Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-08-04
Five Questions to Be
Voted on September

for the special election which will be
held on the second Monday In Sep
tember when the voters Of the State
will pass .on five proposed amend
ments to the Constitution will begin
the coming week under the direction
of Deputy Secretary Of State Henry
A. Shorey, Jr. The last Legislature
passed six resolves proposing con-
these, resolve that the legislature
may by law authorize the division OF
towns into voting districts for all
State and national elections and pre-
scribe the manner in which the votes
shall be received, counted. and the re-
suit of the election declared. will not
be voted on until the regular hien-
nal election in 1920.
Under the law go ballots will be
sent to each. polling precinct for
every SO votes cast In the preceding
gubernatorial election 72 hours before
the election, while SO hours before the
election a duplicate set Is sent in
case the first set goes astray. Bal
lots will be sent to the several coun-
ties as follows: Androscoggin, 22,240;
Aroostook, 23,SS0; Cumberland, 49,
$50; Franklin, 10,440; Hancock, 49,
440; Kennebec. 29,64O; Knox, 1920;
| Lincoln, 10000; Oxford, 1870;
Penobscot, 35.640; Piscataquis, 1o,-
$40; Sagadahoc. 9.4SO; Somerset, 49,
200: Waldo. 12.4s0: Washington, 21,-
1a0; York. 28.440.
The five questions to be passed
upon by the voters at the special
election in September are as fol-
! lows:
Shall Article Seven of the Con-
stitution Relating to Military be
amended as proposed by resolve Of
the legislature?" This amendment,
il adopted, would give the governor
the power to appoint officers of the
, National Guard while the present
plan is that the members Of the
: Guard elect the officers.
| Shall the Constitution be amend
ed as proposed by resolution Of the
legislature providing for an increase
in the amount of State bonds to be
issued for the purpose of building
! State highways and intra state, in
! ter-state and international bridges ?"
Shall the constitution be amended
as proposed by resolution of the
legislature providing for the con-
| tinuation Of the right of suffrage to a
| person otherwise qualified to vote for
governor, senator's and representa-
tivCs in this State. in the town or
I plantation where his residence for
suffrage purposes has been estab-
lished, for period of three months
| after his removal therefrom to
another town or plantation within
this State?"
"Shall the Constitution be amend
ed as proposed by resolution of the
legislature providing for an increase
of State bonds for the purposes of
building and maintaining public
! wharves and for the establishment Of
! adequate port facilities in the State
of Maine?"
Shall the Constitution be amend
legislature providing for an increase
/ in the State debt limit?'
A special election was held in
September, 1917, at which time five
matters were put up to the voters,
those granting women the right to
vote. giving the governor and coun-
Gil the right to- remove sheriffs who
| fail or neglect to enforce the pro-
hibitory law, allowing representation
in the House of Representatives to
remain as formerly in the event of
the merger of towns and cities,
amending the military law SO that all
commissioned officers of the militia
! shall be appointed and commissioned
! by the governor and authorizing the
division of towns into more than one
election district. Two of these three
measures, one, allowing representa-
ton in the House of Representatives
to remain as formerly in the event of
merger Of towns and cities and the
other giving the governor and coun-
Gil the power to remove delinquent
sheriffs. were accepted by the voters.
Under the referendum law suf-
ficient time will not have elapsed for
| the voters to pass on the two meas
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