Part 81 (2/2)

Senate: Twenty-second District--Roscoe F Hersey Twenty-eighth District--John Shaleen House: Twenty-second District--Dwight M

Sabin, Whth District--F S

Christensen

TWENTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE, 1879

Senate: Twenty-second District--Jahth District--John Shaleen House: Twenty-second District--A M Dodd, Chas Peterson, Andrew Peterson Twenty-eighth District--John Dean

TWENTY-SECOND STATE LEGISLATURE, 1881

Senate: Twenty-second District--J N Castle Twenty-eighth District--John Shaleen House: Twenty-second District--Dwight M

Sabin, Andrew Peterson, Whth District--John Dean

TWENTY-THIRD STATE LEGISLATURE, 1883

Senate: Twenty-fourth District--J N Castle Thirty-eighth District--John Shaleen House: Twenty-fourth District--Dwight M

Sabin, C P Gregory, A Steghth District--Levi H

McKusick

TWENTY-FOURTH STATE LEGISLATURE, 1885

Senate: Twenty-fourth District--J N Castle Thirty-eighth District--John Shaleen House: Twenty-fourth District--E W Durant, W H Pratt, Arthur Stephen Thirty-eighth District--Levi H McKusick

TWENTY-FIFTH STATE LEGISLATURE, 1887

Senate: Twenty-fourth District--E W Durant Thirty-eighth District--Otto Wallmark House: Twenty-fourth District--F Dornfield, R M Anderson, C P Gregory Thirty-eighth District--Henry Sislature continued in session one hundred and forty-eight days Its e of the 5,000,000 loan bill At the twentieth session a laas passed changing the sessions of the legislature from annual to biennial

THE CONStitUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1857

As a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1857, and a , the writer considers it not a that soress of 1856-57 passed an enabling act for the for that a constitutional convention of delegates, chosen by the people, should assemble at midday, July 13, 1857, at the hall of the house of representatives at the state capitol, and adopt a constitution, subject to the ratification of the people

The territorial governor, Samuel Medary, ordered an election to be held on the first Monday in June, 1857, for delegates, the nuht The State was nearly equally divided between the Republicans and Deely into the contest, except as a question of party supre a state govern act, and in le ticket in the field It was a matter, therefore, of soates into opposing factions, resulting practically in the for to represent the people, and each proposing a constitution The delegates, although but 108 were called, were nus as 59 Republican and 53 Deularity of enrollment, by which certain membershi+ps were counted twice The Republicana bare ht, twelve hours before the legal ti to obtain control of the offices and coe in theupon contested seats

In obedience to the call of the leaders of the party, issued the day before, the writer with other Republicans repaired to the house at the appointed hour, produced his credentials as a delegate, and was conducted into the illuates were dispersed variously about the hall, so, or snoring, as here and there one had fallen asleep in his seat Occasionally a delegate nervously examined his revolver as if he anticipated soates were elsewhere probably plotting in secret conclave to capture the hall, and perhaps it h to be prepared for the worst Thus the reht passed and the forenoon of July 13th As soon as the clock struck twelve, the Deates rushed tu the speaker's stand That, however, was already occupied by the Republican delegates, and the stored to content itself with the lower steps of the stand Both parties at the”order” vociferously, and no their officers, _pro teh in the uproar and confusion it was difficult to knoas done

The De adjourned at once to the senate chaanization The Republicans being left in the undisturbed possession of the hall, perfected their organization, and the two factions set theently to work to fraally constituted convention, and expecting recognition as such by the people of the State and by Congress The debates in each were acrinized the absurdity and illegality of their position, and questioned the propriety of res which they could not sanction

The conventions continued their sessions inharh Each framed a constitution, at the completion of which a joint committee was appointed to revise and harmonize the two constitutions, but the erent as the conventions they represented Me each other ords and even blows, blood being drawn in an argueons between Hon Willis A Gorman, Dereement seemed impossible, when some one whose naestion that alternate articles of each constitution be adopted When this was done, and the joint production of the two conventions was in presentable shape, another and al should be accorded the honor of signing officially this ree the paternity of the hybrid