Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-12
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. DEMOCRATS ALL AT SEA. Some Favor. Some Oppose Admitting The Territories. .THE MEAL DUST EXPLOSION. Great Victory For Free Pub
 lie Schools In Boston. ANO TIER TERRIBLE HURRICANE. Frenchmen Losing COnfi-|
 dence In The Canal.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
pEmooRArs1 A mUppLE.

mr. Cox Urged the Caucus 50 Favor the Admission of the Territories so to Gain Political Capital = Contrary Opinion Expressed by Mr. Oates Others In Favor.
 WAsHINToN, Dec. 11.-About one hundred
 and ten Democratic members of the House of Representatives met this evening to take ac-
 ton looking to the admission of the territo- ries. MT. Cox favored the admission of all
 the territories except Utah and New Mexico.
 He said that the Democratic party might as
 well gain the good will of the territories as
 their i'll will. The people of Dakota preferred
 division of the forty seventh parallel almost
 unanimously and he was of the opinion that
 their desires should be listened to. Washing
 ton, Montana and Idaho should be given en-
 abling acts at once. The great territory of
 Dakota should be divided and the Democrats
 should secure the prestige which would cer-
 tainly come to them from the favorable action
 of the caucus. The Democrats had everytbing
 to gain and nothing to lose. They had lost
 Minnesota at the last election because they
 had failed to admit Dakota, which was on the
 same isothermal line.
 MR. OATES CANNOT SEE THE 20 INT.
 Mr. Oates, of Alabama, dissented from the
 views advanced by MT. Cox. He regarded
 the question of admission of the territories
 as largely political and believed that the in-
 terests of the Democratic party should be considered. He was sure that Republican
 Senate would admit these territories, which
 were Republican, and reject those which were Democratic. He did not see the force
 of the argument that admitting the territor" ies at present would make them Democratic. That was kind of threat, and he did not intend to be influenced by it. If the people of the territories had so little idea of Democ- racy they should be left until they learned better the principles of the Democratic par ty He ridiculed the idea that the Republi- can Congress with 8 majority from one to three in the House would be allowed to have it's own in regard to the admission of the territories. Let Congress go slowly. Colo rado had been admitted by Democratic Congress, and he saw nothing Democratic about it.
 eTHERs IN FAVOR or ADMISSION. MT. Tools, of Montana, spoke in favor of | admitting that territory. predicting that if that were done she would send two Demo cratic senators, otherwise she would be Re publican for decades.
 MT. Bland, of Missouri, said that in 1899 | the seat of war would not be in~ New York, \ New Jersey and Connecticut, but in the \ west. The people were tired of being dom- | mated by New York politics. Let the Dem | ocratic party follow Horace Greely's advice | and go west and grow up with the country. | MT. Voorhees,, of Washington, attributed | the Republican majority in that territory to ! the failure of the Democrats to pass an en- ! abling act for it's admission. The views o1 other members were given and resolutions bearing on the matter were offered, but the \ caucus, without taking action adjourned un NkSI nN1 nln,x