Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-06
F6RTT-NNTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1Si

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1866
 SENATE-A number of petitions from the Knights of Labor were presented praying Congress to open up to settlement the Okla homa lands.
 Mr. Sewell's bill increasing the annual ap- propriation for the militia from $20O, 900 to $500, 900 per annum was then passed and the Senate resumed consideration of the Dakota admission bill.
 somewhat heated discussion ensued be- tween Messrs. Butler and Logan respecting the votes boiled in proportion to their popu- lation, going to show that there had been a falling off in both instances. During the course of the discussion Mir. Butler in quired if the Senator from Illinois would vouchsafe an explanation of the votes of some States that he would mention, and in quired how it was that only 62 per cent. of Illinois voters had voted last election day-even with the favotite of Illinois and the Plumed Knight on the ticket, also while the old reliable solid Republican State of Vermont under the leadership of the Senate from that State, who was wild with enthusiasm for the success of the Re- publican ticket ss(great laughter), had boiled only 62 per cent. of it's vote. and even that the Senators own town had for the first time in it's history gone Democratic; also why had Rhode Island, equally enthusiastic for the Republican party, boiled but 42 per cent. of her vote for that ticket, and still further why in Maine, the home of the Plumed Knight, but 69 per cent. of the vote was cast for that popular tickets It was amusing, MT. Butler said for Senators who had not. and in the nature of things could not, have presidential aspirations to watch the contests going on between some of the Senators on the other side. He had no doubt Dakota's vote would be a luscious plum for those of the Senators who had the @ia1 Ia fn -four genial friend from Iowa" (Allison), who, he said, had "only got to cross over and shake the bushn and who would bear watching. In the course of his remarks MT. Butler alluded to the pen sions paid to Union soldiers and said he had voted to pay millions upon millions of such pensions to the comrades of the Senator from Illinois, while his (Mr. Butler') com rade neither expected nor received cent, but paid their share of the taxes. He did not complain of this. The comrades of that Senator had been yictors; MT. Buffers com rades the vanquished and were entitled to no pension. The comrades of the Senator from illinois were entitled to the thanks and honors of the government But people had no right to be eternally Haunting their per formance in the face of the country in order to excite prejudice against others.
 Mr. Logan said he had not attacked the State of South Carolina. He thought he was
 
 South Carolina had always been in the fore front of Democratic leadership. Regarding the vote of Illinois, MT. Logan asked Mr. Butler where he got the figures.
 MT. Butler replied in the American Alman- ac.
 MT. Logan said that almanacs sometimes made mistakes He cited the figures of the votes cast in Illinois for several years past, showing constantly increasing vote for that State the figures for 1876 being 554, ,066, and for 1884 as much as 672. .669. At every presidential election, he said since such elections had been known in this country, the vote of Illinois had in- creased over that of the prior election. How was it with South Carolinaa That State in 1880 boiled 170,95 votes; while with the same population, and perhaps an increase in 1884, the vote boiled was only 92,S62 votes. If, therefore, the vote of Illinois had in- creased by 5O,OO0 and the vote of South Legan's) idea was that an explana= ton was much due from South Carolina as from Dakota. In conclusion MT. Logan repeated that what ever prstence may be made as to the reason for excluding Dakota, however Senators may higgle over words-the real reason was that it would have Republican majority. Men may argue as they please with f1imsy pre- texts; that was the real source of the diff culty But the American people had an abid- ing sense of justice. They know that all the clements of Statehood existed in Dakota; that it had the necessary population and area and all the conditions of industry, energy and civilization. Then why, he asked, should not this new State be placed in the cluster of the American Union, that it may add it's share to the light and glory of the republic.
 MT. Morgan opposed the bill, while MT. Plumb in the name of bleeding Kansas welcomed Dakota to the sisterhood.
 The bill was further discussed by Mir. Ed munds in the affirmative and Messrs Beck and Cali in the negative, and as reported passed; yeas 32, nays go The only Democrat voting in the affirmative was MT. Voorhees,. The negative votes were all by Democrats.
 The bill divides the territory of Dakota on the line of the forty-sixth parallel of lati- tude; provides for the admission of the southern portion State under the title of Dakota and the organization of the north ern section into a separate territory under the name of Lincoln.
 Mir. Payne presented the credentials of re- election of Senator Sherman, whic h were read and filed.
 MT. Blair moved that the Senate take up the educational bill heretofore introduced by him and reported favorably from the Committee on Education and Labor. Pending this motion MT. Plumb moved an adjournment.
 f6QGluR LudG luOtlOu NIT DldlI dSheu uuhu1- nous consent to say few words. Several objections were heard.
 MT Blair opposed MT. Plumbs motion and called for the ayes and nays, but the motion was carried and the Senate at 5:40 p. m. ad- iourned until Monday next.
 HoUsE.-The Speaker laid befcsr1 the House message from +it- President trans mitting tttne response of the Secretary of the Interior to the House resolution calling for copies of any contract or lease between the Southern Pacific railroad company and any land grant road of the charter of the South ern Pacific, and of any contract between the Pacific steamship company and any land grant road; referred.
 The Speaker announced the appointment of MT. Hammond, of Georgia and MT. Gull berson, of Texas, to fill vacancies on the | Committee on American Shipping Interests At 12:50 the House went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar | The committee remained in session until l $40, when it rose and reported number of bills to the House, leaving the Fitz John 1 Porter bill at the head of the calendar | Among the bills passed were those authoriz ! ing the Merchants National bank of Little l Rock and ths National bank of Winona to l change their names and authorizing the ] FiTht National bank of Minneapolis to ln- crease it's capital stock to not exceeding s. | 000, ,000.