. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. med, one known as the Bismarck-Fargo union, the other as the GrandForks, the first to locate the capital permanently at Bismarck. The Fargo-Bismarck combination considered Bismarck the most available point for theSeat of Government, and desired the agricultural college at Fargo. Behind,or supporting this combine, was the powerful influence of the Northern Pacific,and this together with the distribution of the institutions that would be estab-lished, promised the necessary votes to carry the Bismarck-Fargo scheme. The Grand Forks
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. med, one known as the Bismarck-Fargo union, the other as the GrandForks, the first to locate the capital permanently at Bismarck. The Fargo-Bismarck combination considered Bismarck the most available point for theSeat of Government, and desired the agricultural college at Fargo. Behind,or supporting this combine, was the powerful influence of the Northern Pacific,and this together with the distribution of the institutions that would be estab-lished, promised the necessary votes to carry the Bismarck-Fargo scheme. The Grand Forks combine was behind the IMathews scheme, hoping andexpecting that by the process of elimination of other cities with capital aspira-tions. Grand Forks would eventually be selected as the permanent capital. The committee on public institutions and buildings differed on the locationof the capital and presented majority and minority reports thereon. On August7th, the convention proceeded to the consideration of the reports as a convention I H SIl> oK COSI w o o. I 1 HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 401 without filtering them through the committee of the whole, and then ensued themost thrilling, sensational debate of the session, reinforced as it was by meetings,protests and remonstrances of mass meeting of citizens and conventions invarious counties, and petitions of individuals. These petitions and protests weregenerally expressed in forceful language, devoid of threats or insinuations ofcorruption, or that other than proper motives actuated the members who favoredthe Bismarck-Fargo scheme. The City of Grand Forks was in a state ofmind over the capital location. In the estimation of some of its citizens, thelocating of the permanent capital was a mendacious exhibition of public villainyand corruption. One protest from there was as gross and as indecent an attackas has ever been visited upon any body or any representative character or dig-nity whatsoever, while a petition signed by S. S.
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