State ex rel. Hudd v. Timme
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mandamus. This court having issued its alternative writ commanding the secretary of state to audit the relator’s salary as a state senator at the sum of $500, or show cause, etc., the attorney general moved to quash the writ. I. The legislature is the body which, -in all cases, must first pass upon the question whether it is one or more than one amendment, within the meaning of sec. 1, art. XII of the constitution, which is about to be submitted to the people.
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Mandamus. This court having issued its alternative writ commanding the secretary of state to audit the relator’s salary as a state senator at the sum of $500, or show cause, etc., the attorney general moved to quash the writ. I. The legislature is the body which, -in all cases, must first pass upon the question whether it is one or more than one amendment, within the meaning of sec. 1, art. XII of the constitution, which is about to be submitted to the people. The uniform action of fourteen legislatures has been to treat every amendment to an article which treats of a particular subject, such…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The relator asks this court to issue its writ of; mandamus directing the secretary of state to audit his salary as a state senator-'at the sum of $500, and he bases his claim to that salary on the amendment of the constitution of the state adopted at the last general election, and commonly known as the biennial sessions amendment. The relator claims that the old provision of the constitution fixing the salary of senators and members of the assembly at the sum of $350, was abrogated by the adoption of the constitutional amendment referred to, at the moment it was adopted by the people, and…
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