The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-22
AMONG THE SOLONS.
The Specllations on State
Making.
IEW MEXICO LADIES INSULTED
Idills and His Bill-Nsxt Census
Bessie BuIkley-TerritOriai
LegisIatlen-Etc.

THE HERALD The Senate and House
are playing at eros: purposes again.
This time it is over the admission of
| new States. The Democratic caucus
of the House has decided to sup
port whas is known as the Springer
omnibus bill, which has been re-
| ported from the com nittee on Territor-
| les. That bill does not propose to
make any new States this year but to
pave the way for action at the next
session. 1t Is simply
AN ENABLING MEASURE
I And authorizes Dakota as a whole,
Montana, Washington, and New
Mexico to frame constitutions to be
submitted to Congress for its approval
| preparatory to the final admission to
the Union. Under the programme, no
/ Territory would BIZ factor or a State
in the next Presidential election. The
Republican majority in the Senate has
scheme by which part OF Dakota
could vote for the next President. 1t
proposes to split that Territory in two,
admit the southern partSss a State to
be known as South Dakota, and organ
| ize out of the balance of it q new Terri
tory to be known as North Dakota. The
Republican Senators would do this in
order that the new State might vote
| for
PRESIDENT cLEvELAND's SUCCESSOR.
1t is Republican and would be emit
| lied to three votes which might be as
handy for them as were the three elect
oral votes of Colorado. which was ad
mitted in 1876, and voted in the elect
oral college of that year. But it will
not work. The Democrats will not adj
NIT any new State in time to take part
in the election next November. The
Senate has other ideas also in regard to
Territories. Its committee ON Territories
has reported favorably enabling acts for
Washington Territory and Montana.
The difference between what the House
and Senate would do in regard to this
matter is, it will be seen, sufficiently
radical to prevent anything being done
at this session, besides passing several
enabling acts. The Democrats have
the better of the positions in regard to
Dakota, for they hold that no action
taken by Territory
LOOKING ToTARp STATEHOOD
is valid until such action is author
lied By Congress. The Republicans
propose, in order to get southern
Dakota into the Union in time to vote
next fall, to recognize the premature
action taken by it last year whsn it,
without Congressional authority, went
ahead and adopted constitution.
An Interesting feature of the general
subject of the admission of Territories
is that of woman suffrage, and it vii,
come to the front when Washington
Territory is going through its prelin-
inaries to Statehood. By the present
constitution of the Territory, tho
women resident of it are entitled to the
ballot. That feature will have to be
eliminated from it before Congress will
give its approval. Congress will not vote
favora5ly when any measure commit
ting it directly or by implication to the
of the right of women
to vote.
Representatives Etrnble, Baker, War.
aer, and Dorsey. who made the minor
ity report from the committee on Terri
tories
AGAINST THE ADMZssIeN OF NEiy MEXICO |
as State, are catching it by mail, if |
ever four nFen did. In their report.
these gentlemen said, in effect. that the ]
Neg Mextcans were polyglot people |
of Indians. Mexicans, and Americans.
ignerant, 6uperstttieEs, given to the |
worship OF images and, es rule.
licentious. The naturalization was |
rarity, ana general loosezess of morals
the r@ie. The costume of the majority
of the men was, the report said. very
simple, consisting simply of a blanket
with hole in the centre for the head
to go hhrough. The peasant women
we're said 10 costume themselves in a
chemise and q petticost, while the
women, whose status is better, as a sule
to dress according to she
fashions Of Paris and New York, Aut
lre four OK five years
BEHIND THE STYLES
This sweeping denunciation of tine
people of Nsw Mexico has stirred us
he natives. The newspapers &c for the ]
authors of the minority report an the
most approved wild, robustioEs and
Western manner, and copies of tie pa
,ers are promptly sent to the Offenders.
from them they learn that they are
many things that they never suspected !,
themselves of being. Meetings are be .
ng held throughout the Territory at F.,
Which they are denounced In reso- e
utions as strong as Samson. The :
of these meetings kindlg
end the trainers of the report that has .
TIRED up whole Territory, copies of :
hose resolutions. The women have =
lso ente red the fray. Messrs. Strubie. ),
'aEer, Warner, and Dorsey know this. ,
hey get letters from New Mexican
omen, and resolutions too. Though
heir language is not as drastic as that
mployed by the male citizens. VET II