113 Iowa 250 | Iowa | 1901
Such amendment was proposed in the senate of the twenty-seventh general assembly (1898) by a joint resolution named and entitled “Substitute for substitute for joint resolution No-. 1. Joint resolution proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Iowa so as to provide for biennial elections”; which resolution was entered in full on the senate journal, the yeas and nays being duly recorded -in said journal, and then (as claimed) was transmitted to the house-, where something under the same name and title, referred to byname and title only, appears to have been passed, tlie yeas and nays being duly recorded on said journal. The same resolution was agreed to by the senate and the house of the twenty-eighth general assembly (1900), and the proposed amendment was duly submitted to tbe people at the general election of 1900 (November 6th), and received tbe affirmative votes of a majority of the voters voting thereon. The foregoing account of the proceedings relating to the proposal
To a correct understanding of the difficulties involved in the second question it is proper to say that, without, the amendment, tire statutes of the state provide for annual general elections, at each of which some state, county, and other •officers are chosen, and that, in view of the proposal in the .amendment to omit any general election in 1901, and each second year thereafter, it was proper to provide for the occupancy of the offices which would otherwise have been filled by elections held in those years, and the method adopted seems to have been to extend the terms of office of certain .judges of the supreme and district courts, certain senators, nnd all the members of the lower house of the general assembly, and certain state, county, and other officers that need not be here specifically named. By constitutional provision