New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-13
ANEW STATE PROPOSED.
MI, To ADMIT SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

The subcommittee ot the House ColuHlit-
.oo ON Territories has agreed unanimously
uron a bill to provide for the admission as
S.ato of all that part Of Dakota Territory
south of the forty-sixth parallel. The pro-
,-;s;ons of the bill are given bya correspondent
&c TIE TRIBI'Nf;, who furnishes statements re-
s,octing the feeling of the people OF the Ter
r;tory in regard to its proposed division
r,,p y,TIrPE OF THE BILL AGREED UPON
ley TELEGRAPH THE TKrBUNB.i
w,curxcroY Feb 1.-THE snb-rommittee of
,bo Uouso Committee on Territories which has
boon for seine time engaged IN an investigation 70
ascertain whether Southern Dakota has sufficient
u,,1d ION and is in other respects entitled 10 ad
mission rs a State, and which has been engaged III
3he consideration Of different propositions IN re-
Iaton thereto, has unanimously agreed upoA bill
=, nrov;de for the admission as a State, with the
rame Of Dakota of all that part of Dakota Territory
south of the 4Cth parallel. The subcommittee is
composed of Messrs. Burrows, of Michigan, chair
man; Crowley and Grout, Republicans; and Leedom
and Mills. Democrats. The bill prepared by the
subcommittee will be reported to the full committee
an Tuesday, and, il is expected, viii be brought
into the House this week.
Section 3 of the bill provides for the election
Of convention. to be composed Of 120 delegates TO
form a State Constitution. The Constliu'
tjon so made must be republican III fol1il
ard make mo distinction in civi! or political
rights on account of race or color except indians
no. taxedD The convention mast provide ny an
ordinance irrcvocable without the consent Of the
limited States and the people of said State that per
feet liberation of religious sentiment and freedom OF
,eI,ons Worship shall he secured that All right
and tile TO unapproprated pubic lands saall nc
disclaimed: that lands of non-resdens shall not be
taxed higher than those of residents; that United
States property shall be exempt from taxation;
that lands held Ill severalty by Indians
shall he taxed only when the patents issued
by the United States therefor do not specially ex-
empt them from taxation, and that the bonded deDt
heretofore incurred by tie Territory of Dakota for
thehuilding of penitentiary and insane asylum
shal be assumed and paid by the State Of Dakota.
Section provides for an election for the ratii-
cation or rejection Of the Constitution by the people
and for the act of admission i'll of ratification
Section provides that the sixteenth and thirty
sixth sections Of public land III every township shall
lie granted to the State for the support of common
schools. Section grants fifty sections or $1,000
acres, of the unapproprated public lands for
the purpose of building public buildings for
legislative, executive and judicial purposes at the
Capital of the State. BY the ninth section ninety
sections 81 500 acres Of public Land are granted
for the endowment of an agricultural college.
Section 10 grants TO the State not exceeding
twelve salt springs therein and not exceeding six
sections OF 3,S40 acres, of public land adjacent
10 each the proceeds thereof to DO exclusively de-
voted to the support of common schools. The
llth section provides that the State shall re-
eeive i've per cent of the net proceeds Of sales of
p;blic lands therein, the same to he devoted to the
support Of common schools Section 12 requires
fhat the school sections in each township shall bc
disposed of only by public sale and
at a price not less than So an acre,
the proceeds TO constitute permanent
school fund the interest Of which only to be used
for the support of common schools. Section 13 ex-
cnpts all mineral lands from the grants and opera
ton of this act The 10Th to oath sections constl-
tnte the new State United States Judicial District
and provide for the judicial organization thereof
and the attachment to the With Judicial Circuit
and also for the transfer thereto Of causes now pend
ing in the Territorial courts, or which, having gone
I'D on appeal, may hereafter be rcmanded for new
trial
Sections If and 10 provide that the remainder of
the present Territory of Dakota shall con-
tinue as as a Territory by the name OF North Da-
kota that the laws of Congress and ofthe Territorial
Legislature not locally inappicabe shall continue
in force therein that there shall be for said Terri
tory of North Dakota Governor Secretary a
Chief Justice Associate Justice United States Mar
shaI and United States District-AttOrney that the
districts and assign the judges thereto, and into
twonty council and fifty representative districts
and apportiou tho representatives therein; that,
until otherwise provided by the Legislative Assem-
bly, the Governor shall fix the place where its scs-
sonS shall be held and the places ia the ist and HID
Judicial Districts whereat the District Court shall
exercise the jurisdiction of District and Circuit
Courts of the Uni ted States
That this bill. without important notifications
will be favorably reported to the House. there
can be no reasonable doubt; although
several members of the Committee on Territories |
in favor of requiring that the Constitution of
the new state shall prohibit the creation of State
debt the lending of the State credit |
for the benefit of any railroad or other corpora |
tOn and shall also prohibit the sale of school lands
at less price than $40 an acre. In another respect
the bill will be unsatisfactory to a portion of
the people Of North Dakota. While they favor the |
admission of South Dakota, and the consequent |
division of the Territory they arc very anxious that
the division shall precedc the admission and be
thorzed by a separate measure. The chief reason !
publicly given for this is fear that the division
may be postponed by factious political opposition to
the admission of the new State. One of
the most prominent advocates CT the proposition |
that a separate bill for division of the Territory
shall prccede the bill to admit South Dakota said |
TO a TRIBUNE correspondent recently that seventeen
Democratic Congressman and two Democratic |
Senators, who strongly opposed TO the latter |
measure have pledged themselves to The support If
the former.
Another consideration which, although not pub
lcly urged is perhaps the main One-especiay with
some of the prominent and aspiring politicians of
North Dakota-iS an earnest desire TO get rid of
Governor Ordway, who, ii is represented is greatly
disked by the people of the Territory, and who it
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