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serve, resignation or removal from the State of any delegate, the vacancy occasioned thereby shall be filled in the same manner as prescribed by law for filling vacancies in the representation in the General Assembly, the call to be made within fifteen (15) days after the vacancy.

SECTION 7. Bt it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of election, or other proper officers under the law, of each county of the State, immediately after said election to make a complete return to the Secretary of State of the votes cast for delegates in his county; provided, that certificates of election shall issue to delegates as now provided by law in the case of representatives of the General Assembly, and said certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the right of any delegate to a seat in said convention, subject if contested to be decided in the manner the Convention may prescribe.

SECTION 8. Be it further enacted, That said Convention shall convene in the City of Nashville on the 15th day of November, 1916, and when so assembled said delegates shall organize themselves into a Constitutional Convention by the election of a president and such other officers as they may deem necessary.

SECTION 9. Be it further enacted, That said Convention shall have authority to determine its own rules of proceeding, and to punish its members for disorderly conduct, to elect such officers as it may deem necessary for the proper and convenient transaction of business of the convention, and to prescribe their duties; to make provisions for the publication of its proceedings, or any parts thereof, during its session; to provide for the publication of the debates and proceedings of the Convention in durable form, and for securing of a copyright thereof for the State; and to fix and prescribe the time and form and manner of submitting any proposed revision, alterations or amendments of the Constitution to the electors of the State; also the notice to be given of such submission; provided, that all amendments adopted or recommended by the Convention shall be submitted separately for the approval or rejection of the legal voters at the election to be held for that purpose.

SECTION 10. Be it further enacted, That the election at which said submission shall be made shall be held and conducted the same as elections for members of the House of Representatives, as far as practicable, and the vote cast for and against such proposed revision, alterations or amendments, and those cast for and against each of the same separately submitted, shall be entered on the tally sheet, counted, certified, transmitted and canvassed, and the result thereof declared in the manner prescribed by law for the counting, certifying, transmitting and canvassing of votes cast for the election of members of the House of Representatives, as far as applicable. And all the provisions of the laws relative to elections shall apply to said election, as far as applicable.

SECTION 11. Be it further enacted, That candidates for members of the Constitutional Convention shall be nominated as candidates for members of the Lower House of the General Assembly are then nominated, and the laws governing nominations of candidates for members of the Lower House of the General Assembly and providing for the placing of their names on the ballots shall also apply to the nominations of candidates for members of the Constitutional Convention and the placing of their names on the ballots. SECTION 12. Be it further enacted, That the journal and proceedings of said convention shall be filed and kept in the office of Secretary of State. Said Secretary of State shall furnish said convention with all needed stationery, and shall do such other things relative to the distribution and publication of matter pertaining to the convention as it may require. He shall forthwith cause such number of copies of this Act to be published and transmitted to the Commissioners of election in the State as will be sufficient to supply a copy thereof to each officer of election in their respective counties, and such commissioners of election shall distribute the same to such officers of election.

SECTION 13. Be it further enacted, That the expenses of holding and conducting said election shall be paid as now provided by law for the election of members of the General Assembly, and

that the expenses of holding said Convention and per diem and expenses of the members thereof shall be paid on warrants on the Comptroller out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; provided, that all accounts and expenses, etc., shall be certified to and approved by the President of the Convention. The delegates shall be allowed and paid $4.00 per day and $4.00 a day additional for board and expenses, and the same rate of mileage as now allowed by law to representatives of the General Assembly.

SECTION 14. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring

it.

Passed May 12, 1915.

WM. P. COOPER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives. ALBERT E. HILL, Speaker of the Senate.

Approved May 17, 1915.

TOM C. RYE,

Governor.

4. Pending Equal Suffrage Amendment.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 34.

That Article IV. Section 1, of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee be amended so as to read as follows:

Every person of the age of twenty one years being a citizen of the United States, and a resident of this State for twelve months and of the County wherein he or she may offer his or her vote for six months, next preceding the day of the election, shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly and other civil officers for the County or district in which he or she resides; and there shall be no qualification attached to the right of suffrage except that each voter shall give to the judges of election where he or she offers to vote, satisfactory evidence that he or she has paid the poll-tax assessed against him or her. for such preceding period as the Legislature shall prescribe, and at such time and in such amounts as may be prescribed by

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Adams, H. C., quoted, 270.
Administration (see also appointment,
centralization, civil service, experts, fee
system, governor, public officers, recall,
removal, short ballot), 85, 200ff., 216ff.,
360, 364, 366, 370, 371.
Administrative department, 204.
Administrative efficiency, 85, 91, 93, 202ff.,
338, 370.

Administrative tribunals, 204.
Advisory opinions, 223, 228-9, 372.
Alabama, constitution of, 77, 115, 120,
122, 123, 167, 172, 177, 179, 210, 213,
262, 263, 275, 341.
Amendments (see also constitutional con-
vention), 57, 78, 82, 89, 346ff., 367; dis-
cussion, 349, 351; initiative, 350, 351;
proposed by legislature, 346ff.; Tenn.,
55, 57, 65, 220-1, 349, 354ff., 359ff.
Appointment to office, 33-4, 86, 87, 150.
152-3, 158-9, 203, 209, 214, 215, 221, 223,
370, 371.

Appropriation bills, 33, 46, 54, 82, 94, 171,
172, 174, 191, 197, 242, 245, 246, 247,
252, 255, 371; extraordinary procedure,
248; veto of items, 72, 84, 164, 176, 191,
236, 243, 248, 371.
Aristotle, 137.

Arizona, constitution of, 122, 126, 128,
165, 166, 167, 192, 195, 262, 282, 284,
287, 290, 291, 305, 350.
Arkansas, constitution of, 123, 230, 265,
291, 336-7, 347, 350.

Assessment, 97, 217, 266-7, 260, 296, 366;
Kentucky proposal, 267.

Attorney general, 49, 50, 55, 63, 205, 209,
215.

Auditor, 205, 215.

Bagehot, Walter, quoted, 138.

Ballots, 90, 126, 134, 158, 194, 349.

Beard, Chas. E., quoted, 142, 146, 150,
152, 156, 157, 158.

Bifurcated session, 168, 365.

Bigelow, Herbert S., 91.

Binkerd, Robert S., quoted, 309.

Blackstone's Commentaries, 137.
Blount, Wm., quoted, 39.
Board of Control, 252, 255.

Bryce, James, 142.

Budget (see also appropriation bills, rev-
enue bills), 94, 147, 240ff., 255, 362, 371,
372; California, 252; England, 241,
253; New York proposal, 242; Tennes-
see, 255, 362, 371, 372.

Burgess, J. W., quoted, 142-3, 236.
Burke, Edmund, quoted, 145.
Burton, M. L., quoted, 103.
Butler, N. M., quoted, 1.
Bynum, W. P., quoted, 141.

Caldwell, J. W., quoted, 57, 59.
California, constitution of, 71, 115, 120.
127, 168, 181, 192, 193, 194, 209, 210,
252, 267, 285, 288, 297, 304, 306, 338,
342, 350.

California publicity pamphlet, quoted,
332.

Capital punishment, abolition of, 81, 367.
Carmack, E. W., quoted, 254.
Cawcroft. Ernest, quoted, 333.
Centralization in government, 91-93, 156,
159, 203, 334, 363, 370.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 281.

Chattanooga, park commissioners, 333.
Checks and balances, see separation of
powers.

Childs, R. S., quoted, 151, 335.

Cities (see also due process of law, emi-
nent domain, excess condemnation,
franchises, home rule, police power,
public utilities), 90, 295ff., 313ff., 322ff.,
366; administrative supervision, 308;
charter, 301ff., 313, 320n; city plan-
ning, 322ff.; classification, 90, 299; com-
mission government, 31ff., 321;
Europe, 321; governmental develop-
ment, 297, 314; height of buildings,
328; local legislation, 297, 298, 360 ;
manager, 318ff., 321; mayor and coun-
cil, 314, 315; Tennessee, 312, 321, 333-
4, 366.

City planning, sees cities.

Civil service, 89, 202, 217, 220, 340, 362,
366, 371, 372.

Cleveland, Frederick A., quoted, 240-1.
Colorado, constitution of, 129, 172, 192,
210, 236, 237, 265, 267, 272, 274, 284,
287, 290, 301, 302, 304, 306, 342, 347,
350.

Committees, see legislative committees.
Comptroller, 63, 215, 252, 366.
Compulsory voting, 124.

Connecticut, constitution of, 154, 257, 346.
Conservation of natural resources, 63, 85,
88. 97, 277ff., 289ff., 266, 376; forests,
290; human resources, see social wel-
fare; mines, 291; taxation and, 88, 260,
291, 361. 366; Tennessee, 63, 293-4, 366,
372; water power, 291-2, 372.

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Constitutions,

see state constitutions,
United States, unwritten constitutions.
Corporations (see also public uilities),
59, 63, 79, 88, 181, 186, 209.
Corrupt practices, 50, 61, 122.
Council of state, 33, 34, 162, 213.
Counties (see also courts, county), 87,
95, 96, 334ff., 362; city and county,
341-2: commission, 338, 340, 362;
finances, 337; general discussion, 324ff.,
342; government, 95, 96, 336-7, 338, 342,
343, 362; home rule, 95, 338ff., 362;
state rights, 341; Tennessee, 343, 362;
variations, 335-6.

County officers (see also justices of the
peace), 36, 50, 52, 56, 62, 360.
Courts (see also advisory opinions.
judges, judicial procedure, judicial re-
view, recall of judicial decisions, trial
by jury), 32, 48, 52, 55, 85, 86, 96, 138,
161, 222ff., 360, 362, 363-4, 371-2; chan-
cery (separate from law), 48, 232, 364;
conciliation, 86; county, 229, 230, 239,
324-6, 331, 332, 350, 362; decisions, 228;
function of, 222-3, 371-2; general trial,
224, 229, 232, 239; and hasty legislation,
161; last resort, 32, 85, 96, 223ff., 239,
364; special, 96, 224; Tennessee, 22, 48,
52, 55, 360, 362, 363-4, 371-2.
Criminal costs, 364, 367.
Crothers, S. M., quoted, 102.
Cumberland, 40.

Cushman, R. E., quoted, 327, 329.

Dawson, Edgar, quoted, 150.
Dayton, city manager, 319.
Dealey, J. Q., quoted. 170.
Debt, see public credit.

Declaration of rights, 30, 31, 44, 45, 53,
59, 60, 74ff., 81, 279.

Delaware, constitution of, 123, 165, 209,
212, 230, 266, 272, 346.

Democracy, 21, 32, 50, 53, 57, 58, 70, 91,
99, 102, 103, 106, 121, 129, 135, 137, 138,
152, 162, 151, 153, 188, 198, 216, 218,
235, 241, 243, 270, 271, 292, 365, 368ff.,
373-4; efficiency in, 368, 372, 373; es-
sentials of, 21, 3734; popular intelli-
gence and, 21, 373-4.

Des Moines commission government, 317.
Direct primaries, 120-1, 134, 159.
Distribution of powers, 53, 81, 137, 140.

Divorces, 56.

Dodd, W. F., quoted, 72, 349, 350.
Duelists, 56, 89.

Due process of law, 45, 77, 79, 235, 279,
282, 289.

Eckert, F. W., quoted, 110.

Economics in constitutions, 36, 42, 53, 59,
80, 137, 143-4.

Education, 21, 36, 56, 62, 79, 86, 210, 216,
261, 262, 264, 274, 287, 373-4; democ-
racy, 21, 373-4; taxation, 261, 262, 264.
Educational qualification, see electorate.
Efficiency and economy commissions, 202.
Elections (see also corrupt practices, di-
rect primaries, initiative and referen-
dum, nomination, preferential voting,
proportional representation, registra-
tion), 86, 118ff., 165-6, 367; by ballot,
86, 125-6, 133; campaigns, 122; con-
tests, 128; count, 127; general discus-
sion, 118-19, 128-9, 133; officers, 124-5 ;
plurality choice, 127n, 128, 130-31; Ten-
nessee, 46, 61, 133-4, 367.

Electorate, 32, 45, 53, 60, 62, 99ff.; organ
of government, 99, 104; qualifications.
99ff.; miscellaneous, 99; sex, 100ff. (see
Woman suffrage); educational, 100.
111ff., 114, 115, 116; property, 32, 53,
100, 113, 114, 116; poll tax, 100, 116;
alternative, 114; grandfather clause.
100, 114, 115-17; Tennessee, 45, 53, 60,
62, 117.

Eminent domain, 323-4, 328.

Employers' liability, 280.
England, government in, 23, 136, 137,
144ff., 162, 169, 178, 184, 253, 321.
Equalization, 212, 268, 269.
Europe, government in (see also Eng-
land, Germany), 185, 308, 321.

Excess Condemnation, 90, 328ff.; consti-
tutional clauses, 329-30; discussion of,
331ff.; unearned increment, 332-3.
Executive department, 85, 202, 205.
Experts, 184, 202, 218, 374.

Expropriation, see eminent domain.

Fee system, 230, 337, 360, 363, 367; Ten-
nessee, 360, 363, 367.

Finance, see budget, fee system, public

credit, taxation.

Florida, constitution of, 166, 176, 210,
226, 264.

Ford, Henry J., 146; quoted, 135.
Franchises, 191, 313, 314, 325.
Franklin, state of, 39, 41, 43.

Freund, Ernest, quoted, 181, 182, 183, 184,
185.

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