Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-06
.9HE DAKOTAS ADMITTHD
Text of the Presidents Procla-
nation Declaring Them
Sovereign States.
Both Adopt Prohibition South
Dakota Rejects Minority
Representation.

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| WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The President ha
Issued a proclamation admitting Nertl
| and South Dakota. The following is tn
| text of the proclamation admitting Soutl
Dakota: ,y,e,e......-
By the President of the Unit ed States o
America, a Proclamation:
WHEREAS, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on th,
22d day OF February, 1889, provide thai
| the inhabitants of the territory OF Da
kota might, upon the conditions pro
scribed In said act, become the states O
North Dakota and South Dakota; and,
WHEREAS, TWAS provided by the said aci
that the said area comprised the territory
OF Dakota should, for the purposes of the
act. be divided on the line of the seventh
standard OF parallel produced due west3to
the western boundary of said territory,
and that delegates elected as therein pro.
vided to constitutional convention OF the
districts south OF said parallel should, at
the time prescribed in the act, assem-.
Die IN the convention at the city OF Sioux
Falls; and,
WHEREAS, It was provided by said act
that the delegates elected as aforesaid
should, after they met and Organized. de.
clare on behalf of the people OF South
Dakota, that they adopt the constitution
OF the United States, whereupon said con-
vention should be authorized to form a
constitution and state government for the
state of South Dakota; and,
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution so adopted should
be republican in form and make no distinc.
tion in civil or political rights on account
OF race or color except as to Indians not
taxed and not to be repugnant to the con-
stitution of the United States and the
principles of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and that the convention should be 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, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution of North Dakota and
South Dakota should respectively incor-
porate an agreement to be reached in &C.
cordance with the provisions of an act for
al equitable division of all property be-
longing to the Territory OF Dakota, the
OF all public records and also
for an apportionment of the debts and
liabilities Of said territory and that each
of said states should oblieate itself to pay
it's proportion OF such debts and liabilities
the same as if they had created by such
states respectively; and,
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act
that at the election for delegates to the
convention in South Da-
kota as therein provided each elector might
have written or printed on his ballot the
words For the Sioux Falls Constitution"
OF the words Against the Sioux Falls Con-
that the votes on this question
should be returned and canvassed in the
same manner as the votes for the election
of delegates, and if majority of all the
votes cast on this question should be For
the Sioux Falls Constitution" it should be
the duty of the convention which might
assemble at Sioux Fails as provided in
the act to resubmit to the people OF South
Dakota for ratification or rejection at
an election provided for in said
act the constitution made at Sioux Falls
and adopted November 8, 1885 and also
the articles and propositions separately
submitted at that election, including the
question OF locating the temporary seat of
government with such changes only as re-
lated to the name and boundary of the
state, to the reappointment OF
judicial and legislative districts and such
as might be necessary in
order to comply with the provisions of the
act; and
WHEREAS, 1t was proved by said act that
the constitution formed for the people OF
South Dakota should be an ordinance of
providing that the same be
submitted E, the people OF South Dakota
at an election to be held on the first Tues
day in October, eighteen hundred and
eighty mine, 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 governor and chief
Justice thereof, or any two OF them, should
canvass the same and if majority of the
legal votes cast should be for the constitu-
tion the governor should certify the result
to the president OF the United States to-
pether with statemei of the votes cast
thereon and upon the separate articles or
and q cupy of said constitu-
ton, articles and ordinances; and
WHEREAS. 1t has been certified to me by
by the Governor OF the Territory
OF Dakota that at the afore-
said election for delegates the
"Souix Falls Constitution" was submitted
to the people of the proposed State OF
South Dakota, as provided in said act;
that said constitution was at the time pre-
scribed in the act submitted to the people
of South Dakota with proper changes and
amendments and has been adopted and
ratified by a majority of the qualified
voters OF said proposed state in accord
ance with the constitution prescribed on
said act; and.
WHEREAS, 1t is also certified to be
by said governor that at the same time the
body of said constitution was submitted
to a vote of the people, two additional
articles were submitted separately. to-wit:
An article numbered "a, entitled, "Prohibi-
ton" which received a majority OF all the
votes cast for and against said article, as
well as a majority OF all the votes cast for
and against the constitution, and was
adopted, and an article numbered 25, enti-
tied, Minority representation, which did
not receive majority Of the votes cast
thereon, or upon the constitution, was re-
jected; and,
WHEREAS, A duly au hen ticated copy OF
said constitution, additional articles,
ordinances and propositions as requested
by said act as being received by me,
Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the act OF congress
aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact
that the conditions imposed by congress on
the state of South Dakota to entitle that
state to admission to the union have been
ratified and accepted and that the admis-
sion OF eaid state into the Union is now
complete.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
nv 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 thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine and OF the Independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and fourteenth. BENJAMIN HARRISON,
TsEAL1 By the President.
JAMES &. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
The following dispatch was sent from the
executive mansion this afternoon by Sec
retary Blaine:
To Governors Mellette and Miller, North
and South Dakota:
The latest act in the admission Of the
two Dakotas as states into the Union was
completed this afternoon at the executive
mansion at O'Clock and 40 minutes, by
the President signing at that moment the
proclamations required by law for the ad.
mission OF the two states. The article on
prohibition submitted separately in each
state, was adopted in both. The article
providing for minority representation in
South Dakota was rejected by the people.
This is the first instance in the history OF
national government OF the twin states OF
North and South Dakota entering the
Union at the same moment.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
IThe proclamation OF the President de-