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Initiative, Referendum and Recall: 1916-1921
Key: *Adopted; L-Referred by the Legislature; I-Submitted by initiative petition; R-Referendum by petition.
Election Date |
Meas.# |
Ballot Title |
Yes |
|
No |
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November 7, 1916 |
1. |
Single Item Veto Amendment--L1 |
*141,773 |
53,207 |
||
2. |
Ship Tax Exemption Amendment--L1 |
*119,652 |
65,410 |
|||
3. |
Negro and Mulatto Suffrage Amendment--L1 |
100,027 |
100,701 |
|||
4. |
Full Rental Value Land Tax and Homemakers' Loan Fund Amendment--I1 |
43,390 |
154,980 |
|||
5. |
For Pendleton Normal School and Ratifying Location Certain State Institutions--I1 |
96,829 |
109,523 |
|||
6. |
Anti-compulsory Vaccination Bill--I2 |
99,745 |
100,119 |
|||
7. |
Bill Repealing and Abolishing the Sunday Closing Law--I2 |
*125,836 |
93,076 |
|||
8. |
Permitting Manufacture and Regulating Sale 4 Percent Malt Liquors--I1 |
85,973 |
140,599 |
|||
9. |
Prohibition Amendment Forbidding Importation of Intoxicating Liquors for Beverage Purposes--I1 |
*114,932 |
109,671 |
|||
10. |
Rural Credits Amendment--I1 |
*107,488 |
83,887 |
|||
11. |
State-wide Tax and Indebtedness Limitation Amendment--I1 |
*99,536 |
84,031 |
|||
June 4, 1917 |
1. |
Authorizing Ports to Create Limited Indebtedness to Encourage Water Transportation--L1 |
*67,445 |
54,864 |
||
2. |
Limiting Number of Bills Introduced and Increasing Pay of Legislators--L1 |
22,276 |
103,238 |
|||
3. |
Declaration Against Implied Repeal of Constitutional Provisions by Amendments Thereto--L1 |
37,187 |
72,445 |
|||
4. |
Uniform Tax Classification Amendment--L1 |
*62,118 |
53,245 |
|||
5. |
Requiring Election City, Town and State Officers at Same Time--L1 |
*83,630 |
42,296 |
|||
6. |
Four Hundred Thousand Dollar Tax Levy for a New Penitentiary--L2 |
46,666 |
86,165 |
|||
7. |
Six Million Dollar State Road Bond Issue and Highway Bill--L2 |
*77,316 |
63,803 |
|||
November 5, 1918 |
1. |
Establishing and Maintaining Southern and Eastern Oregon Normal Schools--L1 |
49,935 |
66,070 |
||
2. |
Establishing Dependent, Delinquent and Defective Children's Home, Appropriating Money Therefor--L2 |
43,441 |
65,299 |
|||
3. |
Prohibiting Seine and Setnet Fishing in Rogue River and Tributaries--R |
45,511 |
50,227 |
|||
4. |
Closing the Willamette River to Commercial Fishing South of Oswego--R |
*55,555 |
40,908 |
|||
5. |
Delinquent Tax Notice Bill--I2 |
*66,652 |
41,594 |
|||
6. |
Fixing Compensation for Publication of Legal Notice--I2 |
*50,073 |
41,816 |
|||
7. |
Authorizing Increase in Amount of Levy of State Taxes for Year 1919 (submitted by state tax commission under chapter 150, Laws 1917) |
41,364 |
56,974 |
|||
June 3, 1919 |
1. |
Six Percent County Indebtedness for Permanent Roads Amendment--L1 |
*49,728 |
33,561 |
||
2. |
Industrial and Reconstruction Hospital Amendment--L1 |
38,204 |
40,707 |
|||
3. |
State Bond Payment of Irrigation and Drainage District Bond Interest--L1 |
*43,010 |
35,948 |
|||
4. |
Five Million Dollar Reconstruction Bonding Amendment--L1 |
39,130 |
40,580 |
|||
5. |
Lieutenant Governor Constitutional Amendment--L1 |
32,653 |
46,861 |
|||
6. |
The Roosevelt Coast Military Highway Bill--L2 |
*56,966 |
29,159 |
|||
7. |
Reconstruction Bonding Bill--L2 |
37,294 |
42,792 |
|||
8. |
Soldiers', Sailors' and Marines' Educational Financial Aid Bill--L2 |
*49,158 |
33,513 |
|||
9. |
Market Roads Tax Bill--L2 |
*53,191 |
28,039 |
|||
May 21, 1920 |
1. |
Extending Eminent Domain Over Roads and Ways--L1 |
*100,256 |
35,655 |
||
2. |
Limitation of 4 Percent State Indebtedness for Permanent Roads--L1 |
*93,392 |
46,084 |
|||
3. |
Restoring Capital Punishment--L1 |
*81,756 |
64,589 |
|||
4. |
Crook and Curry Counties Bonding Amendment--L1 |
*72,378 |
36,699 |
|||
5. |
Successor to Governor--L1 |
*78,241 |
56,946 |
|||
6. |
Higher Educational Tax Act--L2 |
*102,722 |
46,577 |
|||
7. |
Soldiers', Sailors' and Marines' Educational Aid Revenue Bill--L2 |
*91,294 |
50,482 |
|||
8. |
State Elementary School Fund Tax--L2 |
*110,263 |
39,593 |
|||
9. |
Blind School Tax Measure--L2 |
*115,337 |
30,739 |
|||
November 2, 1920 |
1. |
Compulsory Voting and Registration Amendment--L1 |
61,258 |
131,603 |
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2. |
Constitutional Amendment Regulating Legislative Sessions and the Payment of Legislators--L1 |
80,342 |
85,524 |
|||
3. |
Oleomargarine Bills--R |
67,101 |
119,126 |
|||
4. |
Single Tax Constitutional Amendment--I1 |
37,283 |
147,426 |
|||
5. |
Fixing Term of Certain County Officers--I1 |
*97,854 |
80,983 |
|||
6. |
Port of Portland Dock Commission Consolidation--I2 |
80,493 |
84,830 |
|||
7. |
Anti-compulsory Vaccination Amendment--I1 |
63,018 |
127,570 |
|||
8. |
Constitutional Amendment Fixing Legal Rate of Interest in Oregon--I1 |
28,976 |
158,673 |
|||
9. |
Roosevelt Bird Refuge--I2 |
78,961 |
107,383 |
|||
10. |
Divided Legislative Session Constitutional Amendment--I1 |
57,791 |
101,179 |
|||
11. |
State Market Commission Act--I2 |
51,605 |
119,464 |
|||
June 7, 1921 |
1. |
Legislative Regulation and Compensation Amendment--L1 |
42,924 |
72,596 |
||
2. |
World War Veterans' State Aid Fund, Constitutional Amendment--L1 |
*88,219 |
37,866 |
|||
3. |
Emergency Clause Veto Constitutional Amendment--L1 |
*62,621 |
45,537 |
|||
4. |
Hygiene Marriage Examination and License Bill--L2 |
56,858 |
65,793 |
|||
5. |
Women Jurors and Revised Jury Law--L2 |
*59,882 |
59,265 |
0Repeal of federal prohibition amendment.
1Constitutional amendment.
2Statutory enactment.
3Required communication to federal officials on
behalf of people of Oregon.
4Tri-county measure voted on in Clackamas,
Multnomah and Washington Counties.
5Advisory vote for legislators' information.