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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  4. Session: 1889-09-20 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 5948: 1889-09-20 00:00:00

The reports of the standing committees were presented. The Convention then resolved into the Committee of the Whole. The committee reported their progress and recommended substitutions for different files.

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Reports of Standing Committees: 1889-09-20

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REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Committee No. 10 made the following reports:

Cheyenne, Sept. 19th, 1889.

Mr. President:

Your Committee No. 10, to whom was referred File No. 82, beg leave to report that the same has been duly considered and is herewith returned with the recommendation that the proposition be adopted.

THOS. R. REID, Acting Chairman.

Mr. President:

Your committee No. 10, to whom was re-referred File No. 66, report that they have complied with the suggestion of your convention, and return said file herewith.

THOS. R. REID, Acting Chairman.

On motion Files No. 66 and 82 reported back by Committee No. 10 were referred to the general file.

By general consent Committee No.10 submitted File No. 81, concerning “Boards of Arbitration;” ordered printed.

By general consent the following named gentlemen were excused:

Mr. Richards, from day to day until his return. Mr. Butler, for today and tomorrow, and Messrs. Organ and Riner for today’s session.

On motion of Mr. Burritt substitute for Files No. 35 and 57 was made the special order for tomorrow.

Mr. Baxter moved that the convention resolve itself into committee of the whole. So ordered.

Mr. Teschemacher in the chair.

On arising the committee reported as follows:

Cheyenne, Sept. 20, 1889.

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole to whom was referred the general file beg leave to report with the following recommen-dations:

That substitute for Files No. 51 and 56 be amended in Sec. 3 by inserting in line 3 after the word “office” the words “or his absence from the state.”

Amend Sec. 13 in the fifth line by striking out the words “fifteen hundred” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “two thousand."

That the amendment submitting a new section, No. 16, be referred to Committee No. 4.

That Sec. 11 be amended by adding the following:

‘‘The legislature may provide for such other state offi¬cers as may be deemed necessary.”

And that substitute for Files No. 51 and 56 thus amended be adopted.

That substitutes for Files No. 9 and 36 be amended as fol-lows:

Strike out all of Sec. 2 after the words “United States” in the sixth line. Substitute the following for Sec. 4:

“No military organization under the laws of the state shall carry any banner or flag representing any sect or society or the flag of any nationality but that of the United States.

Amend Sec. 5 by inserting in first line after the word “chief”’ the words “of the military forces, of the state.”

And that substitute for Files No.9 and 36 thus amended be printed.

H. E. TESCHEMACHER, Chairman.

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