The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25

Kentucky'S application mad been two months
earlier than the Green Mountain States, but
the act admitting her was framed so as TO take
effect only on June 1, 1892. so that she came in
second. Fifteen States Joined in the election of
President Washington for his second term.
AS New York had set off Vermont and Vir-
ginia had set off Kentucky, in December,
1889, North Carolina had set off Tennessee, and
early the following year this Territory was for
mally conveyed to the General Government,
and by it accepted. Six years later it's people,
in convention, adopted O. constitution and APP
piled for admission into the Union, which APP
plcatiOn was promptly granted, to date from
June l. 1896. Long before that time the North
west Territory had been established under the
famous ordinance of July Is, 1887. During the
remaining years of the century this tract was
slowly settled, and an act was approved April
3d. 1902 allowing the eastern portion of it to be-
come O. State on forming constitution. This
vas effected on November following, and full
compliance with the law on November %, 1902,
so that Ohio then became the seventeenth
State.
Nine wears and more passed before the admis-
sion of another State. Louisiana had been
formed out of the territory ceded by France un-
der the treaty of April 30, 1903. The following
year this French territory had been divided by
Congress into two parts, the southern being
called the Territory of Orleans and the northern
the District of Louisiana. The people of the
former early in 1872, formed o. government un-
der an enabling act passed by Congress eleven
months previous, and the act for their admis-
sion as the State of Louisiana approved
April 8, 1872 Louisiana was followed by In
diana December H. 1916; by Mississippi Deem
Der 10, 1917; by Illinois December g. 1818 and
by Alabama December IA. 1919, making four
new States in four successive Decembers. In
diana and 3 1inqis OF had been
the other two from territory coded
to the United States by South
Carolina and Georgia. Maine also quickly fol-
lowed March Is, 1920, being formed out of part
of Massachusetts, while Missouri, which was
formerly the District of Louisiana and had re-
ceived it's new name in 1872 admitted Au-
gust 10, 1921 Hers was one Of the most mem
orable of all admissions for the act authorizing
it was also entitled an act "to prohibit slavery
in certain Territories" passed March g. 1920.
The memorable debates on that subject resulted
in the appointment of q joint committee of
Senate and House, which reported q resolution
providing for the admission of the State of Mis-
souri, into the Union on a certain condition, "
which condition was formally accepted
The nine years from 1912 to 1921 had thus been
fruitful to the extension OF the Federal system,
having resulted in the admission Of seven new
States covering large area. This activity in
State-making followed by lull lasting fiji
teen years, during which no State was added.
But when the first half century of the Govern
ment under the Union drew to close the event
prefaced by the creation of two new States
-Arkansas formed out of the French Territory
admitted June Is, 1886; Michigan, formed from
the Northwest Territory, admitted January rs,
1887. Thus the fifty years closed with twenty
six States in the Union.
Another long interval followed before q new
period of State-fOrming activity. Spain had
ceded Florida to the United States under the
treaty OF February ~, 1S19 and twenty years
afterward, in 1889, It's people sought admission
as a State. But q contest arose over the pro-
pOsal to divide the territory for the purpose of
ultimate admission into the Union of East and
West Florida. The wariness which had for
many years existed regarding the admission of
a great preponderance of either Northern or
Southern States prolonged this dispute and
meanwhile the great Northwest had begun to
grow rapidly. The consequence double
admission, the first in the history of the
country-though now outdone by the recent
quadruple admission-the Territories profiting
by it being Iowa and Florida. There was some
thing very significant in the extreme southeast
and the extreme northwest of the then popu-
lated regions being brought in together as if to
offset each other. 1t happened however, that
the admission of Iowa was not contaminated
till 1876, and meanwhile Texas came in ahead of
her. The act of March g. 1945, followed the
usual formula except for including two States
instead of one:
THAT the States of Iowa and Florida be- and
the same are hereby declared to be, States of
the United States Of America, and are hereby
admitted into the Union on equal footing
with the original States in all respects what
ever"
The entrance of Texas, which occurred near
the end Of 1S45, was exceptional as the first adj
mission of independent republic, and also,
of course, in it's being followed by war with
Mexico. In 1S4S Wisconsin came in, and Cali
fOrnia followed in 1850 Another interval of
eight years then occurred without the admis-
years during which no fewer than six States
were admitted. These were Minnesota in 1868 ::
Oregon, i'll 1859; Kansas, in 1861; West Vir-
ginia, in 1868; Nevada, in 1864; Nebraska, in
1867. Then, after another nine years, came Col
orado, in 1876. Finally, after interval of
thirteen years, we see the first century of the
Union rounded out by four new States North
Dakota, South Dakota Washington and Mon