The Dickinson press., 1883-09-15

zafes WHO are farmers TO dear With Corporations
say these corporations should pay the same rate Of
tax as private individuals: should not be allowed to
consolidate. aud should receive no aid that
IL not given private parties.
SIOUX FALLS, Special Telegram, Sept 10. -
Two articles in the constitution Of the State Of
Dakota were adopted to day. There is a basis
now upon which to work. Tho articles adopted
refer TO elections, right o. suffrage and military
affairs. There was o great deal Of spirited dis.
cussion over the report of the committee on
elections and right of suffrage, several amend
meuts made and Two sections stricken out be-
fore it was adopted. Dakota has a greater
number of, and is receiving more, foreign-born
citizens tLan any other locality. and great care
was taken to deal fairly with them. Tho first
section, as reported from the committee, re-
CURED three years residence in the Territory to
make ono eligible to hold Office or exercise the
right of suffrage. It was amended and as
adopted the section reads:
Every male person of the age of twenty-one years
and upward, belonging to either Of the following
classes who shall haze resided in the United States
thirty days, and in the election precinct ten days
nea' precedii & any election, and all persons who
shall be qualified electors under The laws Of this
stitution at the polls. shall be entitled to vote at
such elections for all Offices that now are, or here
after may be elective by the people: first. citizens
birth who shall have declared their intention to be-
come citizens conformably to the laws of the United
States upon the subject of naturalization.
The sections f%orbidding the election or ap-
polntment of any one to Office, civil or military,
who has not resided in the State six months,
and giving women the right Of suffrage at all
elections held to choose officers of schools OF
upon any measure relating to schools, and
making women eligible to hold any Office per-
tanning to the management of schools, were
stricken out. A motion to strike the word
s'male" in the first section received three
votes, showing conclusively the
strength of woman suffragists in the conyen-
ton.
The article on military affairs was adopted
without material amendment. An effort was
made to take up for adoption tho report on Cd
%ucation, but it was ordered printed first. There
is little now matter in the report. The feature
covering the disposition of school lands Is
interesting if not new, because it affects large
bodies of land in the proposed State.
No school land can be sold for less than $40 an
acre and that sold within ten years shall not exceed
OIL Ill laQu SG apart TOT the use of
schools. and no school officers shall be allowed to be-
in the sale, rental or other disposition of
public school lands.
PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION
The following is the preamble to the consti-
tuition as reported from the committee:
We. the people OF the Territory of Dakota, hay
ing the right of admission into the Union as one of
the United States of America by virtue of the or
dinance of 1887 and the treaty made by France to
the United States of the Province of Louisiana, and
t% virtue Of the guarantees of the constitution of
having been fulfilled on tie part rs's' Of
the people Of Dakota Territory. and we Of right
condition to tine enjoyment of all the rights of
State government s q free and independent State
of the union, do now. in convention assembled, in
order to establish justice: promote the welfare and
our p%osterity, ordain and establish the following
constitution, and form ourselves into o free and in
State, by the name of the State OF Da-
kota.
There was considerable enthusiasm among
the delegates When tho preamble was read.
1t looked and read like the beginning of the
end, and it was moved to suspend the rules
and put it upon its passage. but tile presider:
ruled the motion out Of order, and it must first
BIO printed. Delegate Westover, of SuiIy aud
Potter counties, a%rraigned Gov. Ordway by in
PRODUCING a series of preambles concluding
with q resolution, tho whole setting forth that:
There are a number of unorganizsd counties
lying within the boundaries of the proposed State
of Dakota. containing more than the requirement
number of resident voters to entitle them to county
organization under tue territorial laws, and some
have been organized by the favor of the terrific
rial executive that the qualified voters of such
unorganized counties have petitioned in vain for
such an organization. and are. by reason of such
want Of organization. Drarticnllv IiSfraNchioed oDd
the inhabitants are ~unjustly deprived of the many
derived from such organization and tc
RECOGNITION as such in the proposed State Of Dako-
ia at the first election of State or county officers of
Hyde, Gerauld, Buffalo. Potter, Faux and Camp
bell counties, with the territory lying
between the north line thereof and the
forty-sixth meridian. and the county of Mcpherson
with the territory lying between the north line and
the forty-sixth parallel meridian. tits asked tina. they
be authorized to participate in the election of State
officers, and to proceed to the election of county
officers in every respect as such elections may be
held in other counties in the State. and that such
counties may be considered organized us fully and
completely as though By favor of the Territorial
Another resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on corporations other than banking aud
municipal, requesting that committee to take
into consideration tho expediency of providing
that the legislature shall pass laws establish
ing reasonable maximum rates of charges
for he transportation OF passengers and
freight Oh the railways and for the election of
three railway commissioners to see that the
laws were complied with. At several
stages Of the session of two and a half hours
the subject of prohibition came up in different
forms. There seems to be o determination,
much against the wishes of a majority
of the convention, to bring the sub
jcct Of prohibition before the voters
at the same time the constitution is taken to
the polls for ratification. The longer and
cooler heads seem to think it not wise, if the
question must be urged the people at the
time as the constitution, to have
it connected by codicil or any
,ther form with the constitution. The subject
If taxation of railroad property Upon the
gross earnings or cost value is becoming more
and more complicated. 1t is likely to end as
The more Jealous friends Of statehood favor in
leaving it TO future legislative avs
where it rightfully belongs. lion. R. F.
Pettigrcw, of the committee on legislation, says
the committee will report a section making it o
crime, with impeachment as punishment, for
any State senator or representative to trade
votes on measures or q governor to use his
veto or other influence or any State officer to
WELD ofician power in favor of or against any
pending measure in the legislature.
Corner Stone Laying.
BISMARCK, Special Telegram, Sept 5.-To-