St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-24
THE LOAVES AND FISHES
Create a State of DiscOrd Among Da.
kOIa Factions.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The Hill bill,
for the division of the territory upon the
nth standard is exciting a great deal of
opposition, and much warm discussion.
Several prominent gentlemen from central
Dakota have announced themselves as in
imical to the bill as it now reads. They
are openly and actively working against it.
The principal causes of complaint seem to
be that the offices are wanted, and there are
not quite enough to go around. One of the
most out-spoken opponents of the measure
is a man who favOrs division, but is for
ninst' this bill. 1t is Mr.. Ralph Wheelock
of the Mitchell Republican. In a recent
editorial he makes an argument against the
bill which can all be sifted down into the
! one paragraph which complains of the pro-
: vision to locate United States courts at
(; Yankton, Sioux Falls, Huron, Pierre and
Deadwood, but not any court for Mitchell
There's the rub. Self-interest winding it
self up into selfishness warns the heart into
a Sordid condition, and opposition to all
measures which do not conduce to self
advancement is the result. Thus go the
many and lamentable quarrels of the Da-
kotans. They are all after the loaves and
fishes. The result of all this inharmoniouS
state Of affairs is that the congressman and
executive officers of the government are
getting tired, and will not do anything for
Dakota that they can avoid doing. Two
weeks ago the passage of the bill was al
most certainty. At present it is doubtful.
Chairman Hill is now being prevailed upon
not to introduce the bill, and he is assured
that if he does he will only have his trouble
for his pains. Prominent Democrats and
not few Republicans tell him that Dakota
docs moi doCprVa rppOpnitiOn of rho hands Of
congress. because of her internecine war
fare. The policy is urged that the Dako-
tans should be allowed to wage Kilkenny
warfare upon each other until they swallow
each other, head, tail, ears and all.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS.
Letters from Dakota, and conversations
with gentlemen from the Empire, warrant
the belief and the prediction that there will
be revolutionary measure taken by the
people there within year, if the present
congress takes no action upon either of the
bills now in committees for the division
and prospective statehood Of the territory.
Those who are bitterly opposed to division
and believe in admission as a whole are
equally in earnest as to their rights to some
definite action by the congress, as are the
diviSionists. 1t is not idle talk but sincere
earnestnesS of purpose, which makes them
billOobOll llOOpOAuSlb lCNOluJlOlldIN pIOc6-
dure in the event of nOn-aetion on the part
of congress for their relief. The bill for
the admission of Washington Territory is
being pushed by Senator Voorhees, in the
senate, and by his son, Delegate Voorhees,.
in the house: and Dakotans are looking
askance at the possibility of the admission
of little baby state. as they call it, while
they are kept out in the cold, with theil
territorial area exceeding that of New En-.
gland. New York and Pennsylvania, with Z
population of nearly half million. 1t i;
certain that the congress ought to do some
thing in recognition of the territory; but i
is equally certain that the many men Of
many minds in Dakota who have brought 81
many different plans and proposals to con
gress. are to blame for their lack of unani
nifty. Congress is a heterogeneous mass O
weIl-meaning men; but, when it comes t.
dealing with Dakota politics and Dakoti
politicians. they are all at sea and are un
willing to do anything lest they do wron.