. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. he previous question on this mtoion, whichwas seconded, and the convention proceeded to vote on the main question, whichwas the adoption of the article. The vote was taken by yeas and nays, andadopted by a vote of 43 yeas to 28 nays. The old combine, standing in solidphalanx, voted yea. Delegates Peterson and Selby were absent and not voting, and DelegatesAlmen and Scott were paired. Delegates Bean, Camp, Johnson, Lauder, OBrien, Pollock, Stevens, Turnerand Wallace explained their votes. Stevens in explaining his vote said: I vot
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. he previous question on this mtoion, whichwas seconded, and the convention proceeded to vote on the main question, whichwas the adoption of the article. The vote was taken by yeas and nays, andadopted by a vote of 43 yeas to 28 nays. The old combine, standing in solidphalanx, voted yea. Delegates Peterson and Selby were absent and not voting, and DelegatesAlmen and Scott were paired. Delegates Bean, Camp, Johnson, Lauder, OBrien, Pollock, Stevens, Turnerand Wallace explained their votes. Stevens in explaining his vote said: I votedaye on this proposition so that the City of Bismarck may sit on her seven hillsand be the most beautiful capital of the four new states. In his explanation of his vote Delegate Bean said that he came to the con-vention opposed to the location of the capital and institutions by the two votes on that question showed that fact. His third vote was in theaffirmative, that he might move a reconsideration. An indignation meeting of 7i O >H H o o. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 403 his constituents was instigated he said by one of the members of this conventionand condemned the action of the majority. He had seen more pohtical trickery,jobbery and attempted combinations of the minority than he ever saw in anypolitical convention he ever attended. The serious question is not where weshall locate these institutions, the underlying question is, shall the City of Bis-marck, or Grand Forks, have the capitol? This last statement aroused the ire ofDelegate Bennett of Grand Forks, who, although debate was out of order, in-dignantly characterized it as false, that Grand Forks had never proposed toenter a combination to locate the capital, but when it saw this combination offorty-four bound to locate the capital at Bismarck, it felt justified in trying to breakit if possible. That was the course of the people from Grand Forks. Anobstreperous partisan of the committee called out fr
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