Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-04-13
He Cannot Understand Why ''South
Dakota Should be Recog-
nized as Division.
Mr.. Cullom Pronounces the Opposi.
tiOn to South Dakota a Dodge
of the Democrats.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

ury and said that the causes which took
that money needlessly from the pockets of
the people and the channels of trade to the
enfeeblement of every branch of industry
were continuing and produced more aggra-
waited results each year. 1t was easy to see
that unless the causes were removed or
greatly modified it was only question of
time when a calamity fatally involving
all the industrial interests Of the country
must follow. In view of this emergency
so full of evil portent to the country, the
president had in wise and bold message
urgently recommended such a revision of
the tariff and reduction of duties and i'm
posts as would reduce the revenues to the
limit required for the support of the gov
ernment. In this the president was SIM
ply voicing a demand that came from the
people of the whole country.
THE DAKOTA BILL.
At the close of Mr.. Coke's speech the
senate resumed consideration OF the bill to
provide for the admission of the state of
South Dakota and the organization OF the
territory of North Dakota.
Mr.. Turpie spoke in opposition to the bill
of the majority of the committee and in
support of that of the minority. South Da-
kota, he said, was not a territory; it was
not division OF the territory. 1t was
merely a geographical expression. He
denied the right of the people of aterritory
to establish a division Of it and said that
the people of the whole union had a right
to be heard as to the policy and propriety
of such division. He would as soon vote
for the division of state as for the division
of tertiary under the circumstances.
Yet the history of the country afforded but
one example of the division of state.
There had been an expression of the pop
ular will at the convention held in Aber-
deen last December. The utterances of
that convention were clear and emphatic
and showed that the people of the whole
territory were against division and desired
an enabling act as provided in the minority
bill. 1t was not necessary to take Dakota
piecemeal. She could be taken in as a
whole. All the states admitted recently
had been large states. II Dakota was
large the union was also large. Dakota
was not so large in comparison to the area
of the whole country as Virginia, New
York or Pennsylvania had been to the area
of the thirteen original states.
Mr.. Cullom spoke in favor of the majority
bill. The pertinent inquiry ought to be
whether in the first place the territory had
a right to form itself into a state govern
ment and whether if so it had the re-
quisite population, wealth and civilization
to justify congress in admitting her. Re-
viewing the history of the question, he de-
clared in every instance where a vote was
taken in favor of the admission of the
state of south Dakota the republican sena-
tors had all voted for it and the democrats
all against it and that when the bill went
to the house of representatives that distin-
guished democratic body referred it to the
committee on territories, where it was
once buried and once reported back ad-
versely.
Mr.. Butler asked him how it was when
there was an opposition to admission of
the whole territory.
Mr.. Cullom replied that the republicans
had been in favor of division Of the terri
tory because the people of the territory
were in favor of it and because right
and principle were in favor Of it, TAX
ing into account all the interests of the
country. This territory had been knock
ing at the doors of congress for years with
a population very much larger than any
other territory ever admitted as a state
more than twice as large. He was strongly
of the opinion that if the senator from
South Carolina Mr., Butler) was to stand
up and tell the honest truth he would
admit that the whole opposition to admis-
sion of Dakota was based on the fact that
the democrats did not want any further
political complications thrust upon the
country until after the next presidential
election.
Mr.. Butler said that he voted steadily to
admit the whole Of Dakota as state and
would do SO now.
Mr.. Cullom continuing said: "The fig
ures Of the electoral college will not be