Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-05
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LOGAN FOR DAKOTA.
Address OF the Illinois senator In
Behalf Of the Harrison Eli.

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Behalf of the Harrison Bfll.
Washington telegram. Sd: AT 2
o'clock the Dakota bill was placed be.
fore the senate and MI. Logan took the
floor. He differed materially, he said.
with the senator from South Carolina
(Butler) and the senator from Missouri
Vest IN regard to the question under
consideration. Fourteen states had been
admitted under the force Of enabling
acts, and eleven without enabling acts.
Congress, therefore, was free to adopt
either course, according t. the circum-
stances which in each case might seem
best adapted to tie public good. What
was the substantial objection to Dake-
ta's admission? BY reauing a paragraph
from MIR. Buffers speech we might get
q glimpse, at least q shadow, of the real
| objection. The meaning of the obJec-
tIon was that if Dakota were admitted it
would add three electoral votes to the
republican strength at the next presi-
dental election. He inquired OF Mr..
Butler whether that Was not the point !?
MIR. Butler denied it, ana said he had
already declared that even If the politi-
cal complexion of DAKOTA were demo-
cratic he would have felt obliged to op
pose its admission under the present as
pect of its application.
MIR. Logan said that when republicans
wanted anything, the idea of the SEMI
tor fromtSouth Carolina was that IL was
waited by q clique. Mr.. Logan's ideu
was that, without regard to the politics
OF the territory, 1T should be admitted
when 1t had the necessary population
aud other conditions. Mr.. Logan re-
grstted to be obliged, IN the absence OF
Mr. Vest, to refer to some of hat sena
tors remarks. He lLogau) wanted to
know If any great harm was done If IL
the congress OF the United States a man
happened to mention the fac
that %ex-union soldiers Inhab.
tied Dakota. Some extraordinary III,
lerences had been drawn from the lei
erence by MIR. Harri5 son to x-unlop sol.
dlers in connection with the population
Of Dakota. Mr.. Logan said his refer
ences were more in sorrow than in anger
but he could no forbear saying that i
was no north of the line that bitterness
was found or injustice inculcated. Il
was not north OF the line that it Wa,
sought t%o,deprive the people of thei
votes. The objections TO Dakota wer,
purt of q great scheme to keep out ri
publican states till democratic state.
could be brought in also. That was
repetition OF the old principal of tn,
slave and free states. Mr.. Logan rea.
from the Charleston News and Courle.
All article advocating the enactmep
OF property qualification for vot
ing. There, he sand, was a proposition t,
deprive the mass OF the people of til,
right of suffrage. 'sIhe senator from
South Carolina laughs" SAID Mr.. Logau
y don't see why yon should not laugh
because that is the only way you are &c
ing to control that country after
WHILE" The start Of democracy hat
been in South Carolina.
Eyes" said Mr.. Butler, "while the dis
~tinguished senator from Illinois (Mr
Logan was a leader of that party"
MOI a lead 81" replied MIR. Logan, g.
was a follower, and / followed SO far be
hind that / got left" [Great laughte
and applause in the galleries.. The at
tempt to keep out Dakota Logal
characterized as part of o great schem
to keep out the states that send re
publications to congress. He appeale,
to the justice and magnanimity OF tb
senators to give ear to the voice of tn
energetic and enterprising people VIII
were applying for admission to the uniol
of states.
MIR. Morgan opposed the admission O
Dakota under the present conditions. Ell
thought the senate was asked to admit
new state merely for the purpose of ad
uniting oficeholders that had been sen
here. The patriotism that had been s
much referred to had in it q strong 1avo
of seif-lnterest.
Mr.. Harrison then took the floor an,
gave notice that he would ask the senat
to bring the bill to q vote tomorrow.