The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1932, Page 2

| Describes How B jonly from Fargo to Grand Forks and west as far as Bartlett—a few miles jeast of Devils Lake. The Northern | Pacific had not completed its line to the Pacific but had gotten beyond the western boundary of the territory. It owned @ branch of Casselton to Blan: jchard or Mayville and it had built the Southwestern to LaMoure or | Edgeley, and possibly one or two other | branch lines, and the Milwaukee was |reaching into Fargo from Ortonville \In the southern part of the territory the lines extended from the east to Activities of Removalist Group) aberdeen, to Pierre, to Chamberlain, | and to Yankton, with some cross lines. Outlined By Burleigh F. Its entire railroad system belonged to Idini | the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Spalding |and the Northwestern roads. | | Legislature Met in 1883 WAS COMMISSION MEMBER} STORY OF POLITICAL MANEUVERS I$ TOLD BY PIONEER FARGOAN The legislature of 1883 met in Yank. thought of capital removal. Prior to, been located in the southern half and | at that session the penitentiary, the} insane asylum, the university, and the | agricultural college, were duplicated | for the northern half. | On the assembling of the legisla- ‘ture it was recognized that the two} railroads mentioned would be very im-j portant factors sometime in the relo: ‘cation of the capital; that they would} jdesire to locate it where it would do} them or one of them the most good, |and that a contest might result be- Efforts Made to Move Capital Provide Remarkable Chap- ter in History Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles written for The Associated Press by a mem- ber of the commission which lo- cated and constructed the capi tol of Dakota Territory at Bis- marck. The author, Burleigh F. Spalding of Fargo, the youngest member of the commission, is one of the two survivors of nine commissioners who served from 1883 to 1887. of development and extension. The! roads were uncertain as to the future | location of their lines and what cities; | might be their principle objective: | It was understood that they had |agreed that as far as they could influ- | lence the legislature, there should be no immediate attempt made to change the capital, that all action should be By B. F. SPALDING The Territory of Dakota was cre- ae atom Maissourl river delayed until the officials of the rail- i j roads might determine where its loca- aoe oor the teritory and approxi-, Hon would best serve their interests. | mately 400 miles from its northern, Members of the legislature conferred | i. \secretly and it was determined that y south- | ‘ y Western ‘corner. "The southern haif| the legislature was the proper body of the territory contained far the|'0 control the capital location and) i ati | that the time to do so was before the 1883 it was still sparse and the rela-|W8S recognized that so many cities tive proportions remained about the| Would become candidates that major- same. South Dakota was a land of|ities of both houses would never come small farms and exceot the Black| to an agreement. i Hills, of small operations. The set-| Determined on Removal tled portion of North Dakota consist-| The location of the national capi ed almost entirely of farms of great! tal, within certain limits, had been! size which required vast operations|left to President Washington, and in by their owners, The character of|some other instances the location of| the people was indicated somewhat| Public institutions had been dele- by the relative extent of their opera-| gated to officials or commissions. Ac- tions and industries. | cordingly it was determined to secure, Some will remember Major A. W.|if possible, the passage of a measure Edwards, many years editor of the|Temoving the capital from Yankton} Fargo Argus. He sometimes said very!2nd providing that it should be re apt and telling things. He is said atjlocated by a commission consisting one time to have explained to a/0f nine members, all named in the stranger that the difference between | bill. the people of South Dakota and| Our legislators, in those days, were those of North Dakota was that “the | not higher minded than were Hamil- residents of South Dakota played 10} ton and Jefferson, and they were not chips to the dollar and those of | verse to adopting log rolling methods North Dakota, 10 dollars to the|to enact or defeat the capital removal chip.” measure and I assume that some votes Large Farms Explained were secured for the measure by a ‘The reason for the large size of the| judicious selection of those named to farms in North Dakota was that/Serve as members of the commission. | when the Northern Pacific railroad|I was not at the legislature at all and | was chartered by congress in 1864/knew nothing personally about the; provision was inserted in the charter] Proceedings. What I saw regarding} Permitting holders of stock in the|them must be termed as hearsay, but road to exchange it for lands which|I am satisfied that it is substantially were granted to the railroad to aid | correct. in its construction. The exchange! Hon. Nehemiah G. Ordway of New was to be made on the basis of par| Hampshire was then governor of the for the stock and list selling price| territory. He was about six feet, four for the lands. On the failure of Jay| inches tall, well proportioned, attract- Cooke in 1873 and the subsequent|ive personality, of extensive experi- panic and depression this stock be-j ence in political and business life, and came nearly worthless, and hundreds | had deep knowledge of human nature. of the large stockholders took advan- ; He had served as sergeant-at-arms of tage of the provision mentioned and| the national house of representatives | exchanged their holdings for lands,| during the Civil War. He recognized with the result that the odd sections} Yankton as a poor location and ac-, within the limits of the land grant) tively participated in securing the} in the eastern part of the state be-| enactment of the removal measure. came great wheat farms, many com-! The bill is at page 217 of the laws several sections each. |of the territory for 1883, and it first In what is now North Dakota, there | provides that the capital is removed were no branch lines of the Great|from Yankton; then it names the Northern and its main line extended| commission, consisting of Milo wal tween the two systems, then in process! tain in the Civil War, where he made Scott, who was a resident of Emer- ‘ado, Grand Forks county; B. F. Spald- ling of Fargo; Alex McKenzie of Bis- }marck; Charles H. Myers of Redfield; George A. Mathews of Brookings; Alexander Hughes of Yankton; Henry H. DeLong of Canton; John P. Beld- | ing of Deadwood; M. D. Thompson of | Vermillion. Scott Was Physician Scott was a physician who, as far as I know, had at most taken no m than an interest in local pol- itics and was unknown outside of Grand Forks county. McKenzie was sheriff of Burleigh jeounty and had held that office many years and had great political nfluence in the territory, and es- pecially in what is now North Da- kota. He had first dsplayed his matters at a convention held at nominate a Republican candidate for delegate to congress. Myers, I think, was a farmer and real estate man. Mathews was a lawyer at Brook- ings and a partner of J. O. B. Scobey, member and president of the terri- torial council which corresponded to the senate of a state. Hughes was a prominent lawyer at Yankton, an early settler in the ter- ritory and a man of wide experience and great ability. He served as cap- a remarkable record, and was the first attorney general of the terri- tory of Dakota. He had been in the territorial legislature, where he was president of the council in the ses- sion of 1872-73. Hughes county, South Dakota, was named for him. DeLong was a farmer. Belding was a prominent resident! of the Black Hills and had served as sheriff of Lawrence county. ‘Thompson was a prominent mer- chant and banker of Vermillion. I was the youngest member of the commission; had been a member of the bar of Cass county three years and had acquired no reputation in politics or otherwise. Each member was required to enter into a bond with sufficient sureties; to the territory in the sum of $40,000 for the faithful performance of his duties, and to subscribe an oath that he would fully, faithfully, and im- partially, carry out the provisions of the law. Explains Details of Act The act required the commissioner: to qualify within 30 days after its/ Passage and that they should meet in the city of Yankton and organize by electing a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, and that the treas- urer give an additional bond of $100,- 000. They also were required to select, by at least a majority vote, on or before the Ist of July, 1883, a suitable site for the seat of government, due | site. regard being had to its accessibility from all portions of the territory and its general fitness for a capital, when at least a hundred thousand dollars should be paid or guaranteed in money to the territory. They were required to secure at least 160 acres of land upon which the building should be erected, and lay out a portion thereof in suitable landscapes, squares etc., and the law provided that the residue of the 160 acres should be laid off into lots, jblocks, streets and alleys, ete. and be disposed of for the benefit of the Prohibited any member of the com- mission from purchasing or in any manner acquiring real estate or any interest therein within 10 miles of | the site selected for the capital within {one year from the passage of the act and from being directly or indirectly interested in any contract. Act Approved in March The act creating the commission was approved on the 8th day of March, 1883, and it is now difficult to imagine the excitement and agita- tion which it occasioned. General Hughes, one of the commissioners, re- sided at Yankton. He was quite active in securing the passage of the law. By reason of this the feeling against him in Yankton and vicinity was so aroused that it no doubt would have been exceedingly unpleasant for him ton in January, apparently with no ability as an organizer in territorial|/to have retained his residence there. He later took up his residence in Bis- that date territorial institutions had/Grand Forks in the fall of 1882 to|marck. Charges were banded in all directions to the effect that the pass- ‘age of the act had been secured by the grossest acts of corruption. There is no doubt that many people looked upon the relocation of the capital as a golden opportunity for amassing ‘wealth through real estate investments in the vicinity of the location. Posi- tions on the commission were consid- ered more desirable than any office in the gift of the people of the terri- tory and its members were constantly followed and importuned for tips on the location. I was informed at once that the understanding between the members of the legislature who supported the measure had been that the capital should be located at a point which would be fairly accessible to all parts of the state if the territory should be admitted as one state and at the same time would be fairly central as @ location for South Dakota’s capital, in case ef division, and that it was agreed in view of the sparsity of the population in North Dakota, and the) much larger number of people in South Dakota, that it should not go to any point in what is now North Dakota. I considered this agreement, without which the bill never would have passed, as morally binding on me as a commissioner. The members met in Sioux City, Towa, as a starting point on the way to Yankton to organize. We were de- tained there several days by my ill- ness. Rumors were current that an attempt would be made to enjoin the commission from organizing and that proceedings for that purpose had been instituted at Yankton, and that pa- pers were ready for service. Here let me say that no sooner had the act become a law than all the railroads became deeply interested and they furnished special trains without expense to the territory or the commission to carry its members on their quest for the most suitable Started From Sioux City After remaining two or three days in Sioux City, we boarded a train furnished by the Milwaukee road and started some time after midnight on the 3rd day of April for Yankton. The speed of the train was so timed that we arrived in Yankton just as the sun was rising. We were all up with everything prepared for perfect- ing the organization. We stopped a few minutes as we drew into Yankton where the proper motions were made and the commission organized with Alexander Hughes as president, Ralph ‘W. Wheelock then of Mitchell, secre- tary, and Milo W. Scott of Grand Forks, treasurer. I have recently found among my ‘files the original minutes made by the temporary secretary of the meet- ings held by the commission on the day of its organization. The record of the organization is as follows: “At a meeting of the commission created to locate the capital of Da- kota held at Yankton, D. T., April 3rd, 1883, the following proceedings were had: There were present the following members of the commissi Milo W. Scott, B. F. Spalding, Alex ‘McKenzie, H. H. DeLong, Alex Hughes, John P. Belding, C. H. Myers, M. D. Thompson, and George A, Mathews, being a full board. On motion of Thompson the commission proceeded to a temporary organization. On mo- tion of Alexander Hughes, M. Scott was made chairman of the temporary organization. On motion of J. P. Belding, Geo. A. Mathews was made secretary of the tem ganization. On motion of B. F. 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