The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-10-31

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 fled with the Sec
rotary of state not less than four months
voted upon, or not less than ten days before
any regular session of the legislature. If
fled at least four months before the election
at which they are 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 it
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 or 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. If 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-
suing regular general election. The legisla-
ture NAV reject any measure proposed by
initiative petition and propose a different one
dealing with the same subject, and in such
the secretary of state to the people for ap-
proval or rejection at the next ENSUING regu-
lar general election. When conflicting meas
ures are submitted to the people the ballots
shall be printed that voter can express
separately by making one cross (X) for EACH
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 a 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 as may be necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health or safety, support of the state
government and it's 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 no case more than thirty
thousand, of the legal voters shall be re-
CURED to sign and make a valid referendum
petition.
lc) 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 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 or parts
Of any act, law or bill shall not delay the
remainder of the measure from becoming OPP
erative. Referendum petitions against meas
ures passed by the legislature shall be filed
with the secretary of state not later than
ninety days after the final adjournment of the
session of the legislature which passed the
measure on which the referendum is de-
handed. The veto power of the governor
shall not extend to measures initiated by or
referred to the people. All elections on
measures referred to the people of the state
shall be had at the biennial regular elections,
except when the legislature shall order a
special election. Any measure initiated by
the people or referred to the people as herein
provided shall take effect and become the
law if it is approved by majority of the
votes cast thereon; Provided, That the vote
cast upon such question or measure shall