Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-16
The Constitutional Amendments
and Woman Suffrage Question
Two Questions Regarding Voting This lAl WhchArs Badly Mix.
Cd in the Minds Of the People Are Clearly Explained - The
Ha# Accompanying Articles

charge Of this matter TO have the
voters fully informed upon the amend
ments. so that they. may be able to
vote intelligently upon the numerous
questions involved
In order to amend the constitution
of the state It is necessary that q
resolution be introduced to that end:
that this resolution 10 passed BY one
session Of the legislature; that 1t be
published in one newspaper In each
county in the state; that 1t pass the
legislature at its next session; that
it be published again in the news
papers, and finally that It be voted
upon by the people ct the next gen
eral election.
\. Two Sets Of Amendments.
We have now upon our hands two
sets of these proposed amendments:
One set, Of five amendments, which
have passed the last Legislature, are
now being published, and will be sub
mitted to tine next legislature. The
other set, OF six amendments, which
have passed the 1911 and 1918 legis-
latures, will be published In October
and will be- voted ON by the people
in November.
Briefly summarized. the sci Of five
amendments propose to accomplish
the following: I
/. To locate s state normal school
at Dickinson. i
2. To make. woman suffrage con-
stitutional.
8. To provide another, hospital for
the insane, location to be made by
the state legislature. 4
a. To change the name. Of the Re-
form School at Mandan to Farm &
Mechanic Arts School.
s. To permit the sale Of the coal
lands o owned by the state, which
the constitution at present forbids.
These five bills have to pass the
1915 legislature and be published
again and approved by the people In
1916 before they can become part OF
the constitution.
The set Of six amendments, which
will be voted upon this coming cleo.
ton, proposed to accomplish the fol-
sowing:
1. Provide the initiative and refer
endum as to Liquidation. q
2. Provide initiative and referend-
as to the constitution.
HE q e~ M - F%h~ GkataH
Blind Asylum tosSchocl for the Blind.
4. Permit the state to appropriate
money for the building, of highways,
which It may not now do under the
constitution. u
5. Authorizing the llegislatuie 10
build and maintain terminal grain
elevators within the state.
6. To permit the classification of
property for the purpose Of taxation
"a measure strongly supported by
these who have made q study Of taxa.
tion and its evils. :ss
Vote In November.
These six will be published In DC.
tober and November, 1914. They will
all be upon the one ballot and It will
be a Eyes, and mo- pr0po fticn with
each. In addition to. this, q vote will
be taken on Woman Suffrage, but
this will be q separate. ballot and will
not involve the constitution or the
changing Of Il. /.
Vote on Long List. I
Therefore at the coming election in
November the intelligent voter will
only have five ballots placed In his
hands, which he must vote In three
minutes, viz: General election ballot
-four columns Of names; non-partis-
an judiciary; non-partisan school of.
|ficers; constitutional amendments
(6); woman suffrage. He may prob
ably have some local issues, such as
bond issues and the like come up
which will aid to the gaiety of the
occasion. In other words the voter
will have the aspect Of the purchaser ,
Of . Sunday newspaper, without the
consolation CT the comic section" as
he walks to the voting booth Novemsi
Der 8. He should have his thinking
all done long before the day arrives ,
and the moment for voting Is at hand.