St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-03
STATEHOOD AT LAST.
What the Dakotas Have Long
Sought Is Now a
Reality.
President Harrison Issues the
Proclamation Admitting
the Twins.
First Instance in the History
of the Republic Of Twin
States.
BiSmarckianS Wild With Ex-
citement--South Dakota
Being Painted.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. - President
Harrison, late this afternoon, issued
two separate proclamations admitting
North Dakota and South Dakota as
states of the United States. The two
proclamations quote practically the act
Of congress providing for their admS-
sion. The following dispatch was sent
from the executive mansion at 2-O'clOck
this afternoon by Secretary Blaine:
To Governors Mellette and Miller. of North
and South Dakota, Bismarck. N. D.: 1.-The
last act in the admission of the two Dakotas
as states in the Union was completed this af-
ternoon at 3 o'clock and 40 minutes, by the
president signing at that moment the proc
lamauons required by the law for the admis
sion of the two states. The article on prohib
ition submitted separately I'm each state was
adopted in both. The article providing for
minority representation in South Dakota was
rejected bv the people. This is the first in
stance in the history of the national govern
ment of twin states. North and South Dako-
ia entered the Union at the same moment.
JAMES G. BLAINE"
The following is the text of the pro-
clamatiOn admitting North Dakota:
By the president of the United States
of America. A proclamation.
States did by an act approved on the 22d
day of February, 1889, provide that the in
habltants OF the territory OF Dakota might,
upon the conditions prescribed in said act,
become the states Of North Dakota 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 Oil
vided on the line of the seventh standard
parallel produced due west to the Western
boundary of said territory, and that the dele.
gates elected as therein provided to the con-
stitutional convention in districts 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 the people of North Dakota, that
they adopt the constitution of the United
States: whereupon the said convention
should be authorized to form a constitution
and sIate government for the proposed state
of North Dakota; and,
Whereas II was provided by said act that
the constitutions of North Dakota and South
Dakota should. respectively, incorporate an
agreement to be reached in accordance with
the provision Of the act, for an equitable
division of all property belonging to the
territory of Dakota. the disposition OF all
public records. and also for the apportion-
ment of the debts and liabilities of said ter
ritory, and that each of said states should
Obligate itself TO pay It's proportion OF sucn
debts and liabilities. the same as II they had
been created by such states respectively; and
Whereas it was provided by said act that
the constitution so adopted should be re-
publican in form and make no distinction in
civil or political rights on account OF race or
color, except as to Indians not taxed and not
be repugnant to the constitution of the
United States, and the principles OF the Dec;
laration of Independence so that the constr
tuition. by an ordinance irrevOcable without
the consent of the United States and the
people of said states, make certain provisions
prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, it was provided by said act that
the constitution thus formed for the
people of North Dakota should. by en- ordi-
nance of the convention forming the same.
be submitted to the people OF North Dakota
at an election to be held therein on the first
Tuesday in October, 1889, for ratification or
rejection by the qualified voters OF
said proposed state and that the re-
turns of said election should be made to
the secretary Of territory of Dakota. who.
with the governor ana chief justice thereof
or any two Of them, should canvass the
same: and, il a majority of the legal votes
cast should be for the constitution. the gov
ernor should certify the result to the presi-
dent OF the United States, together with
statement Of the votes cast thereon. and upon
separate articles or propositions and a copy
of said constitution articles, propositions
and ordinance: and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me By the
governor of the territory of Dakota that
within the time prescribed by said act Of
congress a constitution for the proposed
state of North Dakota has been adopted and
the same ratified by majority Of the quail
fed voters of said proposed state IN accord
ance with the conditions prescribed in said
act: and
whereas. 1t is also certified to me by the
said governor that at the same time that the
body of said constitution was submitted to
vote of the people, separate article num-
bered twenty. and entitled. 'Prohfbition''
was also submitted and received a majority
OF all the votes cast for and against said
article as well as majority Of all the votes
cast for and against the constitution; and
was adopted; and
Whereas. duly authenticated copy of said
constitution, article. ordinances and propO-
sitions, as required by said act, has been re.
ceived by me-
Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin HARRISON,
president of the United States of America,
do. in accordance with the provisions of the
act of congress aforesaid, declare and pro-
congress on the state OF North Dakota,
to eDtitle that state TO admission to
the Union, have been ratified ana
accepted. and that the admission of the said
state into the Union is now complete. In
testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my
hand. and caused the seal of the United
States TO be affixed.
ond day Of November, in the year Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine and Of the independence Of the
United States Of America, the one hundred
and fourteenth.
[Seall BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.