The sun., 1889-11-07
North and South Dakota Take Their
Places in the Long List of
States.
After Many Years of SerfdOm the
Long -LOOked-FOr Day of Free
dom Arrives.

more than thirteen years since a similar
proclamation was issued In 1876 the state
of Colorado was admitted by proclamation
of Gen. Grant and Hamilton Fish
atteSted the document as secretary of state
President Harrison issued two proclama-
tions and they are worded almost indenti-
cally the same. The matter as to which is
first is left to the future for settlement. Il
will born them both together" said Presi-
dent Harrison. "They were one and will
make them twins, and that is about the
size it. They are twins and all matters
of precedence are to be settled by the senate
when congress assemblies. The question as
to whether the proclamations would have
to be promulgated in Bismarck and Pierre
before the states were admitted is settled by
the prOclamations, which declare that the
states are admitted on this second day OF
November 1899.
DAKoTANs FULL OF JOY.
The Dakotans in Washington tonight
are happy party. They have congratu-
lated each other again and again. ut is
what we have fought for, and after many
years have attained" was the exclamation
of each as he shook hands with his friends.
Although it has been expected hourly for
several days, the actual fact that the great
Territory of Dakota is no more, and that
instead there are two great and glorious
states with equal privileges of the original
thirteen makes the representatives of these
twins feel especially happy and jubilant.
The delegation from the two Dakotas sent
kilograms to their friends announcing the
fact of actual admission as soon as they
learned that the proclamations had been
issued. The following dispatch was sent
from the executive mansion at o'clock by
Secretary Blaine to Governors Mellette and
Miller of North and South Dakota:
The last act in the admission of the two Da-
kotas as states in the Union was completed this
afternoon at the executive mansion at 3 o'clock
and 40 minutes by the president signing at that
moment the proclamations required by the law
for the admission of the two states. The article
on prohibition submitted separately in each
| state was adopted in both. The article provid-
ing for minority representation i'll South Dakota
was rejected by the people This is the first in.
stance in the history of the national govern
ment of twin states. North and South Dakota
entered the Union at the same moment.
NORTH DAKOTA FIRST.
The following is the text of the proclama-
ton admitting North Dakota:
BY the President Of the United States of Amer
/ ica-A Proclamation:
Whereas, The congress of the United States did,
! by an act approved on the twenty-second day
of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Eighty nine, provide that the inhabitants of the
Territory of Dakota might upon the conditions
prescribed in said act become the States OF
North and South Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
area comprising the Territory of Dakota, should
for the purposes of the act, be divided ON the
~, nl 4
west to the western boundary of said territory
and that the delegates elected as therein pro-
vided to the constitutional convention in dis
tricts north of said parallel should assemble in
convention, at the time prescribed in the act, at
the city Of Bismarck; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said act that
the delegates elected as aforesaid should after
they had met and organized declare, on behalf
of North Dakota that they adopt the constitu
tion of the United States; whereupon the saiG
convention should be authorized to form a con
stitution and state government for the proposed
state of North Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
constitution so adopted should be republican
in form and make no distinction in civil or po
litical rights on account of race or color, except
as to Indians not taxed and not be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States, ant
the principles of the Declaration of Independence
so that the constitution, by an ordinance irrev
ocable without the consent of the United States
and the people of said states, make certain pro
visions prescribed in said act and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
constitutions of North Dakota and South Da
kota should, respectively, incorporate an agree
ment, to be reached in accordance with the pro
vision of the act, for an equitable division of al
property belonging to the Territory of Dakota
the disposition of all public records, and alse
for the apportionment of the debts and habili
ties of said territory, and that each of saic
, states should obligate itself to pay it's proper
, ton of such debts and liabilities the same as
they had been created by such states respect
lively; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that tn
constitution thus formed for the people of Nortl
Dakota should, by an ordinance of the conven
tion forming the same, be submitted to the peo
pie OF North Dakota at an election to be helC
! therein on the first Tuesday in Octo
! Der, eighteen hundred and eighty.nine
! for ratification or rejection by the quail
fed voters of said proposed stat
, and that the returns of said election should b.
made to the secretary of the Territory of Da
kota, who, with the governor and chief iustic
thereof, or any two Of them, should canvass tn
same; and, if a majority of the legal votes cas-
should be for the constitution, the governo
should certify the result to the president of tn
United States, together with @ statement of tn
votes cast thereon and upon separate article
or propositions, and copy of said constitution
articles, propositions and ordinance; and,
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by tn
governor of the Territory of Dakota that within
the time prescribed by said act of congress
constitution for the proposed State of Nortl
Dakota has been adopted and the same ratiie'
by a majority of the qualified voters Of the pro
posed state in accordance with the condition
prescribed in said act and
| 10 o1o fHo6 fr1T hrYf fhac
) governor that at the same time that the bod
of said constitution was submitted to q vote c
the people separate article, numbered twent
; and entitled Prohibition" was also submitte
, and received majority OF all the votes cast 70
, and against said article, as well as majority
all the votes cast for and against the constitr
tion and was adopted; and
Whereas, A duly authenticated copy of sal
, constitution, article, ordinance and propos
tions, as required by said act, has been receive
by me,
. Now, therefore, /, BENJAMIN Harrison, pres
!, dent of the United States Of America, do, in a.
cordance with the provisions Of the act Of col
gress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fac
!, that the conditions imposed by congress on th
State Of North Dakota to entitle that state t
admission to the Union have been ratified an
!. accepted, and that the admission OF the sal
state into the Union is now complete.
III testimony whereof have hereunto set m
nanO ana caused bne seal Oh Ine UnlDeu OGAbt
to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington
!. this second day OF November, in the year
? our Lord one thousand eight hundred an
/ eighty-nine, and of the independence Of Il
= United States of America the one hundred an
fourteenth.
n [sEAL1 BENJAMIN HARRISON.
!, By the president.
|. JAMES g. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.
: THE OTHER TWIN.
: The following is the text of the proclami
: ton admitting South Dakota:
! BY the president OF the United states-A pro
2 lamation.
I I Whereas, The congress Of the United Stat
. did, by an act approved on the twenty-secor
day Of February, one thousand eight hundrs