Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-05
BY WIRE TO-DAY.
Dakota Again the Subject OF
Discussion in the United
States Senate.
Extreme Frsgidity in New
York and Southwark
Along the Coast.
T~hirty-six Degrees Below at Saratoga
and Six and Two Below in
New York and Bal
tinl0re.
Brutal Vengeance of a st. Louis
Miscreant, who Peurs Oil
Into q Stove and
Burns Six Men,
CONGRESSIONAL

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Washington, Feb. 5-AmonR the petit
tions presented and appropriately re-
ferred were a number by Messrs. Hoar,
Frye, Cullom, Conger, Dawes and Ali
son. from various assemblies of the
knights of labor, praying congress to
open the Oklahoma lands to settlers and
to establish a territorial government
over them.
On motion OF MIR. Sewell the senate
passed a bill heretofore introduced
amending the section OF the revised
statutes relating to annual appropria-
tions flor the militia
Senator Blair from the committee on
education and labor reported favorably
the bill to provide for the appointment
oy the president of a COMMISSION of five
persons to investigate into the alcoholic
liquor traffic. 1t provides that the men,
bers of the commission shall be selected
solely with reference to their personal
6tnsss aud capacity for an honest,
impartial and thorough Investigation.
On Mr.. Harrison's motion the morn
ing's business was laid aside and the
Dakota bill was taken up, on which Mr..
Butler took the floor, and said the SEN
ator from Indiana had either evaded or
forgotten the main facts bearing on
the Dakota question.
Mr. Butler charged that opposition to
Dakota. had first come, not from the
democratic side of the senate, but from
the republican side, and quoted some
remarks of Mr.. Hale in the former con.
gress to sustain his position.
Mi. Mcmillan believed that Mr.. Hale
stood alone.
MIR. Butler did not care how that was.
The senators from Illinois and Indiana
said he had refused to vote. He cited
South Carolina and other southern
states and compared these with the vote
of Dakota. Butler had to assume that
it was done for the purpose Of giving q
sectional turn to the debate
and arrsigning popular prejudice against
the southern people and the son thern
states. Butler continued, by saying
that they'll had been under fire for many
years, they had survived heaviest artillery
than wal turned against them and now
would survive this.
Whatever might be said against South
Carolina, and no doubt she had made
mistakes in the past and would make
mistakes in the future, never until the
political friends OF the senator had
camped upon the fair bosom of that
state had her officials been tainted with
a blemish or corruption; it had never
happened until then that her officials
had been compelled to fee from her
borders to escape the states prison, and
while degrading, disgraceful and hui
neutrality-suspicious. had been going Oh,
not n word Of protest had come from
tie honorable senators on the other side
who now arraigned South Carolina.
oUs
LILO speaAer iaiu ueAoro tue house u
message from the president transmit
ting the response of the secretary of
the interior to the house resolutions cal
ling for copies of any contract or lease
between the Southern Pacific railway
company and any land grant road, or
any contract between the Pacific steam
ship company and any land grant road.
Referred.