Cudihee v. Phelps

Citations

• 76 Wash. 314
• 136 P. 367
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1814

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Titles and Subjects — Scope. Tbe title to tbe act of 1911, Laws 1911, p. 504, submitting a constitutional amendment for tbe recall of elective officers, is not defective or misleading because broader than tbe act, in that tbe title refers to all public officers and to tbe election of tbeir successors; while tbe proposed amendment in tbe body of tbe act excepts judges and makes no provision for tbe election of successors; tbe title being sufficient if it indicates to a person of ordinary intelligence tbe substance and scope of tbe act.</p> <p>Same — Single Object. Such act is not subject to tbe objection that it embraces more than one subject, since tbe recall of an officer and tbe election of bis successor do not relate to separate subject-matters.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Amendments—Proposal — Passage — Requisites — “Entry.” Const., art. 23, § 1, requiring that amendments to tbe constitution proposed by tbe legislature shall be agreed to by two-thirds of tbe members elected to each of tbe two bouses and “entered on tbeir journals” does not require tbe copying of tbe entire proposed amendment in tbe journals of tbe Senate and House, but is complied with by a memorandum entry by reference to tbe proposal, using tbe language of tbe title of tbe act.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Amendments — Election — Publication oe Notice — Validity. Laws of 1911, p. 505, § 2, submitting a proposed amendment to tbe constitution, and which required tbe secretary of state to publish notice of tbe submission for “three weeks next preceding tbe election,” must be held to have intended to submit tbe amendments in tbe manner required by tbe constitution, art. 23, § 1, by a publication for “three months;” and where tbe secretary of state published tbe notice for three months as required by tbe constitution, tbe election is not invalidated by tbe fact that tbe law directed publication for but three weeks.</p> <p>Same — Ballots—Reverences to Propositions. Tbe statement upon a