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mineral lands, mining claims, mills, re
duction works and other property, thu
laws of the United States and Of the terri
tories shall be until changed by act o.
congress or an act of the territorial legis
turr the same as though said act had no
been passed.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the unfinished business, being the bill
to provide Cor the admission of the state
Of South Dakota and the organization OF
the territory Of North Dakota.
Mr.. Butter hoped that the territory OF
Dakota would not be dismembered. The
question of the admission Of territories
was entirely within the discretion
Of congress. ii any ether
doctrine should pre- Jail, why
should not the territory Of Utah t9-admit-
ted as a state or what was to prevent 100,
900 socialists, anarchists, nib lists and com
munists taking refuge Ia some corner of
J the territory and proceeding to frame a
constitution and state government and de-
handing 10 be admitted as a state? He
therefore submitted that the senator from
Connecticut (Platt) had gone too far yes
terday in making such a proposition, es-
peCially when the claim for admission
was asserted not on behalf Of the MAORI
ty of the people Of the territory of Dakota,
but in behalf of a faction of politicians in
that territory, who had contributed more
than anything else besides 10 prevent the
territory being admitted as a state. The
bill Of the minority, he said, proposed to
authorize the people of the territory to
meet in convention, frame a constitution
and state governE 1t, and submit them TO
congress, and (upDI their ratification by
COngress) to declare Dakota a state of the
union. The majority bill on the other
hand proposed to ratify and confirm a so
called constitution adopted in south Da-
kota two and a half years ago and to seat
as United States senators, two gentlemen,
republicans, who claimed to have been
elected. Would the senate, he asked,
consent to seat as full iedged senators
equal to those who represented sovereign
states, two men who simply represented
1000 votes of 105,40 votes?
He referred to one gentleman seeking
a seat as a senator from Dakota (Nr. Ed
gerton) as one whom he had spoken of
COurteOusly in the last congress but who in
a 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,
and the Dakota man, whose weapons were
the bible and s~pellingbOok. That, said
he, after reading the extract from Mr..
EdgertOn's speech, is the language Of the
man to whom / extended the courtesy of
expressing kindly feelings when he was
attempting to get a seat on this floor, and
he is entitled to all the credit and all the
honor and all the eclat and prestige which
that character Of language can give him;
but l may be permitted to say that if |
had to select either ms companions or Citi-
zens of a great country, the stalking ban
dit, the reckless ~highwayman, with pistol
and bowie knife in hand, or the sneaking
hypOcrite, the snarliug Pharisee, who
feels from the rear and takes cover under
the shadow of his own meanness and ma
Lightly, | would select the former. If the
spellingbook and bible inculcate such ed
ucatiOn as that, such maliguity, such I'M
fairness, such injustice, such falsehood,
may God have mercy upon the bible and
spellingbook which that man carries with
him. Better have them made into a bon
fire than have them teach such language
us that which l have read.
Without any action on the bill the sem
ate proceeded to executive business and
when the doors opened adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-At 1890 the
senate on motion Of Mr.. Frye proceeded
to the consideration of executive business.
Within ten minutes the doors wece re-
opened.
The senate then took up the motion to
refer the presidents annual message and
was addressed by Mr.. Morrill,. In face of
the doctrines promulgated in the mes
sage of the president, what encourage
ment for the future, he asked, had those
farmers guilty Of having made invest
ments in sheep husbandry, and having
labosed for years to acquire knowledge
and skill Of good sheep herds in the man
agement Of their iocksS What encour-
ageaent did the message offer to any new
or even old enterprise? Was there any
growing city or town, any nook or corner
in the country, which could have any
hope Of advancing its property upon the
changes of the tariff as urged by
the message of the PRESIDENT What new
fields Of labor would be opened or what
old ones could show increased actiyity?
Mr.. morrill, spoke at great length. He
predicted that should the Mills bill be-
come a law, American industries would
be crippled and the farmer would have To
make many sacrinces on the altar Of free
trad
The senate then resumed consideration
Of the bill to provide for the admission Of
the state Of South Dakota and for the or
ganization Of the territory Of North Da-
kota and was addressed by Mr.. Davis.
He said that the senator from South
Carolina Butler) was Of the opinion that
he admission 81 asstate was purely within
The discretion Of congress. He Davis
denied that position, lie denied it from
the light Of law and had denied ii Qn ali
is length and breadth) from
The light Of history. Mr.. Vest
hna inquired whether Mr. Davis
proposition was that congress was exclnd-
I'd from any direction In regard 10 the
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