Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-27
fHE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

rHE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Dakota,s Statehsod Meetings Attract
ing Attention-Mopcs OF the Divi-
sienists-Dnwes' Bill to Come up for |
Actien this Week.
Bureau correspondence Press ana Dakotaian.
Washington, May 24-The senate anG|
house committee on Indian afTairs, went
on iunketing trip to Fort Monroe, last
week, to "inspect the Indian Schools at
Hampton" They were accompanied by
McManima, OF Pierre, and the young
journalistic giant will regale his readers
with an account Of the trip in his iniml-
table style. 1t isn't often that a gem
tleman is allowed to go junketing with
congressional party, and our friend
appreciated the honor as we'll as the
trip. He was-well it is useless to try
to tell what he was He will describs it
IN his own way, and it will be readable.
The marriage Of the president ,s a set
tied thing, and his pants are beng made
larger because his happiness is making
him fatter. He is an exemplifioation Of
She motto, Laugh and grow fat"
Always one Of the heshy fellows is now
one of the fat men. Those who know
her say that frankie Folsom is q lean.
1.-THE, little lady Of not more than one
hundred pounds. Think Of her being
married to three hundred and forty
pounds of president. Imagine it you
envious Dakota girls, and the wedding
| in mid summer, too. Tt is useless for
me to pursue this subject. No one
could do it justice, except the president.
believe that he will be equal to the
occasion. He is great big, bighearted
man, and probably loves the little glrl
just as much as you OF do our ordinary
prairie girls. You and I are not vet
presidents, and some Of US never will
| be, but our girls are just as much mash
ed on US, as any girl could be on a
president.
There hasn't Been such weather here
since have been resident of the
capital city. Usually, by the middle
of April all of the crops are in, and the
formers are taking it eusy. comparitlve-
| iy. This year we have been having rain,
rain, rain, until the agriculturalists are
not only becoming tired but discouraged
They have but little hope of crops Of
any kind. The weather instead of being
hot and almost uncomfortable, at this
season, is now quite cool, and almost as
comfortable as in our royal northwest
The dudes who had their spring
trousers made for promenades on Penn.
sylvania avenue, are disappointed, and
few OF them will be able to stand TIE
early expense of the summer auits
Thank heavens, their eye glasses art
always in fashion.
The Huron meeting ls being general,
discussed in congress. It is beginning
to be very evident to the average mem
Der that Dakota means business
1 Whether tho result will be immediate o
not. it will certainly gradually dawn up
on the public mind that the terrltor.
cannot much longer be ignored.
| This district has been crying for
free bridge over the Potomac river, eve
since George Washington was baby
Congress hasn't just little bit of un
selfish sense, and We are still obliged t
pay toll when we go to Virginia, a
though the tax is not 80 heavy as it wa
in 1868. We are now making a bi
| fight for this privilege, and hope to sut
oesd during this session. However, W
have hoped against hope for SO lonl
and waited 30 impatiently for SO nan
years, that We can afford to be disaI
pointed again, Just this once. Only th
patient descendants of Job caa live
Washington aud be happy.
The Washington correspondent of th
st. Paul Globe seems to have bee
giving his paper only the anti-diyisio
side Of the question. / observe that b
, interviews Boynton and tells his stel
for Lim, but I have failed as yet to sc
any thing published in favor of the otht
and bigger side Of the argument. Eithe
the correspondent or the manager
that paper is prejudiced against diyisio
It is just as we'll to show both side
: : and a little better.
The hopes Of the divisionists have NJ
diminished. They are as determine
and hopeful as ever. If the congre
refuses to grant the will of the peopl
they will assert their will at the poll
j, and in defiance Of congress to whie
: they are denied admission. That W
the course pursued by our continent
q lforsfathers, and also by several states
a territories which have since becor
t states. Tbs will OF the people in th
: country cannot be ignored even
4 songress The anti-divisionists base /
/. their arguments upon town iots in Bi
J. marck. They consist OF two men Al
d several employed workmen. The sen
81 ment OF the people is for divisionl q
yi members and senators who have be
in THE matter and who
d opiniengs have been asked, are aims