Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 10 | May Test Validity of Bond Procedure

MAY TEST VALIDITY. OF 010 PROCEDURE Constitutional Amendments Void by Error, Contention Conten-tion of Lawyers. To determine the validity of constitutional consti-tutional amendments under which bond issues are made, a suit may be filed in the supreme court in the near future by City Attorney F.. E. Woods and Mayor George F. Wootton of Price. Attention At-tention has been directed to a provision provi-sion in the state constitution which requires re-quires that amendments shall be "entered" "en-tered" on the journals of the senate and the house. Interpretation of the word "entered" is what may be sought. It has been customary to "enter" such resolutions passed by the legislature legisla-ture for submission to the people by title only, and not the full toxt, in the journals of the two houses. The same system is used in entering bills which later become laws. Some interested legal le-gal students have contended that the enlire text must be entered in the journal jour-nal to comply with the constitutional provision. If their contention were true, not only would the three, proposed amendments amend-ments passed by the last legislature be void, in tho opinion of many lawyers, law-yers, but all tho present constitutional amendments which have been passed upon by the people, even, would be wiped off the books. Mayor Wootton and his city attorney, attor-ney, together with many others, believe that entering the resolutions by title constitutes a compliance with the law.