New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-02


Der to check the forces of the Democrats il
the House Of Representatives. But, prob
| ably, each of the new States may be relieI
| upon to send two Republican Senators t.
Washington, who will be hailcd as vel
come reinforcement by the partisans of tn
! administration. In the House of represent
| atives the measure will have less signi6
canoe, for neither New Mexico nor COLORADO
has anything approaching to the population
| that would entitle either of them to NOR
| than the single Representative which
| according to the constitution, every State
must return. The mum Der of members Of thu
| House is determined after each decennia
census and was fixed, upon the basis of emu
meration of 1870, at 2S3, distributed amons
the several States in proportion to their pop
ulation. This gives one Representative t,
80 900 citizens; but it is provided that thu
Representatives of any new States admit
ted during the decenuial period are to be
iE addition to the .S3 members, divided
among the thirty seven States federated il
1870. One member from New Mexico an(
one from Colorado will raise the number
therefore, to 2S5. 1t is remarkable tina
this accession to the organized forces of the
Union, occurring exactly hundred year,
after the first assembling of the Congress O.
the Thirteen Colonies at Philadelphia
will precisely treble the number of the Con
federated States whose arnalgamatiOn was
the work of that famous assembly. The
thirteen States for whom the American con
stitutiOn was framed have grown to thirty
| nine, and have extended their grasp from
the seaboard of the Atlantic. to which a cen
fury ago they timidiy clung, across mighty
continent. Who shall forecast wha. TEEN
ing populations will in another century
inhabit the vast regions west of the Missis
sippi! 1t is not too much to say that Colo
RADIO alone, which has now barely the
numbers Of fourth rate town, will then
outweigh, in all the elements of political
strength, the whole of New England. The
territory OF this young and vigorous com
munity, ''astride upon the Rocky mount
aims" giving one hand to Kansas and the
other to Utah, il at least of magnificent
dimensions. New Mexico, lying directly
south, and with its neighbOr Arizona,
stretching across half the continent from
the northern wilds of Texas to the Cali
fornian frontier, has, perhaps, less splendid
possibilities before it, but they are such as
might dazzle any nation less accustomed to
contemplate boundless Inheritance than
the people Of the United States.
The organization of New Mexico and
Colorado as States leaves no great proper
ton to the Territories unOrgaHized. Along
the northern from tier of the Union, it is
true, where it marches with the Canadian
possessions on the Red river and Saskatch-
evan and with the province of British
Columbia, there are four vast territories
still unorganized, and. indeed, for the most
part, npeopled-Dakota, Montana, Idaho
and Washington, aud south of Montana
and north Of Colorado is Wyoming, which
has recently adopted woman's suffrage as
an experiment. These five territories had,
in 1870, some $4,000 Inhabitants, and
yet they covered an area much greater
than that of all the States north of the
Potomac and west of the Oh O.. Beyond
Idaho, on the Pacific coast, is the State of
Oregon, and south of Oregon California
claims the whole seaboard down to the
Mexican frontier. East ward from Or
egon is Nevada, erected into a State
few years ago. But between New
hiatus in the work of political organization
The Territory of Utah was organized a
quarter of a century ago at the same time
with New Mexico; at the last census it had
81, 900 inha ENTHUSIASTICALLY as many as the
State OF Oregon, more than twice as many
as Nevada. Yet New Mexico and Colorado
are now to take their place in the order of
American government alongside of Oregon
and Nevada; but there is no thought of
admitting Utah to the privileges of State.
The explanation is. of course. simple one
any Territory and will do SO unless salts
fed with the form of constitution offered by
the Territorial population. In the case Of
Utah, which claimed to be admitted many
years ago as the State of Deseret, Con
gress required special guarantees against
the preparation OF pOlygamy and the
other peculiar institutions of Mormon
ism. That the Mormons of Utah are not
disposed to give any sucn guarantees may
be inferred from the fact that they have
lately sent to Washington as delegate from
the Territory an elder of their church,
whom committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives has pronounced to be disqualified
as an avowed and notorious polygamist.
In spite Of this; it may be confidently pre-
dicted that the pressure of population in
Utah will eventually compel Congress to
organize it as State. The arguments for
this course will be greatly increased in
weight by the admission OF New Mexico
and Colorado, and probably will meet with
more attention from the Democratic party,
which is now beginning to feel the respon-
sibilities Of its recent victory, than they
would have received from the Republicans,
leavened as they are with the Puritan ira
dtions of New England.