New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-27
MINNESOTA.
THE RIVAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN-
TIONS.
PElfAQUlD.
Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune
ST ANTHONY, NJ. T., July 90 1857.
Since nv last, the Constitutional Convention has
been steadily in session at st. Paul, and gettlns
ready for work. The boundary lines as established
by the Congressional Enabling Act have been
affirmed, and the propositions of Congress relative
In grants of lands to Schools and the University,
&c. as also the exem p.ou of United States lands
within the new State from taxation, have oeen
accepted They have fixed upon their committees
ard the plumber of EACH but wait untll to-day De-
fore appointing the members, in order to give the
Democratic members who have not yet taken their
seats further opportunity to come in'
Meanwhile m ,st Of the Democratic delegates,
with number Of outsiders to aid In their delioera-
lions, seem to be ''playIng Contention IN the
Council Chamber at the other end Of the Capitol
On Tuesday. The day following Secretary Chases
anoear,nce in the Speakers stand and the abrupt
and n.isy disappearance from the Convention OF
.he ,n,b which seemed to recognize his authority
tof all which things have written you), the Dem
ecratjc delegates elect and some who were not
delegates elect, gathered together in the Council
Chamber and made a temporary orgaDizat on, num-
beripg in all forty.three persons, counting all
within the bar. The Hon. II. III. Sibley was
made Chairman, and the utual Committee on Gre
dentials appointed. / learn that forty persons
handed in credentials, or what purported to Dc
such; but up to this date (neary weekly they have
not dared 10 report list of their members, Tor
that would at once show that they have not
.ouorum and motion Of Judge Sherburne, to as
Certsin whether q quorum was present, was
promptly choked down without debate.
IL is understood that the Committee will report,
when all things are ready, list of fifty or sixty
members, among them not only ak members from
PEN bina Gall the people of which district save
thirty or forty live outside of the proposed State),
but alec two others from that portion of
Pepbins which lies within the proposed State, and
who claim that al election was there held on the
appointed day. and thirty votes cast-all for them!
The same ratio Of representation throughout the
Territory would give Convention of about two
thousand members! Mr.. Grant, Democratic
member of the last Legislature, and all his life
resident III Pembina, has lately been In st. Paul,
and declares that no election was held in Pembina.
However, our Democratic friends don't mind that,
% long as they can introduce into their Convention
Six persons holding certificates of election as dele
gates from Pembna, though said certificates are
sigped By the Register of Deeds of another (Ncol-
lett County Oae would suppose that even they,
On the score Of policy, at least would have hest
fated to receive j. 7. Wilson as Il delegate from
that district for be has lived since he came to
ihe Territory (some five or six years. in Ramsey
and hennepin Counties, and has never, probably
been within FIVE hundred miles of Pembina. Yet
fhe name Of Wilson" is on The Pioneers list Of
delegates from that district and said J. p. Wilson
publicly displa, his certificate as such.
think that in my last / said that Mr.. North was
requested by 6ftytbree delegates elect to call the
Convention TO order. The paper containing the
request was signed by ffty-fve members, having
the usual certificates Of election, and himself would
make ifty.six members conserving thereto. Tho
whole Convention would consist of lO2 mem
bers--or, adding six from Pembina, l0S These
facts seem to put at rest the question who was
properly authorized to call the Convention to order