The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-20
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Oak otn Bill PASSES the senats aftOrnn
Exciting Partixan Debate.

ESNCltlIk IlTlNalH DchNlts
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 10.-The
Senate 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. lie contnsted
the small votes in the Southern States
with the vote OF Dakota and said that
very few of them had cast MS many votes
ut any election within the last five Years
as the territory OF Dakota had east in
1886. Ii it was the quality OF the people
OF Dakota that the Senator from Missouri
(NIr. Vest) objected to then he (Mr.
Plumb declared that they were u fair
representation OF the Anglo Saxon char
acter on this continent. They had been
taken from the more active and energetic.
portions OF the people OF the Northern,
Eastern, Middle and Western States.
He has yet to learn that any man in Da-
kota had ever been deprived by dircc-
ton or indirection OF his right to vote,
or that any candidate for Congress in
Dakota had ever started out on his cam
paign with twelve pound piece Of ar
tillery.
Nothing has ever occurred in Dakota
for which any OF her citizens or any
citizen of the United States had been
called upon to blush. No one quarrelCd
with the States OF North Carolina or
Virginia because they did not have in
stitutiOns that gathered in the popular
will and gave it ample reflex us in other
States.
The Senator from Missouri was cspec-
iallydclighted with their companionship
because he saw in it
ASSURANCE DoUILY SURE"
that thereby those States would remain
Democratic. Coming down to the State
OF Alabama he contrastcd 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 farming tools and agriculture implc-
mcnts, and yet, lie said, the Senator
from Missouri did not object to the rep.
rescntation OF Alabama in the Senate or
House of Representatives, but was will
ing to meet them on a plain OF equality.
MIR. Allison addressed the Senate in
support OF the bill. Heargued with the
Senator from Missouri tMr. Vest that
the question was political one. ltwas
political and party question. The at
titudc OF the Democratic party in both
houses on this subject was an attitude OF
non-action. Its policy had been clearly
shown in Mr.. Springer's letter read at
the Aberdeen convention. He believed
that South Dakota should now be ad-
mittcd as State, and that North Dakota
should also be now admitted rs State.
And he should be glad to vote at this
session for the admission OF North Da-
kOta.
Mr.. Vest asked him il he would vote
now for bill admitting TO statehood
the whole territory of Dakota ;he Vest
would.
Mr.. Allison replied by asking Sem
ators Vest and Butler il the Democratic
party as n political organization would
vote to-day for the admission OF the
State OF Dakota as q whole.
MR.. VEST RESPONDS.
Mr.. Vests response was that as mat
ter of course, neither he nor the Senator
from South Carolina could speak for the
Democratic party, but he would say that
from full dciiberation and consultation
not any sort of caucus with his Demo
cratic colleagues, there was not any o.
them who would not vote for the admis
sion OF the State Of Dakota Us whole at
any time.
Mr. Butler asked where were the ere
dentials OF the two Dakota Senators
Who had signed them? Were the!
signed by q blizzard and countersigneC
by q snow bank? Who was the Gov
ernor OF South Dakota? Where was HI
: and what were his powers? The merl
statement OF the proposition carried
with it its absurdity. All the sound
ing OF songs, he said, and diversions
: from the real issue were intended 4
D cover UP and conceal from the publ,
| the real motive behind all this move
ment. He spoke OF the two Senatoria
: claimants from South Dakota as the new
political firm Of Moody and Sankey
, lie said that the Senator from Ohio, Mr.
: Sherman, had indulged in a TRADE o
e abuse and misrepresentation Of on
:, section OF the country had condescendet
y to deliver to that sestion lecture Of
how its people should conduct them