The daily gazette., 1882-02-17

ing and exultation ever the report Of
the proposition of the Congressional
Committee on Territories in the House
favorable to the admission of the
southern part of Dakota as State.
Ordinarily all parties are ready to re-
joice at the organization of new
State and its introduction into the
family of small nations composing the
Republic. And we should like to join
with those who rejoice at the birth of
the new State and would do so were
: it not clearly apparent that the move
ment is partisan. one to give strength
to the Republican factions and con-
tinue the party in power whose lead
ers have SO long preyed upon the
country and wasted the substance OF
the people. The Morning Ne0s it its
elation over the report of the Con-
gressional committee shows the reason
of its exultation ia the following edi-
toral paragraph:
's0ne of our special Washington de-
spatches this morning says the Repub-
licans are strongly disposed to admit
part of Dakotah As a State. With one
new Republican Senator from this State
and two from Dakotah David Davis
would find himself opt of work as al en-
tire political party in himself"
That the Senate may be more in
creased in its Republican majority by
''one more Senator from Dakota and
another Republican Senator from
Delaware, in The place of Mr.. Sauls>
bury, is the cause of the elation of the
Morning Nelcs. Then Mr. David
Davis is invited to go about his busi-
ness or cast his vote as he pleases-the
partisan machine will be again made
up, and the caucus govern the coun>
try without regard to whether more
than one-half or one-third of the
votes of the representatives of the
the people govern the country and
make the laws. The party caucus
assemblies and its majority influences
the vote of the party, while all the
Democrats and nearly half of the
Republicans constituting almost three
fourths of the Congress are opposed
to the partisan spirit of the legisla.
tion such legislation imposes laws
upon the people to which they are
hostile. 1t was while under such
machine" government that Brady
and the Star Route Ring determined
to rob the country of some nine mil.
lions of dollars and it was only
when the caucus was broken up by
the quarrel with Conkling that the
Ring was exposed and the expendi-
lures stopped, through the orders, nc
doubt, of the late President Garfield
Senator Saulsbury,s seat is wanted
to help 20 re-establish the caucus
and the "Rlngs" that are to follow al
a consequence. This is the.hope thai
animates the Morning Ne,Os and gives
it joy over the proposed admission ol
Dakota, although it is known thai
Dakota does not come up to the con
stitutlonal requirements that woulC
entltle her to an equal voice in tht
Senate with the other States of thu
Union. The correspondent of thu
New York Herald of yesterday fur
nishes the gist of the report Of th
majority of the committee upon whicl
the argument for admission of TIN
new State is based:
1t gives the boundary lines OF the pro
posed STATE, embracing in their limit
something over $4,000 square miles
greater in extent than the entire Nov
England States. In 1860 the population
was only Z, ,S37, and in 1870 1t had in
creased to only 14,lSl; but by the las
census the population of that portion 0
the Territory seeking admission ha
grown to be more than 100000. I'll
committee, from the most reliable dat
obtainable, feel justified in assertln
that the present population will not ia
far short of 10000. From the establish h
ment of the first land Office in Dakota Il
June, 1880, a period of eIghteeen years
the whole number of land Claims file
was only A, ,122, while in the nneteel
months succeeding that time up to De
cember 81, 1881, there were eutere
ha Rg,Ia hnr
tered previous to 1880 was 73S $50, whlI
1,O2y,208 have been taken since tia
time, as each claim must be based upo
personal settlement, residence and Gu
tlvauoD, and no claim can be peGfeete
except upon strict proof Of these esGeI
tials. The report shows the popula:iu
of the counties of Southern Dakota i
1880, and eAeir estimated increase since
aud states that there are thirty incorpo
rated towns and cities in the section an
plying for admission. The assessel
valuation of property in Southern Da
kota in 1881 was SIG 494 ,224. This doe
not Include railroad property of an,
kind, nor homestead or pre-emptlol
claims. 1t Is estimated that the Iresen
year will show at least S30,000,0C0 0
property which is not liable to taxation
The report shows total of 327 Post
offices and % money order offices il
South Dakota, 4 national banks and q.
private banks, while there are pending