Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-21

ference report on the Territorial bill pro-
viding for the admission of these new States
into the Union.
WASHINGTON, February 2O.-Congres'
to-day passed the bill for the admission tC
the Union of the States of North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Washington.
The subject was brought up in the House
by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, who presented
the conference report on the Territorial bill.
The bill, as agreed to in conference, pro-
vides fol the admission of the States OF
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and
Washington. The Territory Of Dakota is
to be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel due west to the western
boundary of the Territory. The delegates
elected to the Constitutional Convention
north of this parallel shall assemble at Bis
marck and those south of the parallel at
Sioux Falls.
The delegates to the convention in each Of
the proposed new States shall be elected on
the Tuesday after the first Monday in May
next, and shall meet on the Atm of July and
declare that they adopt the Constitution OF
the United States.
TO ADOPT A CONSTITUTION.
They are authorized thereupon to form
constitutions and State governments. 1t is
provided that at the election for delegates to
the convention in South Dakota, the elect
ors shall vote for or against the Sioux Falls
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shall be for the Constitution, the conven-
ton shall submit to the people of South
Dakota, for ratification or rejection, the
constitution framed at Sioux Falls, and
also the articles and propositions separately
submitted, including the question OF locat-
ing the temporary seat of government, 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
to comply with the provisions of this act;
and if a majority of the votes cast on the
ratification or rejection of the Constitution
shall be for the Constitution, irrespective of
the articles separately submitted, the State
of South Dakota shall be admitted as a
State in the Union under said Constitution,
as hereinafter provided; but the archives
records, and books of the Territory of Da-
kota shall remain al Bismarck, the capital
OF the North Dakota, until an agreement in
reference thereto is reached by said States.
THE PRESIDENTS PLEASANT DUTY.
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 Constitution, it
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a Constitution as if that question had not
been submitted to the people.
1t is made the duty of the President to ad-
nit the four new States by proclamation, if
the Constitutions formed are ratified at the
election to be held on the first Tuesday in
October.
Each of the new States shall be entitled
10 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
disposed of only at public sale, and at
price not less than $40 per acre, the pro-
ceeds to constitute permanent school fund,
the interest 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
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titles not exceeding one section to any one
person or company; and such land shall
not be subject to pre-emption, homestead
entry, or any other entry under the land
Jaws ofthe United States, whether surveyed
or unsurveyed, but shall be reserved for
school purposes only.
ADOPTED AMID APPLAUSE.
All mineral lands are exempted from the
grants made by the act. The two Dakotas
are to be added to Justice Miller's circuit
(the Eighth) and Washington and Mon
tana to Justice Fields (the Ninth). Until
last night the name of Washington was
changed in the bill to Takoma, but it was
then stricken out.
Mr., Barnes, of Georgia, said that as one
of the conferees he had been unable, under
his sense Of duty, to sign the report. He
would not attempt, however, to enter into
any argument against the bill, out would
allow the House to vote upon the report
without delay.
The report was then adopted amid ap-
plause on both sides of the chamber.
The report was then presented to the Sen
ate by Mr.. Platt and was at once taken |
under consideration. After a long discus |
sion vote was taken, and the report was |
agreed 10 without division