Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
INTERSTATE RELATIONS.
THE FOUR NEW STARS, AND THE
RAILWAY POBLEMS.
Means of Developing the Former and SoIv.
ing the Latter-WOrkmen on Rail-
roads ConsIdered-An ARricul.
tural Department Started
District Of Columbia.

tural department started
District of Columbia.
The advent of four new States, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and WASH
ington, into the Union under the Constitu-
ton, in the same month, and the admission
of their duly chosen Representatives to our
National Congress at the same session, is an
event as unexampled as it is interesting.
The certifcation of the votes cast and of
the constitutions adopted in each of the
States was filed with me as required by the
eighth section of the act of February %,
1889, by the Governors of said Territories
respectively. Having, after care
full examination, found that the
several constitutions and governments
were republican in form, and not repugnant
to the Constitution of the United States;
that all the provisions of the act of Congress
had been complied with, and that ma
iority of the votes cast in each of said pro-
posed States was in favor of the adoption of
the constitution submitted therein, 1 did so
declare by a separate proclamation as to
each; as to North Dakota and South Da-
kota, on Saturday, November 2; as to Mon
tana, on Friday, November s, and as to
Washington, on Monday, November IL.
Each of these States has within it a re-
serve, development of which will employ the
energies of, and yield q comfortable sub
sistence to, great population. The small
est of these new States, Washington, stands
twelfth, and the largest, Montana, third,
among the AZ in area The people of these
States are already well-trained, intelligent
and patriotic American citizens, having
common interests and sympathies with those
af 3bn IL Gkoko
to defend the integrity and uphold the honor
of the nation.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
The attention of the Interstate Commerce
Commission has been called to the urgent
need Of Congressional legislation for the
better protection of the lives and limbs of
those engaged in operating the great inter
State freight lines of the country, and es-
pecially of the yardmen and brakemen. A
petition, signed by nearly 10000 railway
brakemen, was presented to the commission,
asking that steps might be taken to bring
about the use of automatic brakes and
couplers on freight cars.
At meeting of State Railroad Commits
sioners and their accredited representatives,,
held at Washington in March last, upon the
invitation of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, resolution was unanimously
adopted, urging the commission 'to con-
slider what can be done to prevent the
loss Of life and limb in coupling and un-
coupling freight cars, and 10 handling the
brakes of such cars" During the year
ending June S0 1888, over 1000 railroad
employees were killed in service, and more
than 10000 injured. i 1t is competent, 1
think, for Congress to require uniformity in
the construction of cars used In inter-
State commerce and the use of improved
safety appliances upon such trains. Time
will be necessary TO make the needed
changes; but an earnest and intelligent be-
ginning should be made at once. 1t is a
reproach to our civilization that any class OF
American workmen should, in the pursuit
of necessary and useful vocation, be SUBJ
jected to peril of life and limb as great as
that of soldier in time Of war.
GARDEN SEEDS IN THE CABINET.
The creation Of an Executive Department.