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Show WYOMING IS ADMITTED. Tlie Semite Bill Making n a gute Passed by a Strict 1'arty Vote. Washington, Juue 28,-Thc bill for the admission of Wyoming was passed m the senate by a strict party vote, yeas, Sii; nays, 18. Tho first section of the bill is as follows: fol-lows: Wyomiug is hercbv declared to be a state yf the, United States of America; Amer-ica; is hereby declared" aclniilled iuto tneCnionoii eiiual footiug with the original states iu all respects whatever, and that tho constitution which the people of Wyoming have formed for themselves be and the same is hereby accepted, ratified, and ountirmed." The second section gives the boundaries. bound-aries. The third declares the State entitled en-titled to one Representative in the Fifty-first Fifty-first Congress. Tho other sections refer re-fer to public lands and provisions for schools, an agricultural college, penitentiary, peni-tentiary, insaue asylum, etc.; also, to circuit and district courts. '' The news of tho action of tho senate was received with great joy at Cheyenne, Evaustou and other cities throughout the . territory. Bolls were mug, steam whistles screeched, cannons' roared, the people yelled themselves hoarse, and local orators gave vent to words of burning eloquence. The bill for the admission of Idaho was taken up and went over as "unfinished "unfin-ished business" uutil Monday next. |