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DAK0TA'S ADMISSION. .
The Territory Admitted as STATE
by the Senate. i ..

The Territory Admitted as STATE
by the Senate. ~
In the Senate on the 9th the bill for the adJ
mission of Southern Dakota as State was
taken up and passed by party vote. a
Washington dispatch to the New York Her.
aid gives the following particulars Of the
lively debate which preceded the passage oe
the bill: .--s'"
Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina, said that
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. HARRISON had,
either evaded or forgotten many OF the Iacts
bearing on the Dakota question ne lMr.
Butler) charged that the opposition to Dakosa
had first come, not from the Democratic sac
Of the Senate, but from the Republican. ",
Mr.. Logan, of Illinois, said his attennon
had been directed to the vote Of South Caro-
lima because the Senators from South Caro-,
lima (Mr. Butler) and Missouri (Mr. Vest ha9
complained that Dakota in 1884 had poled
IS. .O0O votes, while on the adoption Of the pro-
posed constitution only 81, 900 votes had been:
boiled. He had then called attention to the
vote Of the Senator's own State South Caro-
lina)-as Dakota, with only 2oO,0OO of F.
population, had polled 81 QUO votes. wniles a
South Carolina with population OF l,go9,-
COO, had only voted 81 600 votes, and he Mr..
Logan had inquired whether, if explanation
was required for Dakota, If explanation was
not also required for South Carolina?
Mr. Butler replied that the explanation
was that at the last election in South Caro-
lima the political friends and allies Of the
Senator from Illinois were industriously ne
elected. It was amusing, Mr. 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 the ambitious states
men who were infected with the presidential
fever. He referred to "our genial friend
from Iowa" (NIr. Allison), who he said, had
''only got to cross over and shake the bush,sn ,sn
and WHO would bear watching.
Mr.: Logan repeated that whatever pretense
may be made as to the reason for excluding
Dakota-however Senators may 'higglen over
words-the real reason was that it would
have Republican majority. Men may argue
as they please with dimsy pretexts; that was
the real source of the difficulty. But the
American people had an abiding sense or
justice. They knew that all the elements for
Statehood existed in Dakota; that it had the
necessary population and area, and all the
tion., Then why, he asked, should not this
new star beplaced in the cluster Of the Ameri-
can Union, that it may add its share to tho
light and glory Of the Republic? 81
The bill reported from the COMMITTEES was
then passed-yeas, 80; nays, q. The only
Democrat voting in the affirmative was
Mr.. Voorhies, Of Indiana The mega
tive votes were all Democratic. The bill die:
vides the Territory of Dakota on the line Of the
forty-sixth parallel of latitude; provides for
the admission of the southern portion as
State under the title Of Dakota, and the Or. ORE
ganization of the northern portion INTO
Separate Territory under the name OF "Llrp
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