Constitutional Amendments

Hesides the prohibitory amcmlmcit the people will have au opportunity W voto upon two otlicr constitutioual amend ments Ibis spring, both of wblcli, we should judge, ought to be passed. Cer talo it isthat the one respectlng salarie of state officials ought to bccome a law Michigan to-day la the laughing stock of the sisterbood of states because of he niííyardly salaries. The Senate and Ilouse have Moh passei a joint resolutlon introduced by Senato Hubbell, whlch submits to the people a the spring election an amendnient to th constitution relativo to salaries of state ofticers. It fixes the salaries as follows Judges of Circuit Courts, f 2,500, which i the amount at present paid them ; th Governor is to have $5,000 a year; the State Treasurer, $2,500; Secretary o State $2,500; Attorney General, $3,000 Superintendent of Public Instruction $2,000. The next is a measure introduced b; Senator Habcock subniltting to the pcopl at the spring election u ainendmen changiug the terms of senators from two to four years. It provldes tbat at the next election the senators 'from the odd nuinbered districts shall be elected fo four years, and tliose from the even nutn bered districts for two years, but at eacl general election thereafter all are to be elected for four year?. The measure wa referred to the judiciary committee. Tliink twice, voters, before voting "no' on eitlier of these propoeitions. They ougbt to carry. I ti Minnesota a high 1 icen se luw ha been adopted, in places thnt have not ac cepted of the local option l&w and votec for prohibition. This new law imposes a tax of $1,000 per year on each faloon lo cated in citie of 10,000 or more inhabi tants, and five hundred per vear in citie or villages of less thao 10,000. The prohibition party proposes to hok conventions, nominate full tickets tliis ipring, and fatherthe prohibitory amend ment. Had thing for the amendment but perhaps the best tliiu for the peo pie. . Papers that talk about "Mis. Lothrop,' or "Mr8. Lathrop" or "Mrs. Lothrap" a president of the state W. C. T. U. wil please observe that her name Is spellei L-a-t-h-r-a-p, pronounce it as you plaase. If prohibition does not prohibit or restrlct and a tax law restrains and governs an evil, wherein are tbe people to be benefited by casting off the tax law ani adoptinft the other?