Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-30

instead of, as now, restricting them to
only such powers as are granted to
them by the legislature)
ut. Res. No. 4. A.
JOINT RESOLUTION No. %.
To amend section i, Of article ", of
the constitution, to give the people
the power to propose laws and to en-
act, approve or reject at the polls any
act of the legislature; and to create
section or reject the same at the polls,
and to 8, of article XII, of the eonsti-
tuition, providing for the submission of
amendments to the constitution upon
the petition of the people.
Whereas, At the biennial session of
the legislature for the year 1911, an
amendment to the constitution was
proposed and agreed to by majority
of the members elected to each of the
two houses, which proposed reamend-
ment is as follows:
Resolved by the assembly, the SEN
ate concurring, That section /, of arti-
Gle " of the constitution. be amended
to read;
4 Section l. The legislative power
shall be vested in senate and assemb-
~ but the people reserve to themselves
power as herein provided to propose
laws ard to enact or reject the same at
the polls, independent of the legisla-
ture and to approve or reject at the
polls any law or any part of any law
enacted by the legislature. The limita-
tions expressed in the constitution ON
the power of the legislature to enact
laws. shall be deemed limitations on
the power Of the people to enact laws.
2. a. Any senator or members of the
) assembly may introduce, by present
ing to the chief clerk in the house Of
which he is member. in open session,
at any time during any session of the
legislature, any bill or any amend
ment to any such bill; provided, that
: the time for SO introducing bill may
be limited by rule to not less than
thirty legislative DAYS
b. The chief clerk shall make-a rec
ord of such bill and every amendment
offered thereto and have the same
printed.
3. a proposedlaw shall be recited in
full in the petition, and shall consist
of bill which has been introduced in
!. the legislature during the first thirty
legislative days ef-the session, as SO
introduced. or, at the option of the
petitioners, there may be incorporated
, in said bill any amendment or amend
j ments introduced in the legislature.
Such bill and amendments shall be re
ferred to by number in the petition.
Upon petition filed not later than four
: months before the next general cleo
ton, such proposed law shall be- sub
} mitted to vote of the people, and
shall become law if it is approved by
majority of the electors voting there
) on, and shall take effect and be in
: force from and after thirty days after
5 the election at whichit is approved.
"A No law en- cted by the legisla-
ture, except an emergency law, shall
: take effect before ninety days after its
! passage and publication. If within
said ninety days there shall have been
filed petition to submit to vote of
the people such law or any part there
of such law shall not take effect until
thirty days after its approval by ma
: jority of the qualified electors voting
: thereon.
b. An emergency law shall rema;s in
> force, notwithstanding such petition,
but shall stand repealed thirty days
after being rejected by a majority of
the qualified electors voting thereon.
c. An emergency law shall be any
: law declared by the k gislature to be
necessary for any immediate purpose
by two thirds vote of the members
t of each house voting thereon. entered
; on their journals by the yeas and nays.
: No law making any appropriation for
maintaining the state government OF
maintaining or aiding any public 1nsti-
| tuition, not exceeding the next previous
! appropriation for the same purpose,
J 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 re-
ferred to vote of the people upon
petition.
5. If measures which conflict with
] each other in any of their essential
] provisions are submitted at the same
election only the measufe receiving the
{ highest number of votes shall stand as
the enactment of the people.
s. The petition shall be filed with
the secretary of state and shall be
sufficient to require the submission by
him of a measure to the people when
signed by eight per cent of the quail