Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-10-22
AMENDMENTS that
AR IMPORTANT TO
THE STATE VOTERS
Measures That Will Be Adopt.
ed or Rejected Nov. 3rd

party in the state, upon entering the
election booth, will take with him the
general official ballot for the selection
of candidates for state and county
offices; in addition he will be provid-
ed with three small ballots, one for
the judiciary, containing the names
of two candidates for the state su-
preme court; small ballot contain
ing the names Of two candidates for
superintendent of public instruction,
and small ballot entitled the "Wom-
ans Suffrage Ballot"
Another official ballot will contain
six proposed amendments to the con-
stitution of the state of North Dakota.
Five of these are specially important
propositions and we'll worth the care
full consideration Of every resident of
the state. In order that these propo-
sllions may receive the widest atten-
tion and for the advance information
of the largest number of voters in the
county, the county auditor and COM
missioners have had the publication
of these amendments made in this
issue of the Daily and Weekly Alert
These six amendments have passed
two sessions of the legislat ture and are
to be submitted to the people at the
coming general election for adoption
n will
doubt all become part of the statutes
Of the state by subsequent acts of the
legislature wherever necessary.
Initiative and Referendum as to
Legislation.
This proposition provides for the
enactment or repeal of state laws, or
parts of laws, by the people by means
of votes taken at the polls. If this
amendment is adopted, it gives to the
people part of the power now granted
exclusively to the legislature to enact
or reject laws. The details of how
this is to be done are given in full in
the amendment itself, and should be
read by every voter interested.
To Provide For the Initiative as to
the Constitution.
This amendment permits the con-
stitution to be amended by the peo-
pie proposing any amendment de-
sired, and requiring it to be submit
ted to the people at the next general
election. This also divides the pow
er now held exclusively by the leg
islature of proposing amendments to
the constitution. The details of how
this is to be brought about are given
in the amendment itself, as pub
lished in this issue, and should be
read by every voter before going to
the polls.
The two above are long amend
ments, and few voters will have
time in the election booth to read
them over before voting.
Change of Name.
The third proposed amendment
is merely the changing of the name
of the state blind asylum from. "A
Blind Asylum" to "The School for
the Blind of North Dakota"
State Aid in Building Public High
-' ways.
The fourth proposed amendment
to be voted upon by the electors,
Nov. 8, is to allow the state Of North
Dakota, by legislative appropriation,
to expend money from the treasury,
or which may be hereafter raised by
taxation, for the construction or i'm
provement of public highways.
Under the constitution the state
is not permitted to engage in this
kind of internal Improvements.
Good roads mean much to every res
ident Of the state, particularly to
farmers, and the adoption of this
amendment by the people Of the
state will no doubt lead to securing
system Of main trunk highways
with branch lines leading into the
same. that will be Of immense ben
eft to every county In the state. It
will be road work In addition to the
usual township road work. and done
under tho supervision of engineers.
TeEznfnaf Gsain, EloKA1ees.
The fifth pDposed amendment, II
adopted by the people. will allow the
legislature to build. lease or pur-
chase one or more terminal grain
elevators in the state Of North Da-
kota and to provide for their opera
ton and for the inspection, weigh.
ing and grading of all grain re-
ceived. The efforts to secure ter
minal elevators outside the state
have been found unconstitutional.
and have failed. In order to secure