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t. Of course there wonld be mo- nro-

it. OF course there would be no pro-
vision in the enabling act for the cleo
ton of presidential electors, but what
is there to hinder their nomination and
election by the Republican party, if
they should see fit so to do? In case the
presidential election should he close
| these Dakota electors might figure, and
especially if the election should be
determined by an electoral commission.
These men down East don't propose to
take any chances. The affairs of this
world are uncertain at the best. and
while Cleveland's chances of election
are about as near a certainty as any
thing can well be, the party managers
do not propose to run any risk what
ever if they can help it. My informers
tell me that in case the house passes
any kind of an admission bill that the
senate will take it up and pass it, too.
quick. The reason for this is what
have stated, and this is also the reason
why the house is going to be very care
full as TO what they do about the ad-
mission OF new states in presidential
year. Two years ago the Democrats in
congress were ready to admit Dakota as
onefstate, but the
REPUBLICANS BLOCKED THE WAY
so that nothing was done. 1t may be,
OF course, that an act will yet pass that
will be framed to meet the objections
that l have only outlined but one thing
is certain to me, that the house with its
present complexion is not going to take
any chance on admitting Republican
states or giving them chance to elect
presidential electors. This is just about
the way the matter seems to stand in
Washington at the present time"
RAILROAD BUILDING.
Mr.. oil
able pointers on railroad matters. He
does not think that there will be so
much railroad building in Dakota this
year as there was last year. The Illinois
Central he thinks will build on from
Sioux Falls to Bismarck and the Mani
tOba will do considerable building. The
Milwaukee he thinks will try and get
its line through to Bismarck from Arm
our. While there will be some other
little building there, he thinks these
will be the most important extensions.
On his way home from Washington,
met III. L. CorsOn, OF Sioux Falls, who
has been stopping at the national CAPT
tai for the past two weeks. / asked him
as to his impression as to how matters
are gong there for Dakota, and he said:
"AS for admission, the Dakota men who
are there are not at all sanguine. In
fact, they can't tell much about it, A
bill may be prepared and passed for the
admission of three or four territories at
the same time; and nothing at all may
be done. Matters are in such shape that
you can't figure Oh the outcome. 1t
looks very much as though the great
Sioux reservation bill would go through.
1t has been passed by the committee
and is, understand, entirely satisfac-
tory to nearly all who are interested in
hi Nil
provide for the immediate
+ OPENING OF THE RESERVATION
without the three-fOurths consent of the
Indians, as some of the bills have pro-
vided. That was most ridiculous prop
OsitiOn. The idea that congress can
!; legislate for 10000, 900 people, but when
! it comes to a few ScraWny Indians must
have their almost unanimous consent, is
preposterous. Another very beneficial
bill for Dakota that is very likely to
pass is the United States court bill.
This provides for the redistricting of
the territory, with the addition of two
more judges, and providing that no case
shall be tried in the higher court by the
judge who tried the case in the lower
court. The good sense of this bill must
be evident to all persons at all familiar
with Dakota affairs"
THE CAMPBELL'S COMING.
Our friend Campbell is evidently get
ting stirred up. Whether my article
last week has had some effect on him or
not can't tell, but he has somewhere
run across a letter of G.. B. Farwell'S, of
Chicago, in which Farwell thinks that
the case of the admission of Dakota is
similar to that of Kansas and Nebraska,
and that the North must organize to
whip the South again on the same old
issue of the bloody shirt. This, Camp
bell says, is his sentiment exactly, and
that the way things are running, unless
Dakota takes some move for herself, that
nothing will be done for her admission
by congress. Campbell argues from
this that now is the time to set the
estate government in notion" He says
IF they suffer the next summer to pass
| by, as they did the one before last, with
out an organized movement to elect a
territorial legislature which will have
the manhood and independence and in
telligence to take the steps necessary to
frame such an issue, they will not have
a chance for three more years." Thus
| does the seer of the departed statehood
movement speak out from what all have
| long, now, supposed was its grave.
i THE LOoKER-IN.
/ Sick at Huron.
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