The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-22
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Population of Wyoming Re-
ported by the Governor.
PUBLIC PRINTING INCREASE.
Senator Sherman Serenaded- Makes
Sensible Address to a CoIored
Delega Observation-Disclosures.

WASHINGTON, December 21.-Gov-
ernor Moonlight, of Wyoming, has sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Interio or
supplemental report on the popula-
ton of that Territory. In explanation
of his purpose for making the report
the Governor says; The question of
the population of Wyoming seems at
present TO be agltating the minds OF
the press of the Territory, our dele
gates in Congress, and many people,
and from publications and quotations
it will been seen that the reports of the
Governor of 1887 and 1883 are quoted as
authority by those seeking to make the
population larger. I have deemed it
proper, in justice to myself and for the
sake of truth, to make this report"
He then quotes from the reports of
the Governor of the Territory for
the last several years showing
the then estimated population In 1885,
by Governor Warren, rs 0C0; in 1887, by
Governor Moonlight, $4,000; in 1888,
by Governor Moonlight, $1,000. His
own estimates, the Governor says, were
based on the former reports and inqui-
ries among the people, as no ceneus
have been taken since 1880. He is sat-
istied that his previous estimates were
too high. He bases his judgment on
the number of votes cast for delegate in
November; this vote was. 18,008. from
which the governor estimates the
real population" to be about 55 900.
puprIc PRINTING
The joint committee on printing fixed
the standard of paper to-day for pub
lie printing for the year beginning
March. 1889. and ending February %,
1890. Proposals for BIDS will be pub
lished in two papers in New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago
and Washington. beginning December
January 22d. The printing of the gov
eminent has so increased in two years
as to require 80 per cent. more paper.
AN ADDRESS.
Senator Sherman was this evening
serenaded by the recently organized
John Sherman Republican League
(colored) of the District of Columbia.
An address on behalf of the league was
read and presented, thanking the Sen
ator for his great and unremitting ser
vices on behalf of the colored race.
They protested against the recognition
of protection Democrats in the south by
the elevation to high offices under the
incoming admins tration, and called on
the American people to protect their
brothers in certain sections of the
south and exercise their constitutional
rights as freemen. Senator Sherman,
in response, said in part: 1.-THE prob
lem of securing to you the peaceful en-
joyment of equal rights and privileges
is the most difficult one in American
laws of the country, you now stand be-
fore me with the
EVEN RIGHT OF FREEMEN.
If, in some Southern States, these rights
are denied to you, you must remember
aud make allowances for the opinions
and prejudices of the age and for
your enforced ignorance, and these
prejudices will disappear as you acquire
education and property, and that you
can win by moderation and good
character and the respect and con-
Edence of the sons of those who held
you or your ancestors as slaves. If you
suffer injustice under the shadow pase,
remember that never before in
human history did an emanciPated
class or race N axe such progress in so
short time as you have DONE" Sena-
tor Sherman expressed the hope and
belief that the next Congress would
pass uniform election law, to secure
to every man the right to vote and have
that vote oOuntsd, but he warned them
that Congress could not interfere in
local elections. Your hope is in the
moral conviction, growing stronger
day by day, that injustice to you
reacts on your oppreSsors. 1t
was for Them" the spe aker
said, ito show the untruth of
the charge that they were not fitted for
the duties of citizenship, and that in
those States where they were numerous
they would establish negro rule and
endanger civilization"
NOMINATIONS.
John Tyler Campbell, of California,
consul at Foochow; John barley Con-
molly, of California, consul at Auckland.
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