January 9-By Mr. BAYNE:

SECTION 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of at least two Senators from each State; but for each million of inhabitants of any State in excess of two millions, as ascertained from time to time by the decennial enumeration, an additional Senator shall be allowed to such State. The Senators shall be chosen for six years by the people of the several States; and the electors shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of Representatives. Each Senator shall have one vote. If vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, the executive of the State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

SEC. 2. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may, at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations.

SEC. 3. Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this

article.

January 9-By Mr. BELTZHOOVER:

Article eleven, section one, paragraph two, to be made to read as follows:

Each State shall be entitled to a number of electoral votes equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State shall be entitled in Congress.

The first division of the twelfth amendment to the Constitution, ending with the words "directed to the President of the Senate," to be struck out, and the following substituted:

The citizens of each State who shall be qualified to vote for Representatives in Congress shall cast their votes for candidates for President and Vice-President by ballot, and proper returns of the votes so cast shall be made under seal, within ten days, to the secretary of state or other officer lawfully performing the duties of such secretary in the government of the State, by whom the said returns shall be publicly opened in the presence of the chief executive magistrate of the State, and of the chief justice or judge of the highest court thereof; and the said secretary, chief magistrate and judge shall assign to each candidate voted for by a sufficient number of citizens a proportionate part of the electoral votes to which the State shall be entitled, in manner following, that is to say: They shall divide the whole number of votes returned by the whole number of the State's electoral vote, and the resulting quotient shall be the electoral ratio for the State, and shall assign to candidates voted for one electoral vote for each ratio of popular votes received by them respectively, and, if necessary, additional electoral votes for successive largest fractions of a ratio shall be assigned to candidates voted for until the whole number of the electoral votes of the State shall be distributed; and the said officers shall thereupon make up and certify at least three general returns, comprising the popular vote by counties, parishes or other principal divisions of the State, and their apportionment of electoral votes as

seal, to the seat of government of the United States, one directed to the President of the Senate, and one to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and a third unsealed return shall be forthwith filed by the said secretary in his office, be recorded therein, and be at all times open to inspection.

Article two, section one, clause four, to be made to read as follows:

The Congress may determine the time of voting for President and Vice-President and the time of assigning electoral votes to candidates voted for; which times shall be uniform throughout the United States.

Strike out the words "electors appointed" where they occur in the twelfth amendment to the Constitution, and insert in their stead the words "electoral votes."

January 9-By Mr. BUCKNER:

Add the following to the end of the second clause of section two, article two, of the Constitution:

The principal officer in each of the executive departments, and the head of each bureau in said departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of the executive departments may be removed at any time by the Executive, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor. January 9-By Mr. McCOID:

The electors appointed by virtue of article twelve of the Constitution by the States shall hold their trusts and constitute the college of electors of their respective States, with power to fill vacancies, for and during the Presidential term of four years; and in case of the death, removal, or other constitutional disability of the President and Vice-President, the Secretary of State shall perform the ministerial duties of the office of President of the United States ad interim as Acting President; and he shall immediately issue a proclamation convening the electoral colleges in like manner as in the year of the Presidential election they would by law meet; and thereupon the same constitutional procedure shall take place by election to fill such vacancies for the unexpired term as in case of the expiration of the full term of office of the President and Vice-President of the United States.

January 9-By Mr. THOMAS:

SECTION 1. Neither bigamy, polygamy, nor the having or possessing of more than one legal husband or one legal wife at the same time, by any resident, inhabitant, or citizen of or within the United States, shall be tolerated or allowed within the several States and Territories of the United States.

SEC. 2. Every marriage, or so-called marriage, solemnized or entered into by whatever ceremony or means soever, during the existence of a legal prior marriage, or the living and cohabiting together as man and wife of any male

and female resident, inhabitant, or citizen of the United States, either said male or female having at the time a living legal husband or legal wife, is unlawful and void; and is hereby prohibited.

SEC. 3. Any male or female resident, inhabitant, or citizen of any of the several States and Territories who shall violate the foregoing section shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be disqualified from voting or holding any office or position of honor and trust within any of the States or Territories within the United States, or by virtue of any law of the United States.

SEC. 4. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

January 9-By Mr. OSCAR TURNER:

The Congress of the United States of America shall have no power to pass any act or resolution for the appropriation of any money or the creation of any debt exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, at any one time, unless the same, on its final passage, shall be voted for by a majority of all the members then elected to each branch of said Congress, and the yeas and nays thereon entered on the journal.

January 23-By Mr. GEDDES:

SECTION 1. The power of nominating and appointing public officers, such as ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, excepting the heads of the executive departments, known as Cabinet officers, shall be, and hereby is, vested in a commission of three, composed of two commissioners appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the head of the executive department to which the business of the appointees belongs; and all appointments by such commission shall be forthwith reported to the Senate of the United States, and shall be temporary until confirmed and approved for the full term of the office by the Senate.

SEC. 2. The term of office of all executive officers appointed by said commission shall be four years, and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. The commission shall have the power of removal from office of all persons so appointed, for good and sufficient cause, subject to the approval of the Senate.

SEC. 3. Each member of such commission shall be liable to removal from office by the President, on sufficient cause, with the advice and consent of the Senate. And the term of office of the commissioners appointed to act with the head of each of the executive departments shall be four years, and until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified.

January 23-By Mr. BELTZHOOVER: Article one, section two, paragraph one, shall be made to read as follows:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every sixth year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requis.ite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes; the seats of members of

the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year.

January 30-By Mr. BERRY:

SECTION 1. The Legislature of a State shall not vote upon a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States except at a regular session held following an election of the members of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, which election must take place subsequent to the time of submission by Congress or a convention of the proposed amend

ment.

SEC. 2. This amendment shall not take effect until the fifth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

January 30-By Mr. BERRY:

SECTION I. No person who has once held the office of President of the United States shall be thereafter eligible to that office. The President, after the expiration of his term of office, shall receive an annual pension of six thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. No person who shall hold office as the head of an executive department shall be eligible to the office of President for the term next succeeding the term in which he shall hold such office.

SEC. 3. This amendment shall not take effect until the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

February 13-By Mr. BAYNE:

SECTION 1. All postmasters, revenue-collectors, marshals and United States district attorneys for the district courts of the United States, shall be elected by the people of the States in which their duties are to be performed.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

February 13-By Mr. HERBERT:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of not more than three hundred and twenty-five members.

March 6-By Mr. MANNING :*

Section two of article three of the Constitution of the United States is amended so that the same will read as follows:

The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States, between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original *April 25, 1882-Mr. GEORGE introduced the same proposition into the Senate.

jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. The trial of all crimes,

except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crime shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.

March 13-By Mr. WILLIAM R. Cox:

SECTION 1. Neither polygamy nor bigamy shall exist within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the same. And no person convicted of the crime of polygamy or bigamy shall be eligible to any office under the United States or any State, or be qualified as a voter in any State, Territory, or other place within the jurisdiction of the United States.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by all appropriate legislation.

Arkansas.

The Amendment printed in McPherson's HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1880, p. 85, was rejected at the election, September 6, 1880. The yeas were 64,497; the nays 41,049—to which were added 27,439 who voted for State officers at the election, but not on the Amendment, making a total of 68,488 against-or an adverse majority of 3,991. The total vote cast at the election was 132,985.

Connecticut.

A proposed Amendment that "the judges of the Supreme Court of Errors and of the Superior Court shall, upon nomination of the Governor, be appointed by the General Assembly in such manner as shall by law be prescribed," was submitted at an election held October 4, 1880, and was adopted-yeas 18,668, nays 8,285.

Illinois.

A Constitutional Amendment to make Section viii. Article X. read as follows: "In each county there shall be elected the following county officers: At the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D., 1882, a county judge, county clerk, sheriff and treasurer; and at the election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1884, a coroner and clerk of the Circuit Court (who may be ex-officio recorder of deeds, except in counties having 60,000 and more inhabitants, in which counties a recorder of deeds shall be elected at the general election in 1884). Each of said officers shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday of December after his election, and they shall hold their respective offices for the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That no person having once been elected to the office of sheriff or treasurer shall be eligible to re-election to said office for four years after the expiration of the term for which he shall have been elected," received at the general election in November, 1880, 320,439 votes. There were 103,954 against it. It received a majority of 9,283 of all the electors voting at said election, and has been proclaimed adopted.

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116,570 41,434 75,136 165,004 126,221 36,435 89,786 162,656 The following proposed amendments were passed by the Legislature of 1881, which, if passed by the Legistature of 1883, will be submitted to popular vote:

Amend Section 2 of Article II thereof, so that it will 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 twenty-one 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 one year, and who shall have resided in this State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her intention to 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, ward or precinct where he or she may reside, if he or she shall have been duly registered according to law.

Amend by adding to the Constitution, Article seventeenth, so as to read as follows:

SECTION I. The manufacture, sale, or keeping. for sale, in said State, spirituous, vinous, malt liquors, or any other intoxicating liquors, except

for medical, scientific, mechanical, and wines for sacramental purposes, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited in the State of Indi

ana.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly of the State of Indiana shall provide by law in what manner, by whom, and at what places, such liquors shall be manuactured or sold for medical, scientific, mechanical, and sacramental purposes.

This amendment

Iowa.

Add as Section 26 to Article I, the following: No person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for sale, as a beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine, and beer. The general assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition herein contained, and shall thereby provide suitable penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof.

Was submitted to vote at a special election, June 27, 1882, and was adopted by a majority of 28,907 (unofficial.)

At the general election of 1880, a proposed amendment to strike from Section 4, Article II., relating to the qualifications of members of the legislature, the words "free white," was agreed to-yeas 99,237, nays 51,943. The vote on calling a constitutional convention was-yeas 69,762, nays 83,783.

The following propositions, having passed the legislature of 1882, are referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election, November 7, 1882:

So as to elect the Governor by a plurality, instead of a majority, of votes.

That the constitution be amended, in the third section of the first part of Article V, by striking out the word "majority" wherever it occurs therein, and inserting in the place thereof the word "plurality;" and a plurality of the votes cast and returned for Governor, at the annual September election for the year eighteen hundred and eighty, shall determine the election of Governor for the years eighteen hundred and eightyone and two.

II.

Changing the term of office of Senators and Representatives.

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That Section 2, Article IV, part first, shall be amended by striking out the words "first Wednesday in January next succeding their election,' and inserting in place thereof the words " next preceding the biennial meeting of the legislature, and the amendment herein proposed, if adopted, shall determine the term of office of senators and representatives to be elected at the annual meeting in September, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, as well as the term of senators and reprsentatives thereafter to be elected," so that said section as amended shall read as follows:

"SECTION 2. The house of representatives shall consist of one hundred and fifty-one mem

*This was proposed to supersede the clause exempting two hundred dollars ($200) personal property from taxa tion.