. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ided into two states, the north half to be named North Dakota. A third convention met at Jamestown in 1888. It adopted a memorial on thedivision of the territory in the two parts and the admission of both North andSouth Dakota as states, and appointed a committee to present this memorial toCongress. The Territorial Legislature which assembled at Bismarck in January. 1885,adopted and forwarded to Congress a memorial providing for the admission ofSouth Dakota as a state. This memorial was an able document. In intense,pertinent and
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ided into two states, the north half to be named North Dakota. A third convention met at Jamestown in 1888. It adopted a memorial on thedivision of the territory in the two parts and the admission of both North andSouth Dakota as states, and appointed a committee to present this memorial toCongress. The Territorial Legislature which assembled at Bismarck in January. 1885,adopted and forwarded to Congress a memorial providing for the admission ofSouth Dakota as a state. This memorial was an able document. In intense,pertinent and trenchant language it enumerated reasons why division should behad, and the admission of South Dakota as a state be granted, but Congressfailed to act thereon until December 15, 1885. In the meantime a second consti-tutional convention was held at Sioux Falls, in September. 1885; it framed andsubmitted a constitution which was ratified by the people of South Dakota, by anoverwhelming vote. This constitution and the memorial of the Legislature of 1885 were pre-. RICHARD F. PETTIGREW Came to Sioux Falls in 1869. Territorialle<;islator, delegate to Congress in 1881 andfirst United States senator from SouthDakota. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 369 sented to the Senate by its president pro tern., John Sherman, on December 15,1885. Senator Harrison introduced a bill to admit South Dakota as a state, andto organize the Territory of North Dakota, on that date. This bill with an amend-ment substituting Lincoln instead of North Dakota, as the name of the new terri-tory, passed the Senate February 5, 1886. It was reported adversely by theHouse Committee on Territories. Bills were introduced in January, 1886, to admit the entire territory as a state,to divide the territory on the Missouri River, to organize the Territory of Lin-coln, to enable the people of the territory east of the Missouri to frame a consti-tution and be admitted as a state, to admit the entire state and to organize theTerr
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