Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-03
l News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. ENEE FROM WASHINGTON. Reports From Various of
 the Departments. THE GROWTH OF 4 TERRITORY. DakOta's Progress During the Past aaa @zAT =z sssz Ye1F.ga ssasgaa CHIaA'S POLICY TOWARDS FRANCE. An Expression of COnfi-
 dence En Tseng.
TIE GROWTH OF A TERRITORY.
Dakota's Progress During the Past
CHIaA'S POLICY TOWARDS FRANCE.
An Expression of Conf
 dence En Tseng.
I THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Growth of ofDakota-Nhat a Twelve | month Developed Accordtng to it's Ex- ecueive.
 l. WAsHNaroN, Nov Ex-Governor Ordwsy of Dakota has submitted his annual report in
 which he declares the progress and develop
 ment in Dakota during the past year was al- most phenomenal and estimates the increase in population at one hundred thousand. He
 says there is little valueless land in Dakota. Mining still continues in the Black Hills, but
 the increase has not been as great as during l the previous year. Tho average yield of wheat was from fifteen to thirty bushels per
 acre. During the year $125, GOO was spent l in founding and maintaining public schools He explains at length the failure of the bill
 creating State out of certain counties of
 the territory and justifes his action in allow 1 ing the bill to expire by imit.tion without
 his approval. ''The failure on the part of the promoters of this scheme says Cover nor Ordway, ''to force favorable executive l action has resulted in an unjust and indecent factional warfare on their part against the executive and all members of the legislative
 assembly who did not support the measure or who did 50 through compulsion in order to
 secure the passage of measures which they deemed to be important to their
 constituents. Men styling themselves executive commissioners have without sanction of law assumed to hold elections and in some instances have induced legally elected officers to use the elective ma
 chinery for choosing delegates to a so-called constitutional convention which recently met
 at Sioux Falls and prepared from the consti
 tutions of the various States number of
 tolerably fair propositions to be incorporated In constitution for certain counties in the southern portion of the territory. Some of
 the propositions put forth by this body, how
 ever, if placed in 8 constitution would de- stroy the great principle of equality in taxa. tion and open numerous avenues for strong combinations and shylocks to escape great
 deal of the public burdens. He expresses
 himself as willing to cooperate with the sen-
 timent of the people fairly expressed in making two States out of the present ter ritory, but in dealing with this question he says he is ''compelled to discountenance the wild visions of the demagogues who have sought to infams the public mind against the federal government and caused an unlaw- full change from Territorial to State govern ment without the sanction of Congress even though these vaporinRs emaneted from the United States officials whose counsels and conduct have been in direct violation of their oaths of office.'' He asks that Congress pass an act providing for constitutional conven- ton for Dakota and defends the capitol re- moval bill and says the reports industriously circulated through the Associated Press that the bill was rushed through without due con- sideration are not true.