The courier-index., 1918-11-15
PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION Synopsis and Comments Improvements MaAs Over the
 Constitution of 1874
AMENDMENTS.

wta difficult matter to amend the Constitution No limit is ace upon the number of amendments the people may submit er the Initiative and Referendum but the Genera. Assembly, still restricted to three at election Since amendments can be submitted at only sXtday sessions there be but three offered every four by the Legislature However the people may submit any number two years general
 elections must continue to be held benniay account the ou of members of Congress- Considerable saving is provided n the cost of publishing proposed amendments time being re- Guced from six months to thirty days By providing the final publication shall be not less than sixty days prior to the election which the vote to be taken ample time given for the most thorough circulation of the proposed measure the to familarize themselves with it's provisions
 auADRENN1AL ELECTIONS
 Sec 1a provides that the general elections aor the general provisions fix the % %nD' for se%. This is popular reform especially when considered in con- necon Art VI which provides that no one of the state shall be eligible his successor he his term of office become candidate for any other office This gives pubnc official reasonably long tenure the same in that which prevails through the unwr1ten party tory In some years as many as nine elections primary general and specaand the people have been kept in nnng for office An scarcely more than nduced into office than he began pulling the wires and building his to succeed himself or to be promoted to some other was the fault of the but of the system This had tendency to build political machines and perpetuty office ate officer will years then he will step he cannot spend the time for which he salary E for another office The prohibition of Ind candidate for any other office does not apply officers The chief advantages of the system will be eliminated and political machines will be removed menace to good government
 
 MINORITY REPRESENTATION
 Art ss m M @ % one ooss s s % m Boss sss of n aumnous minority political
 This is an assertion political justice keeping with he spirit of genuine democracy It recognizes citizenship above sanshp just and fair to large element that would oth-
 e be denied participation in the conduct of state affairs The doctrine that official salaries political pos and that all nvs officials .nd clerks political spomen vicious and dangerous Demonstrated fitness efficiency and integrity are to n the Quaffc for service.
 THE Jtpic1ARY
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 shall be business The additional jus be provide E the complete Circuit chanoey County Municipal and Juvenile Supreme Court has than doubled in fifteen About 500 the courts annual capacity under high pressure judges found impossible to prevent suggestion by working day and night The as has been in operation California for twenty-five and its adoption recommended by the Arkansas Bar Association The article framed by the states abes lawyers places the Judiciary On the highest possible plane The judges Will not be elected 1920 It has been said that judge supposed to
 judicial acehorse having keep up with the docket regardless d the number of appeals The nine judges Of the Supreme court annually while the judges write average ot l26 each annually The final decisions of court o last resort cannot e corrected Life liberty property reputation all in their Their opinions fixed rules and precedens r all time impossible to overstate the great importance to e people of giving the Supreme Court judges all the time required for the decision of cases the preparation of opinions in man. ner that compors with the dignity and responsibility Of tribunal "OIn whose decisions there IS no appeal
 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
 provides Referendum for the state and municipalities of the legal voters may propose
  @ published thirty Secretary or state wneh sn cI electors filed within ninety days DE of majority or votes cast subject to repeal act put the hi emergency municipalities as well as the s.a w m be in the has it. Mayor can not acts The may De passeu iS's peoples This is the Oregon system with some improvements ny experience It makes long step forward m popu eo VI present restrictions which limit the number ol Co