The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-12

erection in regard to the admission OF Terri
tory as State, provided it had the requisite
population and the other requisites
Dir. yest-What other requisItesF
Mr. Davis-A repub lican form OF government,
people having equal qualifications or virtue,
integrity and patriotism, and, although Congress
has the power to deny admission under snch
circumstances, it cannot do SO IN the rightful
exercise of its discretion. That power has been
exercised. and cruelty exercised, in the case Of
Dakota, but that 1t has been done In the r1gnt-
full exercise of discretion do most sincerely
deny As to the claims of the Senator from
South Carolina, that there was great opp0SlI1in
in Dakota to the BILL ne Mr.. Davis asked WHY.
if that wsre the case petitions OF dissent had
come the SenaGe. He sent TO the clerks desk
and had read resolutions Of q Democrats con-
vention, IN Dakota, IN favor or q DIVISION or the
Territory, and of the admission of the southern
portion State. AS TO the proceedings of the
Aberdeen convention, IN Decent Der. 1887, which
Mr. Butler had referred to as proof or the opDo-
sition to the division of the Territory, be read
extracts of a letter from Dir. Springer, chairman
OF the House committee on Territories, or which
he spoke Of as .pronunciamentos and a
s4ukase" stating that those who were waiting
for division of the Territory might well post
pone the realization of their hopes till more
convenient season. which Mr.. Davis supposed
might refer to time after the next presidential
election Was 1t any wonder, he asked, that,
with such letter as that read to the Aberdeen
convention, the people who had met there had
abandoned the hope of division, and had N ade
up their mind te take what they could getf The
whole Territory, he said. contained some boz, 600
inhabitants, or which mum Der ABOUT oOU,UOO
were in southern Dakota OF the latter. 10000
were ex- Union soldiers, who were denied enfran-
chlsement by the country which they had fought
to save. They were today. IN all that con-
stituted State more fully equipped than many
States which were now perslstenty denying
their admission q State. Why should not
Congress, he asked, be at least meanlv just
the admission of South Dakotal Why delay
longer that great act of national iustlceg The
question should be stripped of all pretense
evasion and sham, and it should be plainly adj
mitted that the Commonwealth of South Da-
kota had been denied admission as State for
the sole reason that the party in power, with the
solid South, was determined not TO lose its po-
litical ascendency.
Mr. Turpie obtained the floor, and the bill was
laid aside till tomorrow.
The following bills were taken from the calen-
dar and passed.
House bill to purchase of the widow and chill
dxen of the late Gen. James Shields certain
swords at a cost not exceeding $4,000; Senate
bill for the relief of the First National Bank, of
Marion, Ia, for interest lost coupon bonds;
Senate bill for the erection of monument to
the memory of Gen. Joseph Warren, who fell at
Bunker Hill; Senate bill appropriating $I30, 900
for public building at Fort Worth, Tex Sem
ate bill increasing the limit of cost for the pub
lie building at Detroit TO $l50.O0O Senate bill
authorizing the construction of railroad bridges
across the Snake river and the Clearwater
river by the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation Company; Senate bill apnr opriating
So 600 for a monument to Brigadier-gene raj
VIM. Lee Davidson. who fell ia the battle of
Cowens Ford. in February. 1881; House bill
authorizing the construction of a bridge across
the Tennessee river at Chattanooga; House bill
making appropriations for the support of the
Military Academy for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1885, with but one important amend
The bill for the purchase from Miss Virginia
Taylor of sword of Washington for $50, 900.
was taken up and read. It gave rise to long
debate, but the matter went over without
action, aud the Senate adjourned.