Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-09-07

On education and school lands, nine
members.
On municipal interpretations, niue
members.
On corporations other than banking
and municipal. nine members.
)n county and township organization,
nine members.
On state, county and municipal in.
debtedness, nine members.
On revenue and finance, nine rnen-
bers.
On public accounts and expenditures
nine members.
On state institutions and public build.
ings, including penitentiaries and other
retormatory institutions.
On manufactures and agriculture,
On congressional and legislative ap.
portionment.
On roads. bridges and other internal
improvements.
On mines, mining and water rights.
On exemptions, real and personal.
On rights of married WON II.
On military affairs.
On seal of the state, coat of arms aud
design of the same.
On banking and currency.
On amendments and revision ii the
constitution.
On printing.
On schedule.
On miscellaneous subjects.
On compensation of public officers.
On arrangement and phraseoIogy of
the constitution.
The committee further recon. niended
after the adoption OF the constitution a
committee of nine persons be selected to
present the same to the president and
congress after Its adoption aud ratifica.
ton by the people, and to ulgc the ad-
mission of the state into the union.
RESOLUTIONS.
Hugh j. Campbell of Yankton sub
mitted the following resolutions:
That committee of Thirteen be a,.-
pointed to prepare for consideration of
the convention memorial to the presi-
dent and congress of the United States
asking for donation OF thirty sections
of public land to the state of Dakota
for the purposes ofeapitol buildings and
grounds.
That committee of five be appointed
to draft memorial to the president and
congress of the United States, request.
ing immediate action of congress in
opening for settlement the great Sioux
Indian reservation. in accordance with
the pending agreement, SO that the bar
riers now existing between the two great
sections OF the new state may be re NOV.
ed as speedily as possible.
That committee of five be appointed,
to whom shall be referred the subject OF
organization of the new counties in that
part of Dakota south of the forty. sixth
parallel, with instructions to examine
and take evidence concerning the alleged
grievances of the people OF those new
counties.
That committee of one member fro,
each county be appointed to draft an or
dinance for taking the census of the in
habitants of Dakota south of the forty
sixth parallel.
That committee of five be appointed
to frame On ordinance to provide fund.
to defray the public expenses connected
with the formation OF constitution anl
state government for the state Of Da
kota.
THE SIOUX RESERVATION.
In regard to the resolution concernio!
the opening of the Great Sioux reserva
tion, Judge Campbell said that its I'm
mediate and unanimous adoption wouI,
do more than anything else to secure
full vote in the Black Hills IN favor O
the constitution, and he therefore re
quested that action thereon be taken a
once and that action on the other resolu
items be deferred.
g. G. Moody of Lawrence hoped thai
prompt work would be had IN the mat
ter, as it was of vital importance to betl
the Black Hills and southeastern Dakot
that the great barrier between then
should be removed by the adoption @
the pending treaty.
| A. c. Mellette of Codington, oppose,
the action as being outside the legiti
mate province of the convention.
r. B. Spicer of Codington, held th
same views, and further argued that i
is not the proper thing for this conven
ton to take action foreign to its provinc
for the purpose of bidding for votes TO
the constitution which may be framed
as has been intimated by the gentlema
from Lawrence.
A. s. Jones OF Hutchinson, made re
marks OF the same tenor.
Judge Moody replied that it was no
a delegate from Lawrence who ha
made the observation alluded to, an
stated that his purpose in urging th
unanimous adoption of the resolution
was that the memorial ought to be a
once placed in the hands of the commi,
tee OF the United States senate now in
vestigating the subject of opening th
Sioux reservation, in order that thes
senators might thus have unanimou
expression upon the matter coming fror
the most eminent and best informe
body of citizens of the region directl
interested.
Messrs. Mellette aud Jones, upon thi
statement of the case, modified their re
marks and withdrew their opposition
and the resolution was unanimousl
adopted.
The chair appointed II. J. Campbell c
Yankton, G. g. Moody of Lawrence. I
| F. Pettigrew of Minnehaha, A. G. ke
lam of Brule, and A. W. Hager of Dav
son as committee to prepare sue
memorial.
i The convention adjourned until
o'clock a. m.