Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-07-11
ORGANIZATION EFRECTED.
officers Have been Eldcted and the
Constitutional Cpnventlon
Ready for Business.
President Tanche3 Working on the
Personnel of|tae Twenty
Three Cdnmlttees.
WOMEN bUFFEAcE.

BISMARCK, Julf S.--[Special. The
convention met tbs afternoon and et-
fected complete permanent organization.
The candidates Nominated at the repub.
Iican caucus Saturday were all elected
without oppositiyn. They are:
Chief clerk. G. Hamilton, Grand
Forks.
Sergeant-at-a ms -FredF ALLEY, Wahpe-
ton.
Enrolling clefk-C. c. Bowesfeld, FL
lendale .
stenographes--R. NJ. Tuttle, Mandam.
DoorkeeperAG Geo. Wentz, Bismarck
Messenger7LJ. d. Knight, Cass county.
Watchman-J. S. Welser, Valley City.
Chaplain REV. George Klein, Bis
marck.
Pages-.Arthur Linn, Bismarck; Har
ry Ward, Jamestown; Charles Lauder,
Wahpeton; Charles Conroy, Mandam.
The convention then by resolution, in
troducedby Selby, Of Trail county, de-
cIared its support Of the constitution of
the United States.
The report OF the committee on rules
for permanent organization was dis
cussed and adopted. II provides for
twenty-three
COMMITTEES AS FOLLOWS:
Printing, reporting and publication,
accounts and expenses, preamble and de-
claration Of rights, legislative depart
ment, judicial department, elective fran
chise, education, public institutions and
buildings, public debt and public works,
militia, county and township organiza-
tion, apportionment and representation,
revenue and taxation, municipal corpor-
ations, corporations not municipal, mis-
cellaneous subjects, schedule, school and
ether public lands, temperance revision
and adjustment. impeachment and re-
moval from office.
Judge Garland introduced resolution
authorizing the president to appoint
committee Of seven to confer with SIM
liar committee from Sonth Dakota in re-
gard to the adjustment aud settlement OF
the property of the territory, The reso-
luton was adopted and President Fan
cher, it is understood. named the COM
mittee after the adjournment this even
ing. E. W. Camp is chairman.
The South Dakota committee is ex-
pected to be in Bismarck tomorrow and
the committees will at once get together
and endeavor to effect settlement.
After the transaction of the above
business the convention went into COM
mittee of the whole aud listened to a
woman's suffrage talk by Henry Black
we'll of Boston, one cf the editors of the
Woman's Journal. He is sawed-off old
gentleman with white hair and beard,
but there was nothing decrepit about his
voice or arguments. The universal suf-
frage people held caucus Saturday and
decided that they did not want the ques..
tion OF enfranchising women submitted
this fall as a separate article, but, that IN
case it is not incorporated in the consti-
tuition, they would like the convention to
make provisions for the legislature to
confer it without vote OF the people, at
some future time.
President Fancher announced that he
would not be able to announce his COM
mittees for several days and when the
convention adjourned it was until Thurs
day afternoon.
PERSONALITIES.
There are few men in Bismarck who
have more friends than Major Hamilton
of Grand Forks, and his election as Sec
retary of the convention without oppO-
sition is great source of satisfaction to
them. The major makes a model secre-
tary and will keep model journal OK the
proceedings A lot of the South Dakota
members Of the last house of representa-
tives were SO favorably impressed with
the majors ways that they importuned
him to move into their state and promls-
ed to see that he was elected chief clerk
during all time-if he lived that long.
The major knows good people when he
goes among them, however, and VIII stay
IN North Dakota.
Fred Falley, who was elected sergeant
alarms, is the editor OF the Wahpeton
Globe. He is handsome looking gen
tleman with smooth face and a rotund
form and does not look a bit like the
man one would have imagined as the
author of the fierce (?) diatribes on Rev.
B. S. Taylor, which the readers OF The
Alert have frequently seen reprinted IN
that and other journals.
The delegation from Stutsman it gen.
orally regarded as one of the strongest
in the convention. Mr.. Fancher has
been honored with the presidency, MIR.
Camp was the moving spirit In the COM
bination that forced the republican eau
Gus and gave the organization to the re-
publicans and Mr.. Blewett stands high
as one of the most prominent, hard
working and influential of the minority
delegates. In the few opportunities
which the delegates have so far had to
show what kind of stuff they are made
of. those from Stutsman have not taken
back seat.
A Wealthy Reporter?
St. Paul Globe: George 81. Sargent,
late rennrter ns the ST. Paul end OF the