The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-12


more than nine.
The act establishing the Territorial gov
ernment of Wisconsin, approved April 90,
1886, indicates vast stride in liberal senti-
ments. The Legislative Assembly is made
To consist OF Il Council of thirteen members
and House of twenty-six Representatives,
all elected directly by the people, with no
property qualification. Every free white
male citizen Of The United States above the
age of twenty years, who was resi-
dent of the Territory at the time of its or
ganizaton was entitled to votesat the first
election, and was made eligible TO any office
within the Territory. This act, however,
still retains the obnoxious feature of an I'M
qualified veto power vested in the Cover
nor.
by the amendatory act of 1889, we find,
for the first time, limit placed to the veto
power of the Executive, and the legality of
acts passed by two-thirds of each House in
the face Of veto, recognized and con-
firmed.
To return to the fourth section Of our
own organic law. The Legislative Council
bers, to serve a term of two years, and a
House of Representatives to consist Of
eighteen members, to be elected annually
The only qualifications necessary for mem
bers of either House are those of voters,
specified III the section following. The
number of members Of both Houses may be
increased from time to time by the Leg sla-
ture i'll proportion to the increase of popu-
iation, I" Provided that the whole number
shall never exceed fifteen couusellors and
thirty-nine representatives."
When the present population of the Ter
ritory OF Minnesota is Considered it will be
seen that the number OF members of the
Legislature allowed, with the privilege OF
increase, is sufficiently liberal.
This section further provides for a census
TO be taken by the Governor under which
1t Is made MS duty TO aPportIon the mem
bers OF the Legislature previous to the first
manner OF holding elections are TO he pre-
scrlbed by the Legislative Assembly Itself.
The organic act of WISCONSIN declares
that = no session III airy year shall exceed
the term OF seventy-fiye days" This has
been construed To mean that the Leg islature
shali not sit more than seventy-hve days IA
ANY one year. Our own act Of organization
says" That no one SESSION shall exceed the
term of sixty days" In the absence OF any
appear that II necessary, IA ANY cout,ngen-
cy, Two separate SESSIONS vi siAty days each
ma, iiot be Ileid n, l. singis year.
In our next we viii take up Tue Important
section detinIpg the qualifications vi voters.
For tGe Pioneer.
in mother England among families of wealth
to send their SOUS abroad, after their col
leyiate course Is finished, to make Il tour of
Europe, to visit the seats of science and
literature, 10 ningie with the living great,
To study the manners, customs and habits of
different nations, 10 view nature in all It's
variety, from the dminutiye sparkling riv-
ulet to the towering, snow clad Blanc
This custom has been transferred TO our
nd
initiated the English custom, and that too,
before they had made the tour of America.
ssThe proper Study of mankind is man.
And it appears TO me, sir, that the study of
the men of our own country first, and par
ticuiarly of the men of the v. est, is the du
ty of every American. Men in whom is
developed more originality of character,
verance and energy than in any other por-
ton of our conntrymen. Men who have
levelled the forest, and made the wilderness
blossom as the rose. At the command of
CAR PETER one hundred thousand men
left their homes 10 enable him To build ST.
Petersburg, IA city that would perpetuate
his name; the spirit of Western enterprise,
OF American republicanisin, spoke, Cincin-
matt, 81. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, ieaped
INTO existence, like Minerva from the head
OF Jupiter. Let then American youth study
American characters aud institutions, West
ern institutions, before they make the tour
OF Europe, let them contemplate nature in
all its magniticence and grandeur, as dis
played IN our western lakes, rivers, and
MOUNTAINS, in cotnDarison with which