Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-29


EElG :; city with speeches
Efrom Messrs. Kill
U1NM tlIESm gore, of Texas. and
@-.zGE3 Morse, of Massa-
S@rS- TzsMvHM. chusetts. Spice was
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was listened to with marked attention
by every ono on the floor and in the
galleries. His remarkswere strength
ened with sharp satire and humorous
comparisons, and were frequently In
terrupted by laughter. The great Sue
cess Of the day was his apostrophc to
New England as the country which
burned witches, persecuted, Quakers,
turned out Roger Williams, and pro-
duced the gentleman from Massachu-.
setts (Mr. Morsol. Mr.. Rawlins was
followed by MIR. Harter, of Ohio. in
opposition. Although tho interest
Jagged somewhat when the change of
reawakened.
In defending his plea> Delegate Raw
lins said: "There is less polygamy in
Utah than in Massachusetts. When a
gentleman gets up here, as did the
gentleman from Massachusetts,, and as
serts that tn people of Utah arc assas-
sins, thieves, bigamist., and makes
assertions without a syllable of evi-
dence to back them up, and refuses to
accept the evidence of reputable peo-
pie Of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming in,
their defense, say he ought to hang
his head in shame" Not syllable Of
evidence?" retorted Mr.. Morse. II,
have read the book of Brigham
Young's fifteenth wife, and she ought
to know" "The people of Utah. said
Mr.. Rawlins, land the leaders of the
Mormon Church have no wish to re-
vive polygamy. The law providing
for the admission of Utah revoked the
obnoxious Edmunds-Tucker act, which
is an insult to the people. think l
affairs if this bill should pass, and you
will never regret your action if you
pass this bill.
Mr.. Harter spoke in opposition to
the measure, saying there was no hard
ship and less expense all around in liv-
ing under territorial government. Be-
sides, he was opposed to small States.
Said he: II object to the bill solely on
the ground that Utah does not have
sufficient population. There are too
many States in the Union which are
too small, and Delaware and Rhode
Island would not be admitted to the
sisterhood of States in this day. They
fought their way. Let us digest our
dinner of new States before We so to
our supper. Let us civilize Kansas be-
fore we take in other States. The last
seven States admitted to the Union
have not grown as rapidly as States as
they have under territorial form of
government, and they are represented
by fourteen Senators at the other end
Of the Capitol-a representation en-
tirely out Of proportion to their popu-
lation."
Routine business.
Tuesday, in the Senate, Mr. Cullom spoke
in favor of the federal election law. Mr..
Stewart was heard against 1t. and in favor
of silver The Senate confirmed many
nominations. among them that Of Washing
day in the House was characterized
by m interesting and amusing de-
bate on the bill to admit Utah.
The only actual legislation accomplished
was the passage of the bill reported by Mr..
Din.ley changing the method of making
remittances in the Postofice Department..
Instead of being sent to the Sixth Auditor
through the Postoffice Department they
are to be hereafter sent to the Sixth Au-
ditor direct.
Statehood was passed without division by
the House Wednesday. the only amend
ments OF Importance being one by Mr.
Powers. prohibiting polygamy forever and
another by MIR. Wheeler reducing ne-Ealf
the land granted to the State for common
school purposes The resolution of Mr..
Hit calling for the correspondence in the
Hawaiian affair, amended so as to include
I'M extension of the period to be covreed by
the correspondence to March. 1880. the be-
fv,r nf <kn nnw Hr,f futc
was passed. The Myer resolution for the
appointment of joint committee to ex-
anime the rank. pay. and other questions
relating to the navy was passed ME. Hol-
man introduced q resolution to investigate
tho question OF premiums earned by con-
tractors for governments war vessels The
Senate considered nothing but the Ha-
waiian question.
In the House Thursday bill to improve
methods of accounting in the Postoffce DEE
cussion the bill was passed. Bills were
passed granting patents to settlers in Ar
kansas and for the relief of those having
mnde settlement in Oregon and Washing-
ton under the adonatfon actn of 1850. In
the Senate the House bill to repeal the
federal election laws was reported back
favoratly. The Senate joint resolution re-
iieving employees was passed Also the
House bill for two additional Justices of
the Supreme Court for the Territory OF
adjourned until Monday.
President Cleveland's message transmit
ting the papers in relation to Hawaii
hrought on a warm discussion in both
houses An attack on the Presidents nol-
icv as to pensions was made by General
sickles in speech In the House.
In the Senate Mr. Dolph talked on tho
tariff and Mr.. Hansbrourh pleaded for
1000. 600 to exterminate the Russiao
thistle A resolution to loan the Colum-
bus caravels to the Red Cross Society for
exhibition purposes was presented in the
Senate
How the World Wavs..
ARcHBIsHoP KAN, of st. Louis, is,
critically i'll at Wheeling, w. Va,
ABOUT 100000 Scotch coal miners
are now on Q strike, and 1900 others
mao fa ca11ed mt