Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27
FORTY-TWO STARS.

Ihat Is the Number the American Flag
Will Likely Soon Contain-Both Houses
OF Congress Pass the Bill to Admit as
States North Dakota, South Dakota.
Washington and Montana-The President
Will in All Probability Sign It-Outline
of the Measure.
WASHINGTON, Feb 21-One necessitv I'm,
an extra session of the Fifty-first CONGRESS-
was disposed of yesterday by the passage bv
both houses Of the conference report on the
Territorial bill
The slight fear Of pocket veto which
haunted the friends of the Territories Tues
day has been entirely dissipated by the easy
triumph of the measure. The bill is com
pletely engrossed, and will be signed
by the Speaker of the House and President
Of the Senate early this morning and sent
at once to the President Mr. Springer
makes no sort of doubt that he will sign it
without delay.
LAS agreed to the bill provides for the adj
| mission of North and South Dakota, Montana
and Washington. Dakota is to be divided on
the 4eth standard parallel, and the two consti-
tutional conventions meet at b s.
| marck and Sioux Falls. Delegates to the con-
ventions OF each of the two proposed States
are to be elected on the first Monday in May
end are to meet on July 4. It IS provided that
at the election for delegates in South Dakota
the electors shall vote for or against
the oux Falls constitution. II ma
1ority OF the votes shall be for the con
stltut1on the convention shall resubmlt to the
people Of South Dakota for ratification or re-
lection the const tuition framed at Sioux Falls,
| and also the articles and propositions separate
ly submitted, including the question OF locating
the temporary seat OF government, and if q
majority OF the Voses cast the ratification
shall be Tor the cons tltution, irrespect-
tive OF the articles separate submitted th'
State of South Dakota shall be admitte
under said constitutions; but the arch yes,
records and books OF the Territory OF Dakota
| shall remain at Bismarck, the capital OF h ort
Dakota, until an agreement in refer. nee
thereto is reached by said States. But if at
the election for delegates a majority OF all the
| votes cast shall be against the Sioux Falls con-
sttution it shall be the duty OF the convention
| to form a constitution as If that question had
not been submitted to the people.
| 1t IS made the duty OF the President to adj
| NIT the four new States by proclamation il the
| const tutlons formed are ratified at the cleo
| ON to be held on the first Tuesday in October.
| Each OF the new States shall be entitled to
| one Representative in Congress, except South
| Dakota which shall be entitled to two repre-
| sentatives
| All lands granted for school purposes are
exempted from entry under any OF the land
| laws and can only be sold at public sale at not
| less than $40 an acre, the proceeds to consti-
| tute permanent school fund, the interest OF
| which only can be used. Such lands may. how
| ever, be leased under leg slative restrictions.
| All mineral lands are exempted from the
grants made by the act
The two Dakotas are to be added to Justice
Millers circuit (the Eighty and Washington
and Montana to Justice Fields Cthe N nth).I
READY FOB THE PRESIDENTS ACTION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. g. The House has
| age ed to the conference report on the
DirectTax bill 1t now goes to the Presi-
dent
SIGNED By THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.-The President has
signed the Nicaraguan Canal bill