St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-06
DAKOTA HALF WAY IN.
The Senate Passes the Bill Admitting
South Dakota by a Vote Of
80 to 90,
Senator Voorhees, Being the Only Demo-
crat Casting Vote in the
Affirmative.
An Iowa Family of Five Persons
Burned to -Riotous
Wisconsin RaiIroaders
Another Northwestern Rebellion b1-
pected-- Congressman stralts
Timber Culture Bill.


A
Mr. HarrisOn's motion. the morning Dusl-
ness was laid aside and the Dakota bill was
taken nm. on which Mr.. Butler took the
floor
Mir. Rutler said that the senator from
Indiana (Mr Harrison) had elJher eVaded or
forgotten many of the facts bearing ON the
Dakota question. He (Mr. Butler) charged
that the opposition 10 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 former con-
Qress to sustain his position.
Mr. Mcmillan believed Mr.. Hale had then
stood alone.
Mr.. Butler did not care how that was. The
senators from Indiana and Illinois, he said,
had referred TO the vote polled in South
Carolina and other Southern states, and COM
pared these votes with the vote of Dakota.
Mr. Butler had to assume that that was done
for the purpose of giving a sectional turn to
the debate, and arraying popular prejudice
against the Southern people. The Southern
states. Mr.. Butler continued, had been under
fire for a good many years. They had sur
vived heavier artillery than that now turned
against them, and would survive this. What
ever might be said against South Carolina
land no doubt she had made mistakes in the
past, and would make mistakes in the future),
never, until the
POLITICAL sFRIENDs
of the senators on the other side had camped
upon the fair bosom of that state, had her
officials been tainted with the blemish of cor
ruption. 1t had never happened till then
that her officials had been compelled to fly
from her borders to escape states prison,
nd.while the degrading. disgraceful and hui
initiating spoliation had been going on not
one word OF protest had come from the honor
able senators on the other side, who now ar
raigned South Carolina.
Mr. Logan said his attention had been d.
rected TO the vote of South Carolina because
the senators from South Carolina (Mr. Butler)
and Missouri (Mr. Vest had complained that
Dakota in 1884 had polled $4,000 votes, while
the adoption of the proposed constitution
only 81 900 votes had been pollei. He (Mr.
Logan had then called attention 10 the vote
of theg senator's own state (South Carona).
that Dakota, with only quarter of Il million
of pop ulation, had polled 81, 900 votes, while
South Carolina with a population of a million
had only voted $1,000 votes, and he (Mr. Lo-
gam had nquiredif explanation was required
for Dakota, whether explanation was not
also required for South Carolina?
MIR. Butler replied that the explanation was
that at the last election in South Carolina the
political friends and allies of the senator
from Illinois (Mr. Logan were
INDUSTRIOUSLY NEGLECTED.
They had not been instructed or even APP
preached by that senator. He (Mr. Butler)
believed all the people of South Carolina,
white and colored, were satisfied with their
state government. AT least we had a right to
so assume.
Logan remarked that nothing had been said
by him about the state Of South Carolina.
Mr.. Butler then inquired if the senator
from Illinois (Mr. Logan would in turn
Vouchsafe an explanation of the votes of
some states that he (dr. Butler) would men
ton. He inquired how it was that only 62
per cent of the voters of Illinois had gone to
the polls at the last election, with the favor
;te'' son of Illinois and the 'plumed knight
both on the ticket?
Mr. Logan said the point made by the sena-
tor from South Carolina had been that an eX-
PLANTATION was requested. While the vote
had fallen Off in Dakota he (Mr. Logan had
explained that fact by showing thatsthe Dem-
ocratic committee of the territory had noti-
fed the Democrats not to participate in the
vote But even in the view of the senator
from South Carolina, if the vote had fallen OF
I'm South Carolina, Illinois and other states ii
had not fallen of in Dakota.
Mr.. Butler said this didn't explain the fall
ing off in Illinois. He also asked why the
''old reliable" solid Republican state of Yer
mont, under the distinguished leadership OF
the senator from that state (Edmunds), who
was wild with enthusiasm for the success of
the Republican ticket great laughter, had
polled only 62 per cent. of its vote, and, even
then, that the senator's own town for the
first time in its history had gone Democratic
Also, why had Rhode Island, equally enthusi-
per cent. of her vote for that ticket, and fur
Their, why in Maine, the home of
THE PLUMED KNIGHT
but SO per cent. of the vote was cast ( or the
popular ticket.
Mr.. Logan-Will the senator allow me to
ask him question?
Mr.. Buter-I shall be through in a minute.
Perhaps these things can be explained by
Mr.. Logan. Twas going to do ii. but i shall
be glad to hear the explanation in a moment.
1t was amusing, Mr. Butler said, for senators
who had not, aud, in the nature of being
could not, have presidential aspirations to
watch the contest going on between some of
the senators on the other side. He had no
doubt Dakota's vote would be aluscious plum
tor the ambitious statesmen who were
infected with the presidential fever. He
referred to our genial friend from Iowa,
(Mr. Alson), who. he said, had only got
to cross over and shake the bush, and who
would bear watching, referring To one of the
Dakota gentlemen who opposed admission.
Mr.. Butler said that while some other me n
we're lolling in their tents he had been march
ing to the tune of his country. In the course
Of his remarks Mr.. Butler alluded to the PEN
ZION paid Union soldiers, and said he (Mr.
Butler) had voted TO pay millions upon mil
ious of such pensions to comrades of the
senator from Illinois, while his (Mr. Butler's)
comrades neither expected nor received q
cent, but paid their share of the taxes. He
did not complain of this. The comrades OF
that senator had been victorious. Mr.. But
ler's comrades had been Yanquished, and
were entitled 10 no pension. The comrades
of the senator from Illinois are entitled to
the thanks and honors of the government
but people had no right TO be eternally fiaunt
ing their performance 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 said be thought
he was complimenting that state when he had
said that South Carolida had always been in
the front OF Democratic leadership. Re-
garding the vote of Illinois, Mr.. Logan asked
Mr.. Butler where he got his 1guresg
Mr.. Butler-In the American Almanac.
Mr.. Logan said almanacs sometimes made
mistakes. He cited the figures of the votes
cast in Illinois for several years past, show.
ing constantly increasing vote in that state
the figures for 1876 being 554, O66 and for 1854
as much as 672,669. At every presidential
election, he SAID. since such elections had
been known in this country, the vote of Hi
nois
HAD INCREASED
over that of prior elections. How was it with
South Carolina, with population of million
of people2 That state in 1880 poed I1Og5t
votes, while with the same population and
perhaps an increase in 1884 the vote pollec
was only 92,662 votes. If. therefore. tn.
vote of Illinois had increased $4,000 and tht
vote of South Carolina had decreased by rs.
OOO his (Mr. Logan's) idea was that an ex
PLANTATION was as much due from South Caro-
lima as from Dakota. 1t had been said tha
the electors of South Carolina had not been
of O character to induce the voters TO come
ont Such q eulogium had been passed OF
that state this morning that Mr.. Logan wa
tempted to ask why such electors had beer
nominated.
Mr.. Butler replied that he meant the Re
publican electors.
Mr.. Logan--Well, the Republican elector
got very few votes.
Mr.. Rutler-l know 1t.
Mr.. Logan-But 1 say your own elector
failed to get the votes you poled four year