The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-09-25

exercise OF Su tHo nTovincc of Louisiana,
trahIe an act of congress extending TO
the inhabitants. or inns potsiUi ohts NV,
- OF the United States, the rights, PRIV
nn G and immunities secured TO the people OF
tLe territory northwest Of the river OIllo ny Une
ordinance OF l7S- invoking the pIedSes ~ t1n r
INC" he Guarantees of the federal constitution
80 t,n blessing OF Almighty COD, IN oruef To
form a more perfect g~oyernment' esIapIism JUS
lice promote the general WeIafe anu SSI"t IT, ia.
Iiherfies for ever. do ordaln anu eStaollSn rNt
llno% ettiT9 ION for the government Of the state or
Dakota. ~. our,i++ee ON
revenue and finance recommends IhaI no
sale of land for taxes can be made except py
order or Judgment of a court OF record, ana
nrovidinr for the right of redemption from
tax sale within two years.
PROHIBITION.
The committee on prohibition reported In
favor of submitting the question to a vote OF
the people. Section one OF the report reads
as follows:
No person or corporation shall manufacture
or aid in the manufacture for sale any lntoxl-
CatinT li0uOr: no person shall sell or keep for
sale a. n beverage any intoxicating liquor Inc
legislature shall by law prescribe regulations
for the enforcement of this section, ana PROVIDE
suitable and adequate penalties for the Violation
thereof.
Section Q relates that the schedule shall pro-
vide for a vote upon the question at the same
election at which the question Of the adoption
Of the constitution shall be submitted, the
clause to become a part of the constitution II
receiving an affirmative majority OF all VoUes
cast, otherwise not.
The woman suffrage movement received q
boom this morning in the form of a letter
from Marietta Bones, its special champion
in Dakota, who, in bad English, protested
vigorously against the injustice shown her
sex. and entreated the convention to immor-
talize themselves by granting women the
right to use the ballot The communication
was referred, amid laughter, to the commit
tee on elections and right of suffrage. b
movement was further advanced by a petit
ton signed by forty-1ive citizens of Yankton,
and praying for the submission to
the people of a clause granting the
right of suffrage to women. A communi-
cation was read from the surveyor genera
at Huron, stating that the forty-sixth par
allel had not been surveyed through the ter
ritorv. Government surveys give the lati-
tude of Huron as Al deg. 2l min. and 8 sec.
north. 1t is computed that the forty sixth
parallel is five and one-fourth miles north of
the seventh standard parallel, which is the
southern boundary of the counties of EN-
mons, Mcintosh, Dickey, Sargent and Rich
land. From these computations it appears
that il the forty-sfxth parallel is taken for
the northern boundary, the following amount
Of territory, stated in acres, will be cut off
from these counties:
Emmons.... 1O3, 653. 6 IDickey .... 100, 63477
Mcintosh. 141 1854 IRichland. 1o6,O7G9 90
THE RESOLUTIONS. ~
The following are the more important res
o~lutions reported to-day:
Prohibiting the legislature from exempting by
law any agricultural or horticultural societies.
churches, sectarian schools or colleges and GEM
eteries: providing for legislative superintendent
among the counties in single, independent dis
tricts; fixing the maximum rates of taxation
for state paupers at four mills, when the assess
ment Is SS0.OOO,00O to be three mills, when
S~lOo,0OO,Ooo at two mills, except in great
emergency induced by invasion the legislature
may by q two-thirds vote increase the rate.
Sioux FALLS, OAK, Special Telegram, Sept.
1S,-The question of how far the constitu.
tional convention should go in the matter of
setting up a state government for the pro-
posed State of South Dakota, which has all
along threatened to bring a heated discus
sion on the floor of the convention, precipi-
tated a crisis this afternoon. As indicated
In previous dispatches, there is q diversity of
opinion on the subject, some f~avoring the
plan Of making provisions for q state gov
eminent without carrying them out, others
advocating the election of state officers and
congressman, while some take the advanced
ground that in case congress shal
refuse admission the state shall con-
tinue to exercise the same powers
as other states. In general, however,
the delegates agree in the main upon one
thing, that it is to be taken for granted that
when the senators and representatives to be
elected the coming fall shall knock at the
doors OF congress for admission, they will be
admitted, and that the territory viii secure
the loag-desired boon OF statehood. There
are but a few, so far as can be ascertained.
who are in favor of taking any other course
than acquiescing in the decision of congress-.
after all has been done that can be done for
admission. The question came up this after
noon when the convention in committee of
the whole was considering the report of the
standing committee on the bill of rights.
BY CAMPBELL.
When consideration of the report was
nearly completed, Hugh J. Campbell OF
Yankton introduced the following additional
section, which he stated was a verbatim /.
copy from the Pennsylvania constitution of
1870:
All political power is inherent in the people
and all free government is founded on their au-
thority and is instituted for their equal protec-
tion and benefits, and they have the right at an
times 10 alter. reform, or abolish their forms OF
government In such manner az they may think
proper.
This brought Neil, of Grant county, to his
feet, with the statement:
/ don't like the word abolish. I object to the
revolutionary scheme of abolishing any form OF
government.
Il introduce the section because 1 think 1t
peculiarly adapted to the present state of affairs
in Dakota" replied Campbell.
At this President Edgerton, who had been
sitting quietly on the floor OF the convention.
rose, and in a calm. determined voice, spoke
as follows:
ldont know that 4 should say o word on this
occasion, but 1t has been intimated by the mover
that the propriety and necessity for this decla-
ration rests upon the peculiar relations that we