Article I, 19

1913. S. No. 1521 (Int. 116). (Same as A. No. 409.) S. J. 41, 591, 686, 849, 1147, 1148.

A. J. 1541, 1927, 2051.

A. No. 409 (Int. 407). (Same as S. No. 1521.)

A. J. 121, 1644, 1717, 1808, 1948.

Adopted Nov. 4, 1913.

Vote: for, 510,914; against, 194,497.

To Sec. of State.

(For other proposals authorizing a workmen's compensation law, see amendments proposed to Art. I, § 6, p. 7, Art. I, § 19, next following, and Art. III adding § 30, p. 80.)

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Workmen's compensation

§ 19. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The legislature may require employers, or employers and employees jointly, to make provision for, and to pay reasonable compensation, regardless of fault, to employees on account of injuries suffered by them arising out of and in course of the employment, or to the dependents of any such employees dying from such injury. To assure the payment of such compensation the legislature may prescribe or approve methods of insurance which may or may not include the mutual association of persons responsible for, or of persons entitled to such compensation, or both, with or without others. Any employer so insured may be relieved from personal responsibility for such compensation.

After the enactment of a compensation law no civil proceeding, other than as authorized by such law, shall be maintainable in respect of any accident covered thereby.

In the exercise of the powers herein conferred the legislature shall not be affected by provisions of this constitution requiring trial by jury and forbidding limitation of the amount recoverable in the case of an injury resulting in death.

1912. A. No. 618 (Int. 596).

A. J. 176.

(For other proposals authorizing a workmen's compensation law, see amendments proposed to Art. I, § 6, p. 7, and Art. III, § 30, p. 80.)

2. Employers' liability

19. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The legis lature shall have power to provide that in every employment involving the rendition of personal service the employer shall be deemed to assume all risk of hazard and injury to the employee in such employment and directly liable therefor, and that such liability cannot be waived. The legislature shall regulate and define the maximum compensation for such injuries. The right to recover under such statutory provision shall be independent

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of existing remedies, and special proceedings may, in the discretion of the legislature, be provided therefor. The legislature may designate dependent persons who shall be entitled to recover such compensation for injuries resulting in death of the employee, in preference to personal representatives of the decedent who might otherwise be entitled to recover the same.

1912. A. No. 247 (Int. 247).

A. J. 79.

1913. A. No. 50 (Int. 50). A. J. 39.

3. Abolishing death penalty

§ 19. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The death penalty for the commission of crime is abolished, and every crime now punishable by death, shall hereafter be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for the offender's natural life.

§ 19. (Proposal to add the following new section:) All lands, mineral rights, water powers, and other natural resources and sources of natural wealth within the state, which are now or may hereafter become the property of the state, shall remain forever the property of the state, and shall not be alienated.

1912. A. No. 1618 (Int. 1375).

A. J. 934.

5. Lease of state lands

§ 20. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The lands of the state which are suitable for agriculture or dwellings may be leased or rented to private persons on terms to be fixed by the legislature or by the agents provided by statute for the proper handling of the same; but they shall not ever be permanently alienated from the possession of the state.

1912. A. No. 1618 (Int. 1375).

A. J. 934.

6. Minimum wage

§ 20. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The legislature shall have power to pass laws for the establishment, throughout the state, of a minimum wage scale for laborers, and for the creation of a permanent commission to fix the minimum standard of wages paid to all laborers within this state, and to supervise and enforce the same.

1914. A. No. 573 (Int. 562).

A. J. 207.

Article I, § 21

7. Mineral rights

§ 21. (Proposal to add the following new section:) All mineral rights hitherto reserved in contracts, deeds, or instruments conveying real estate are abolished and shall be inoperative after January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and are declared to inhere in the state except where such mineral rights have been developed in whole or in part previous to January first, nineteen hundred and twenty. Persons forfeiting rights to the state under the provisions of this section shall be duly compensated therefor by the state in such manner as the legislature may provide, provided that the claim therefor is filed with the secretary of state on or before January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, which claim shall set forth in detail the damage suffered. 1912. A. No. 1618 (Int. 1375).

A. J. 934.

ARTICLE II

§ 1. Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people; and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the Legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.

AMENDMENT TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE IN 1915

1. Woman suffrage

§ 1. Every [male] citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant

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of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he or she may offer his or her vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he or she shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that a citizen by marriage shall have been an inhabitant of the United States for five years; and provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his or her vote by reason of his or her absence from such election district; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.

1913. S. No. 236 (Int. 5). To Sec. of State.

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Woman suffrage

§ 1. Every [male] citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from

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such election district; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.

1897. S. No. 442 (Int. 412).

S. J. 175.

A. No. 917 (Int. 799).

A. J. 490.

1898. A. No. 181 (Int. 181). A. J. 79.

1906. S. No. 471 (Int. 422).
S. J. 219.

A. No. 990 (Int. 829).
A. J. 565.

1907. S. No. 125 (Int. 123).
S. J. 44.

A. No. 190 (Int. 190).
A. J. 58.
1908. S. No. 145 (Int. 144).
S. J. 47.

A. No. 867 (Int. 769).
A. J. 361.

1909. S. No. 143 (Int. 142).
S. J. 44.

§ 1. Every [male] citizen, except as hereinafter provided, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election