New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-29
FOUR new STATES.
The House Committee Decides by Party Vote
to Report the so-CalIed Omnibus
Bill.
Provisions for the Admission of Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington Territory and New
Mexico.

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WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Feb 90
The house committee on territories to-day
finished the consideration of the omnibus
enabling act for Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton and New Mexico, and by strict party
vote decided to report it the house to-mor-
row. The bill is in many respects the
Springer bill applied to the four territories,
and is new only in some points regarding the
public lands. Section 2 authorizes residents
of these territories to elect delegates to con
stitutional conventions, proportionate in
number with the population of the counties
The superintendent of delegates is to be
made by the governor, Chief justice and
United States attorneys of each territory,
and the election is to be held on the Tuesday
after the first Monday of next August.
SeTenty-hye delegates are allowed each ter
ritory except Dakota, which is allowed $50.
Section provides for the meeting of the
constitutional convention and the usual pro-
visions to be inserted in the constitution
One of these provisions relates to land mat
tiers, and reads:
Secondly-That the people inha biting said
proposed state do agree and declarer that
they forever disclaim all right and title to
the unappropriaGed lands lyingowithin the
boundaries thereof, and to all lands living
Within said limits owned or held by any In
dian or Indian tribes, and that until the title
thereto shall have been extinguished by the
United States. the same shall remain subject
to the United States. and said Indian lands
Snail remain under the absolute jurisdiction
ana az control OF the congress of The United
States; that the land belonging to citizens
OF the United States residing without the
said states shall never be taxed at a higher
raJe than the lands belonging to residents
thereof; that no taxes shall be imposed bv
the states on lands or property therein be-
longing to or which may hereafter be pur-
chased by the United States or re-
served for it's use, provided that
nothing herein or in the ordinance
herein provided for shall preclude
the states from taxing, as other lands
are taxed, any lands owned or held by any
Indian VINO has severed his tribal relations
and has obtained from the United States or
any person title thereto by patent or other
grant, save and except such lands as have
been or may be granted to any Indian or In
dams under any act of congress containing
provision exempting the lands thus
granted from taxation; but such ordinances
shall provide that all such lands shall be ey
empt from taxation by said states SO long
and to such extent as such act OF congress
may provide.
Sectlon provides for vote on the con-
stltuUions in November and count of the
same. Section gives until the next census
each state one representative in congress-
except Dakota, which gets two
DAKOTA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
Section 6 reads:
The counties of Grant, Roberts. Dav.
Brown, Edmunds, Walworth, Boreman, Het-
finger, Bowman, and all that part of the
State of Dakota north thereof shall
constitute the First congressional district
and that portion of the State of Dakota
south OF these counties shall constit ute the
Second congressional district of said state,
and IN each OF said districts one representa-
tive in congress shall be elected until other
wise provided by law after the next decen
NAL census of the United States, and at the
time provided by law for such elections in
other states.
Section z provides for school lands with
the following proviso:
That sections 16 and SO, embraced in per-
manent reservations for national purposes.
OF allotted to Indians in fee simple. shall not
at any time be sub ect to the grants or in
demnlty provisions of this act, nor shall any
lands embraced in Indian, military or other
reservations OF any character, be subject to
the grants or indemnity provisions OF this
act until the reservation shall be e1tin-
e.
come part OF the public domain.
Section gives each of the new states fifty
sections of land for the purpose of erecting
public buildings at the capital of the state.
These are to be selected before Jan. /. 1890.
Section 8 provides that the money and lands
provided by the government for the erection
OF a penitentiary in Dakota shall be granted
to the proposed new state, and that the
and all lands connected there
with at Deer Lodge City are granted to the
Territory of Montana. Section 10 grants to
each of the states ninety sections of land
for the support OF agricultural colleges
Section L secures to the states per cent of
the proceeds OF the sale Of public lands
within their boundaries
LEASE OF SCHOOL LANDS
Section IL provides that school lands
shall not be disposed of at less than $40 per
acre, but such lands may, under such regu-
lations as The legislatures Of the states may
prescribe, be leased for periods of not more
than five years, in quantities not exceeding
one section, TO any one person or corpora
ton. Section ID provides that the lands
already granted to the territories for uni
versity purposes shall be transferred to the
new states, and that the schools erected by
VI
forever remain under the control of the
state, and none of the lands shall go to sup
port sectarian or denominational schools,
colleges or universities Section IA ex-
cludes mineral lands from the provision of
the act Section l5 repeais the swamp land
act. and declares that its provisions are not
extended to the new states; also the act
granting lands to new states for internal
and in lieu of such lands the
following grants are made:
To Dakota-For the maintenance of
school of mines at Rapid City, $4,000 acres;
for the reform school at Piankinton, $4,000
acres; for the deaf and dumb asylum, So
600 acres; for agricultural schools ut Fargo
and Brookings, $4,000 acres each; for the
state normal schools at Madison, Speartish,
Springfield and Mimic, 25 900 acres each;
for public buildings at the capital of the
state, Loo, 1000 acres in addition to the fifty
sections hereinbefore granted for that pur-
pose. To the State of Montana-For the es-
adjustment and maintenance of school OF
mines, 100000 acres; for state normal
schools, 100000 acres; for agricultural col,
leges, in addition to the grant hereinbefore
provided for that purpose, so, 900 acres; for