The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-24

It's approval by a majority of the
qualified electors voting thereon.
b. An emergency law shall remain
in force, Notwithstanding such petition,
but shall stand repealed thirty days af-
ter being rejected by majority of the
qualified electors voting thereon.
c. An emergency law shall be any
law declared by the legislature to be
necessary for any immediate purpose
by a tWo-thirds vote of the members
of each house voting thereon, entered
on their journals by the yeas and nays.
No law making any appropriation for
maintaining the state government or
maintaining or aiding any public insti-
tuition, not exceeding the next previ-
GUS appropriation for the same purpose,
shall be subject to rejection or repeal
under this section. The increase in
any such appropriation shall only take
effect as in case of other laws, and such
Increase, or any part thereof, specified
in the petition may be referred to a
vote of the people upon petition.
5. If measures which conflict with
each other in any of their essential pro-
visions are submitted at the same cleo
ton, only the measure receiving the
highest number Of votes stall stand as
the enactment of the people.
6. The petition shall be filed with
the secretary of state and shall be suf-
ficient to require the submission by
him of measure to the people when
signed by eight per cent of the quail
fed elector calculated upon the whole
number of votes cast for governor at
the last preceding election, of whom
not more than one-half shall be resi-
dents of any one county.
z. The vote upon measures referred
te the people shall be taken at the next
election occurring not less than four
months after the fling Of the petition,
ard held generally throughout the
state pursuant to law or specially call
ed by the governor.
5. The legislature shall provide for
furnishing electors the text of all
measures to be voted upon by the
people.
8. Except that measure specially
affecting subdivision of the state
may be submitted to the people of that
subdivision, the legislature shall submit
measures to the people only as required
by the constitution.
Note.-(If adopted, this amend
ment will change the provisions of
the Constitution which vest the
power to make laws exclusively in
the Senate and Assembly, so that
the people may directly and on
their own initiative enact laws and
may reject laws passed by the leg
islature.)
Be it further resolved by the As
sombly, the Senate concurring, That ar
ticle XII of the Constitution, be
amended by creating new section to
read:
Section 8. l. a. Any senator or
member of the assembly may introduce,
by presenting to the chief clerk in the
house in which he is member, in open
session, at any time during any session
ct the legislature, any proposed amend
ment to the constitution or any amend
ment to any such proposed amendment
to the constitution; provided, that the
time for so introducing a proposed
amendment to the constitution may be
limited by rule to not less than thirty
legislative days.
b. The chief clerk shall make a
record of such proposed amendments to
the constitution and any amendment
thereto and have the same printed.
2 Any proposed amendment to the
constitution shall be recited in full in
the petition and shall consist of an
amendment which has been introduced
in the legislature during the first thirty
legislative days, as so introduced, or,
at the option of the petitioners, there
may be Incorporated therein any
amendment or amendments thereto in
PRODUCED in the legislature. Such
amendment to the constitution and
amendments thereto shall be referred
to by number in the petition. Upon
petition filed not later than four
months before the next general cleo
ton, such proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the people
3. The petition shall be filed with
the secretary of state and shall be suf-
fcient to require the submission by him
OF a proposed amendment to the con-
stitution to the people when signed by
ten per cent of the qualified electors,
calculated upon the whole number of
votes cast for governor at the last
preceding election, of whom not more
than one-half shall be residents of any
one county.
4. Any proposed amendment or
amendments to this constitution, agreed
to by a majority of the members
elected to each of the two houses of
the Legislature, shall be entered on
their journals with the yeas and nays
! taken thereon, and be submitted to the
people by the secretary of state upon
petition filed with him signed by five
per cent of the qualified electors, cal
culated upon the whole number of
votes cast for governor at the last pre-
eeding election, of whom not more than
one-half shall be residents of any one
| county.
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