ALSACE-LORRAINE.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
VOTES ACCORDING TO AGE.
ByTelegraph.— Association.— Copyright.
(Received May 25, 12.55 a.m.)
Berlin - , May 24. The Bill for granting a new Constitution to Alsace-Lorraine, the provinces which were ceded to Germany by France after the war of 1870-1871, has been read a second time.
The Constitution provides that the First Chamber shall consist of 18 members, and the second of 60 members. These members will be elected by secret ballot. The franchise will be given to all men over 25 years of age. Two votes will be allowed to men who arc over 35 'years, and three votes to those over 45.
The proposed constitution for ElsassLothringen—the Imperial Reichsland, so called because it belongs to no one particular member of the federation, but is a part of the federation as a whole—is peculiar in so far that the voting value of 'the elector will bo different from tho suffrage for the Reichstag. The suffrage for the Reichstag is universal, direct, and secret; the elector must have attained the age of 25. Universal manhood suffrage was conceded by Bismarck on the ground that as every man was called on to fight for the Empire, he had a right to have a voice in the decision of its destinies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14689, 25 May 1911, Page 5
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