Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-09-24
ConstitutionaI Convention.

Sioux Falls, Sept. 22-The convention
met at 9 a. NJ, the president in the chair.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Jamison.
Journal of the previous day approved.
The report of the committee on rev.
enue and finance was taken up, and af-
ter amendment adopted.
The report of the committee on corpo.
rations was then considered by Mr.. Owen,
of Klngsbury. 1t is as follows:
Section /. No alien, non-resident,
shall acquire right or title to more than
$40 acres of land in this state.
Sec. 2. The legislature may provide
for the submission of any proposition
consistent with the constitution to q
vote of the people of the state, and that
it shall take effect when approved by q
majority of the votes poiled at such
election.
Sec. 8. No railroad or other transpor.
tation company shall grant any tree
pass or other special favor to any person
holding any Office of honor, trust, or
profit in the state. The acceptance of
any such pass or special favor shall work
a forfeiture of office. The legislature
may provide further suitable penalties
for violation of the provisions of this
section.
The report of the standing committee
on corporations other than banking or
municipal was adopted with little or
no debate. A lively time had been an
ticipated when the subject of regula-
tion of railroads should come up, but
these expectations were disappointed.
Section l6 was SO amended as to pre-.
| vent the consolidation of rival railroads,
by lease or otherwise; and section 19, as
adopted, gives the legislature power to
prevent discrimination, unjust or other
wise, IN rates of transportation. The
remainder of the report, as we'll as
that OF the committee on public &C.
counts and expenditures, was adopted
unchanged, The question of sepa-
rate submission of certain articles
of the constitution was settled
this morning, by the adoption of res.
oiution offered by Campbell of Yankton.
The resolution provides that all such
articles, including the location of the
permanent seat of government be print.
ed in seperate division of the constitu.
tion, headed, PARTICLES to be separately
submitted" prescribes the form OF bal
lot to be used, and provides that ma.
jority of all votes cast for and against
any seprate proposition shall elect or
reject, except seat of government which
requires plaurality.. Resolution intro
duced and referred to appropriate COM
mittes.
Defining jurisdiction, on waters in OF
bordering upon the state; exempting
from taxation all church property of less
value than $4,000; providing that all
appropriations, exceeding $4,000, be
submitted to a vote of the people.
Upon reassembllng at Z 80 the conven-
tlon took up the report of the committee
on county and township organization
The following amendments were adopt.
ed:
Enlarging the minimum area of or.
ganlzed counties to twenty-tour town
ships; requiring four years instead of
six to intervene between attempted re-
movals of county seats; doing away
with choosing county officers at the same
election as that at which the constitution
is submitted.
By McCallum, of Beadle:
Sec. Z, The legislature shall by gen.
eral law exempt from taxation property
used exclusively for agricultural and
horticultural societies, for school, ceme-
terry and charitable purposes, and per-
sonal property to any amount not ex.
ceeding $500 for each individual liable
to taxation; provided that all property,
real and personal, held for religious pur.
poses, shall be exempt from taxation
when the real value thereof shall not ex-
ceed $4,000.
The convention is considering the re-
port of the committee on revenue and
finance:
1t is quite probable that the labors OF
the convention will be concluded by
Thursday evening.
Judge Moody informed the conven.
ton yesterday that the capital commits.
sion have issued about 100000 in war
rants, $4,000 of which have been re-
corded by the territorial treasurer. -Four
Thousand two hundred dollars were
issued to Gen. Villas as counsel for the
commlssion. These are the warrants
that are being forced upon the several
counties along the Northern Pacific.
Delegate Clifford and Attorney Gen.
eral Rice and Gen. Pease are upon the
floor of the convention to-day.