The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-04-10
LEGISLATION Is GOOD
Initiative and Referendum Pass
Both Houses and the Governor
Approves the Bill
AID FOR THE WORKMfN
Measure to Provide Compensation
for Employees Who are Injured
While on Duty
Especial Correspondence

Especial CORRESPONDENCE
ST.. PAUL. April 1T is now up to
tile people TO say whether the consti-
tuition shall be so amended as to en-
able the voters of::Minnesota to place
upon the statute books laws which
they desire, the legislature to the con-
trary notwithstanding. In other
words, the people of this state can
have the initiative and referendum,
if they want 1t, for the legislature has
passed and the governor has approved
a bill providing for constitutional
amendment granting to the people
rhis new bill Of rights.
All things considered, this is un-
Souhtediy the most important bill
the Minnesota legislature has passed
III recent years perhaps the most
important it has ever passed land if
this legislature had done nothing
except To pass this bill its work would
have been regarded as notable. On
account of this unusual Importance,
i will quote the most vital part OF
the bill. The following is the provis-
ion for the CONSTITUTIONAL
INITIATIVE:
when at any time prior to the
commencement of any session of the
Legislature, there shall have been
tiled with the Secretary of State a
petition proposing an amendment to
the constitution signed by two per
cent of the electors of the state, the
Secretary of State shall transmit the
same to the Legislature not later
than ten days after the commence
ment of the session. If the amend
ment so proposed be not submitted to
the electors by the Legislature at
sucl, session, or if it be submitted in
an amended form, then upon a fur
Their petition or petitions, each
signed 10y eight per centum OF the
electors of the state, filed with the
Secretary of State within six months
after the adjournment of the Legis-
lature. the amendment proposed in
the first petition, or one or more
amended forms thereof, shall be sub
mitted TO the electors for their APP
proyai or rejection at the next gener-
al or special statewide election, oc-
curing not less than ninety days fter
the filing of any such further petition.
Any amendment proposed by initia-
tive petition. and in its originol or in
an amended form, submitted to the
electors by the Legislature or by a
fnrthur petition shall become part
of the constitution, / t approved by a
majority of the electors voting at said
election, or by -four seventies of the
electors voting on the proposed
amendment; provided not less than
three-seventls, of the electors voting
at said election voted for the pro-
posed amendment. This:section shall
he construed as means in addition
TO section one, article fourteen of the
State Constitution for amending the
same.
The provision for the STATUT-
DRY INITIATIVE is as follows:
''When at any time prior the COM
mencement of any session of the Leg
.islature, there shall have been filed
with the Secretary OF State, a petition
proposing law, signed by Two per
centum of the electors of the state,
the Secretary Of State shall transmit
the same to the Legislature, not later
than ten days after the commence