NINETEENTH DAY.

Hall of the Constitutional Convention. Capitol Building, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept 23, 1889.

The convention was called to order at nine o’clock a. m.

Mr. President in the chair.

Prayer by the chaplain.

Roll call; no quorum present.

On motion of Mr. Elliott a call of the house was ordered.

The president ordered the sergeant-at-arms to close the doors and to request the attendance of absent members.

A quorum being present further proceedings under call of the house were on motion of Mr. Elliott, dispensed with.

Journal of previous session read and approved.

Reports of Standing Committees.

Committee No. 1 submitted the following report:

Mr. President:

Your committee No. 1 returns files numbered 1-20-21-44 and 53 not approved. Portions of file 81 have been incorporated in the draft of a Bill of Rights, herewith submitted with the recommendation that it be adopted.

GEO. W. BAXTER,

JOHN W. HOYT.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 23, 1889.

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The proposition of Committee No. 1 being File 88 on “Preamble” was ordered printed.

Messrs. Barrow and Burdick were excused from attendance for the day.

Committee No. 17 reported as follows:

Cheyenne, Sept. 23d, 1889.

To the President and Members of the Wyoming Constitutional Convention.

Gentlemen:—We your committee on printing accounts and expenses beg leave to report that the contract for the balance of the printing required by this convention has been let to the Bristol & Knabe Printing Co. under the same conditions and subject to the same terms of payment as the former agreement with the Cheyenne Daily Sun.

Very Respectfully,

W. E. CHAPLIN, HENRY G. HAY, J. A. CASEBEER.

On motion the report of Committee No. 67 was adopted.

Mr. Johnston submitted the following resolution which was referred to Committee No. 8:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention, that the effort that is being made to establish a deep water harbor on the Texas coast has our approbation and that our representative at Washington be requested to use his best endeavors to secure the building of such harbor or harbors.

On motion of Mr. Burritt the convention went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the majority and minority reports on the amendment to File No. 76 and the general file.

Mr. Riner in the chair.

Upon arising the committee reported as follows:

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole to whom were referred the majority and minority reports on the amendments to File 76, beg leave to report with the following recommendations:

Amend majority report of Committee No. 2 by striking out “1,400” wherever it may appear and inserting in lieu thereof “1.200;” also by inserting “16” in lieu of “13” as the number of senators, and “33” instead of “30” as the number of representatives.

Your committee further recommends the reconsideration of the vote adopting the majority report of Committee No. 6, also that the additional three representatives be apportioned to Converse, Johnson and Sheridan counties, and that File No. 76, as amended, be adopted.

J. A. RINER, Chairman.

On motion the report was adopted.

File No. 76, as amended, was ordered engrossed.

The convention thereupon stood in recess until 3 o’clock p. m.

Afternoon Session.

The convention re-assembled at three o’clock p. m.

Mr. President in the chair.

The general consent committee No. 10 submitted the following report: Mr. President:

We, your committee No. 10, to whom was referred the communication from the governor in regard to the Deep Water Convention do respectfully recommend the following gentlemen as delegates from Wyoming:

Hon. Elwood Mead, Cheyenne,

Mr. A. V. Quinn, Evanston,

Hon. H. A. Coffeen, Sheridan.

Respectfully submitted,

THOMAS R. REID, Chairman.

On motion of Mr. Burritt the report was adopted.

Committee No. 19 reported Articles 2 and 3 prepared for the constitution.

Mr. Campbell gave the following notice:

Mr. President:

I hereby give notice that I will move for an amendment of the rules by making a new committee to be known as a committee on address to the people and to congress.

Committee No. 8 submitted the following report:

Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 23, 1889. Mr. President:

Your committee on irrigation having under consideration resolution relative to Deep Water Harbors on the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico, recommend the adoption of the accom-panying resolutions.

J. A. JOHNSTON. Chairman.

Whereas, the Territory of Wyoming has great agricultural, mineral and industrial interests that require for their development, trunk lines of railroads, running north and south, and extending from the British Columbian provinces to the Gulf of Mexico, thereby opening up to its farmers, miners, and artisans, additional markets, and to enable them to compete with the states nearer the seaboard, and enabling them to exchange the products of its country for the products of the south.

Whereas, these results must and will be materially advanced by the establishment and maintenance of a deep water harbor or harbors on the Gulf of Mexico.

Now, therefore. Be it Resolved by the delegates of the constitutional convention of the Territory of Wyoming, that the establishment of a deep water harbor or harbors on the Texas- coast of the Gulf of Mexico, meets with the approbation of this convention; that our president and secretary are hereby instructed to forward to the Deep Water Harbor Convention, about to convene in the city of Topeka, Kansas, a copy of these resolutions, and that they also furnish a. copy to our delegate in congress, the Hon. Joseph M. Carey, accompanying the same with the request that our delegate use his best endeavors to secure the establishment of such harbor or harbors.

On motion the foregoing resolutions were adopted and referred to Committee No. 19 for engrossment.

On motion the convention resolved itself into committee of the whole for the consideration of the general file.

Mr. Elliott in the chair.

On arising the committee made the following report:

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole having had under consideration the general file, beg leave to report with the following recommendations:

That File No. 66 be adopted.

That substitute for File No. 82 be adopted.

That Section 28 of substitute for File No. 50 be adopted.

That substitute for File No. 31 be amended in section 2 by striking out all after the word “and” in the third line, and inserting the following, “Common carriers and as such must be made, by law to extend the same equality and impartiality to all who use them excepting employees and their families, whether individuals or corporations."

And that said files, as amended, be adopted.

That File No. 60 be amended by substituting the following for section 4 of said file:

“All debts and liabilities of the Territory of Wyoming shall be assumed and paid by this State," and that, as amended, File No. 60 be adopted.

That substitute for File No. 84 be adopted.

That substitute for Files No. 7, 26, 27, 41, 54, and 55 be made the special order for Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 24th.

And your committee respectfully asks leave to sit again.

•H. S. ELLIOTT, Chairman.

The report of the committee of the whole was adopted, and the tiles recommended for adoption ordered engrossed.

The convention thereupon stood in recess until 7:30 o’clock p. m.

Evening Session.

The convention re-assembled at 7:30 o'clock p. m.

Mr. President in the chair.

On motion of Mr. Riner the convention went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the general file.

Mr. Johnston in the chair.

On arising the committee reported as follows:

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole to whom was referred the general file beg leave to report that the same has been duly considered and is returned with the following recommendation:

That File No. 85 be adopted..

And your committee respectfully report progress and asks leave to sit again.

J. A. JOHNSTON, Chairman.

On motion the report was adopted and File No. 85 ordered engrossed.

On motion the convention adjourned until 9 o’clock a. m. Sept. 24th.

M. C. BROWN. President.

Attest: JOHN K. JEFFREY, Secretary.

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