St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-12
And Receives Many Earnest
Congratulations From Both
Sides Of the House.
The Democrats Decide on q
Programme to Break the
Deadlock.
Debate on the Bill Not to EX-
coed Three Days, and the
Final Vote Tuesday.



WASHINGTON, April 11.-Mrs. Sena-
tor Davis and friends occupied seats in
the gallery during the interesting and
able argument of Senator Davis In sup
port of the Plat bill for South Dakota.
Clifford was also on the senate floor,
seemingly wide awake and attentive.
The senator's speech was listened to by
almost every senator, there being but
few vacant chairs on the floor. His al
fusion to the present governor, a So
journer from New York, who succeeded
a sojourner from Illinois, who succeeded
soiourner from New Hampshire, who
succeeded another successor of other
soiourners, elected approving smiles
from Allison, Hale and others near him
and significant head shakes OH the Dem
0cratic side of the chamber. He said
that the senator from South Carolina
Butler) was of opinion that the admis-
sion of state was purely within
THE DISCRETION OF CONGRESS.
He Davis denied that position. He
denied it from the light of the law, and
had denied it Gn all its length and
breadth) from the light of history. Mr..
Vest inquired whether Mr.. Davis
proposition was that congress was eX-
cluded from the discretion in regard to
the admission Of a territory as a state,
provided it had the requisite population
and the other requisites, and what the
other requisites were. Mr.. Davis re-
piled that they were q republican form
of government, people having the
qualifications of virtue, intellect and
patriotism. And, although congress has
the power to deny admission under such
circumstances it can't do so in the
rightful exercise of its discretion. That
power has been exercised and cruelty
exercised in the case of Dakota, but
that it has not been in the rightful eXer-
else of discretion | do most sincerely
deny. AS to the claim of the senator
from South Carolina, that there was
great opposition in Dakota to the bill
he Davis asked why, if that were the
case, no petitions of dissent had come to
the senate from Dakota. He sent to
the clerks desk and had read reSolu-
tons of Democratic convention in
Dakota
IN FAVOR OF DIVISION
of the territory and of the admission Of
the southern half as a state. AS to the
proceedings of the Aberdeen cOnven-
ton in December, 1887, which Mr.. But
Ter had referred 10 as proof Of the OPP
position to the division of the territory,
he read extracts of a letter from Mr..
Springer, Chairman of the house COM
mittee on territories, which he spoke of
as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" and a "ukaSe"
stating that those waiting for division
of the territory might well postpone
the realization of their hopes till more
convenient season." which Mr.. Davis
supposed might refer to time after the
next presidential election. Was it any
wonder, he asked, that with such let
ter DIS that read to the Aberdeen cOnven-
ton the people who had met there had
abandoned the hope of division, and
had made up their mind to take what
they could get? The whole territory, he
said, contained some 600,00 inhabitants,
of which number about $4,000 were in
southern Dakota. Of the latter
10000 were eX-union soldiers
who were denied enfranchise-
ment by the country which they
had fought to save. They were to-day,
in all that constituted state, more fully
equipped than many states which were
now persistently denying their admis-
greSs, he asked, be at least meanly Just
in the admission of South Dakota?
Why delay that great act of national
justice? The question should be
stripped of all pretence, evasion and
sham, and it should be plainly admitted
that the commonwealth of South Da-
kota had been denied admission as
state for the sole reason that the party
in power was determined not to lose its
political ascendency. At the concu-
sion of his speech Senator Davis was
surrounded by the senators of both
grasping his hand and warmly cOngratu-
lating him upon his truly commendable
effort