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Show Wyouilng's M'stafce. Denver Hep-ii 11 un. When th eonstittition of Wvominu was mimed there vvns (in nttempt to improve im-prove e)n the constitution of older states. It njipeiirs that the. convention thought that, the ollice of lieutcuaut governor was a stiperllnous one and that it could be easily dispensed with. The error of this position is shown iu the very first vearof Wyoming's history as a stale. Tho election of Governor Warren to the United States senate has left tiie otliee of governor vacant. The secretary of statu discharges the d sties of governor in case of a vacancy until a new election shall be held. This involves in-volves tho expense of an election which would be avoided if the constitution provided for a lieutenant governor to take tho place of tho governor. Evidently Evi-dently the Wyoming convention thought that the ollice of governor itself it-self was not a very important one, and that its duties could be readily discharged dis-charged for a short time by the secretary secre-tary of state in addition to attending to the duties of his own ollice. The legislature legis-lature now in session will probably submit sub-mit an amendment to the constitution providing for the, election of a lieutenant lieuten-ant governor. This will cure the error, while at the same time it will bo a public pub-lic rebuke to tho men who advocated the new experiment in constitution-making. |
