, 1926-01-13

The "Act to Provide for the adj
mission of the State of Wyoming
into the Union, and for other Pur-
poses" approved July 10th, 1890,
SO far as it relates to the yell
lowstone National park. and par
ticularly to an extension of it's then
boundaries after the passage of
the Act, is not only a departure
from the conditions inducing the
emigration and settlement of our
forefathers, our early life and ex-
p~eriences, the concessions of the
mother country in her colonial pol
icies throughout the world, and re-
spected abroad, but is in violation
of these, and of the plighted faith
of the trainers of the Federal Con-
stitution, and of the Constitution
itself.
Wiser craftsmanship, both at
Washington, and at Cheyenne,
would have forced a change in this
Act" as unworthy of the Congress
which passed it. and unacceptable
to a free and sovereign state.
With the Yellowstone Park as a
Federal Province" governed solely
by Federal authority, and with the
power of Congress at its within, to
extend it, elsewhere in this COM
monwealth, there is no territorial
integrity anywhere in the State of
Wyoming, which may not be de-
stroyed by the activities at Wash
ington, and this state, under such
condition, would not be a sovereign
state, as is the state of Virginia, or
the state of. Massachusetts,, and n
statesman or other citizen of Wyo-
ming who will stand by and see
this Grape" of her person., is I'M
fitted to represent, or to be number
ed among a free people, who hope
and intend here to preserve a free
commonwealth for all coming gen.
erations.
the Federal Constitution, abund-
antly show the anxiety of the faith
ers to limit Federal aggression.
Article 10 of Amendments. pro-
vides 1.-THE powers not delegated
to the United States by the Consti-
tuition, nor prohibited by it to the
states, are preserved to the states
respectively or to the people,"
Manifestly. it was contemplated
by the fathers to prevent Districts,
Provinces, and mo Mans Lands"
where the Federal Government, and
its bureaus would be sovereign"
and the inhabitants, or the people,
would be Subjects" and not citi-
Zens.
Not only this, but Section 8 of
Article 1, of the Constitution, limits
the area over which Congress may
have Exclusive jurisdiction" Is
follows:
ITO exercise exclusive legislation
in all cases whatsoever over such
district (not exceeding ten miles
square) as may be by cession of
particular states and the acceptance
of Congress, become the seat of
government of the United States"
Here we find a prohibition in
Federal Government to exercise
Exclusive" jurisdiction or legisla-
ton over any area within the con-
fines of a state, or in the confines
of all of the states exceeding ten
miles square, and then such Eek
elusive legislation" to be "by ces-
sion of particular states and "the
acceptance of Congress"
1t is unthinkable that in this day
and generation that any citizen of
Wyoming, with the rich legends and
traditions of our country, will stand
silently by, and permit 1t to be
said that Wyoming is not sover-
eign over every foot of her ever
lasting hills: and that, at the de-
mand of National Park and FEEDER
al employees, Congress. by their
mere within, can convert Wyoming,
either in part or in whole (for II
it can do one. 1t a do the other)
into a provinces province such