Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
MINERAL LAND RELIEF.

MINERAL LAND RELIEF.
The South DaLota Admissions Bill Under
Discassiou-senstor Bpfler's scathine
Remarks-Tli Deadlock In the House
Nearly Broksn
WAsHINGToN, April 10.-Among the petit
red was one for amendments to the inter
state m bill SO az to make the act
apply to the transportation of oil by pipe
line.
On motion OF Sherman the freedman
bank bill was taken from the calendar and
referred 10 the Committee ON Finance.
Plumb in presenting a petition in favor
Of the bill to preserve Yellowstone PARK
said that it was one I many which had
been sent to him. and which were evidently
circulated from a center and had a per-
sonal purpose for their foundation.
Vest said the Senator from Kansas was
mistaken. The bill which had passed
the Senate had been drawn by himself from
his personal knowledge OF affairs at the
Park; had been reported from the Conn
mittee on Territories, OF which he was not
a member.
Dawes asked Plumb whether be proposed
to have Yellowstone Park surrendered; ii
mot did he propose to adopt measures
for it's preservation. He was in favor
OF it's preservation, and was therefore in
favor Of all proper means and measures to
secure it's preservation.
Gray moved to amend the bill by insert
ing these words: But the legislatures OF
Territories may prescribe conditions on
which mining claims, works or property
used In the production of metals from said
mineral lands or claims may be owned,
operated or worked by corporations ere
ated in foieign countries or in any OF the
| States OF the United States.n After much
discussion, Gray modified his amendment
so as to simply provide that the laws of
the United States and Of the Territories
shall be, until changed by an act Of Con-
gress or of a Territorial legislature, the
same al though this act had passed.
On motion of Hawley, the p~hraseology
OF the bill was amended and the bill passed:
Yeas, 81; nays, 13.
1t reads as follows: That an act enti-
tied A act to restrict the ownership Of
real estate in the Territories to American
citizens ETC.. approved March 3, 1887,
shall not relate to or in any way or manner
affect title to mineral lands or mining
claims in the Territories of the United
States, which may be acquired or had un-
der the mineral LAM laws OF the United
States, nor to mills or other reduction
works or property used in the production
OF metals from said mineral lands or
claims, but as to all such mineral lands,
mining claims, mills, reduction works a..I
other property, the laws of the United
States and the Territories, shall be, until
changed by act OF Congress, or an act OF a
Territorial Legislature, the same as though
said act has not yet been passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration
Of unfinished business, being the bill
to provide for the admission of the State !
oil South Dakota and the organization of
the Territory OF North Dakota.
Butler hoped. the present Territory Of
Dakota would not be disL embered. The
question OF admission OF the Terrific.
ries was entirely within the discre.
ton OF Congress. Ii any other doc
trine should prevail, why should
not the Territory OF Utah be admitted as
q State or what was to prevent 100, 600
Socialists, Anarchists, Nihilists and Conn
munists taking refuge in some corner OF a
Territory and proceeding to frame a con-
and State government and de.
manding to be admitted as a STATE? The
bill OF the minority, he said, proposed to
authorize the people OF q Territory to
meet in convention, frame a constitution
and State government and submit them to
Congress and upon their ratification by
Congress) to declare Dakota a State of the
Union. The majority bill, on the other
hand, proposed to atty and confirm a so
called constitution adopted in South
two years and a half ago and to
seat as United States Senators two eentle-
men tRepublicans) who claimed to have
then elected. Would the Senate con.
sent to seat as fuil-hedged senators, equal
those who represented sovereign States,
men who simply represented IL, 600
votes out oil los 900 votes2 That was the
proposition. He referred to one of the
gentiemen seeking seats as Senators from
Dakota (Mr. Edgerton) as one of whom he
had spoken courteously in the last Con.
gress, but who, in a recentspeech in Dakota.
had alluded to him in an offensive
manner, drawing a parallel based
On the Southern man who learned nothing.
Iorgot nothing and resorted to the bowie
knlfe and revolver, and the Dakota man I J
whose weapons were the Bible and the !
book. That said he, after read !
ng this extract from Mr.. Edgerton's :
ipeech, .1s the language OF a man to whom :
eAtenued~ hecouftesy OF expressing kindly !
ceiling when he a attempting to get q .
eat on this floor. He is entitled to all the :
'clat and prestige which that character of
language can give him. Bat / may be per A
nitted to say that if l had to select either
Is companions or citizens OF. q great
'ountry, the stalking bandit and reckless
lighwayman, with pistol and bowie knife b
n hand or the sneaking hypocrite and snari- :
ng Pharisee who stabs from the rear and !,
axes cover under the shadow oil his own o
n~eanness on maliguity, | would select the a
..er. LII the spelling book and the Bible il
nculcate such education as. that, such n
nalignity, such Unfairness, such unjustice. 5
UGH l~alsehood, may God have mercy upon =
he Bible and spelling book which that man Q
arries with him. b
Without any action on the bill the SEN n
re proceeded to executive business, and a
hen the doors were opened adjourned. =,