Con gress. and whether he does or does not he will live in the history of the coun try as one of its greatest men, and per haps after the prejudices of men hav' had time to mellow and their temper cool he will come nearer getting jus tice in the minds of his countrymel than he could today.