The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-12
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH THURSDAY; APRIL IL. 1888

American wool. of 10 cents per pound,
the value of Texas wool in the New
York and Boston markets would sud-
denly drop TOD or S cents per pouno.
No State would continue to raise wool
at that price. Wool growing in the
great State of Texas, with an area larger
than that of Germany, France, Spain
or Italy, would be known as one of the
lost arts. The prodigious loss to landed
estates from an abandonment of the
sheep husbaudry, was a problem
difficult of solution. He deprecated
tue attempt to excite a panic in fnan-
cial affairs because of the annual sur
plus of $55, 100000. The maintenance
OF bi-metallic system of coinage and
the preservation of a currency of both
gold and silver was liable to be
affected. Were the rates of duties to
be placed merely a triae In favor
of foreign importations, an excess
of imports over exports would soon
appear and turn the balance of trade
against this country. This could not
continue long before gold would com.
mand premium and find its best
market as a commodity to be shipped
abroad.
The Senate resumed consideration of
the bill to provide for the admission of
Dakota and for the organization of the
Territory of North Dakota, and was
addressed b. Mr.. Davis. He said the
Senator from South Carolina (Butler)
was of the opinion that the admission
of the State was purely within the dis
erection of Congress. He Davis denied
that proposition. He denied it from
the light of law and from the light OF
history. AS to tho claim of the
Senator from South Carolina, that
there was great oppo sition in Dakota to
the bill, he asked why petitions of dis
sent had come to the Senate from
Dakota3 The whole Territory,
he said, contained some 100000
Inhabitants, of which about $4,000
10000 were ex- U MON soldiers, who were
denied Acknowledgement by the country
which they had fought to save. They
were, in all that constituted a State,
more fully equipped than many of the
States which were now persistently
denying their admission. Why delay
longer that great act of national justiceP
The question should be stripped of all
pretense, evasion and sham, and it
should be plainly admitted that the
commonwealth of South Dakota had
bsen denied admission as q State for
the sole reason that the party in power
with the solid south) was determined
not to lose its political ascendancy.
Turpie obtained the door end the
bill was laid aside until tomorrow.
The following bills were taken from
the calender and passed:
House bill to purchase of the widow
OF the late General james Shields GER
tain swords at cost not exceeding
$4,000.
For the erection of a monument to
the memory of General Joseph Warren,
who fell at Bunker Hill.
Authorizing the construction of rail-
road bridges across Snake River and
Clearwater River by the Oregon Rail-
way aud Navigation Company.
Appropriating $4,000 for a mona
ment to Brigsdier General William Lee
Davidson, who fell in the battle of Cow
ems Ford. in February, s17S1.
The bill for the purchase from Miss
Virginia Taylor Lewis of a sword of
Washington for 500 600, was taken up
and read.
A long debate followed, but the mat
ter went over without action, and the
Senate adjourned.