The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-14
THOSE NEW STATES.
North Dakota Will Have Some
Stringent Provisions.
IDAHO ISSTRONGLY ANTI-MORMOK
In Some Of Her Proposed Constitutional Pro
visiOns-The Convention Asks the Opinions
of Senators Rdmunds and Teller.

BISMARCK, Oak, June 13.-At to-day's
session of the constitutional convention, a
! large number of proposed articles were pre-
sented. Pennington, Howe, Pollock and
Hager introduced articles providing for a
constitutional prohibition of the manufac-
ture and sale of Intoxicating liquors. John
son introduced long article with nineteen
sections relating to corporations. Among
other provisions in the proposed article is
| the following: mo corporation should be
created or have it's charter extended
changed or amended by special laws, except
those for charitable, educational, penal or
reformatory purposes, which are to remain
under the patronage and control of the state,
| but the legislature shall provide by general
| laws for the organization of all corporations
hereafter to be created; exclusive privi-
| leges not taken advantage of are declared
! invalid; the property and franchises of
| interpretations are made subject to public
4 use; no stocks or bonds shall be issued by
any corporations except for money, prop
erty or services actually rendered; the
| Legislature is empowered to alter, or annul
| charters, if no injustice is thereby done;
no official or employee of any railroad is
permitted to furnish or supply the material
of said corporations annual reports to
public officials are required; railways are
and subject to legislative control;
discrimination and extOrtiOn in rates shall
be prevented by legislative enactment and
Just compensation must be rendered for the
public use of private property"
Parsons, of Roulette county, offered an
article making Bismarck the temporary
capital and providing for its permanent
location by a vote of the people and forbid
ding any expenditure for buildings until
Dermanent location is decided on.
GRAY offered the following articles on
minority representation: The number OF
representatives shall consist of three;
also one fixing the salaries of the COVER
nors at s., 600; also, that of the chief justice,
secretary and auditor at s., 600 each; asso-
ciate Justice, $1,000; other judges salaries
shall be fixed by the legislature.
BY Hicks, that each senatorial district
shall include three legislative districts;
election laws by the house: by minority
representation on the plan of Illinois law;
also, that school lands cannot be sold, but
may be leased not over ten (O years; also,
that the military must do police duty. BY
Turner. that only the interest on school
funds shall be used; unclaimed jury fees or
estates of persons dying without heirs
shall go into the school fund.
BvJ. A. Weiher, establishing a commit
tee on public printing. ]. H. Moore wanted
the land cammittee to report the history of
the school lands and their disposition in
other states. The motion was lost Full
detailed reports of tide lands, marshes,
flats, etc the extent of and by whom
owned All the details, after a Lengthy
debate, were tabled.
Bv Sohens, that school fund money may
beloaned to u municipality for public i'm
provements, at not less than + per cent. on
fifteen to twenty-five years loan.
The committee on mileage reported, but
objections being made to the report, it was
referred back. Adjourned.
The committee on lands has rented a
hall where argument on the tide land ques-
ton will be made this evening. 1t is said
that $40 100000 worth of property is in
valued in this question. There is a strong
lobby here which claims to have S1,000,0O0
behind them to push their interest, viz. the
sale of tide lands to individuals or corpora