St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-20
FOR SOUTH DAKOTA.
By a Strict Party Vote the
Senate Passes the
Bill
TO Create the State Of South
Dakota and Organize the
Territory.
Lind Asks for the Caneella-
ton Of Certificates Of Ger
tain Railway Lands.
Two Amendments to the In
dian Appropriation Bill
Other News.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-The senate
to-day resumed consideration of the bill
Dakota. and was addressed by Mr..
Plumb in support Of the bill. He con-
trasted the small votes in the Southern
states with the vote of Dakota, and said
that very few of them had cast as many
votes at any election within the last
five years as the territory Of Dakota had
cast i'll 1856. If it was the quality of the
people of Dakota that the senator from
Missouri (Mr. Vest objected to, then he
(Mr. Plumb declared that they were a
fair representation of the Anglo-SaXon
character on this continent. They ha('
been taken from the more active ana
energetic portions of the people of the
Northern, Eastern. Middle and Western
states. He had yet to learn that any man
in Dakota had ever been deprived by
direction or indrectlon of his right to
vote; or that any candidate for congress
in Dakota had ever started our on his
campaign with a twelve-pound piece of
artillery. Nothing had ever occurred
in Dakota for which any of heI citizens
OF any citizen of the United States had
been called upon to blush. No one
quarreled with the states of North Car
DINA OF Virginia because they did not
have institutions that gathered in the
popular will and gave it ample reflex,
as in other states. The senator from
Missouri was especially delighted with
their championship because he saw in it
assurance doubly sure" that thereby
those states
WOULD REMAIN DEMOCRATIC.
Mr.. Allison addressed the senate in
support of the bill. lie agreed with the
senator from Missouri (VesD that the
question was political one. 1t was a
political and party question. The atti-
tude of the Democratic party in both
houses on this subject was an attitude
of nOn-action. Its policy had been
clearly shown in Mr.. Springer's letter
read at the Aberdeen convention. He
believed that South Dakota should now
be admitted as a state, and that North
Dakota should also be now admitted as
state, and he should be glad to vote at
this session for the admission of North
Dakota.
Mr.. Vest asked him if he would vote
now for bill admitting to statehood
the whole territory of Dakota. He (Mr.
Vest would.
Mr.. Allison replied by asking Senators
Vest and Butler if the Democratic party,
as political organization, would vote
to-day for the admission of the state of
Dakota as a whole.
Mr.. Vests response was that, as mat
ter of course, neither he nor the senator
from South Carolina could speak for the
Democratic party. But he would say
that, from full deliberation and consulta-
ton, not any sort of caucus, with his
Democratic colleagues there was not
any of them who would not vote for the
admission of the state of Dakota as a
whole at any time.
Mr.. Butler congratulated the senate
that the discussion had got back to the
real issue, and then thanked the senator
from Iowa (Mr. Allison) for having dis
cuSSed the question from the standpoint
of a patriot and statesman. He declared
that the Democratic senators were pre-
pared now and would be prepared in the
future, to admit Dakota into the Union
as a state. He referred to the charges
and aspirations made by senators
against Southern states as ''a descent
into the very quagmire and slime of
township politics and ward meeting
controversies" If this, he said, were
the occasion to 60 into ancient history
he could re-erect in those Southern
states the shameful parodies on govern
ment that had once then set up there,
debauching the high places of state,
diffusng into the very atmosphere
TIE STENCIL OF CORRUPTION.
And those governments had been set
up and sustained by senators who were
now denouncing the Southern states.
If he could @surrect these diSgraceful
republican governments in the South
and could ask the country to ''look on
this picture, and then on that" instead
of seeing all the evils and damnable
heresies spoken of by senators, they
would see peace and quiet, and progress
and devotion to constitutional govern
ment, and the Union of the country. If
he were to proceed to show this, the
senators who had spoken against the
South would be utterly scorned and
driven out by the intelligent people, and
would hang their heads in shame for
provoking the contest.
Mr.. Call made speech in refutation
of what he called the aspersionS Oh
Southern states, and was interrupted
by remarks made by Senators Edmunds
and Hoar. The latter called attention
to recent newspaper article indicating
the existence of election frauds and
violence in the South, written and
published, he said, within the last fort
night by Henry Watterson, an eminent
Southern Democrat, and said to be a
man of honor. There was also, he said,
an article from the same eminent gen
tleman in the Forum, stating that same
thing.
Mr.. Berry also spoke to repel, he
said, charges affecting the honor and
good name not only of members of the
senate, but of the people of the Southern
states. He recalled the outrages of
carpetbaggers in the Southern states,
but especially in the state of Arkansas,
and asserted that there were more
crimes committed in the North in pro-
portion to the population than there
were in the South. Referring to Mr..
Sherman'S speech he declared that the
country which qualified him to be the
cOuntry's executive. Every such
speech made in the senate tended
TO INCREASE THE BITTERNESS
between the white and cOlored people
of the South, and to cripple those who
were anxious to see the cOlOred man
secured In every right guaranteed to
him by the constitution. He had hoped
that the time had come when the South
ern states were back into the Union.
Mr.. Sherman, replying to Mr.. Berry,
said that he had not participated in the
debate until the senator from Missouri
(Mr. Vest had charged upon President
Hayes that he had been elected by fraud
and held his Office in fraud. In reply
ing to that charge he had found it neces-
sary to go over the history of the events