The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
THE FARGO
The Convention Takes Action on All Dues
lions Which 1t Was Called to Consider,
and Adjourns Sine Die.
Non-Committa1 Resolutions on Division
and Admission A~dopted-The Trai1
County Case.

Non-Committal Resolutions on Division
and Admission A~dopted-The Trail
County Case.
On the first day, when the roll ofthe con-
v~ention was called at Fargo, 100 delegates
were present, representing Grand Forks,
Barnes, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Griggs, La
moure Mclean, McHenry, Ransom, Steele,
Stutsman, Trail, Wells, Sargent and Penn
bina counties in North Dakota, and Brown
county in Central Dakota. Hon. Waldo
NJ. Potter was made temporary chairman
Of the convention, and w. H.. Burke secre-
tary.
The chair appointed as a committee on
permanent organization Il. p. Wells oil
Stutsman, Alex Griggs OF Grand Forks, 4.
=. Condor Of Dickey, s. g. Roberts o fCass,
Charles Billodeau OF Wells, ID. +. Ellsworth
OF Sergeant and j.. o. Kjolsberg OF Trail.
On the second day the committee on
permanentorganizatio reported as follows;
For chairman, r. Il. Wallace, Stutsman
county; vice president, j. III. Bray, Grand
Forks county; w. III. White, Ransom; Mar
tin Ryan, Cass; G. NJ. Wing, Barnes ii. d.
Fruit, Nelson; secretary, Henry Dickey;
assistant secretaries, T.. /. Smith, Trail;
G.. S. Montgomery, Sargent.
Mr.. McLaren, Of the programme commit
tee, reported in favor of three sessions per
day. He also recommended that the iol-
lowing subjects be discussed in the order
mentioned.
First, waterways; second, the decisions
OF the commissioners of the general land Of
fee; third, the Trail county case; fourth,
the Red Lake Indian reservation; fifth, the
question OF the division and admission OF
the territory; sixth, other matters that
may be properly brought before the con-
vention.
Your committee further recommend that
there be appointed by the president per-
manent committees OF seven members each
for each OF the five subjects aforesaid and
one committee of five members to whom
all other subjects shall be referred.
Col. Plummer offered the following, which
was referred:
Resolved, That Messrs. Ellsworth Of Sar-
gent, Kielsburg, of Trail, emo White, OF
Ransom, are appointed a special commit
tee to prepare blanks upon which the dele
gates to this convention can certify TO
their expenses; that said committee shall
cause all expense bills presented to them
to be properly verified and certified by
them in duplicate, one copy to be returned
to the delegate and the other to be trans
mitted TO the secretary OF the territory Tor
safekeeping until the meeting OF the next
! legislature, when it shall be the duty OF
the said committee to see hat the same is
transmitted to that body with a request
for payment out OF the moneys in the ter
ritorial treasury not otherwise ~appropria-
ted; and this committee is hereby author
lied to make vouchers for such necessary
expenses as may be incurred In the per-
Torrance OF their duties to be included with
other vouchers herein mentioned.
Together with a long preamble, the fol-
lowing resolution was offered by Mr., Con-
nella of Mclean:
Resolved, That it is the sense OF this
convention that tho public school sections
should be disposed of in some manner for
the greater benefit OF the public school fund
of the territory.
Mr.. McLaren, who was afterwards APP
pointed chairman OF the committee on di-
vision and admission, offered q very long
preamble and the following:
Resolved, That the delegates in conven-
ton assembled declare ourselves IN favor
of division on the Missouri river, or insuch
manner as to throw the Black Hills out OF
the boundaries of Dakota.
Various resolutions OF a minor character,
not directly in accordance with the object
OF the meeting were offered, when the chair
announced the following committees:
Waterways-Bennett, Grant; Jordon,
McHench, Gill, Cass; Griggs, McKelvey,
Grand Forks; Potter, La Moure.
Land Office Decisions-Walsh, Grand
Forks; Wing, Barnes; Reeves, Trail;
Adams. Griggs; Beardsley, McHenry; Con-
ser, Dickey; Beladeau, Wells.
Trail County Decision-Wells, Suits
man; Bell, Pembina; Fleming, Cassi Root,
Selzby, Barnes; White, Ransom; Potter,
La Moure.
Red Lake-Griggs, Noyes, Bray, Walsh,
Grand Forks; Stevens, Cavalier; B~eardsley,
McHenry; West. Pembina.
Division and Admission-McLain, Steele;
Ellsworth, Sargent; Plummer, Trail;
bartholomew, La Moure; Roberts, Cass;
Walsh, Grand Forks; Barrett. Brown.
Observation-Disclosures, Cass; Noyes,
Grand Forks; White, S%tutsman; Jordan,
Cass; Kielsburg, Trail; Moore. Ransom;
Eddy, Stutsman.
An evening session was spent in discuss
ing the recent rulings of COMMISSIONS
Sparks, which were upheld in speeches by
! Mass.ss Cnnnalla. Reeve and RYAN. while
Plummer and Potter spoke against the
rulings. The convention adopted resolu-
tions adverse to the commissioner and Sc
verely attacking many OF the recent rul-
ings.
On the third and last day there was a
large attendance OF delegates and specta-
tors. Mr.. Bennett of the committee made
q long report, showing the possibility and
Importance OF opening navigation between
Big Stone Lake and the Red River, and
closing with this resolution:
Resolved, by this convention, That con
gress be memorialized to appropriate $500,
900. for the opening OF this natural water
way and the improvements herein mention
ed, and that our representative in congress
be requested to urge upon that body the
importance OF this work and the necessity
of an appropriation therefor.
After q good deal Of discussion the re.
port and resolutions were adopted.
The committee on the Trail county dis
cussion reported at length, but a discus
sion ensued, resulting in another report,
which was unanimously adopted.
The committee to whom was referred the
matter of the decision OF the so-called
Trail county tax ease by the supreme