Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-09
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KICKING THEMSELVES
While Enjoying a Feast at Whitney's
the Nicaragua Bill Was Passed.
NOW THEY CRY, "a TRICK, .
Favorable Report on the Constitutional
Amendment for Female s~uffrage-A
Dismal Outlook for the TER toriai
submission Biil--capital News.

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Some of the
Democratic opponents of the N%icaraguan
canal bill who left the house to attend
the reception given by Secretary Whit
ney to Governor Hill, are censuring
themselves for doing so. A number of
them, too, are charging the secretary
with with doing a smart piece of lobby
ing in favor Of the measure by means of
the reception. 1t is generally under
stood that the Standard Oil company is
at the back OF the Nicaraguan project.
Most of the opposition to the bill has
come from the Democratic side of the
house and senate. About four-fifths of
the Democratic members of the house
left their seats, and went to Mr.. Whit
ney's residence and spent from two to
three hours paying their respects to
Governor Hill and enjoying the lunch
that was spread. While the reception
was in progress the conference
report on the Nicaragua canal bill was
taken up and adopted. The wrath of
some of the gentleman who attended the
reception and who wanted to go IN rec
ord against the bill cannot be appeased.
They contend that they have been
tricked. An examination of the on
%gressional record, showing the vote
of the bill, does not fully bear out the
Justice of the Indignation. Only twenty
two votes in the house are u%naccounted
for. All the others are either recorded
on one side or the other, or are paired,
and had they all been cast in the neg
alive they would not have defeated the
bill, but some of those twenty-five were
feas ting at Whitney's while the
voting was In progress, and they are all
outof gear now.
The Woman Suffrage Amendment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The Joint res
olution reported in the senate by Mr..
Blair, fron thu committee on woman
suffrage, recommends the adoption of
the resolution; and after reviewing the
history of the woman's suffrage move
ment, and making some comments on
the denial of the right of suffrage to
women as an injustice equal to that of
negro slavery, concludes as follows
UNLESS this government shall be made
and preserved truly republican in form
blythe enfranchisement of women, the
great reform which her ballot would ac.
complish may never be. The democrat
ization and disilitegration now pro
ceeding in the body polite are not
Likely soon to be arrested. The COR
ruption of male suffrage is already q
well nigh fatal disease. A repu blican
form of government cannot survive half
slave and half free. The ballot is with
held from women because men are not
willing to part with one half Of the SOW
ereign power. There is no other real
q 81 lie Ssoss4aa4 Preparation OF
this unnatural tyranny. Enfranchise
women or this republic will steadily add
vance TO the same ignoble arid tragic
catastrophe which has engulfed all male
republics OF history. Let us establish a
republic in which both men and women
shall be free, indeed. Then shall. the re.
public be perpetual.
A minority report adverse to the
adoption of the, resolution will be pre-
scented.