to the General Assembly of the State, to be chosen at the next general election. Amend Section 22 of Article 4 of the Constitution to read as follows:

Sec. 22. The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors; Regulating the practice in courts of justice; Providing for changing the venue in civil and criminal cases; granting divorces; Changing the names of persons; For laying out, opening and working on highways, and for the election or appointment of supervisors; Vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys and public squares; Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries and providing for their compensation; Regulating county and township business; Regulating the election of county and township officers and their compensation; For the assessment and collection of taxes for State, county, township or road purposes; Providing for supporting common schools, and for the preservation of school funds; In relation to fees or salaries, except that the laws may be so made as to grade the compensation of officers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required; In relation to interest on money; Providing for the opening and conducting elections of State, county or township officers, and designating the places of voting; Providing for the sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons laboring under legal disabilities by executors, administrators, guardians or trustees; Providing for the reimbursement of county, township or municipal officers who have loaned, deposited or misapplied and lost public moneys or other property held in a fiduciary capacity; Or for the relief of any county, township or municipal officers from liability upon their official bonds.

443. Tenure of State and County Officers (January 25, 1895).

The tenure of office amendment, frequently considered before, applying to both State and county officers, was introduced in the House on January 25, by A. R. Howe, a Republican, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. On February 1, the resolution was indefinitely postponed.

[House Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, 280.]

House joint resolution No. 7, entitled: A joint resolution to amend Sections 1 and 2 of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.

WHEREAS, Believing it to be expedient for a wise and economical administration of the administrative and executive depart

ments of the State and county, and believing that justice demands that State and county affairs should be equalized by tenure of office; therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That Sections 1 and 2 of Article 6 be amended to read as follows:

Section 1. There shall be elected by the voters of the State a Secretary, an Auditor, a Treasurer of State, Attorney-General and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall severally hold their offices for four years.

They shall perform such duties as may be enjoined by law; and no person shall be eligible to either of said offices more than four years in a period of eight years.

Sec. 2. There shall be elected in each county, by the qualified voters thereof, at the time of holding general elections, a clerk of the circuit court, an auditor, a recorder, a treasurer, a sheriff, a coroner and a surveyor. And no person shall be eligible to any office by election more than four years in any period of eight years.

444. Woman Suffrage and Alien Voters (February 22, 1895).

On February 22, Mr. George B. Card will proposed an amendment to the Constitution conferring the right of suffrage on women, and requiring aliens to reside in the United States five years, and to be fully naturalized before acquiring the right to vote. The resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee and no further action was had.

[House Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, 865.]

A joint resolution providing for the amendment of Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen of the United States of the age of twentyone years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days, immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States five years and who shall have resided in this State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, in the ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding such election, and shall become a citizen of the United States conformably to the laws of the

United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside.

445. Constitutional Convention.

Two attempts were made to provide for the calling of a constitutional convention. Both measures were introduced in the House. On January 15, Mr. A. R. Howe presented a resolution providing for the appointment of a joint committee of five senators and five representatives, to formulate a call for a constitutional convention, to be submitted to the voters at the next general election. The resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee. reported adversely on January 22, and indefinitely postponed.

COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (JANUARY 15, 1895).

[House Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, 216.]

House joint resolution No. 6, entitled, A joint resolution for the appointment of a committee to take into consideration the propriety of calling a constitutional convention, as follows:

WHEREAS, Many of the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, adopted at a delegate convention held at the city of Indianapolis on the tenth day of February, 1851, to alter, revise and amend the Constitution of the State of Indiana, ratified and ordained as the Constitution for the State of Indiana, by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana in general session in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two (1852), has in a measure become obsolete by reason of amendments added thereto; and,

WHEREAS, Many new offices have been created by reason of the great increased and advancing strides in the industrial developments of our State, and the increased demands of our State educational, benevolent, reformatory and penal institutions, and realizing that the time has come in the history of our commonwealth of the great State of Indiana, that all the institutions under the care and supervision of the State, should be eliminated from party politics, provision should be made in the Constitution for the government and control of all these institutions, keeping them under wise, honest, capable and economic administration, and,

WHEREAS, It is necessary and expedient for good and honest government in the affairs of State and county administrations, that all State and county officers in the ministerial and executive departments be extended to a term of four years in a period of eight years, and,

WHEREAS, The increased demand for inspection, examination and investigation of the State institutions, and the provisions to be

made for the State in general, have become so extensive that the time allotted for action thereon by the General Assembly, as provided by the Constitution, is becoming too short for wise and economical legislation, therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That a joint committee be appointed, consisting of five members from the Senate and five from the House, who shall jointly formulate and draft a call for a State constitutional convention, to be submitted to the voters of the State of Indiana, at the next general election, and that the committee report thereon not later than the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

SUBMISSION OF QUESTION OF CALLING CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN

TION IN 1897 (FEBRUARY 16, 1895).

A month later, on February 16, Mr. Woodfin D. Robinson, a Republican, introduced a resolution in the House which is substantially like the resolution of Mr. Howe. The resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee, reported favorably on February 23, and concurred in, advanced to engrossment on March 2, and not subsequently acted upon.

[House Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, 718.]

House joint resolution No. 8, entitled: A joint resolution concerning a constitutional convention.

WHEREAS, Forty-four years have passed since the present Constitution was adopted, and within that time not only has a great civil war brought forth a new era of thought and progress, but a tremendous material development has created new conditions of industrial, commercial, social and political life; and,

WHEREAS, The State has outgrown its present fundamental code of law in far greater measure than it had the former one, which had been in operation thirty-five years at the time of the adoption of this; and,

WHEREAS, The existing Constitution is faulty in its deviation from the time honored and cherished form of the National Constitution, giving the Executive a two-thirds veto power, and in its further failure to impose upon the appointing power its responsibilities; and,

WHEREAS, It makes impossible the realization of certain approved reforms in methods of voting and in municipal government; therefore,

Section 1. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That notwithstanding the present Constitution pro

vides no method or stated time for a convention to construct a new Constitution, it is still true that the sovereign power resides in the people of the State, and it is the sense of this General Assembly, that at the next ensuing general election, the question of a convention fort he purpose of providing a new Constitution, shall be submitted to the voters of the State, and if a majority of the people decide that a new Constitution shall be provided, then it shall be the duty of the next General Assembly to provide laws for the election and government of such convention.

NECESSITY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (MARCH 11, 1895).

On March 11, the last day of the session, on motion of Senator Thomas E. Boyd, the Senate adopted a resolution declaring its belief that the Constitution was outgrown and should be revised.

[Senate Journal, Fifty-ninth Session, 1105.]

Be it resolved, That it is the sense of this Senate that the necessary steps should be taken to change the Constitution, to the end that more time should be given the General Assembly of Indiana to transact the business of the State; that the great State of Indiana has in all her great commercial interests outgrown our Constitution, now more than forty years old, and that the business of the State can not and does not receive proper consideration in sixty days.

THE SIXTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1897).

The Republicans still maintained a working majority in the 60th session of 1897. There were 33 Republicans, 14 Democrats and 3 Populists in the Senate, and 52 Republicans, 39 Democrats and 9 Populists in the House. There were two amendments pending: One fixed the membership of the Supreme Court and authorized the court to sit in divisions or in banc; the other amendment permitted the use of voting machines in regular elections. Neither of these amendments was adopted. Two amendments were adopted; one fixed the membership of the Supreme Court at from five to eleven judges, and the other authorized the General Assembly to prescribe the qualifications for the practice of law. The amendments proposed and rejected provided for the initiative and the referendum, fixed the membership of the Senate at 25, and of the House at 50, and fixed the terms of county officers. The question of the purity of elections was considered and acted upon. One bill, Senate 102, was introduced providing for the registration of voters, but it failed of passage. Three bills were introduced designed to authorize the use of voting machines. One of these measures, Senate bill No. 293, was intended to permit the use of voting machines at all regular elections; a second bill Senate No. 374, permitted their use in municipal elections only; both were indefinitely postponed. A bill on the same subject actually passed the House, No. 564, and was reported to the Senate, but never emerged from com