Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-03

general shall each receive = CO.,.
The suffrage committee introduc 4 au art
Gle providing that ali male %citzens, etc, is
vote, and submitting the question Of female
| suffrage to a vote OF the male electors one
year from next fall.
held today. At the morning session each
side presented q proposition for settlement
| and the afternoon session was spent In de
| batting the matter. The north wants the
south 10 pay one-half Of the Northern Pacific
unpaid railroad taxes and 10000 on the cap
itol building, and propose that the settlement
date from March IL last. The south proposed
| that each state take the institutions located
therein and pay the Indebtedness on the
same. All these questions were informally
debated, but no conclusion was reached on
any proposition so far.
REPORT OF THE JUDICIARY.
BISMARCK, y. d., july 26.-ln tn" cohVen-
| ton today a memorial TO congress, praying
for ex periments by the general government
with a view to ascertainipg whether or not
irrigation for the north IL practicable, was
referred to a committee.
The minority report Of the committee on
the judiciary deg artment was submitted To-
day and provides for the election OF u
county Judge In each organized county,
| whose term OF Office shall be two years gives
the county court original lurlsuic'
ton In all matters OF propate,
guardianship aud the ~settlementof estates;
in counties having a population OF 900 or
| over these courts shall also have concurrent
Jurisdiction with the district courts In all
civil cases wherein the amount In controversy
does not exceed 81 ,000: provides for the al
lowance Of writs OF error or appeal 10 the ais
trict court; the Office OF justice OF the peace
is virtually abolished.
The on revenue and taxation
submitted a report with q proposed article
for the constitution. 1t gives the Legislature
power to provide for raising revenues SUI
| ficient to defray the expenses OF the
state for each year, not TO exceed !
mills on the dollar on the assessed
valuation OF all the property; provides
that laws shall be passed taxing by
uniform rule all property according to
its true value In money, but the prop
erty OF the United States and OF state,
county and municipal corporations shall be
exempt; the legislature shall exempt from
taxation all property used exclusively Tor
schools, religious, cemetery or charltaple pur
poses. and personal property 10 any amount
not TO exceed 200 acres Of land and the i'm
proyements thereon: cultivated and unculti-
| waited land Of the same quality snail be
assessed at the same value railroad property
| shall be assessed by the state board at not
less than 1900 per mile.
B~IsMARK, y. D., July 27.-The joint com
mission has practically reached a settlement.
The chairman OF each commission was APP
| pointed to formulate "A basis for settlement,
aud their report was adopted. The PROPOSE
ton OF the north some days ago was that the
south pay 800, 900, but this was whitfield
down to sac, 500. The south gets the library
for a coo. In view Of all the circumstances
the final settlement is far better than South
Dakota expected. The commission Is jubil-
ant over the result. The following is the
! agreement adopted.
Each state shall take the public institutions
located within its boundaries, with all ap-
purtenances, furniture, etc, and shall as
| sumo payment OF ali Indebtedness against
the territory, founded or funded on account
OF such institutions, respectively. All other
items OF personal property and miscellane-
| Gus effects belonging to the territory, except
the territorial library and territorial archives,
shall be divided as nearly equal as possible
| between North and South Dakota. The
| state OF South Dakota shall pay 10 the state
OF North Dakota $42,50 IN on account OF eX-
cess Of territorial appropriations for perma-
nent improvements on territorial tnstitu-
tons, which under this agreement will
90 to South Dakota, and in full settlement
II the unbalanced account and for all claims
against the territory Of whatever nature,
legal or equitable, arising out OF the alleged
| erroneous or unlawful taxation of the North
| ern PGcific railroad land, and the payment
OF said amounts shall discharge and exempt
the state OF South Dakota from all liability
for or on account Of the several matters
hercinbefore referred to: nor shall either
state be called upon to pay or answer to any
portion Of any liability heretofore arising on
account Of the transactions heretofore had,
which liability would be a law liability Of the
territory OF Dakota had such territory re-
NAMED In existence, and which liability grew
out Of matters connected with any public
institutions of the territory situated or To-
Gated within the boundaries OF either state.
Neither state shall pay any portion of any
liabi ity Of the territory arising out of erro.
neous taxation Of property situated In the
other state. Each committee shall max n
sealed statement OF the amount Of It's will
ingness to pay for the undivided half Of the
public library, and the one Offering the larger
sum shall take the library at the sum SO
offered. II on investigation it appears that
the militia property IS divided betw cen the
North and South Dakota companies In pro-
portion nearly DUAL, then the property is to
remain In that state within the limits OF
| which II now Is, otherwise IT shall be divided
as nearly equally as possible.
The first adjustment of accounts shall be
upon the following basis North Dakota
shall be charged with al sums paid to pub
lie institutions located within its boundaries
on account OF the current appropriations
since the same became a state, and South
Dakota charged with all sums paid to public
institutions located within It's bCunda-
ries, on the same account, and dur
ing the same time, each state to be
charged with one-half OF the general ex-
penses during the same time that all moneys
paid into the territory during this period -
from about March IL, to the lime OF fiual
adjustment-from North Dakota, shall be
credited to North Dakota, and all such sums
paid In from South Dakota for the same
time, shall be credited to South Dakota
Except that all railroad taxes paid into the
territorial treasury since the date above
named for the years prior to lSs9-that is,
between North and South Dakota and the
railroad tax for 1SS9-sh All be distributed as
already provided by law, except that so
much Of the taxes as go to the territorial treas
urer, shall be divided as follows: North
Dakots shall have so much thereof as Is paid
nv the railroads in North Dakota and South
Dakota 60 much thereof as is paid by the
railroads In South Dakota.
IL there shall be an indebtedness at the
time OF the final division, or II there shall be
a surplus at the time Of such division, each
shall be entitled to the amount II has paid
In, over and above the amounts 1t stands
charged with.
NO BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
BISMARCK, y. ID July 27.-Over two-thirds
OF the members OF the constitutional conven-
ton departtd for their homes last evening, and
| ,baro u,.e not a ouprum This afternoon and