Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-03-06
DAKOTA.
How Wlnshlp Looks Upon Things
IN WASHINGTON.

Ldttorlal Correspondence Grand Ios1s Herald.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-There Is 10th.
ing new to communicate relative to Da.
lsota affairs, nothing having developed
worthy OF extended notice. From hipts
dropped here and there, at the capitol.
hotels, etc. l am satisfied there Is no
prospect Of division or admission this
session Of congress. About two-thirds
Of the Democrats favor the Springer bill.
The others and all tho Republicans are
violently opposed to it. In nutshell.
this is about the situation The house
will pass ,heSpringer bill and the senate
will stand by the Harrison bill, already
passed, and both will go over. It's 9
partisan fight, and the partisaus Of
both branches Of congress will stand
firmly by their respective party propo.
silons. In answer to tho charge Of
standing in tho way Of Dakota's adlnis-
sion, tho Democrats say they favor it,
but admission must be on other terms.
instead Of those proposed by the Repub-
lIcans. The argument Of the Republicans
H. nhetsntially the same. So in poipt
pcal capital neither partv viii!
|nFe advantage oysr the other. /
an 6elncd, 70 t!!iiinK bill shorn of an
enabling clausc-simply dividing The
territory on tho 10th parallel-could
pass, and have suggested it to Judge
Moody and other South kotans but Of
course they are dead set" .forstatehood
and will urge 1t aa long as there is a shad.
ow Of hope. In this they are backed BY
every Republican senator. find that
many Democrats favor the scheme, asit
would stavc off admission and give them
two sets Of territorial officers with which
to rrosclyte the Republicans in the ter
tory, pending tho demand Of both terri
tories for admission after the next p.es.
idential election.
AS western men come to better un.
derstanding Of Sparks motive in issuing
his famous order suspending patents,
they are less severe in their criticiants,
and give him credit for trying to save TO
the government large blocks Of Land
which had nearly slipped into the bands
of cattle amt railroad corporations. OF
course the order WIS general and Ia.
volved the innocent with the guilty, but
in due time the innocen. will emerge
from the cloud Of fraud cast over them
and be awarded their jus, deserts, While
tho thleving corporations will be con-.
PEELED to relax their grip upon millions
Of acres which they were in the act Of
stealing Nh. Sparks recognizes and re-'
grets the hardships which have been aud
n,o being Imposed upon the people of
Dakota, where nearly nj! the public do
main is settled upon by actual bona fde
settlers, and will endeayo. to protect the
righteous in every way possible. He is
q good promiser, if nothing more. Del.
cgatc Clifford, Mr.. Beardsley and myself
cndeavored TO see Mr.. Sparks yesterday
in regard to the suspension Of surveys
in the Turtle mountain country, but
failed owing to the presence Of nume:-
GUS other delegations, which occupied
Sparks time most Of the day. We shalt
try again tomorrow. 1t is barely posi-.
bio that the Devils Lake land Office may
be closed, pending the settlement Of this
question, IN which event immigration
TO North Dakota will be knocked higher
than Baecher's l.. of G.