Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-10-28

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the journal. The amendments proposed.
pither by the General Assembly or by
Initiative petition, shall be submitted to
nrevs electors &C o. the rs state Tor their ap.
as may be provided by law. on one inde-
pendent and separate ballot without any
emblem or party designation whatever at
the next general election, or at a special
election called by the Governor in his
discretion prior to such general election.
~ which he may submit any one or more
OF such proposed amendments No pro-
posed shall contain more
one amended and revised article Of his
Constitution or one new article which
shall not contain more than one subject
M matters properly connected there
with. Each proposed amendment shall
be published once a week for four con-
setutive weeks next preceding such cleo
ton in at least one newspaper in each
county OF the state where a newspaper is
published. II a majority of the electors
OF the state voting for and against any
n OF such amendments shall vote for
such amendment, the am shall become
2 a OF the Constitution, shall go
into force and effect at the end of thirty
days after such election. When more
than one amendment shall be submitted
at the same time they shall be so sub
united as to enable the electors to vote
on each amendment separately.
Section 3. The General Assembly nay
ct any time authorize by law that a vote
OF the electors of the State be k upon
the question, Shall there be a convention
TO revise and amend the Constitution"
which shall be submitted to the electors
on a separate ballot without party desig-
nation OF any kind at either a special or
general election, as tns General Assembly
may provide, and If q majority of the
electors voting for and against the calling
of a convention shall vote for a conven-
tton, the Governor shall issue writs of
election to the sheriffs of the different
counties, ordering the election of dele
gates to the convention, on a day not less
than three nor more than six months
after that on which said question shall
have been voted on. The electors of each
senatorial district Of the state, as then
organized, shall elect two delegates as
herein provided at such election, and the
electors OF the state voting at the same
election shall elect fifteen delgates-at-
large, such election to be conducted as
provided by law; and each delegate shall
possess the qualifications Of a Senator;
and no person holding any other office Of
trust or profit national guard officers,
school directors, justices OF the peace and
notarfes public excepted) shall be eligible
to be elected a delegate to the conven-
ton nor during the term for which he
shall have been elected or appointed. In
order to secure representation from diff
ferent political parties in each senatorial
district, each political party as then au-
thorized by law to make nominations for
the office of State Senator in each sena-
torial district shall nominate only one
candidate for delegate from such sena-
torial district, and such candidate shall
be nominated in such manner as may be
prescribed by the senatorial committee of
the respective parties, and a certificate Of
nomination shall be filed in the office OF
the Secretary of State at least thirty days
before such election, n such candidate
phan be voted for, each on a separate bal
lot with emblem or party designation, and
each elector shall have the right to vote
for one of such candidates., and the two
candidates receiving the highest number
OF votes IN each senatorial district shall
be elected; and all candidates for dele
gates-at-large shall be nominated by
nominating petitions only, which shall be
fled in the office Of the Secretary of State
at least thirty days before any such cleo
ton and shall be verified in the same
manner as may be provided by law for
initiative petitions, and until otherwise
provided by law such petitions shall be
signed by electors of the state, equal in
number to at least five per centum of the
entire vote cast for Governor at the last
general election in the senatorial district
In which such candidates reside and all
candidates for delegates-at-large shall be
voted for upnn n independent ana sep
arate ballot without Any emblem or party
designation whatever, and the fifteen can
didates for delegates-at-large receiving
the highest number OF votes Shall be
elected. Not less than fifteen days before
the election, the Secretary of State shall
certify to the county clerk of the county
the name of each person nominated for
the office Of delegate from the senatorial
district in which the county, or any part
Of it, is included, and the names Of all
persons nominated for delegateS-at-large.
The delegates so elected shall be convened
by proclamation by the Governor within
six months after their election st the
seat Of government. Upon the converting
of the convention all delegates shall take
an oath or affirmation to support the
Constitution of the United States n of
the State of Missouri, and to faithfully
h Tpa fhuiT dUtihS az dnlpRafHS of the
convention, and shall receive for their
services the sum of ten dollars per diem
and mileage as provided by law for mem
bers of the General Assembly, A major
tty Of the delegates Of the convention
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
action of business, and no constitution or
amendment to this Constitution shall be
submitted for approval or rejection to the
electors of the state as herein provided,
unless by the assent Of a majority OF all
the delegates elected to the convention,
the yeas n nays being entered on the
journal to be kept. The convention shall
ave power to appoint such officers, en-
ployes n assistants as 1t may deem
necessary, and nix their compensation,
and to provide for the printing OF its
documents, journals, proceedings and a
record OF its debates, n to appropriate
money to pay for the expenditures in
CURED. The sessions of the convention
shall be held with open doors, it shall
determine the rules of its own proceed
ADRS, CDO0Sb llS OWN OLLLCeT6, anu D6 Lie
Judge Of the election, returns and qualifi-
cations Of its delegates. In case of a
lVacany, by death, resignation or other
cause, Of any delegate elected to the con-
Yention such vacancy shall be filled by
the Governor by the appointment of an
other delegate from the same political
party to which the delegate causing the
vacancy belonged. Any proposed consti-
tuition or constitutional amendments which
shall have been adopted by such conVen-
tlon shall be submitted to a vote of
the electors of the state In such manner
and containing such separate and alter
native propositions and on such official
ballot as may be provided by such con-
vention, at a special election, on a day
to be therein fixed, not less than sixty
DAYS nor more han six mopths after the
adjournment OF the convention. Upon the
approval Of such Constitution or consti-
tuftonal amendments in the ann pro
vided in the last preceding section such
Constitution or constitutional amend
ments shall go into force and effect at tht
The result Of such election h be made
known by proclamation by the governor
Section 4. The question Shall there
be a convention to revise and amend tht
Constitution? shall be submitted to thu
electors of the state at a special election
to be held on the first Tuesday In August
one Thousand nine hundred and twenty
one, and at each general election mex
ensuing the lapse OF twenty successive
years since the last previous submission
electors voting for n against h calling
of q convention shall vote for a conven
tton, the Governor shall issue writs 0
election to the sheriffs Of the differen
counties, ordering the election of dele
gates. and the assembling Of such conven
fion. as is provided In the preceding sec
ton