St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-10
CONGRESSIONAL WORK.
The Naval Appropriation Bill Called
UD and New Conference
Ordered.
The Bill for the Admission Of Dakota cauoi
Up--senator Harrison Advocates
Its Passage.
The House Again Tackles the Inter-St.t.
Commerce Bill. and General Debate
Follows without Action.
THE FoRrY-ErGHrH CONGRESS
The senate.

The senate
I WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-In the senate 70
day Senator Hale called up the naval apDro.
/ priation bill, which at tue close of the last
session was in the hands of the con ference
com nIittee, and as to which that committee
reported they had been unable to agree. He
moved that the senate further insist on the
amendments and order new conference
/ II was so ordered.
senator Thurman introduced bill to pro-
/ vide Tor the erection of a statue To the
memory of Lafayette.
/ Senator Slater called up the Oregon Cen
trail land forfeiture bill, but the senate bv
vote OF twenty-nine yeas and thirty nays re-
fused to consider it.
IL WAS then decided by party vote Of yeas
thirty-four, nays twenty-five 10 take UP the
bill for the admission of Dakota the Repub-
lieans voting in the affirmative and the
Democrats in the negative.
The case of Robert Carrick, who petitfonec
for writ OF mandGmus on Secretary Teller
has been certified to on general terms Car
rick claims title, as settlement under the pre-
emption act, to the Arsenal island opposite
ST. Louis, ami wants j mandamus to compel
Secretary Teller to order survey
Tue Dakota bill has secured the right of
way for , O'Clock.
The Texas Pacific railroad land grant for
feiture bill was made the special order for
Tuesday next.
The bill to provide for the sale of the
Cherokee reservation in Dakota passed.
The bill 10 amend the sections of the re-
vised statutes which prohibit the delivery Of
registered letters and the payment OF money
orders 10 lottery companies, passed. The
I naV Ina nf ,-f1
word fraudulent" so as to cover lotteries
generally anu not merely ''fraudulentn lot
teTies
bill was passed providing for the ascer-
tainment Of the claims of the American citi-
zens for spOliations by the French prior to
the 3lst OF July, 1901
The Dakota oil was then taken IN.
Senator Harrison addressed the senate. HI
said the movement for admission of a new
state had originated where such movements
ought To originate, with the people of the ter.
ritOry. discussion of its admission TO the
Union could, of course, assume the shape OF
party discussion, but that was d shape un-
worthy of so i'm pOrtant a question To con-
slider the application OF the people for admis-
sion To the Union from the point of view
of its relation TO the fortunes of political
party, was to consider it from a level
far below that of craftsmanship. He believes
the feeling in Dakota was almost unanimously
I in favor of a division between northern and
/ southern portions, and equally unanimous
| that an admission of the whole territory "a a
single state would not be acceptable Pledged
| by the population and producing capacity.
| Dakota was entitled 10 admission. In 1870
the improved lands and farms in the ter
! ritory comprise 42l, 645 acres, In 1880
! l,l5O.4 acres. The number of farms in
/ ffan .rrfFr IN.
in 1850. IL, 439. The value OF
those OF lSS0 being So, 400 O 90
and the total value of agricultural products
of that year SIS, 524, 000 THIS was greater
valuation than could be stated of several
states. AS TO the capacity to beat the ex
/ penses OF the state, the govern m ent of the
territory was already deiraying nearly all
/ those expenses in a territorial form of gov
eminent. With regard TO the question of
how much population should entitIe a terri
tory to admission q state, there had beer
no rule established by congress. 1t had
been suggested That population should
/ be required At least equal To the unit of rep
resentation in the lower house of congress,
which, at this time, would be a little over
| 100000 persons, A few OF the states, how
ever, had had population enough at the time
of their admission to bring them within the
rule. No state, since TIE admission of Mis-
souri, in 1921, had population sufficient to
! enttle IT TO Que repre- sentative in congress
/ III was, therefore, matter of discretion with
| congress. But even on the basis of reouir-
| ing such population, he believed that with
! the naturally rapid increase in the population
OF the territory, the portion proposed to be
| almitted would, in census taken at this
the, show enough population to entitle it
70 two representatives. Taking up the
| question OF the ratio of voters to population
and bearing that question upon the adrnis-
| sion OF Dakota, Harrison stated the vote of
| Dakota In 1880 at %, 1875, while in 1884 it
was SO, 000 an increase of 81, 574 vote rs in
in four years. OF the $4,000 votes, nearly
two-thirds had been cast in southern Dakota,
| the portion seekinga al ssion into the Union.
| Estimating only tourinnabitants 10 the voter
southern Dakota would now have population
/ of go, 900. In 1880 it had a population of
| l35, III, or a population of 4.S2 Inhabitants
to voter. Ii it were objected that the pro-
| portion allowed was too large, he would look
at some other states Tue proportion of the
voters to the inhabitants in Florida in 1880
WAS one voter to every 5.22 inhab-
| itants; Georgia one in 927;
Mississippi, one in nearly 10; Louisiana,
one in y.69; Alabama, one in SAC; Mis-
| souri,, one in 5.45. The average of those six
habitants to each voter. Senator Harrison
criticised the report of the minority COM
mittee on territories, represented by Senator
| Vest, which strongly opposes the admission
OF the territory, and which declares, if the
statements OF the advocates Of ad-
mission are true, the proposed state
| is already an elyseum, and its people
| enjoying every blessing of religion, eduea-
ton aud prosperity, Senator Harrison
| thought this no answer to the demand of q
large, active and progressive population,
when they claimed the right to elect their
own governor and take part in making the
laws by which congress provides for their
/ government.
The chair announced the appointment of
| Senators Hale, Logan and Beck on the naval
conference committee. The senate then
went Into executive session, after which it
adjourned.