Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-03

WASHINGTON, November2.- follow
ing dispatch was sent from the Executive
Mansion at o'clock this afternoon by Sec
retary Blaine to Governors Mellette and
Miller, of North and South Dakota:
The last act in the admission of the two
Dakotas as States in the Union was completed
this afternoon at the Executive Mansion at
$40 o'clock by the President signing at that
moment the proclamations required by the
law for the admission of the two States. The
article on prohibition submitted separately in
each State was adopted n both. The article
providing for minority representation in South
Dakota was rejected by the people. This Is the
first instance in the history of the national
Government of twin States North and South
Dakota entered the Union at the same moment
JAMES G. BLAINE.
THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENT.
The following is the text of the proclama-
tion admitting North Dakota:
By the President Of the United States Of
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, the Congress Of the United States
did, by an act approved on the I'D day of Feb
ruary. 1889, provide chat the inhabitants of the
Territory of Dakota might upon the condi-
tions prescribed in said act, become tine States
OF North Dakota and South Dakota;
And, whereas, It was provided by said act
that the arc comprising the Territory Of Da-
kota, should, for the purposes Of the act be di-
Vided on the line Of the seventh standard paral-
lei produced due west to the western boundary
OF said Territory. and that the delegates elected
as therein provided to the Constitutional Con-
vention in districts north of said parallel should
assemble in convention, at the time prescribed
In the act, at the city of Bismarck;
And, whereas, It was provided By the said
act that the delegates elected az Aforesaid
should, after they had met and organized, de-
clare on behalf Of the people Of North Dakota
that they
ADOPT THE CONSTITUTION
of the United States whereupon the said conveu.
tion should be authorized to form Constitution
and State Government for the proposed State Of
North Dakota
And, whereas, II 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 Declaration Of
Independence; and that the convention should,
by an ordinance irrevOcable without the con-
sent 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 constitutions Of North Dakota and South
Dakota should respectively incorporate an
agreement to be reached in accordance with
the provisions Of the act for an equitable di-
vision of all property belonging to the Terri
tory of Dakota, the disposition of all public
records. and also for the apportionment Of the
debts and liabilities of said Territory, and that
each of said States shall obliGate itself to pay
its proportion Of. such debts and liabilities the
same as If they had been created by such States
respectively;
"a
that the Constitution thus formed for the peo-
pie Of North Dakota should, by an ordinance
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, 1880 for
ratification or rejection by the qualified voters
of said proposed State, and that the returns of
said election should be made to the Secretary
of the Territory of Dakota, who with the Gov
ernor and Chief Justice thereof, or any two of
them, should canvass the same; and, If 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 separate articles or PROPOSE.
tons, and copy OF said Constitution, articles,
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 Con-
kICco, = OOHblAbutiOuI Tie proposed STATE OF
North Dakota has been adopted, and the same
ratified by majority Of the qualified voters OF
said proposed State in accordance with the
conditions prescribed in said act;
And, whereas. 1t is also certified to me bv the
said Governor that at the same time that the
body of said Constitutions was submitted to 4
vote of the people, a separate article num-
bered twenty, and entitled Prohibition" was
also submitted and
RECEIVED MAJORITY,
of all the votes cast for and against said ar
ticle as well as majority of all the votes cast
for and against the Constitution; and was
adopted;
Aud, whereas, A duly authenticated couy of
said Constitution, article. ordinances. as re-
quired by said act has been received by me.
now, therefore, /, Benjamin Harrison Presi.
dent of the United States Of America. do in
accordance with the provisions of the act of
Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the
fact that the conditions imposed by Congress
on the State Of North Dakota to entitle that
State to admission to the Union have been
ratified and accepted and that the admission
of the said State into the Union is now COM
plete. In testimony whereof, have hereunto |
set my hand and caused the seal of the United |
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this second |
day of November, in the year of our Lord one |
eight hundred and eighty-nine, of |
the independence of the United States Of |
America the one hundred and fourteenth.
BY the President BENJAMIN HARRISON.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. /
The proclamation admitting South Da- |
kota is similar in form, only differing in |