Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-21

BEFORE THE PRESIDENT.

I
 BEFORE THE PRESIDENT.
 The Conference Report on
 Territories Adopted.
 FOUR NEW STARS FOR THE FLAG.
 The President Empowered to Place the Grown of Statehood on North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington-The
 Direct Tax Bill Also Agreed to. 1 WASHINGTON, Feb 21-The house agreed I to the conference report on the direct tax 1 bill and the bill for the admission of the
 territories, and considered the postofiice ap 1 propriation bill.
 Immediately after the reading of the journal
 the contest over the direct tax bill was re
 stunned, MT. Caswell of Iowa, calling up the conference report as matter of privilege.
 The house determined-yeas, 134; nays, s. to consider the conference report. The con- stitutional features of the bill were discussed, and the conference report was then agreed to: Yeas, 16S; nays, ss
 | MT. Springer, of Illinois, presented the con- ference report on the territorial bill The bill as agreed to in conference provides l for the admission of tho states of North 1 Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wash ington. The territory of Dakota is to be divided on the line of the seventh standard 1 parallel produced due west, to the western boundary of the territory. The delegates elected to the constitutional convention north of this parallel shall assemble at Bismarck, l and those elected south of the parallel at Sioux Falls. The delegates to the convention in each of the proposed new states shall be l elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday in May next, and shall meet on July 4 and declare that they adopt the constitution of the United States. They are authorized thereupon to form constitutions and state 1 governments --
 It is provided that at the election for l delegates to the convention in South Dakota l the electors shall vote for or against the 1 Sioux Falls constitution. If majority of the votes shall be for the constitution, the convention shall resublnit to the people of 1 Bouth Dakota, for ratification or rejection, the constitution framed at Sioux Falls, and also the articles and propositions separately l SuoA4iAcoco, AuSAuuluS tuc QucStlOu Ol IOCttuuR 1 the temporary seat of government, with such changes only as relate to the name and boundary of the proposed state, to l the reappointment of the judicial and legislative districts and such amendments as may be necessary in order to comply with 1 the provisions of this act; and if a majority of the votes cast on the ratification or re- 1 jection of the constitution shall be for the constitution, irrespective of the articles o{1lx- ,Iv,,sA AkoI kln- 1 Dakota shall be admitted as state in the l Union under said constitution as hereinafter | provided; but the archives, records and books of the territory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota until l an agreement in reference thereto is reached by said states. But if, at the election for delegates to the constitutional convention in South Dakota, a majority of all the votes cast shall be against the Sioux Falls constitu- tion it shall be the duty of the convention to form constitution as if that question had not been submitted to the people It is made the duty of the president to admit the four new states by proclamation, if the constitu- tons formed are ratified at the election to be held on the first Tuesday in October Each of the new states shall be entitled to one rep resentative in congress, except South Dakota which shall be entitled to two
 Section II provides that all lands herein
 
 posed of only at public sale, and at a price not less than s1O per acre, the proceeds to constitute permanent school fund, the in terest of which only shall be expended in the support of said schools But said lands may, ! under such regulations as the legislature shall ] prescribe, be leased for periods of not more i than five years, in quantities not exceeding one section to any one person company, and such land shall not be subject to pre-
  under the land laws of the United States 1 whether surveyed or unsurveyed but shall be reserved for school purposes only
 All mineral lands are exempted from the | grants made by the act. The two Dakotas l are to be added to Justice Millers circuit (the | Eighth), and Washington and Montana to Justice Fields (the Ninth).
 Mir. Barnes (Ga.) said that, as one of the 1 conferrees, he had been unable, under his sense l of duty, to sign the report.
 The report was then adopted amid ap- plause. - THE SACKvILLE AFFAIR ..-..- The president sent to congress all the cor respondence which has taken pig ce between l this government and the government of Great | Britain in regard to the dismissal of Lord 1 Sackville-West minister of Great Britain l to the United States. The correspondence opens with copy of the Murchison letter and Lord Sackville's reply thereto.
 1 On Oct. 25 Secretary Bayard in a telegram directed Minister Phelps to invite Lord Sails l bury's attention to the Murchison letter, and the next day Secretary Bayard telegraphed 1 to Minister Phelps that MT. Vests usefulness in this country was at an end; that a strong public sentiment had been aroused, and that 1 Lord Salisbury should be permitted as speed l fly as possible to understand the necessity of 1 immediate action
 On Oct. 2S Minister Phelps telegraphed to l Secretary Bayard that Lord Salisbury de- l clinsd to act until in receipt of the precise l language Of Lord Sackville and his explana- tion. Lord Salisbury did not regard the | minister's letter alone as sufficient to warrant his recall, thus ending his diplomatic career, 1 which would not necessarily be the case if he were dismissed by the government of the United States, for which course there are l precedents.
 l MT. Phelps said that there would be long