St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-20
NOW THEY'RE TALKING
North Dakota StatemakerS
Engage in a Protraeted
Vocal Riot.
The Judiciary Committee Di-
vided Against Itself on the
Court Question.
Reports Covering Most Of the
Constitution Presented at
Sioux Falls.
Montanans Have No Earthly
Use for Pinkerton or
Special Police.

DlSMAhCh, July ~ IuO JuIlCluAJ
committee is still wrangling over the
question of county courts, and the pro-
posed division of the state into six
judicial districts. The committeeman
opposed to the establishment of county
courts and adjustment of the office of
justice of the peace are in the majority.
But a minority report will be sub
mitted and there will be bitter fight
on the question among the lawyers.
The judiciary committee is also having
an interesting wrestle with the question
of whether the supreme court shall
hold all of its sessions at the capl-
tai or at different points. 1t has been
proposed that one term be held each
year in Bismarck, Fargo and Grand
Forks. But there is considerable oppo-
SitiOn to this plan among the lawyers.
The convention has consumed consider
able time in discussing the resolution
proposing to reopen all articles indorSed
by the committee of the whole to the
committee on revision, and giving that
committee power to make such changes
as may be necessary. After discussion
lasting several hours the resolution was
amended so that the committee on re-
vision must report to the convention
every change made in the constitution,
which shall then be considered section by
section by the convention. During the
discussion Stevens, of Ransom, said he
opposed the resolution because by re-
ferring the articles to the committee on
revision notice of what the convention
intended to do would be given to the
corporations, who would flood the city
with a lobby. MFR. Lauder resented
the statement as a
REFLECTION ON THE CONVENTION,
and Lowell, of CaSS, introduced a pro-
posed article declaring all railroad and
transportation companies to be COM
mon carriers, to receive for the trans
portation of freight and passengers
such compensation as is reasonable
and just, to be determined
as judicial question by the
courts. Rowe proposes that state SEN
ators shall be elected for term of four
years, and shall be divided into two
classes, the first class to consist of the
senators from the even numbered dis
tricts and the second class from the odd
numbered. The terms of Office OF the
two classes shall not expire on dates
less than two years apart. The article
provides that at the first election the
first class shall be elected for one year
and the second class three years.
Proposed articles were introduced
providing that the supreme
court judges shall be obliged to
give their opinion on important
questions of law when required by the
governor, senate or house of represent
atives; making three-fourths majority
vote of the petit jury a verdict; COM
pelling school treasurers to deposit all
school moneys in national or other
duly incorporated bank; providing for
the election of two commissioners who
shall act with the lieutenant governor
and attorney general as board of COM
missioners for the sale and leasing of
school lands; directing the legislature
to provide for the speedy sale of one
fourth of the school lands at
not less than $40 per acre;
giving equal protection to all in the
observation of any day they may select
as the Sabbath; dividing the state into
twenty-five senatorial districts which
shall have the same boundaries as the
districts created for the election of
members to the constitutional conven-
ton, and that from each district there
shall be elected one senator and three
representatives. The question of tax
ing railroads came up again, Hegge
proposing that board of assessors be
elected by the people to assess railroads
in each county, the railroads to be
SUBJECT TO THE SAME LEVY
as other property-aD effort is being
made by some to have the convention
refuse to submit the question of prohi-
bition to a vote OF the people. but there
is every indication that it will be sub
mitted. The i-prOhibitiOniStS are be-
ginning to fear that the proposition of
Camp, of Stutsman, to submit three pro-
positions-one for prohibition, one for
high license and one that neither be en-
bodied in the conStitutiOn-Will add to
the prospect of prohibition success, as
many anti-prohibitiOniSts do not wish
high license clause in the constitution
OF the state. Thus would the anti-pro-
hibitiOn vote be divided. There was a
lively fight in committee of the whole
on the question of prohibition for
the organization Of committees and the
changing of county lines. The article
providing that no part of a county shall
be added to another without majority
vote of each county was the chief bone
of contention, and was finally adopted
in committee of the whole. The motion
to take a recess until Tuesday next was
defeated. The joint commission for the
division of the territorial property be-
tween the states is working on the books
in the auditors Office, and has discov-
cred that instead of North Dakota hay
ing received more money out of the
general fund-"meaning money aside
from the bonded debt for public build
ings." than South DakOta-SOuth Da-
kota has received s22, 900 more than the
North. The commission can't possibly
complete its labors in less than two or