Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-12

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HIsToRY OF ILLINOIS.
Miss Mary Allen West, of Galesburg,
president of the Illinois State
Temperance union, is in the city.
The primary object Of her visit here is the
collection of data for her forthcoming his
tory of Illinois. The congressional library
is rich mine of material in this respect,
and Miss West may be daily seen delving
among its musty old volumes in search of
the desired information. During her stay
in Washington Miss West is the guest of
the Hon. James Delano, daputy second
com ptroller of the treasury. She will not
return to 9alesburg until the first prox-
imo.
| THE CANALS.
| The committee on canals and rail-
ways now has before il only
two projects-those of the Hsnnepin, and
the Chesapeake and Delaware canals. Mr..
Davidson, of Florida, chairman, ia now
absent, but Mr.. Hoblitzell, of Maryland,
acts as chairman, and says the committee
will press both matters to the report slate
as early ss possible. Friends of the pro-
| jects are confident, not only Of favorable
reports, bat OF favorable action.
oULLoMs MAIDEN EFFORT.
| Senator Culom made his first speech IN
| the senate to-day. He read from manu-
script, but read with a freedom and a
range Of voice and gesture which made his
speech such in fact, and not merely in
name as many of the written speeches are.
Members of the senate are rarely polite
enough to listen when they are not inter
ested, but Senator Cullom kept his associ-
ates in their seats and held their attention
in q manner that must have been very
gratifying to him. He did not
trespass on the time of the senate, occupy
ing bat little moro than half an hour, and
was listened to throughout with evident in
terest. Speaking ia support of his propo-
sition to substitute for the territorial legis-
lature a council OF nine citizens of Utah
territory appointed by the president, hs
said: "The government of the territory is
an ecclesiastical despotism such as should
no: be allowed to exist in this country.
If placing the entire government of
these people in the hands of men
loyal to the constitution, the laws
and the institutions of the country-men
subject to q removal by the president, and
whose laws shall DO subject to the approv-
al of congress-will not result in produc-
ing bstter condition of affairs in Utah.
l know of no practicable solution of the
question. II the bill which I have had
the honor of presenting should become
law, there need be very little difficulty in
bringing about the change which would be
necessary in the territory" After citing
authorities for the, power of congress to Go
what he proposed he said: "Ws find that
congress by an act approved October 80,
1903, authorized President Jefferson to
take possession OF and occupy the terri
tory ceded by Fsaacs to the United States
in that year by the treaty concluded at
Paris. In that act it was provided that
until the expiration of that session of con-
gross, unless provision for the temporary
government of said territories should be
sooner made by congress, all the powers
exercised By the officers of the
existing government of the ceded territor-
les should be vested in such persons and be
exercised in such manner as the president
might direct, and when the act providing
for the temporary government Of the two
territories was subsequently passed at the
same session, it continued this authority
In the president until October following.
Thus it appears that the carly fathers who
had every opportunity for fully nnder-
standing the powers Of congress under the
constitution, did not hesitate to place
the entire control of these new territories
in the hands of the president as tempo
rary expedient, and find by the act of
March 26, 1904, erecting Louisiana into two |
territories and providing for the Temporal
~ government thereof, the Legislative
power was vested in tbs governor, and in
thirteen of tbs most fit and discreet per-
SONS of the territory, to be called the leg
islative council, and who we're TO be ap-
pointed annually By the president II it
should be claimed in the face of
these precedents and authorities that |
congress cannot take away from
the people of Utah the government it has
given them, it will perhaps only be neces
sary to refer to the case of tho District OF
Columbia in which the right of outrage |
was revoked and a government by COM
missioners established, or to the provi-
sional government set up in the southern
states during the period of reconstruction.
If the people of Utah were loyal to the
government of the United States and were
yielding obedience to the laws, would be
among the last members of this honorable
senate to insist upon placing over them
government not of their own choice, but they
occupy the position of defying the govern
msnt, of trampling the laws Of congress
under their feet, and that being so, it
seems to me it cannot be doubted that
so far as it has anything to do with the
subject, has the right to strip them of every
vestige of political power, and put all
power there into the hands of whomsoever
the government of the United states sees
proper to trust with the functions neces-
sary to be exercised ;"
THE TExAs PACIFIC LAND GRANT.
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