Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-04-24
MAY FINE WOMEN
WHO Do NOT VOTE
Con.Con Delegates Plan to In
Clude Center Sex.
TO ABOLISH CIVIL SERVICE
City Of Chicago Measure Comes to
LIGHT as Revised Draft Of Pro-
posed Article of the
Constitution.

Springheld.--The record in the
United States shows that the average
man was not anxious to permit women
to vote, but they have I'll but obtained
that countrywide privilege, and now
considerable number of constitu'
tional convention delegates propose to
comIcl women to vote In Illinois. III
they don't. they are 10 be fined or dis
franchised.
1t Is not put so bluntly. The plan Is
TO require every citizen to vote, but
the women do less voting than the
men and so would he subject to many
more penalties. The delegates are not
accused of being after the women vot.
nrs i'm particular but it is the women
who will he the heaviest hit IL the
compulsory voting plan Is approved by
the convention.
Considerable data has been collect.
ed by some of the delegates in coun.
tries where the scheme has been tried.
A law was passed in Spain In 1907 re-
duiring voting for elections to the ma.
tional chamber of deputies and to the
city councils. The punlshments are
publication of the names of the non.
voters as cCnsure and the adding of
per cent on the state tax until the
violator votes. Repetition of the of.
Tense bars the citizens from public
Office.
DR.. Cesar Barja wrote for the Mas.
sachusctts con-con that the law had
| not cured the negligent voters.
Leo ]. Frunkcnthal. vice consul In
Bcrne In 1908. has written that the
obligatory voting In five c0ntons OF
| Switzerland has not been vigorously
| enforced.
Belgium appears " have been the
most successful with compulsory vot.
ing. where II was introduced with uni.
versal suffrage in 1893. There the
first of'ensc draws n reprimnnd or II
fine of l to 3 francs GO to 60 cents).
| The second OiTcnSc within six years Is
punishable by u fine of 30 to 20 francs
For the third olrcnse In ten years the
same fine For the fourth Ollcnse
within fifteen years the offender Is In
|
dltion to the fine.
Prof. Leon DuprieZ, University OF
Louvain, asserts that compulsory vot
ing has been very successful"
In order that those favorlng com
pulsory voting may practice VIVA
I they preach, the convention adlOurnc,
last Friday until mldweck, because %
the general municipal elections hel,
throughout the state on Tuesday.
A "revised" draft Of proposed M
ticlc of the constitution, to he on
titled City of Chicago" has arrivc'
In Springfield II Is from the Specia
city council committee.
SIT permits the city TO abolish civI
service, among other things" accord
ing to Professor Freund, legal advise
Of the committee. Therefore II inter
csts the public generally,
The section under which the cit
would acquire power to abolish civ
service, according To Professor Frcun'
reads:
, claws of the state relating to tn
organization of the government of III
city of Chicago, TO the distribution {
Its powers among the official agcnclC
OF the city and to the tenure and con
penSation of officials may be supe
, seeded In their application to the cit
by and under a charter or organic o
dlnance framed by an elective CONVEX
: ton called as provided by city ord
. nance and adopted by the voters
i the city, rs provided by the conventiO
: or by and under amendments of sal
. charter adopted as provided by sal
= charter"
. The point lies in the plan that stat
= laws may be superseded by eli,
charter on the tenure and cOmpens
. ton of officials and the distribution ,
power among the official agencies ,
!, the city.
!. The bill of rights committee hi
!, been furnished with n statement
u Sanford Il. Horton of Chicago, co
!, corning two measures now pendin
one referring Ia the elimination of Il
, name of Almighty God In the cOnstit
;, ton, the other referring to n propos
providing for the compulsory readir
of the Bible in the public schools
Illinois.
I The compulsory reading of Il
u Bible in the public schools was o
posed by Mr. Horton on the grour
o that It would have to he decided |
= the pubic school authorities sooner
later which version Of the Bib
should be used In the schools.
Be- Guards Against Diseased Plants.
10 Reported discovery of the Europei
10 corn bOrer among the crops of cor
20 broom corn and other plants in Main
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massach
~ sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ne
N York and Pennsylvania has led Go
n. LOwden to forbid importation
such plants from those states, exec
under certain restrictions. The pc
also Is said to have been discover
In celery, green beans, beets, spinaC
rhubarb, oats, rye straw, chrysantl
NUNS, asters, cosmos, geraniun
gladioli and dahlias.
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w. f. Cummings, the we'll know
!, | engineer and contractor has made