Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-05-28

of the land Office, Redwood Falls, Minn,;
Thos. F. Gowing, register of the land Office.
Fergus Falls, MINI.

of the land Office, Redwood Falls, Minn,;
Thos. F. Gowing, register Of the land Office.
Fergus Falls, MINI. n
i, ,PAYNE's ALLEGED CORRUPT ELECTION.
The president pro tempore laid before
the senate to-day a letter from the COVER
nor of Ohio, transmitting resolutions
adopted by the Ohio state senate, charging
that Henry B. Payne secured his election
to the United States senate by the corrupt
use of money, and asking for an investiga-
ton of the facts. .s t..
THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. ..4
Mr.. Springer, from the committee on ter
ritories, to-day presented to the house an
adverse report of the majority of that COM
mittee on the senate bill to provide for the
admission of the state OF Dakota into the
Union and for the organization Of the ter
ritory of Lincoln. The report says: "It
cannot be said that the people of Dakota,
and especially of southern Dakota, are in
favor of admitting into the Union the
southern part of that territory as a state.
The movement having in view the forma-
ton of two states to be carved out of the
territory originated in the territory. Con-
gress has in no way authorized it or recog-
nized it. The present statehood movement
in Dakota is without precedent, and has no
just claim to the favorable consideration of
congress. Congress may in it's discretion
ratify the proceedings taken by the terri
tory looking to its admission to the Union,
but until such ratification all such proceed
ings are irregular and without binding
force. The question of whether the pres
ent territory of Dakota is to be divided so
as to lay the foundation of two states, to
be admitted into the Union hereafter as
one, interests the people Of the states as
much as it does the people Of Dakota. The
people of the states have just as much
right to have that subject submitted to
them for their approval as have the people
of the territory. There are already in the
Union two states having larger areas than
has the territory of Dakota. The popula-
ton of Dakota certainly does not entitle
her to be admitted as two states. 1t would
be manifestly unjust to all the people of
the Union to carve two states out of the
present territory of Dakota. 1t may
safely be assumed that it will be many
years before the territory will reach pop
ulation OF 1,442,0OO the average population
of all states, according to the census of
$780,"
Chairman Hill, of Ohio, submits a minor
ity report in which, while disagreeing with
the reasoning of the majority, he holds that
Dakota should not be admitted under the
senate bill because all the people of the
territory were not consulted fairly on the
question of division and the formation of
the constitution for the proposed state. He
believes that it is the duty of congress to
refer this question of division of the terri
tory to full vote of the people thereof,
after which congress can take the proper
steps to admit to the sisterhood of states
Dakota and Northern Dakota, when the
people of the two territories as established
have taken proper steps to organize state
governments under authority of enabling
acts submitted by congress and subject to
the approval thereof.
Another minority report is signed by
Messrs. Baker, Strubble. Cooper, Hermann
and Symmes. They respectfully submit
that the people of Dakota are in favor Of
admitting to the Union the southern part
as state. Every fact justifes and every
consideration demands and establishes be-
yond a. question the claimant rights
of Dakota to be Immediately admit
ted into the Union. It has
been suggested that the senate bill might
be amended so as to provide for the SUBJ
mission to new vote of the people Of Da-
kOta, the conditions of which, though the
subscribers conceive to he unjust, they may
nevertheless accede to by way of compro-
mise. The minority then proposed amend
mentS, the effects of which are to change
slightly the lines of division from the for
ty-sixth parallel of north latitude to the
seventh standard parallel of north latitude
(this is Chairman Hilrs proposition), and
propose the name of North Dakota instead
Of Lincoln for the territory not embraced
within the line of the new state. The sug-
gestions, they say, if adopted, would con-
vert the senate bill into an enabling act,
pure and simple. They close their report
with an expression of their belief that it is
constitutional right of the state of Da-
kota to be admitted under the bill which
has come to the house from the senate, the
passage of which they earnestly urge. "
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