River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-09-17

Prohibition-owens, of Kingsbury; God
! dard, of Minnehaha; More, of Beadle;
Jessup, of Faux; Walton, OF Brookings;
/ Dow, of Brown; Lichtenwallner of Hughes;
Phillips, of Lawrence; Gault, of McPher-
son.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10.
! The constitutional convention held a short
/ session to-day, no business of import
lance being transacted except to arrange
for the hours for meeting of the standing
committees. Most of the committees met
and organized during the afternoon and
evening, few of them doing some business.
FRIDAY, SEPT. II.
The work in the convention proper to-day
was brief but all the committees are bust
ly engaged. The following additions were
made to the committees
Elections and right of suffrage, Wilcox,
Alexander; municipal corporations, Up
dyke; federal relations, ProudfOot: execu-
tive and administrative, Smith, Wilcox;
legislative ProudfoOt, Smith.
SATURDAY, SEPT. II.
At the meeting of the constitutional con
vention to-day the committee on military
affairs made a report providing for the or
ganization and equipment of the State
militia. Maj. Hanson, of Yankton, intro
duced resolution declaring railroads to be
public highways as well as common carri-
ers, constructed for the convenience and
benefit of the people, and proper subjects of
legislative control, followed by the restric-
ton that no railroad shall pass within
distance of three miles of any town con
tanning 3 0 inhabitants without construct
ing its line through said town and erecting
proper depots for unloading passengers and
freight in the usual manner. Owen, of
KIngsbury county, sent up a resolution
prohibiting any railroad or other trans
pOrtation company from granting free
passes or other special favors to the gov
ernor of the state, judge of a court of
record, member of the legislature or rail
road commissioner, the acceptance of any
such pass to work a forfeiture of office.
Resolutions granting woman suffrage and
favoring prohibition were also introduced,
MONDAY, SEPT. IA.
AT the convention to-day the following
resolution was adopted
Resolved, That committee of FIVE mem
bers be appointed by the chair whose duty
it shall be to draft memorial to the presi-
dent and congress of the United States, set
ting forth the action of this convention, the
authority under which ii was held, tie me-
ceSsity therefor and asking the admission
of the state of Dakota into the union of
states, under the constitution hereat formed,
if such constitution shall be adopted by the
people of the proposed state.
Another resolution for a committee of
five to prepare an address to the people of
Dakota was also adopted. One of the com
mittee submitted the following oath for Of
flee holders, refusal to take it to make a for
fixture ofthe office.
| have not knowingly or Intentionally
paid or contributed anything, or made any
promise in the nature of a bride to directly
or indirectly influence any vote at the cleo
ton at which | was chosen to fill said office,
and have not accepted nor will | accept or
receive, directly or indirectly, any money,
pass, or any other valuable thing, from any
corporation, company, or person,any vote
or influence | may give or Withhold on
any bill. resolution or appropriation, Or for
any other official act.
Resolutions were introduced aud referred
to the proper committees, covering the fol
lowing points:
That compulsory attendance at the public
schools be enforced in the cases of all chill
dren between the ages of six and twelve
years; that no person be compelled to per-
form services for the public on any day
set apart by his religion as day of rest or
worship that the Judges OF the supreme
court be required to give an opinion on any
subject that the governor may submit to
them: that the the name of the state be
''Dacotah;n that the motto of the coat of
arms be Under God the People Rule
TUESDAY, SEPT, Il.
The committee on legislation recon-
mended IS and 125 as the minimum and
maximum membership of the house and %
and IS in the senate. Ward, of Hughes,
representing the Democracy, offered a
resolution on minority representation, and
by hard work secured the adoption of -
membership of the house, the senate being
LETT unchanged. Twenty-Five years of age
was fixed as the eligibility mark The pro
hibitlonists feel certain of a prohibitory
plank subject to the vote of the people