Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-07-25

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BIsMAEcg, July %. 2.-ISpecialI I-E're
sident Fancher was back in his chair to-
| day and opened the session with a circus
grace which Johnson had been for three
days vainly endeavoring to simulate
Two,coons do battle with their ''dukes'
at the Atheneum tonight, and the dele
gates were more interested in ring mat
ters than constitution-mak How
ever, r,there was some very interesting
business up for consideration and the
session was not without its incidents.
The delegates have awakened to the fact
thatit is about time they put on an in
creased head OF steam. 1t was probably
due to this awakening that Mr.. Purcell
introduced resolution requiring all
committees to report on or before next
Thursday. The resolution was adopted
and the consideration and adoption Of
committee reports on articles which have
beensubmitted, will furnish both occasion
and pretext for eloquence in galore dur
ing the rest of the session. The oratorical
element is still an uncertain quantity in
the rcn vent1on. There may be Ciceronlan
outbnrsts innumerable in reserve, but
there is nothing more certain than that
meme have yet been heard. Still there
are number of gentlemen who have
shown a disposition to make much stalk
and we all expect to hear them in Illus
tration OF 'English as she is spoke
Mr. Stevens one house resolution was
a special order today aad the convention
wentinuo committee Of the whole to con-
sider it. It reads as follows:
Resolved That the Constitution pro-
vide that the Legislative authority Of
the state shall rest in single boay to be
called the Legislative Assembly, which
shall consist of not less than one hun
dred members to be elected by the
people; provided the legislative assembly
may from time to time increase the
number Of members as necessity may
require.
The one house hobby is Stevens pet.
He kept on his Sunday clothes, got a
fresh shave and some hair oil at the
barber's and came up to the capitol
wearing a white necktie and Prince
Albert, to make a speech on the question.
Major Hamilton had scarcely finished
reading the resolution when he sprang
to bis feet and proceeded in due form
to raise his shrill falsetto voice in behalf
thereof. Mr.. Stevens is a pretty good
talker and made pretty good argument
but no converts have been reported up
to this writing. Uncle Ezra Turner, he
of the half breed settlement up north,
followed with a sermon in the same
strain and Parsons, the Mandan labor
agitator, who, scme one has asserted, is a
reformed preacher" closed the discus.
sion. The gentleman from Ransom made
the speech of the day. He used lot of
imagery-borrowed and otherwise-and
in bringing his grandiloquent peroration
to close, naively declared, with a wide
sweeping wave of the hand, that if his
resolution were adopted, this days pro-
ceedings would stand out in history SO
conspicuously that people would think
the Angel Gabriel had dipped lis finger
in sunbeam and painted it across the
vaulted arch of heaven. The committee
got tired of sitting during the speeches
and when Parsons concluded. rose and
the convention adjourned. The discus
sion will be concluded in our next
session. The resolution will be defeated.
Articles of the following purport were
introduced:
No. lO7, introduced by Mr.. Appleton,
regulating the sale of school lands at
auction and providing for the appoint
ment of county boards of appraisal.
No. los, by Harris, on apportlonment:
Giving one member to every organized
county and providing for senate to con-
sist of 35 members and a house of rep
resentatives with a membership of 7C
1t makes Eddy and Foster a senatorial
district with one senator, Cass with four
Grand Forks with three, Stutsman one
1t provides for 3S representative dis
tricts and gives Eddy one representative,
Foster one, Grand Forks six, Cass seven,
Barnes three, Richland three, and Bur-
leigh and Stutsman two each.
No. 1O9 by Mr.. Lauder, that the legis
lature exempt certain property of heads
of large families and the holding of large
tracts Of land be discouraged by all
means not inconsistent with the rights
of private property.
No. 10, by Mr.. Lauder, an article for
the schedule in relation to certain in
conveniences which may arise by reason
of the change in the form Of government.
No. III, introduced by the same gem
tleman, IS long article on the subject of
taxation.
No. ll2, by Sandager of Ransom. pro
vides that it shall be the duty of the
legislature to provide by law for the de-
dnction from salaries Of public officials
who may be guilty of neglect OF duty.
No. 113, by the same gentleman, pro-
vides for disfranchisement as penalty
for bribery at elections. 1t was Sanda-
gers day for articles. He introduced
others OF the following pur-
port: That the legislature shall
have power to pass all laws neces-
sary to prevent the formation OF combl-