war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the legislature shall have the power to provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which such absent elector may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.

The legislature may pass laws to deprive persons of the right of suffrage who shall be convicted of bribery. See 3 Harrison N. J. Reports, 138, post.

OHIO.

By the Ohio constitution

Every [white] male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county, township or ward in which he resides, such time as may be provided by law,1 shall have the quali

1. Section 2945 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, vol. I, page 770, provides that a residence of thirty days in the county and twenty days in the township, village or ward, shall be necessary to entitle a person to vote. Heads of families who have resided a year in the state and thirty days in the county, who may remove bona fide from one township or ward to another, may vote without the twenty days residence, except in municipal elections held in the city or village, in which the twenty days residence is necessary. The succeeding section defines very fully what the term "residence" means in Ohio, and is, excepting the provision that the place where the family of a married man resides shall be considered his residence, declaratory of the doctrines stated in the chapter on residence which follows.

fications of an elector, and be entitled to vote at all elections.

The general assembly shall have the power to exclude from the privilege of voting, or of being eligible to office, any person convicted of bribery, perjury or otherwise infamous crime.

No person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States, shall by being stationed in any garrison or military or naval station within the state, be considered a resident of this state.

No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector.1

(The word in brackets abrogated by the amendment to the United States constitution.)

See Horton v. Horner, 16 Ohio, 147; Sink v. Reese, 19 Ohio St., 307; Renner v. Bennett, 21 Ohio St., 449.

WISCONSIN.

The suffrage article of the Wisconsin constitution reads as follows:

Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upward, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the state for one year next preceding any election, shall be deemed a qualified elector at such election:

1. Held, in Sink v. Reese, 19 Ohio St., 307, that the vote of a person otherwise qualified, who is not a lunatic or idiot, but whose faculties are greatly enfeebled by age, ought not to be rejected.

First. White citizens of the United States.

Second. White persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.1

Third. Persons of Indian blood, who have once been declared by law of congress to be citizens of the United States, any subsequent law of congress to the contrary notwithstanding.

Fourth. Civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe; provided, that the legislature may, at any time, extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated;2 but no such law shall be in force until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people at a general election, and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election.

No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, or insane, shall be qualified to vote at any election; nor shall any person convicted of treason or felony be qualified to vote at any election unless restored to civil rights. No person shall be deemed to have lost his residence in this state by reason of his absence on business of the United States or of this state.

No soldier, seaman or marine in the army or navy

1. By a decision of the supreme court, made during the year 1866, in the case of Gillespie v. Palmer, the right of suffrage was held to have been extended to colored persons by vote of the people at the general election in November, 1849.

2. The statute is merely declaratory of the constitution. See Revised Statutes of Wisconsin, page 60.

of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state in consequence of being stationed within the same.

Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have or may be convicted of bribery or larceny, or of any infamous crime, and depriving every person who shall make, or become, directly or indirectly, interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, from the right to vote at such election.

See State v. Williams, 5 Wisconsin, 308; also, 9 Wisconsin, 279; 38 Wisconsin, 71.

OREGON.

The constitution says:

In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution every [white] male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every [white] male of foreign birth, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law.

No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector; and the privilege of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction of any crime which is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary.

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States or of this state; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state or the United States or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms house, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.

No soldier, seaman or marine, in the army or navy of the United States, or of their allies, shall be deemed to have acquired a residence in the state in consequence of having been stationed within the same; nor shall any such soldier, seaman or marine, have the right to vote.

[No negro, Chinaman or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage.]

All qualified electors shall vote in the election precinct in the county where they may reside for county officers, and in any county in the state for state officers, or in any county of a congressional district in which such electors may reside for members of congress.

(The words in brackets abrogated by the amendments to the United States constitution.)