AMENDMENTS TO BE VOTED ON BY SEVERAL STATES
AMENDMENTS TO BE VOTED ON BY SEVERAL STATES Constitutional Changes May Be Made to Allow Changes in Various Matters (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D, C—Seven states will vote upon...
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...Will Aid Public Utilities Voters In Nebraska will decide upon an amendment, providing initiative laws relating to the operation of municipal electric plants and their extension of service to points beyond the borders of the cities and towns...
...Decide Utility Question The state of Washington will vote upon several amendments, Including the classification of property for taxation, and an Increase in the salary of members of the legislature...
...The power interests of the state are reported to be rigorously opposing the amendment as making more efficient the operations of publicly owned plants...
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...Most important among the proposals to be considered by the voters concern the municipal utilities, the right of women to hold major state offices, bond issues, taxation of property, and stockholders' liability...
...Another amendment in Nebraska to be voted upon concerns the appropriation of $8,000,000 to pay a portion of the deficit in the bank guarantee fund, and still another provides for the enactment of measures to Insure the immediate collection of stockholders' liabilities upon the fallu...
...Fall was convicted in the Supreme court of the District of Columbia on the charge, and sentenced to a year in prison and was fined $100,000 in a spectacular trial that brought out startling disclosures as to the methods followed by the Department of the Interior at that time...
...In the brief filed by the government., the prosecution for the government asks that the conviction of Fall be affirmed, and cites elaborate legal opinion and contentions for the justification of that action...
...j.Iace the determination of stockholders' liability entirely in the hands of the legislature,, except present provision...
...AMENDMENTS TO BE VOTED ON BY SEVERAL STATES Constitutional Changes May Be Made to Allow Changes in Various Matters (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D, C—Seven states will vote upon amendments to their constitutions in the coming November election, according to a compilation made here...
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...Fall, however, who claimed to be very ill at the time and was frequently brought to the court in a wheel chair, appealed the case, and it is only just coming up for trial in January, 1931, in the, higher court...
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...In Oklahoma there is proposed an amendment to the state constitution providing that women be allowed to hold major state offices, a right which they are at present prohibited from by a conrtltutional restriction barring them from the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, auditor, superintendent of public instruction, and examiner and inspector...
...The defense, of course, rocs to lengthy means to disprove the government's rase, and rites supposed irregularities during the first trial...
...Fall was indicted in 1024 following the exposure of the sensational oil scandals that occurred during the latter part of the administration of President Harding...
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...Fall Will Face Trial on Appeal Next January Court of Appeals of Washington...
...D. C. Gels Briefs of Prosecution in Oil Scandal (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Briefs in the case of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, who is charged with having accepted a $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny for arranging certain oil contracts In California, have Just been filed with the Court, of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and the case will come to trial sometime in January, according to the clerk of the court...
...and Non ):ikot;a will alao hi>vc amendmn ¦< their constitutions nib-mi tteri at coming '•lection to their voters...
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...An Important initiative measure will be decided by the voters which authorizes the establishment of pul:: utility districts and the construction I public operation of certain typp utilities, Minnesota vote upon an amendment that w>i...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
