St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-11
DAKOTA'S CHAMPION.
Senator Butler Makes an Elo-
quent Appeal for an i'm
perial State,
And Takes Occasion to Read a
Severe Lecture to Mr..
Edgerton.
The Alien Mineral Land Bill
Finally Passed by the
Senate.
The Deadlock in the House
Hn4EsauaC VTiJcop Cots
The Deadlock in the House
COntinueS--WilsOn Gets
Excused.
Special to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, April 10.-The people
of Dakota owe an incalculable debt of
gratitude to Senator Butler for his
honest statement of facts and logical de-
ductions therefrom in their behalf, in
his eloquent dictlon and impassioned
utterance in the discussion to-day of the
South Dakota bill. Every point in
Platt's speech was carefully noted and
fully answered. Then there were added
sledge hammer arguments and un-
answera0le conclusions for imperial Da
kota's rights and dignified demands that
they be conceded. The senator said:
"If the people of that territory shall au-
thoritatively voice their sentiments for
admission as one state, shall use ev-
cry effort for their recognition in con-
gress. Nay more, if they shall authori-
sion as two states, | shall aid them by ev
cry influence for the attainment of that
end. But until they do so, l shall re-
sist every endeavor made by self-seek-
ing politicians to foist a disunited seq
ment upon the sisterhood of states"
During his terrific and indignant
PHILIPPE against Edgerton, Senator
Moody sat in the private gallery, an in
terested and agitated listener. There
were also present Hon. j. Kleiner, Hon.
N. G. Ordway, Hon. John 81. King, and
Hon. d. ID. Offenbacker. All of the
Democrats will vote against the Platt
bill, as will also Senator Chandler. Mr..
Springer was an attentive listener and
afterwards said: 81 wish that l could
present to the house the merits of my
own bill as well as Senator Butler has
done in the senate today"
ANOTHER REPORT.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-The senate
to-day resumed the consideration of the
bill to provide for the admission of the
state of South Dakota and the organiza-
ton of the territory of North Dakota.
Mr.. Butler hoped that the present terri
tory of Dakota would not be dismem-
bered. The question of the admission
of territories was entirely within the
discretion of congress. If any other
doctrine should prevail why should not
the territory of Utah be admitted as
state. Or what was to prevent 100000
socialists, anarchists, nihiliSts and COM
munists taking refuge in some corner of
territory and proceeding to frame
constitution and state government and
demanding to be admitted as state?
He, therefore, submitted that the Sena-
tor from Connecticut Platt) had gone
too far yesterday in making such a prop
osition, especially when the claim for
admission was asserted, not on behalf
of majority of the people
of the territory of Dakota, but on behalf
of faction of politicians in that terri
tory who had contributed more than all
else besides to prevent the territory
the minority, he said, proposed to au-
thorize the people of the territory to
meet in convention, frame a constitu-
ton and state government and submit
them to congress and upon their rati-
fication by congresS) to declare Dakota
state of the Union. The majority
bill, on the other hand, proposed to
ratify and confirm a So-called cOnstitu-
ton adopted in South Dakota two and
one-half years ago, and to seat as
United States senators two gentlemen,
Republicans, who claimed to have been
then elected. Would the senate. he
asked, consent to seat as full fedged
senators, equal to those who represent
ed sovereign states, two men who sim
ply represented 1000 votes out Of 1861
900 voters? That was the proposition.
He referred to one Of the
GENTLEMEN SEEKING SEATS
as senator from Dakota (Alr. Edgerton)
as one whom he had spoken Of courte-
ously in the last congress but who, in
recent speech in Dakota, had alluded to
him in an offensive manner, drawing a
parallel between the Southern man who
learned nothing, forgot nothing and re-
sorted to the boWie-knife and revolver
Snd the Dakota man whose weapons
were the Bible and the spelling book.
That (Said he, after reading this extract
from Mr.. Edgerton's speechl is the lam
guage of man to whom l extended the
courtesy of expressing kindly feelings
when he was attempting to get a seat on
this floor. He is entitled to all the credit
and all the honor and all the eclat and
prestige which that character of Ian
guage can give him. But may be per-
mitted to say that if l had to select
either as companions or citizens
of great country, the stalk
ing bandit, the reckless highwayman-
with pistol and bowie-knife in hand
or the sneaking hypocrite, the snarling
Pharisee who foils from the rear and
takes cover under the shadow of his
own meanness and malignity, [ would
select the former. If the spelling book
and the Bible inculcate such education
as that, such malignity, such unfair
ness, such injustice, such falsehood,
may God have mercy upon the Bible
and spelling book which that man car
ries with him. Better to have made a
bonfire of them than to have them teach
such language as that which l have
read. Without any action on the bill the
senate proceeded to executive business,
and when the doors were reopened ad-
journed.