The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-28

President Cleveland Celebrates Washing
 toms Birthday by Signing the Territorial
 Admission Bin to Let in Washington,
 Montana, North Dakota, and South Da- kota.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.Mr. Springer, at one o'clock to-day, received Q note from the President announcing that at eleven o'clock he had signed the Territorial bill. The message was shown about the House, and the friends of the bill gathered iu knots and congratulated each other over the successful completion of 8 long and tedious work.
 The bill, as finally agreed to, provides for 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 produced due west to the western boundary of the Territory. The delegates elected to the constitution- al convention north of this parallel shall assemble at Bismarck, and those elect ed south of the parallel at Sioux Falls. The delegates to the conyen- tion in each of the proposed new States shall be elected the Tuesday after the first Monday in May and shall meet July 1 and declare that they adopt the Constitution of the United States. They are authorized thereupon to form consti- tutions and State governments.
 It is provided that at the election for delegates to the convention in South Dakota the electors shall vote for or against the Sioux Falls Constitution. If 0 majority of the votes shall be for the Constitution the convention shall re- 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 ques- tion of locating 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 majority of the votes cast on the ratification or rejec- ton of the Constitution shall be for the Constitution, irrespective of the articles separately submitted, the State of South Dakota shall be admitted as State in the Union under said Constitution as herein after provided but the archives, records, and books of the Territory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota, until an agreement in re- ference thereto is reached by said States. 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 l. shall be the duty of the convention to form a Constitution, as if that question had not been submitted to the people.
 It is made the duty of the President to admit the four new States by proclama- ton if the Constitutions framed are rati fled at the election to be held the first Tuesday in October. Each of the new States shall be entitled to one Represent ative in Congress, except South Dakota, which shall be entitled to two Repre- sentatives.
 Section eleven provides that all lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be disposed of only at public sales, and at price not less than ten dollars per acre, the proceeds to constitute a per manent school fund, the interest of which only shall be expended in the support of said schools. But sai q lands may, under such regulations as the Legislatures shall prescribe, be leased for periods of not more than five years in quantities 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 laws of the United States, whether sur yeyed or unsurveyed, but shall be re- served for school purposes only.
 All mineral lands are exempted from tue grants made by the act. The two Dakotas are to be added to Justice Mill ler's circuit (the Eighth and Washington and Montana to Justice Fields (the Ninth).