The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-01
-FOUR new STATES.
Both Houses Pass the Omnibus
Territorial Bill.
The Two Dakotas, Montana and
Washington Admitted.

After years Of active endsavor on the part
OF its citizens the Territory Of Dakota Is to
be clothed with Statehood. She comes into
tho Union, .how~vcr,- es two Statss, and with
Montana and Washington, whose admission.
was also permitted by Congress, the number
OF American States will be increased to for
ty-two.
The conference report on the Omnibus
Territorial bill has been agreed TO by botn
Senate and House, and it only needed the
signature Of the President in order to become
a law.
In tho House tho adoption of the bill was
greeted with applause, but IN the Senate the
provisions of the bill gave rise to some
debate.
Mr.. Springer, OF Illinois, presented the re-
port i'm the House and Mr.. Platt in the Senate.
the bill rs agreed to i'm conference provides
for tho admission OF the States OF North
Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana and
Washington The attempt 10 induce tho
Territory of Washington to accept the name
OF Tacoma has been fruitless.
The Territory of Dakota is to be divided
on the line OF the seventh standard parallel
produced due west to the western boundary
of the Territory. The delegates elected to the
Constitutional Convention north OF this par
allel shall assemble ut bismarck and those
elected south OF tho parable at Sioux Falls.
The delegates to the Convention in each OF
the proposed new States shall be elected on
tho 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 Stat governments.
1t is provided that at the ele ction for dele
gates to the Convention in South Dakota the
! electors shall vote for or against the Sioux
Falls constitution. IL II majority Of the
votes shall be for tho constitution the Con-
vention shall resubmt to the people of South
Dakota for ratification or rejection the
constitution framed at Sioux Falls and
also tho articles and propositions sepa-
rately submitted, including the ques-
tion Of locating the temporary seat Of gov
crument, with such changes only as relate to
the name and boundary OF the proposed
State, to the reapportionment OF the
judicial and legislative districts and such
! amendments as may be necessary in order
! act: and if n majority of the votes cast
on the ratification or rejection OF the copsti-
| tuition shall be for the constitution, irrespec-
tive of the articles separately submitted. the
| State of South Dakota shall be admitted as
| IL State in the Union under said constitution,
us hereinafter provided; hut tho archives,
records and books OF the Territory of Da-
| kota shall remain at b smarck. tho capital Of
North Dakota, until an agreement III refer
| ence thereto is reached hy said States.
But if at he election of delegates to the
| Constitutional ConV.rtses tnrff u'Su shuir bg
J a-uruSJ tho Sioux Falls constitution it shall
| bo tho duty of tho Convention to form n
constitution as if that question had not been
submitted to tho people IL is made
| the duty of the President TO I'D
NIT tho four new States by
proclamation il the constitutions formed are
ratified at the election to be held on the first
Tuesday in October. Each of the now States
shall be entitled to one Representative in
Congress, except South Dakota, which shall
be entitled to two Representatives..
Section IL provides that all lands herein
granted for educational purposes shall be dis
posed of only at public sale and at Il price Of
not cSs than $40 per acre the proceeds to con-
sttute Il permanent school fund, tho interest
OF which only shall DO expended in tho sup
port of said schools. But said lands
may under such regulations as
tho legislatures shall prescribe be
leased for periods of not moro than
five years in quantities not exceeding one
section to any one person or company: AMI
such land shall not he sub icct to pre- .cinption
homestead entry or any other entry under
| the land laws Of the United States whether
! surveyed or unSurvcyed, but shall be re
scrvci for school purposes only.
Al mineral lands are exempted from the
| grants mad" hy the act. The two Dakotas
arc u he aided to Justice Miller's circuit
tho Eighth and Washington and Montana
To Justice Fields ,thc Ninth.
Ii the anxiety of the people in those Terri
tories is rs great rs it has been represented
To bc, there is 10 reason why Ndfth and
South Dakota. Montana, and Washing
ton should not ho States within nine
months, and also hn represented by SEN
atOrS and Representatives in tho first regular
session of the Fifty-tirSt Congress while the
people living north am;! 3;5;;;.i uf tile seventh
standard parallel, which Is to he the bound
airy line between the two Dakotas are to
have n chance to say whether there shall he l.
greater difference than is promised between
tho two.