New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-20
THE DAKOTA BILL PASSED.
CARRIED IN THE SENATE BY A PARTY VOTE
a SHARP DEBATE UNcoNNECTnD WITH THE
RILL ITsELFc-MR SHERMAN REPLIES TO
SOUTHERN INsINUATIoNS.


SOUTHERN INsINUATIoNs-
lsY TELxeRArH TO TIE rRibuNE.1
WASHINGTON, April le.--1he bin for the admis-
sion of South Dakota into the Union passed the
Senate late this evening by vote OF 26 TO 30
divided strictly on party lines. With the excep-
ton of the opening speech OF the day, delivered
BY Mr.. Allison, after Mr.. Plumb hsd finished some
desultory remarks, and another speech delivered
toward the close Of the debate by Mr.. Platt the
discussion turned for nearly seven hours upon the
history Of the electoral count in s77 and the vote
cast by Louisiana in November, 1876 In this
discussion Messrs. Sherman, Hoar, Vest, Butter
Chace and Havley took leading part. Much Of
it covered the ground traversed yesterday, Mr.
Vest being apparently unable or unwilling to un-
derstand the clear, logical and convincing expo
sition of the principles which guided the decision
of the Electoral Commission made by Messrz
Sherman and Hoar. The illtemper displayed both
by the Missouri and South Carolina Senators fur
uished q striking proof Of the weakness of their
argument sr,
Mr. Chace, who does not speak often, astonished
the Senate and galleries by the happy, quaint
humorous but thoroughly good-natured, reply he
made to the accusation Of wholesale bribery and
corruption lodged by Mr. Butler against the good
State OF Rhode Island Mr.. Allsons speech was
q strong and concise argument in behalf OF the
claims Of South Dakota, couched In forclDie
English Mr.. Platt led back the Senate, as 1t
were, out of the meshes Of the Electoral Commits
sion controversy into the legitimate channel OF
discussion He summed up the case Of the citi-
Gems Of Dakota In lucid and eloquent hAlf-hours
speech, which for strength Of reasoning, keenness
Of analysis and comprehensive grasp Of detail
left nothing to be desired. It unable, how
ever, to penetrate the pachydermatous partisan
ship of the Democratic side or to change single
vote.
THE MOTIVE OF DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION
NJ Allison said that he would address the
Senate in support of the bin, because Of the init
mate relations between that Territory and his own
State. 1t was, he said, political and party ques
don, and tho attitude Of the Democratic party
IN this subject was an attitude of non-action
&c believed that South and North Dakota should
now be admitted as States. The idea was to tam
per with the question until the Presidential cleo
tion Of 1888 shall have passed away, and, II the
political exigencias Of the future required it. the
Democratic party would continue to play the same
game If the Democratic party, Mr. Allison con-
tnued, wanted the State of Dakota undivided In
the Union, why did il not present bill for that
puspose3 He himself would hesitate long before
he would be willing to admit Dakota as single
State. The question was ono OF the most impor-
tant that could up, because It related to the
exclusion Of six or seven hundred thousand peo-
pie from participation IN the affairs of the Re
public.
Mr. Butler, after declaring his willingness TO
admit the Territory Of Dakota as q whole and
leave the people free afterward to determine the
question. Of geographical area, referred to the
charges made by Senators against Southern States
as descent into tho very quagmire and slime OF
township politics and ward meeting controver-
Sies.D He spoke of the two Senatorial claimants
from South Dakota as the new political firm, not
of Moody and Ssnkey, but of Moody and Eggles
ton He said that the Senator from Ohio iSher-
mani had INDUCED In q TRADE of abuse and mis-
representation Of one section of the country. III
he were to retort on that Senator, he might say
that he lMr. Sherman had got the advantage OF
his own wrong as q co-conspirator In the great
sst fraud that ever disgraced American politics
and had manoeuvred himself into the Treasury OF
the United States. He would not say that tho
Senator from Ohio had done that; but IL would
have been Just as competent for him to say that
as for the Senator TO say that the Senators from
Louisiana were occupying their seats by fraud
and outrages In elections He referred briefly to
newspaper extracts showing election frauds In
Rhode Island, and Mr. Chace took up the allu-
sion, donouncing the insinuation against the no
publicans of Rhode Island as an unqualified false
hood So far as the Republican party was con-
cerued he said there never had been fairer cleo
ton The State had been flooded with money
Democratic money-in the interest Of the liquor
movement. He further showed that these ACCUSE
lions came from Democratic or Mugwump news
papers.
4 VIGOROUS DENIAL OF SOUTHERN CHARGES
Mr. Sherman, in reply to o speech by MI Berry,
said that he had not participated in the debate
until the Senator from Missouri lVest had
charged upon President Hayes that he had oeen
elected by fraud and held his Office IN fraud
When a President Of the United States was
charged with having held his Office in fraud for
four years, and that he used the money OF the
United States In rewarding the men who made
the returns of the State of louisiana, he toher-
mani. friend of his, from his own State, had de-
clared that that charge was false, and he had
produced the testimony Of two witnesses Gov
amor McEnery and Senator Eustis) who, in max
ing the canvass last summer In that state,
admitted everything which he had stated
Il was not to revive the animosities Of the past
that he had spoken but TO show that the foul
charge made against President Of the United
States was false.
Mr. Edmunds called attention to the fact that
the very principle on which the Electoral Com
mission proceeded in the case OF Louisiana had
been enacted into law by Republican Senate ana
q Democratic House Of Representatives and had
been approved and signed by Democratic Presi-
dent
In long discussion between Senators Vest
Sherman and Hoar, that subject was again gone
over in considerable detail. Mr. Hoar related the
prominent facts in connection with the Electoral
Commission, and defended its creation and de-
cision. Mr. Platt made the closing speech in favor
Of the bill, in which he spoke of the Territorial
governments being the only carpetbag govern
meuts that had existed in the United States for
che last twelve years. The vote was then taken
REFORM ACCORDING TO BENEDICT.
HOW PRIVATE WORK HAS BEEN COMMONLY COL
LEcTEp FOR DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (SpeciaH.-Ths testa-
mony before the Printing Office investigation to
DAY related chiefly to private work done In the