Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-16

conSin be, and the same is hereby agreed to
! by the legislature
NOTE. 0f adopted. this amendment will
empower cities and villages to amend their
own charters and determine their own
/ powers and authority. instead OF, as now.
restricting them to only such powers as are
granted TO them by the legislature)
IJt Res. No. 4. Al
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. %
To amend Section l. of article ". of the
| constitution to give TO the people the
| power to propose laws and to enact or re-
ject the same at the polls, and to approve
/ or reject at the polls any act of the legis-
lature: and to create section 3. OF article
| XII. of the constitution. providing for the
submission of amendments to the con-
| stitutiOn 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 a ma iority of the members elected to
each of the two houses, which proposed
/ amendment is as follows:
| Resolved by the assembly. the senate
concurring That section l. of article ~ Of
the Constitution. be amended to read:
| Section 1. !. The legislative power shall
| be vested in a senate and assembly, but the
people reserve to themselves power as
| herein provided. to propose laws and to
enact or reject the same at the polls indie
pendent of the legislature, and to approve
or reject at the polls any law any part of
any law enacted by the legislature. The
| limitations 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 member of the as
Sembly may introduce. by presenting to the
chief clerk in the house of which he is a
member. in open session, at any time during
any session of the legislature. any bill or
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 record o
such bill and every amendment offered
thereto and have the same printed.
3. proposed law shall be recited in full
in the petition. and shall consist of a bill
which has been introduced in the legislature
during the first thirty legislative days of the
session as SO introduced; or at the ioptiou
of the petitioners there may be incOr-
pOrated in said bill any amendment or
amendments introduced in the legislature.
Such Dill and amendments shall be referred to
filed not later than four months before the
next general election, such proposed law
shall be submitted to vote of the people
and shall become law if it is approved by a
majority of The electors voting thereon. and
shall take effect and be in force from and
after thirty days after the election at which
4. a. No law enacted by the legislature,
except an emergency law. shall take effect
publication. If within said ninity days
there shall have been filed petition to
submit to a vote of the. people such law or
any part thereof. such law or such part
thereof shall not take effect until thirty
days after its approval by majority of the
qualified electors voting thereon.
D. An emergency law snail remain 10
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 legislature to be necessary
| for any immediate purpose by two-thirdS
vote of the members of each house voting
thereon. entered on their journals by the
yeas and NAYS. No law making any appro-
priatiOn for maintaining the Sta'e govern
| ment or maintaining or aiding any pubic IN
Stitution. not exceeding the priviouS APP
preparation for the same purpose, shall
be subject to rejection or repeal under this
section. The increase in any such ap-
preparation shall only take effect as
in case of other laws. and such in
crease. or any part thereof, specified in the
petition may be referred TO a vote OF the
people upon petition.
D. If measures which conflict with each
otherin any of their essential provisions are
submitted at the same election. only the
measure receiving the highest number of
votes snail stand as the enactment of the
people.
6. The petition shall be filed with the sec
retary of state and shall be sufficient to re-
quire the submission by him of "a measure
TO the people when signed by eight 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-halt shall be residents of any
one county.
T. The vote upon measures referred to the
people shall be taken at the next election
occurring not less than four months after
the filing of the petition, and held generally
throughout the state pursuant TO law or
specially called by the governor.
8. The legislature shall provide for furn-
iShing electors the text of all measures to
be voIed upon by the people.
g. Except that measures specifically
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 Of adopted, this amendment will
will change the provisions of the COnStitu-
ton which vest the power to make laws
exclusively in the Senate and Assem- bly,,
So that the people may dire city aud on
their own initiative enact laws and may
reject laws passed by the legisature.)
Be it further resolved by the Assembly.
the Senate cOncurring. That article XII of
the constitution, be amended by creating
new section to read:
Section =, 1, a. Any senator or member of
the assembly may introduce, by presenting
to the chief clerk in the house in which he is
a member, in open session, at any time dur
ing any session of the legislature. any pro-
posed amendment to the constitution or any
amendment to any such proposed amend
ment to :he constitution provided, that the
time for SO Introducing a proposed amend
ment to the constitution may be limited by
rule 10 not less than thirty legislative DAYS.
b. The chief clerk shall make record of
such proposed amendments to the conStitu
ton and any amendment thereto and have
the same printed.
p Any proposed amendment to the con-
SIitutiOn shall be recited in full in the petit
ton and shall consist of an amendment
which has beea introduced in the legiSla-
ture during the hrSt thirty legislative days,
as so introduced. or, at the option of the pc
titioners. there may be incorporated therein
any amendment or amendments thereto in
troduC in the legislature. Such amend
ment TO the constitution and amendments
thereto shall be referred TO by number in
the petition. Upon petition filed not later
than iOur months before the next general
election, such prop <Sed amendment shall be
submitted to the people.
3. The petition shall be filed with the sec
rotary of state and shall be sutf:c Gent to re-
quire the submission by him of a proposed
amendment to the constitution 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 pre-
ceding election, of whom not more than one
half shall be residents of any one county.
Any proposed amendment or amend
mentS TO this constitution, agreed to by
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 petit
tiCn filed with him signed by five per cent.