St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-30
Judge Holman Says There Are no Good
Reasons for Refusing to Take Da-
kota Into the Union,
And All Indications Point to the Admis
sion of the Territory as a Whole
This Session. u,
A Brief Statement of the Reasons
Which Should Cause Legislators
to Move Cautiously.
Matters of General Interest Per.
tanning to the Great
Territory.
Dakota MUST be Adn,it,sd,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-ln speaking to-
day OF the recent occurrences in Dakota,
Judge Holman of Indiana said that he
thought the time had probably come when
1t was right that Dakota should be admitted
as state. The house, he said, had no
right to consider the political bearings Of
the case. The only questions that occurred
to his mind were whether the population
was sufficiently settled and permanent to
make it better for them to be under state
form OF government, whether the school
lands, ETC., could be sufficiently secured, and
the question of the government interests in
the reservations settled. The government
had immense interests in the territory in
the extensive Sioux reservation, and it was
undoubtedly true that these interests could
be better looked to under territory than
state, but this last, he thought
was not sufficient reason for re-
fusing admission. The trouble is, he
sald when territories spring up so rapidly,
That the people do not become sufficiently
settled at once, their interests do not be-
come so closely connected with the territory
as 10 make them always so anxious for its
Well-being as should be the case. Before
they were given the control of the affairs of
the country they should be solidly enough
established to be safe from the selfish ac-
tion OF spectators, sharperS and adventur-
erS, whose only purpose would be to get
PERSONAL GAIN.
The public lands and the school lands
must be protected. and the matter of land
grants carefully guarded. These, he
thought, were the proper questions to be
considered whenever any territory sought
admission into the Union, and these were
the only things to be taken into considera-
ton relative to Dakota The territory must
soon be admitted. 1t must come as one
state, however. The whole territory
should properly come in together. Its ge-
ography and the character of the land re-
quired this, and it would be the only way it
would be admitted. A division would not
be practicable. Some parts of
the territory are necessarily sparsely settled
on account of the pastoral character of
some sections, while others were more
densely populated and the ground better
suited agricultural purposes. The terri
tory, coming into the Union as it now is,
as a whole, would balance the geography
OF the country. 1t would balance Texas
and form the points of a triangle with ii
and New York. The people of Dakota
were not all agreed, however Some of the
farmers were not sure that they wanted to
come into the condition of a state Just vet.
All that must be considered. He did not
think the recent action of the people in go
ing through the form of alegislature. etc.
would have any effect upon congress. Let
tiers he got from people in Dakota indicated
that the people do not attach any grave i'm
portance to this.