The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-02
REPUBLICAN POLICY.
The Admission of Wyoming and
Idaho as States
is PURELY FOR THE PURPOSE
OF Fastening More Surely the Hold Ofthe Party
- Upon the Standardization Consid
eratiOns Only Have Weighed.

WASHINGTON, July l. Special to The
HERALD. 1T is not improbable that before
the close of the present Congress Idaho
and Wyoming will be added to the sister
hood of states, making forty four in all.
The bill admitting Wyoming, but for sew
eral unimportant amendments, which have
thrown 1t into conference, would before
this have been signed by the President
1t was the original intention of the Sen
ate Democrats to avail themselves Of every
legislative advantage, etc, to prevent the pas
sage of the statehood bills. They might,
by this course, have delayed action for some
days or months, but it was finally decided
to reserve their strength for the federal
election bill and allow the admission bills
to go by default.
The constitution adopted by the people
of Wyoming and Idaho confers the dignity
of stat shood on two territories from the
moment the President Harrison afixes his
signature to the measures. At that moment
also the two Delegates will be legislative
out of office nor will the two new
commonwealth be represented in Congress
again this session. unless an adjournment
should be unusually long delayed. Thirty
present territorial governors will order an
election for state, county and national Of
ticers.
Advices from the west indicate that
Messrs. Carey and Dubois, who have rep
resented Wyoming and Idaho as Delegates
for some years, will be rewarded for their
efforts in favor of admission by an election
to the Senate. 1t is also understood that
the two governors, Messrs Warren and
Shoup, will also be sent here as their col
leagues.
| The admission of Idaho and Wyoming
both of which are strongly Republican In
politics, will give the Republican party so
commanding a majority in the United
States Senate that nothing short of a po-
litical upheaval can disturb their power
for long term of years. At the close Of
the last Congress the Republicans con-
trolled the Senate by majority of two.
This advantage they increased to ten by
the admission of the four new states
of Washington, Montana, North and
South Dakota, and now with the
incoming eff Wyoming and Idaho,
they are given clear majority of fourteen
The ultimate admission of Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma, all of which are
Democratic in sentiment, viii increase the
strength of the minority by six additional
votes, but it is doubtful when the RepuD-
licans will agree to their admission. Ari-
iona and New Mexico possess greater
capabilities for statehood to-day than either
Wyoming or Idaho, both in point of popu-
lation and other material advantages, but
they are kept out in the cold while the
other territories are permitted to enter the
charmed circle of states, simply and solely
because they are not Republican politi-
cally, if they were, an omnibus bill includ-
ing the entire four would have been
framed early in the session and the same
efforts made in their behalf that the Re
publicans have exerted in the case of Wy
oming and Idaho. In this matter of state
hood the Republicans have acted with de-
gree of unfairness which in the Democrats
would have been regarded revolutionary,
; and which would have raised a storm of
protestation in the north that has not
been paralleled since the firing upon Fort
Sumpter. The increase of the Republican
: majority in the Senate by such methods as
3 these is part of the general conspiracy to
: retain their control of Congress that finds
9 expression in the House in the introduc-
0 ton of the federal election bill, the passage
: , of which is designed to give them the same
o relative predominence there.