The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-19
WASHINGTON STATE.
The Admission Bill Before
the Senate.
QUESTION OF ANNEXATION
Great Opposition to the Dismember.
ment OF Idaho-The Tariff
Bill In the HOdse.
SENATE.

WARRINGTON, July 18.-The Senate
proceeded to the consideration of tht
Senate bill for the formation and ad-
mission into the Union OF Washington
Territory, to be composed of the pres
ent Territory of Washington and par
Of Idaho Territory.
Oullom offered a substitute for the
bill, combining the area of the new State
to that of he present Territory of Wash
ington.
Stewart supported the bill. The only
e0ntrovert,d point in the bill, he
said, was as to the inclusion within the
new State of a portion of Idaho, that
portion known as North Idaho or the
Panhandle. He stated the reason why
the annexation should occur.
Vest doubted the power of Congress
to refer the matt of annexation OF
Northern Idaho to the people. There
has been, he said, vast amount of ad-
Indication in the question, and the
weight of authority was decidedly
against So CD a delegation of legislative
power, for this was nothing else.
II 1t was right that that part
o. of Idaho Territory should be cut off
and annexed to Washington State, it
should be done by Congress, and not
subject to all the changes of popular
election.
Doll supported the bill.
CulIom favored the immediate ad-
mission of the new State, but opposed
the annexation of Idaho. He quoted
the result of the conventions of both
political parties of the Territory against
the proposed Acknowledgement, and also
the resolutions OF thanks of the Idaho
convention to President Cleveland for
having vetoed (by pocketing) the bill OF
the last Congress, adding four northern
counties of Idaho to the Territory Of
Washington. He also read a letter
to himself, expressing the con-
viotion that the Senate would not
divide the people of that Territory
against the memorial of its Legislature
and against the protests of both politi-
cal parties, backed by at least nine
tenths of the population of Idaho. He
declared it was not right, after twenty
five years of priYations that belonged
to frontier life, to say to the people of
Idaho, just as they were beginning to
see daylight dawn IN the east and to be
entitled to admission as a State, I'VE
will take off 25 900 square miles of your
area and 10000 of your popula-
ton, and we will attach them to
some other Territory and put
you back twenty years longer"
He hoped the bill reported by
Stewart from the majority of the com
mittee would not pass the Senate, but
that the substitute offered by himself on
the part of the minority (Which simply
proposed to admit Was .ington Terri
tory with its existing boundaries) would
be passed.
Stewart read large number
of resolutions, letters and statements in
support of the annexation of North
Idaho, and said nature had made these
four counties (Which are in the great
Columbia basin) part of Washington;
bat that in view of the suggestion that
q majority of their people were opposed
to the annexation. the bill provided for
the submitting of the question to them,
they being the only people interested.
Without action on the bill, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of execu-
tive business and soon adjourned.