Tabor v. City of Walla Walla

Citations

• 77 Wash. 579
• 137 P. 1040
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 947

Syllabus

<p>Officers —Recall — Statutes — Retroactive Laws — Remedies. Since the amendment to the constitution of 1912, art. 1, §§ 33 and 34, and Laws 1913, p. 454 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, §4940-1 et seq.), enacted in pursuance thereof, relating to the recall of elective officers, expressly refers to officers of cities of the first class and are general laws on the subject, they supersede the recall provisions under the act of 1911.</p> <p>Statutes — Titles and Subjects — Scope. The title to the act of 1911, Laws 1911, p. 504, submitting a constitutional amendment for the recall of elective officers, is not defective or misleading because broader than the act, in that the' title refers to all public officers and to the election of their successors; while the proposed amendment in the body of the act excepts judges and makes no provision for the election of successors; the title being sufficient if it indicates to a person of ordinary intelligence the substance and scope of the act.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Amendments—Proposal—Passage — Requisites — “Entry.” Const., art. 23, § 1, requiring that amendments to the constitution proposed by the legislature shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses and “entered on their journals” does not require the copying of the entire proposed amendment in the journals of the Senate and House, but is complied with by a memorandum entry by reference to the proposal, using the language of the title of the act.</p>