Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-19
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
THE BILL TO ADMIT DAKOTA
Under Consideration in the Senate
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
1t Has the Right Of Way In the House.


1t Has the Right Of Way in the House.
The Senate.
Mr.. Coke was lat his own reQuest) excused from
further service on the committee on Indian trader
ships, and MI. Faulkner was appointed In his
stead.
Among the petitions presented and referred was
one from the st. Louis Turner Association against
any legislation making admission Of immigrants
depend on the personal views OF the immigrants,
or that might be construed as to contract or re-
strict immigration, and asking that the law against
contract and pauper immigration be strictly en-
forced
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Among the bills reported from committees and
placed on the calendar were the following:
Authorizing the President to appoint and retire
Jno. c. Fremont as maJor-general United States
Appropriating s15O,OOO for quarters and barracks
at branches OF the national soldiers homes.
Three bills for lighthouses at Newport News,
Middle Ground, Va; ST. Joseph's Point, Fla; Hol-
land Islands Bar, Chesapeake Bay, Md, and one
fSr ,ra, Eghtship at Bushs Bluff shoal. Elizabeth
OFFICIAL REPORTS OF DEBATES ON THE FISHERIES
TREATY.
Mr.. Hoar offered a resolution (Which was referred
to the committee on foreign relations) providing
that the official reporter shall be admitted to re-
port the debates and proceedings OF the Senate
when the fisheries treaty shall be under consider
alton; the report, or such part OF IL as may not
require secrecy to be published II the Senate shall
so order
THE DAKOTA BILL
The Senate then resumed consideration OF the
bill for the admission Of the state Of South Dakota,
and was addressed by Mr.. Plumb in support OF the
bill In response to the challenge Of MIR. Vest he
instanced the case of Kansas and California as
territories which changed boundaries
1t was, therefore, in nOwise derogatiOn OF the
privileges OF Congress for Dakota to divide its ter
undue representation in the Senate Of
small states, such as Delaware, Rhode
because the Constitution said that in that parti-
cular there should be no change ex-
The The country had to rest under that
INEQUALITY OF REPRESENTATION IN THE SENATE
except there should be a revolution. In the mean
time, however, the inequality might be modified
by such proper division Of the territories, or such
a limitation of boundaries OF new states should
give 20 the interior and western portions OF the the
Senate. At the election Of a delegate in 1886,
Dakota had cast 104,s11 votes. The popu-
thirds thirds q Of 'Sa the Whole Whole; vs." 50 That that the
voting population Of the proposed new state was
about 10000. He contrasted the small votes in
said that very few Of them had cast as many votes
at any election within the last rve years as the
Territory OF Dakota had cast in 1856. lit was the
from Missouri VesD objected TO then he Plumb)
declared that they were fair representation
tinenI ' As Tsey had BEEN BEEN ''i taken n from rom the
more active and energetic portions OF the people OF
the Northern, Eastern Middle, and Western states
ever been deprived, by direction or indirection Of
his right to vote, or that any candidate for Con-
gress In Dakota had ever started out on his cam
rat tCrn arffllarv
Nothing had ever occurred In Dakota for which
any q her citizens or any citizen o.
to blush. No one Quarreled with the
states OF North Carolina or Virginia because they
did not have institutions that gathered In the pop
The Senator from Missouri was especially delighted
with their cOmpanionship because he saw In 1t
assurance doubly sure" that thereby those states
WOULD REMAIN DEMOCRATIC.
Coming down to the state of Alabama he con-
| trasted the tables Of taxation in that state to
show that the assessed value of guns, pistols and
dirks" was four times greater than that Of farm
ing tools and agricultural implements. And yet,
he said, the Senator from MISSOURI did not object
to the representation OF Alabama In the Senate or
them on plane OF equality. For himself he did
not care as to the politics OF any Of the
| states. He would vote for the admission
OF Montana, or Washington, democratic though
Hewould do so because he believed that the peace,
the progress and the welfare OF the republic con-
sisted, not In The existence OF territories to be
ence OF colonies, which formed no integral part Of
the great body Of the American people In their gov
erning capacity: He believed that the power and
perpetuity OF the republic depended upon the
equal association Of all the people Of the United
States Subdivided within the limits Of the states
each one revolving in its own orbit taking Of
its own local concerns, each contributing OF its
advice, its counsel its wealth and its power to
the progress OF the United States In their national
capacity.
MR.. ALLISON IN SUPPORT OF THE Bill.
Mr.. Allison addressed the Senate in support Of
the bill. He did so, he said, because good portion
Of Southern Dakota lay Immediately west Of the
western boundary OF his state: because three
great lines OF railway (havng their eastern termi-
nus, passed through Iowa and far into the interior
pie OF Dakota had immigrated from Iowa
In reply to the objections made to4athe
to split in % two he " cited the Gas cases So Of i
Michigan and Iowa, as well as those cited by Mr.
plumb-Kansas and California-as having done
Missouri (vest that the question was political
one. 1t was political and party question.
THE ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
in both houses on this subject was an attitude
Of non-action. It's policy had been clearly
aberdeen S~ n Convention. @ He believed that south
Dakota should now be admitted as state, and
North Dakota should also be now admitted as q
sion Tor the admission OF North Dakota
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Mr.. Vest asked him II he would vote now for
bill admitting to statehood the whole Territory OF
Dakota. He Vest) would.
Mr.. Allison replied by asking Senators Vest and
Butler II the democratic party, as political Or
ganizatiOn would vote to-day for the admission OF
the state Of Dakota as whole.
course neither he nor the Senator from
South Carolina could speak for the dem-
Ocratic party. but he would say that,
from full deliberation and consultation,
(nOt any sort OF caucus) with his democratic col.
leagues there was not one Of them who would not
vote for the admission OF the state OF Dakota, as
Mr.. Allison suggested that political parties
wanted to be judged by their general action, not
by individual statements.
House Of Representatives.
Mr. O'Neill (Pa.) presented petition Of the MARI
time Exchange, OF Philadelphia. against the sugar
and molasses schedule Of the Mills bill Referred.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Mills CTex.) an under.
standing was had that the committee on ways and
means would yield the door for the day to the ap-
bill would be resumed on Tuesday OF next week:
Saturday being accorded to the committee on pub.
lie lands for the consideration OF the "hODesteadn
bill. the House then went into committee OF the
whole (Mr. Springer In the chair) for the further
consideration OF
THE INDIAN APPROPRIATION BuI.
On motion OF Mr. Cannon, Of Illinois (and after o
short debate), an amendment was adopted appro-
priating $4,000 for the support Of eighty pupils
at the Cherokee training school, at Cherokee,
N. C.