Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-07-18
ARTICLES ACCUAULaTiNG.

Slye. $780,
ARTICLES ACCUMULaTfNG.
Proposed Propositions TO be Ensratt-
eel in the Con. Con-, Becoming Very
Numerous. One Days Crop.
BIsMANcK, July IL Especial This
has been Il gala day for the ambitious
state-maker. When the order for the
introduction of articles WAS reached, the
pages were kept on the run for Ave Or
ten minutes, carrying to and piling up
the proposed pieces Of constitution on
the clerk desk. They were 20 in num-
Der, and covered almost every subject
which will be embodied in the constitu-
tion, from the preamble to the schedule,
which includes the propositions to be
voted upon as separate articles.
Wallace, of Steele, introduced pro-
hibitory article to go into the body of the
constitution. Files No. 27, introduced
by Elliott of Barnes, and No. 30, intro.
dueed by Miller of Cass, were proposed
prohibitory articles to be submitted and
voted on as separate articles. They
diIar somewhat in their wording.
GAlite Il number of articles relating to
assessment and taxation were proposed.
File No. %, introduced by Wallace Of
Steele, provides that all mortgages, dee dis
Of. trusts Or other membranes on
property, be taxed, and that the amount
Of such incumbrance be deducted from
thesassessed value of the property, and
that such interest IN property be ASSESS
ed to the owner of the security. It pro-
vitlea practically for the taxation OF i'll
tefest in property. Another article o. a
similar nature was introduced by Harris
Of BGrleigh. No 40, introduced by Hat
gen, in addition to the main provisions Of
WaIlace's articla,make it compulsory for
the owners OF property to furnish the
assessor witt, list OF encuubrances.
Delegate Moer, of LaMoure county, sent
up short article on taxatiol. and Best,
Of Pemblna. one designating the prop
erty which shall be exempt from taxa
tion.
Parsons of Roiette, sent upa ponder
ous mass of manuscript which he woilld
be pleased to SCI. as . -rAart nj the cnnstltu-
IL. tis..ssF {. Ghsss aptlon. Apportlon naent.
It provides for the apportionment OF the
state eyerv ten years into districts; that
the number OF senators shall not be more
than 50 nor less than 25, and the number
of members Of the house not more than
$50 nor less than Is. It divides the ter
ritory into 35 house and % senate dis
t1icts. How the counties fare may be
seen from the fact that under this appor-
tionment Walsh county would get two
senators and six representatives; Ram-
sey county one senator; kidder and
Wells one; Eddy and Foster one; Suits.
man one senator and three representa-
tives; Grand Forks three senators and
seven representatives; Cass three sena-
tors and eight representatives. Fay. OF
Mcintosh. came forward with another
scheme. Both will 60 to
the committee on apportionment to be
passed upon.
Wallace, of Steele. introduced
a taxation scheme. Among the
other articles he proposed, was
one regulating the paying out
of public money; and another defining
the jurisdiction of circuit courts. Stew
ems, of Ransom, by request, got in plan
for single house, to be designated as
the legislative assembly, and to consist of
not less than 100 members. Elliott, of
Barnes, would have only one subject ex
pressed in legislative act, and
that designated in the title. The
oniy difference between his article
and the one proposed by Mr. Camp Sat
nrday is that Elliott's provides, what Mr..
Camp s infers, that all other matters ex-
cept the one indicated in the title shall
be void.
Elliott also introduced another
making the use of public money for other
than public purposes a misdeameanor:
Parsons Of Morton designated who shall
vote" and includes some buck Indians
among the favored.
Harris of Burleigh, wants to
provide that a member Of the
legislature shall not be eligable to any
office within the gift of the Legislature or
the appointment of the governor. Fay
of Mcintosh. and Blewett of Stntsman,
got in articles on the militia of similar
Character. The former followed his up
with half a dozen other articles, the pur-
port of which are: No. 30 defining the
qualifications of voters, as regards resi-
dence, to be one year in the state, three
months in the county and one month IN
the precinct; No. 36 in relation to the
of the constitution, requlr-
ing that one legislature shall vote for
the proposed amendment that the ma
iorjty Of the next shall also favor it and
and that majority of the people shall
do likewise when it is submitted to them;
No. 81, prohibiting special legislation on
divorce, the laying out of new or the va
cation of old roads or highways, the
jurisdiction of courts Of justice. reloca-
ting county seats, amending charters OF
cities, interest on money and divers
other questions: No. 50, preamble for
the state constitution modelled after the
Ctota nr,Stltn-