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- Committee of the Whole
Committee of the Whole
North Dakota State Constitutional Convention 1889 [updated-6.1 v3]
The Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of North Dakota from July to August of 1889.
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Membership (75 members):
- William D. Best ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- Herbert L. Holmes ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- Robert B. Richardson ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- Albert Francis Appleton ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- John McBride ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- Joseph Powles ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- Benjamin Rush Glick ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- Patrick McHugh ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- Curtis P. Parsons ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- Joseph L. Colton ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- Virgil B. Noble ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- Ezra Turner ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- John Emmet Carland ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- Harvey Harris ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- Erastus A. Williams ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- Albert W. Hoyt ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- Albert Samuel Parsons ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- William Ray ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- Charles V. Brown ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- George H. Fay ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- James Bennett Gayton ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- Lorenzo D. Bartlett ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- Alexander D. Flemington ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- William H. Rowe ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- Samuel H. Moer ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- Andrew Sandager ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- Reuben N. Stevens ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- James D. McKenzie ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- John Powers ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- John Shuman ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- Wiliam S. Lauder ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- William E. Purcell ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- Andrew Slotten ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- Jacob Lowell ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- Henry Foster Miller ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- Burleigh Folsom Spalding ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- Addison Leach ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- Henry M. Peterson ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- Robert M. Pollock ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- Eben Whitney Chaffee ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- William J. Clapp ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- Enos Gray ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- Elmer E. Elliott ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- John W. Scott ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- Jay Wellwood ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- Andrew Blewett ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- Edgar Whittlesey Camp ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- Frederick B. Fancher ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- Horace M. Clark ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- Olney G. Meacham ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- Eugene Strong Rolfe ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- David Bartlett ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- Engebret M. Paulson ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- Elmer D. Wallace ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- Marthinus F. Hegge ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- Knud J. Nomland ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- John F. Selby ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- Richard Bennett ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- William Budge ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- Alexander Griggs ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- Charles Carothers ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- Arne P. Haugen ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- J. H. Mathews ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- Therow W. Bean ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- Martin N. Johnson ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- Martin V. Linwell ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- Edward H. Lohnes ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- James F. O'Brien ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- Abram Olin Whipple ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- James Bell ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Michael Kenyon Marrinan ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Alexander D. Robertson ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Roger Allin ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
- John Magnus Almen ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
- James A. Douglas ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
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Sessions (23)
The committee was called to order. The Rules of the Convention were taken up. Mr. Blackwell was invited to address the committee.
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The committee was referred File No. 25, the Resolution on Printer's Copies, the Resolution on the Compensations of the Official Stenographer, and the Report of the Committee on Reporting and Publication.
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Files No. 3, 63, and 64 were taken up for discussion and amending by the committee as well the Report of the Committee on Reporting and Publication. The committee referred their report on their process. The committee received the Resolution on the Publication and Distribution of the Debates and Proceedings.
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The Resolution on the Publication and Distribution of the Debates and Proceedings of the previous session was taken up for discussion and amended before being referred back to the Convention.
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File No. 63: Article on County and Township Organization was referred to the committee, which was taken up and amended before being referred back to the Convention alongside the report of the committee.
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File No. 25 was taken up for further discussion. The committee reported their progress to the Convention.
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File No. 120: The Constitution of South Dakota as it Appears in Long's Legislative Hand Book was referred to the committee. File No. 63 was taken up for discussion and amending which was referred back to the Convention alongside a report of the committee.
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Sections 8 and 2 of File No. 129 were referred to the committee and taken up for discussion. A report of the committee and the two sections were referred back to the Convention. The Article on Prohibition and the Article on Militia and their related files were then taken up by the committee for consideration.
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The articles on education, impeachment, and school lands were taken up and amended by the committee.
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The Committee of the Whole continued section by section debate on File 123: Article on Elective Franchise. They then began section by section debate on File 121: Article on Judiciary Department.
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The Committee of the Whole debates section by section File 121: Article on Judiciary Department. The Committee then rises into the Convention to report.
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