The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-02-01

;, Is fully covered In another article of the Con
stitution.
|. Mr.. Collins offered the following as a sub
1 stitute:
!. The public school system shall include
. primary and grammar schools, and such high
= schools, normal schools and technical schools
a rs may be established by Legislature or BY
5 municipal or district authority; but the on
tire revenue derived from the State school
: fund and the State school taxes, shall be ap.
. Piled exclusively to the support of the pri-
, mary and grammar schools.
The substitute was adopted.
! Section Q was amended to read as follows,
and was adopted:
Neither the Legislature nor any county,
CITY, town, or school district, or other public
corporation, shall ever make, directly or in
| directly, any appropriation, or pay from any
pubic fund or moneys whatever, or make
any grant Of land or other property, anything
in aid of any church, or for sectarian pur-
poses, or to aid in the support of any school,
academy, seminary, college or university, or
other literary or scientific institution, con-
trolIed in whole or part by any church, sect
or denomination whatever.
Section 10 was amended to read as follows:
NO religious or partisan test or qualification
shall ever be required of any person as q con.
dition of admission into any public or edu-
cational institution of the State, either M n
teacher or student, nor shall attendance be
required ut any religious service whatever,
nor shall any sectarian tenets be taught in
any public educational institution of the
| State.
The following, offered by Hunt, was sub
stituted for section IL : The Legislature may
provide for the election of all school officers,
including Regents of the University, at a
separate election from those at which State
and county officers are voted for. Adopted.
The remaining sections of the article were
amended to read as follows, and adopted
At the first general election provided there
for, there shall be chosen by the qualified
electors of the State, four Regents of the
University, who shall at their first meeting
be so classified by lot that two shall hold
| office for two years and two for four years,
and every two years thereafter there shall be
elected two Regents whose term of Office
shall be four years, except as otherwise pro-
| vided in the Constitution. The Regents so
| elected, and their SUCCESSORS, shall constitute
body corporate, to be known by the name
and style of 1.-THE Regents of the University
of Montana" Such Regents shall receive no
salary, but shall be allowed all actual and
necessary expenses incurred In the discharge
Of their official duties.
The Regents of the University shall, as
| soon as practica BILE and they deem necessary,
| choose President of the University, who
| shall hold his office for four years unless be-
fore that time he be removed for cause; he
shall be er eticio member of the board with
the privilege of speaking but not voting I'M
less in case of a tie; he shall preside at the
meetings of the board, and be the principal
executive officer of the University, and a
member of the faculty thereof
The Board of Regents shall have the gem
eral supervision of the University, and the
exclusive control, direction and disposition
of the lands and moneys granted to the State
for University purposes by the general gov
ernment, not inconsistent with the terms of
the grant from the government, and of all
grants, gifts, devises and requests or appro- |
priations from the general government, the |
State, or from any other source whatever,
for the exclusive use and benefit Of the Uni |
versity of Montana; and said board shall |
further provide for the safe and profitable |
investments of all funds, derived from what |
ever source, intended for the permanent en- !
dowment of said University, under such reg |
ulations and restrictions as may be pre-
scribed by law, the State being guarantee |
against the loss or diversion of any part |
thereof.
The committee of the whole then arose,
and the Convention then djourned until 10 |
o'clock Monday morning.
MONDAY, 9th.
The forenoon session of the Constitutional /
Convention to-day was occupied in the
discussion of various measures already con-
sidered In committee of the whole.
When Dixon, chairman of the committee
OF the whole, reported upon the article in
reference to the Executive Department,
Hunt made a speech in favor of striking out
that section which prohibited Governor
from being elected to the United States Sem
ate while he was still Governor. Mills, Cal
laway, Hedges and Others were opposed to
doing 80. Quite discussion ensued, result
ing in the section under consideration being
stricken out.
The question of salaries for executive off,
GERS was also made the subject for an ami
mated discussion, and they were finally es-
tablished as follows: Governor, s., 600; other
officers excepting Lieutenant Governor,
$4,000.
In the afternoon the article relating to Off
GERS, in which all State, county and munich
pal officers were prohibited from accepting
free passes from any railroad or other COM
mon carrier, came up for discussion, and
lively, rattling debate followed. Pemberton
taverse to adopting the article) and Hedges
lin favor of It's adoptionl making particularly
eloquent speeches. The discussion resulted
i the entire bill being stricken out.
General File No. 12, providing that there
shall be no distinction in citizenship on ac-
count of SEX" was rejected
General File No. Is, in relation to forest
fires, was also rejected, rs its provisions were
covered by General File Noe.
General File No. IA, in reference to mis-
cellaneous subjects and future amendments,
was next taken up. The first division of this
report was, with the exception of sections
Nos. ., 9 and 7, stricken out.
Section 2, as adopted, prohibits the Lepis- ,
lature from authorizing lotteries and gift
Sections and (adopted) are as follows:
Sec 6. The General Assembly shall enact
suitable laws to prevent the destruction by
lire, from locomotives on railroads, or from
any other cause, and to keep in good preser-
vation the grasses and forests upon the lands
Of the State, or upon the lands of the public
domain, the control of which may be confer
red by Congress upon this State
Sec. z. The General Assembly may provide ,
hat the increase in the value of private
ands, caused by the planting of hedges, or.
shards and forests thereon, shall not, for n I
limited time, to be fixed by law, be taken
INTO account in assessing such lands for tax.
ltion. O
Section / of the division relating to future .
Constitutional amendments was adopted, =
With slight amendment. 1t provides that
he General Assembly may, by majority
rote of the members elected to each House,
pcn In the alaotnrv n tbo |