Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-03
THEY ARE TWINS.
The Two DakOtas Join the
SisterhOOd of States.
BORN AT THE SAME MOMENT
The Presidents PrOclamations De-
claring Them Members of
the Union.


WASHINGTON, November 2.-The fol-
lowing dispatch was sent from the Execu-
tive Mansion this afternoon by Secretary
Blaine to Governors Mellette and Miller,
of North and South Dakota:
"The last act in the admission of the
two Dakotas as States into the Union was
completed this afternoon at the Execu-
tive Mansion at 8 O'Clock and 40 min.
utes, by the President signing at that
moment the proclamation required by
law for the admission of the two States.
The article on Prohibition submitted
separately in each State, was adopted in
both. The article providing for minority
representation in South Dakota was
rejected by the people. This is the firs'
instance in the history of the National
Government Of two States North and
South Dakota) entering into the Union al
the same moment
[Signed JAMES G. BLAINE"
Following is the text OF the prcclama.
nation admitting North Dakota:
By the President of the United States o.
America-a proclamation.
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United
States did by an act approved on the
twenty y-second day of February, one
Thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine
provide that the inhabitants of the Terri
tory of Dakota might, upon the condi
tions prescribed in said act, become the
States of North Dakota and South Da
kota, and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said aci
that the area comprising the Territory o
Dakota should, for the purposes of the
act be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel produced due west tc
the western boundary line of the Terri
tory, and that the delegates elected, as
therein provided, to a Constitutions
Convention in the district north of sale
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 al
aforesaid should, after they had met anG
organized, declare on behalf of the peo
pie of North Dakota that they adopt the
Constitution of the United States, where
upon said convention should be author
lied to form a constitution and State
government for the proposed State o1
North Dakota; and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by the sale
act that the constitution SO adopted
should be republican in form and make
no distinction in civil or political rights
on account of race or color, except as tS
Indians not taxed, and not be repugnan
to the Constitution OF the United Statel
and the principles of the Declaration O
Independence, and the convention
should, by ordinance, irrevocable with
out the consent of the United Statel
and the people of said States, make Ger
and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said &C
that the constitutions of North Dakot;
and South Dakota should respectivel,
incorporate an agreement to be reached
in accordance to the provisions of the &C
for the equitable division of all the publ
records, and also for the apportionmen
of the debts and liabilities of said Terri
tory, and that each of the said Statel
should obligate itself to pay it's proportion
OF such debts and liabilities, the same al
it they had been created by such States
respectively, and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said ac1
that the constitution thus formed for til,
people OF North Dakota should, by ordi
nance OF the convention forming til,
same, be submitted to the people O.
North Dakota at an election to be helC
therein on the first Tuesday in October
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fol
ratification or rejection by the qnalifiet
voters OF said proposed State, and thai
the returns of said election should be
made to the Secretary of the Territory O
Dakota, who, with the Governor and
Chief Justice thereof, or any two of them
should canvass the same and if a ma
jority of the legal votes cast should be-
for the constitution, the Governor should
certify the result to the President of the
United States, together with statement
OF the votes cast thereon, and upon the
separate articles or propositions, and q
copy OF said constitution, articles, propo-
sitions and ordinances and
WHEREAS, 1t has been certified to me
by the Governor of the Territory of Da.
kota that within the time prescribed by
said act of Congress, a constitution for
the proposed State of North Dakota has
been adopted, and he same ratified by
a majority of the qualified voters of said
proposed State, in accordance with the
conditions prescribed in said act I; and.
WHEREAS, 1t has also bsen certif d to
me by said Governor, that at the same
time that the body of the same constitu-
tion was submitted, vote of the people
on separate article, numbered twenty
and entitled Prohibition" was also sub.
mitted and received majority of all the
votes cast for and against said article. as
we'll as a majority of all the votes cast
Tor and against the constitution, and was
adopted and,
WHEREAS, A duly authenticated copy
of said constitution. article, ordinances
and propositions, as required by said act.
aas been received by me,
NoW Therefore, I, BENJAMIN Harrison
President Of the United States of Amer.
ca, do, in accordance with the
provisions of the act of Con- @
,ress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the
act that the conditions imposed by Con-
sress on the State of North Dakota to
,ntitle that State to admission to the
Union, have been ratified and accepted.
md that the admission OF said State into
he Union is now complete.
n testimony whereof, / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of tie
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington this
d day of November, in the year of our
ord, one thousand eight hundred and
ighty-nine, and of the Independence of
be United States of America, the one