Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-02-11
INITIATIVE BILLS PROPOSED BY
THE LEGISLATURE

The following bill will be submit
ted to the people for a vote at spe-
cial general election May 21, 1920
We publish it here SO that citizens
may have the opportunity of study
ing the proposed legislation before
the date for voting on the measures:
Senate Joint Resolution No.
CSubstitute for Senate Joint Resolu-
ton No. p.
Be it Resolved by the Senate, the
House of Representatives concurring,
THAT the following amendment to
the constitution of the state of Ore
gon be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed;
Article ! of the constitution of the
state of Oregon shall be and is here
by amended as follows:
"Section SO of said article. l, which
was proposed by the people by initia-
tive petition and approved by ma
jority of votes cast thereon at the
general election held November 8,
1914, and by proclamation of the
governor, dated December 3, 1914,
took effect ON said date and which
section reads as follows:
1.-The death penalty shall not be
inflicted upon any person under the
laws of Oregon. The maximum pun
ishment which may be inflicted
shall be lifeimprisonment.
"'All provisions of the constitution
and laws of Oregon in conflict with
this section are hereby aggregated
and repealed insofar as they conflict
herewith, and this section is self
executing
be and the same is hereby repealed; /;
provided, however, that the repeal OF
said section hereby made shall not af-
feet the Indictment, prosecution, trial,
verdict, judgment or punishment Of
any crime Of murder committed be
fore such repeal, btu all laws relating
thereto are hereby continued in full
force and effect for such purpose. 3"
That there he and is hereby added
to said article | of the constitution
of the state OF Oregon the following
section which shall be numbered 81:
Section 81 The penalty for mur-
der in the first degree shall be
death, except when the trial jury
shall in its verdict recommend life
Imprisonment, in which case the pen
atty shall be life Imprisonment"
That there be and is hereby added
to said article l OF the constitution
of the state of Oregon, the following
section which shall be numbered IS:
"Section 3S. All provisions of the
laws of Oregon abrogated and re-
pealed as in conflict with section SO,
which section is herein repealed, are
hereby revived as of full force and
effect from and after the adoption of
this constitutional amendment, sub
ject to amendment by the legislative
assembly" Be it further
Resolved, That the secretary of
state be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to set aside four pages
in the official pamphlet containing
theinitiative and referendum meas
ures to be voted on at the special
election on May 21, 1920, in which
arguments supporting and against
this proposed amendment may be
printed; two Of said pages to be set
aside for the affirmative and two
pages for the negative arguments:
and be II further
Resolved, That a committee OF one
senator and two representatives be
appointed to prepare and file with the
secretary OF state affirmative. and a
like committee to prepare and file
negative arguments with reference
to the foregoing amendment.