The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1889-03-02
The n ew States.


week in stating that South Dakota
would he admitted by Presidential
proclamation on about July next, and
that state officers would be elected May
14th.
The election May 18th, as we now
understand il, is for the purpose of
electing delegates to form a new con-
stitssion, should a majority of the
votesrcast at the election in May be
against the Sioux Falls constitution.
The members then elected are to meet
IN Sioux Falls July 4tb, and If the old
constitution is found to be satisfactory
to the people the work of framing
new instrument will be dispensed with
and the old be again submitted to the
people on the first Tuesday in October,
at which time state officers and repre-
sentatives in Congress will be elected
and the location of temporary seat of
government submitted.
Thus it will be seen that South Da-
kota, with her constitution already
prepared and once ratified blythe people,
will not be admitted until North Dako-
ta, Montana and Washington are ready
nj hat hn tatn
all ''come IN under the same procla-
mation-sometime in November next
in time for our Senators and Represent
atives to enter the 5lst Congress at
its first sitting in December next.
Should the Sioux Falls constitution
be rejected in May the delegates elect
ed will frame a new instrument at
their meeting beginning July 4th,
which would be submitted for adoption
at the October election.
The Chicago Inter Ocean of the 22d
ult. in speaking editorially upon this
question, has the following to say:
The area occupied by the new States
is far greater than that of all the States
represented in the first Congress. The
taxable wealth contained in them is
greater than that of any six of the
original thirteen States of the Union
The new States are capable of feeding,
clothing, housing, and warmiug from
the grain, wool, and meat raised upon
their own plains and from the coal and
iron and stone raised from their own
mines population far exceeding that
of all the States washed by the
Atlantic Ocean. They come in with
most magnificent educational endow-
ments of millions of acres of school
and college lands, none of which is to
be sold for less than $40, and much of
which may be expected speedily to
sell at so per acre. They will come
in with constitutions rs liberal as the
liberal Western mind can conceive
They are hampered in no way. ~Sorth
Dakota has got 10 frame its constitu-
ton. South Dakota is to determine
whether it will accept the Sioux Falls
constitution or frame new one. Wash
lngtsn and Montana already have con
stitutions passed. Constitutional con
ventions will convene IN all the new
states on the fourth of July next and
after rattying the constitutions already
framed or adopting new ones, will
make solemn declaration of their ac-
ceptance of the Constitution of the
United States as the supreme organic
law. The constitutions approved by
the conventions will be submitted to a
popular vote on the first Tuesday in
October, and accepted by the people
of the four States and approved by the
President of the United States, presi-
dental proclamation will then announce
the formal entry of North Dakota
South Dakota, Washington, and
Montana into the sisterhood of States.
PIERRE is the Capital City. Her
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