. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. Seat of Government and submitted aproposition for a migratory court of three terms, one term to be holden atFargo, one at Grand Forks, and one at Bismarck, then the Seat of proposition, was debated at length. Delegates Purcell, Miller, Parsons, ofMorton, Lauder and Spalding favoring it, and Delegates Scott, OBrien andSelby opposing it. The Purcell proposition was adopted by the convention. Thomas H. Ruger of the Military Department of Dakota trans-mitted in accordance with instructions received from the
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. Seat of Government and submitted aproposition for a migratory court of three terms, one term to be holden atFargo, one at Grand Forks, and one at Bismarck, then the Seat of proposition, was debated at length. Delegates Purcell, Miller, Parsons, ofMorton, Lauder and Spalding favoring it, and Delegates Scott, OBrien andSelby opposing it. The Purcell proposition was adopted by the convention. Thomas H. Ruger of the Military Department of Dakota trans-mitted in accordance with instructions received from the War Department atWashington a proposed article ceding to the United States jurisdiction over themilitary reservation established in the state by the Federal Government. It wasreferred to the judiciary committee, which reported a section in conformity withthe desire of the Government and ceding jurisdiction over military, Indian andother United States reservations and public buildings used for United Statespurposes. This section was adopted by the HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 399 APPORTIONMENT Apportionment and legislative representation, owing to diversity of senti-ment among the delegates, was a difficult problem to solve. The more sparselysettled counties favored giving each county a senator, regardless of population,and strenuously opposed the principle of dividing the county into senatorialdistricts based on population, and also seriously objected to the election of rep-resentatives from the senatorial districts as favored by a majority of the legisla-tive committee. It was stoutly maintained that every county should have at leastone representative and that when two or more counties were grouped as asenatorial district the more populous county had power and doubtless wouldexercise it, to deprive the smaller county or counties of representation, either inthe Senate or House. Martin N. Johnson, in an impassioned speech, opposed representation bycounties, rather than
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