Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-28

WYOMING ADMITTED.
Republicans Sailing Their est for the
Next Campaien.

Next Campaign.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The House
met at IL o'clock in continuation of
Wednesdays session and the Wyoming
admission bill was again taken up for
consideration.
Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio, opposed the
| bill. baSing his opposition upon the in
sufiiciency of population in the proposed
State.
Mr.. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, also
antagonized the measure, declaring that
ii was a bribc held ont to Congress by
the local Office-seeking element in the
/ Territory. 1t was intended to pack the
! United States Senate Senate already
having eight new Republican seats, six
fairly held and two stolen.
Mr.. McAdOO, Of New Jersey, said that
the Constitution of Wyoming, if not the
worst constitution ever adopted, was
abreast OF the worst. There was in that
constitution everything bad in politics,
morals and economies. The only good
thing in il was the clause which allowed
il to be amended. 1t held out to the
European syndicates an advertisement
that Wyoming was the mecca to which
they should hasten their steps in order
to gobble up the public lands.
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, commented
upon the small attendance of members
when a bill of this importance was be-
fore the House. The position which he
had taken in regard to- the territories
was an advanced one. In the last Con-
greSS he had favored the admission of
the four new States. At this session he
had introduced an omnibus bill, be-
cause he thought all the territories
should be treated fairly and equally.
The Wyoming bill gave women the
right of suffrage. The Idaho bill
deprived the Mormon men and women OF
MormOnS voted the Republican ticket,
while in Idaho it was suspected that
they voted the Democratic ticket. Nor
monism was no objection to the admiS-
sion Of a State, except when the people
having that belief were suspected of
having a desire to vote the Democratic
ticket He believed that il the Nor
mons Of Utah would vote with the
Republicans the settlement on the
other side would railroad a bill through
the House, for the admission Of that
territory as a State. 1t was said by the
majority as an excuse for the small
vote which had been east for the cOnsti-
tuition, that there was a driving snow
storm and tremendous gale, which
had kept the people from the polls. He
created much mcrriment and applause
on the other side by quoting from the
meteorological returns, to show that the
tremendous gale which had kept the
people from the polls had been a gentle
breeze of one mile an hour, and the
driving snow storm had dwindled down
to a small furry.
Mr.. Grovener OF Ohio said that the
Democratic party since the fall OF
slavery, and since it had ceased to ad-
nit States in order to keep up the policy
OF slavery. had always opposed the ad-
mission OF States. A hostility, either
open and declared as now, or covert or
inSinuated as in the Fiftieth Congress,
had always been the policy Of the Dem
Ocratic party.
At one o'clock the previous question
was ordered. Mr.. Springer, on behalf
OF minority of the committee, offered an
amendment providing for another con-
vention, called under authority of an
act Of Congress. Lost; yeas 13l, nays
13S.
Mr.. Springer then offered his last
amendment, which strikes out the
clause Of the Wyoming constitution pro-
viding for female suffrage.
Defeated. Yeas 1872, nays l3s.
Mr.. Breckenridge, Of Kentucky,
moved to rccommit the bill. Lost.
Yeas l39, nays 144. The bill was then
passed Yeas l39, nays 1877. This was
strict party vote. except that Mr.. Dun
nell, Of Minnesota, voted with the Dem
OcratS.
The House then went into committee
Of the whole, Mr.. Allen, Of Michigan, in
the chair, on the army Appropriation
bill. The bill was read at length, and
without action the committee rose and
the House adjourned.