Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

THOSE NEW STATES.
The Work of Organization is Pro-
crossing at q Rapid Rate.
SOME VERY RADICAL PROPOSALS.
Trusts and Corporations Have No Show in
the Constitutions.
THE COLD WATER PEOPLE ARE THERE.
They Want Prohibition to Be Feature Of the New
Order Of Things
SOME VERY RADICAL PROPOSALS.
THE COLD WATER PEOPLE ARE THERE.

adopted. The ProhibitioDists are hard at
work to secure plank in their favor. Pol
itics is entering largely into the discussions.
HELENA, MONT, July 10.-The seventh
one of marked activity. The members are
taking hold with will and seeming de-
termination to make every hour count Many
members expressed the belief that the con-
vention can adjourn in p days. After
the reading OF the journal to-day a
memorial was presented from the confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
praying the convention to incorporate in
the new Constitution a clause relating to
the strict observance of Sunday, on which
day no work shall be done otker than that
of necessity or mercy.
They also pray that there will be incor-
porated in the Constitution clause pro-
hibiting the manufacture or sale of all in
toxicating liquors or stimulants, except Tor
medicinal or scientific purposes. Joy, of
Park, offered the following:
QUALIFICATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP.
That every male citizen of the United States,
above the age of q, who can read and write the
English language, who had never been con-
victed of treason or felony and who shall have
resided in this State one year, and in the city,
county or district, where he may offer to vote,
the six months next prior to any election, and
no other person shall have the right to vote in
this State, provided that nothing herein shall
disfranchise anyone who is legal voter at the
time of the adoption of this Constitution.
By Hartman, of Gallatin: That perfect toler-
alton of religious sentiment shall be secured
and no inhabitant of Montana shall be molested
in person or otherwise on account of re-
hat ho aAroln Of MA,fa
declare they will in no wise appropriate any
unappropriated public lands that are within
the limits of lands held by any Indian tribe,
until such title shall be extinguished by the
outside the State shall never be taxed higher
than the lands of those residing within the
borders of the State; that
NONE OF THE LANDS
owned or to be owned by the United States for
its use shall be taxed; that the land OF any In
dian or tribe Of Indians will be taxed as are the
surrounding lands when they may be obtained
otherwise than by Government grant and
liabilities of the Territory of Montana
shall be assumed by the State of
Montana: that provisions shall be made for
public schools to which all the children of
Montana shall have access and shall be free
from sectarian control; that this ordinance
shall be irrevocable without the consent of the
people of the State of Montana.
by Luce, or Gallatln:
That none of the lands granted by Congress
to the State OF Montana for school purposes
shall ever be sold, granted or IN any way dis
posed of other than leased. Nor shall any
moneys accruing from said lands be used for
any purpose other than the support Of the pub
lie schools of the State.
By Galloway, of Madison:
That no corporation or empIoye of any cor.
poration shall give to any member of the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State. county or city
officer, a free pass for transportation. or to any
violating any provision of this ordinance shall
forfeit 81, 600 for each violation hereof and any
officer accepting any free pass shall forfeit his
Office emoluments.
THE CONVENTION POWERS.
A dispatch from Sioux Falls says: The
sixth days session of the Constitutional
Convention of South Dakota was the long
est yet held. The question under con-
sideration was the power of the
convention to change the Constitution
of 1885. 1t came up on a resolution to
refer the different articles of the said docu-
ment to appropriate committees. President
Edgerton argued that such reference implied
a claim Of the conventions power to change
any and every article, whereas Congress
had limited changes to certain specified
provisions.
After the reference of all but three
articles, notice was given Of a motion to re-
consider the vote by which reference was
undertaken, and the matter will come up
again tomorrow.
The question is regarded as specially i'm
portant, because if anything be allowed
looking toward other changes than such as
are presented by the enabling act, then the
Presidential proclamation of admission
might be jeopardized. There is almost
unanimous determination to exercise only
such power of change as the Omnibus bill
unequivocally confers.
A SERIOUS QUESTION.
Some members even question the power of
this convention to change manifest errors in
construction, punctuation and orthography
in the official copy of the Constitution of
1885. Some fear that if the bars be taken
down to admit anything in the
way of Change which under ordi-
nary circumstances might properly be
made, it might be accepted by certain dele
gates as license to change a host OF pro-
visions not contemplated by the Con-
gressional enabling act.
A memorial to Congress was introduced
to investigate Dakota's artesian basin, with
reference to the discovery of a water supply
for irrigation purposes. Much concern de-
velops regarding the act of the Judicial Ap-
portionment Committee. Almost every
county has somebody aspiring to Judge
ship, and there will be strong attempt to
make at least 10 or IL circuits.
The Congressional and Legislative Ap-
portionment Committee-comprising one
third of the entire conventions likewise
besieged to make districts favorable to man.
iiold interests, particularly those hinging
on the different candidates for United
States Senatorships and Congressional seats.
No definite combinations have yet ap-
peared, but probably will before long.
NORTH DAKOTA POLITICS.
A dispatch from Bismarck, N. D., says
This has been day of rest Tor the Consti-
tutional Convention, and many of the dele
gates availed themselves of the opportunity
offered to make excursions to various near
by points. There is a strong feeling that
the composition of the committees will favor
no special interests, but that all will be
treated fairlyand justly. This feeling has de-