, 1864-05-27

We extract the following from private
letter from Hon. Geo E. Cole, dated Wash
ington, April LIST:
l enclose you a slip
relative to the action taken by the Senate
upon the Montana bill. Montana lies north
of As, except at the southwestern corner,
where the line drops down to 44:3O' so as to
include the East BannOck country It's
western boundary is the Bitter Root noun
tains and the 10th meridian from the point
of intersection With said degree to latitude
49. Idaho extends from Utah to the 49th
parallel The Rocky mountains being the
eastern boundary of the southern part and
the Bitter Root of the northern. The coun-
try south of Montana is attached to Daco-
tab.
Nothing of Importance occurring, except
the outbreak in Illinois, caused by conflict
between the civil and military authorities.
You get so much false information by tele-
graph it might be well to state that the
trouble commenced by soldiers attempting
to interfere with the proceedings of court
because the Judge was q Democrat The
Sheriff, as in duty bound, protected the
Judge, and in doing SO killed three or four
soldiers. The Illinois delegation fear that it
will be very serious affair. You will learn
BY telegraph, long before this reaches you,
whether their fears be we'll founded or not;
but you will hardly get the truth of the mat
ter in other respects. The people are op-
pressed everywhere and if the Courts fail to
do the bidding of the military they have to
90 under If this matter is persisted in by
the military authorities, it would not sur
prise me if hundred thousand people in
illinois and Indiana were drawn into it.
You can we'll fOresee what the effect of such
move would be- The war problem would
be solved.
The following is the Senatorial "slip"
referred to above,-EDs. -
"The House bill to provide temporary
Government for the Territory of Montana
was taken up on motion of Mr. Wade the
pending question being on the amendment
of Mr. Wilkinson to strike out the word
white in the fifth section defining the quail
ifications of voters, and eligibility to Office
within the Territory. The amendment was
adopted by the following vote:
YEAs.-Brewn, Chandler, Clark, Cola
mer Conness, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Fos-
ter, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howard,
Howe, Morgan, Morrill,, Pomeroy, Ramsey,
Sumner Wade and Wilson-22.
NAYs.-Buckalew Carlile, Cowan, Da-
Wis, Harding, Henderson, johnson, Lane,
(Ind Nesmith, Powell, Riddle, Salisbury,
Sherman, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Win
kle and Willey.-17.
The question being then on the final pas
sage of the bill, Mr.. Powell inquired how
many inhabitants were in the proposed new
Territory.
Mr. Wade replied that there were twelve
thousand inhabitants on this side of the
mountains, and twelve on the other; and that
the population was rapidly increasing, on
account of new discoveries of gold.
Mr. Sumner would inquire what sug-
gested the name of the new Territory
Montana.
Mr. Wade said he could not answer the
question
Mr. Howard said that, by reference to his
old Latin dictionary, he found that the word
referred to mountainous country, such as
this was described to be. [Laughter
Mr. johnson said that if the object Of
Mr. Wilkinson's amendment was TO declare
that the African should have equal political
rights under this bill, he would suggest that
he would modify it SO as to express such a
purpose.
Mr.. Wilkinson desired to let his amend
ment stand in the form in which had been
adopted, so that neither the word white OF
black should appear in the bill.
Mr.. Sumner considered that Congress was