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Show 1 DAKOTA STILL KNOCKING. ' Logan Asserts the Opposition Is Iterance Ite-rance of in ore Republican Electoral Votes. Washington, Feb. 3 In the Seriate at 2 o'clock the Dakota bill was placed before be-fore the Senate and Mr. Logan took the floor. He differed, materially, he said, with the Senator from South Carolina (Butler) and the Senator from Missouri (Vest) in regard to the question under consideration. Fourteen States had been admitted under the force of the "enabling" "enabl-ing" acts and eleven States without enabling en-abling acts. Congress was therefore free to adopt either course, according to the circumstances which in each case might 6eem best adapted to the public good. What was substantially th$ objection to Dakota's admission ? By reading a paragraph para-graph from Butler's Bpeech we might get a glimpse, or at least a shadow of the real objection. The meaning of the objection ob-jection was that if Dakota were admitted it would add three electoral votes to the Republican Ptrcngth at the next Presidential Presi-dential election. He inquired of Mr. Butler whether that was not the point. Mr. Butler denied it, and said he had already declared that even if the political complexion of Dakota were Democratic, he would have felt obliged to oppose its admission under the present aspects of its application. Mr. Logan said that when the Republicans Repub-licans wanted anything, the idea of the' Senator from South Carolina was that it was wanted by a "clique." The attempt to keep out Dakota Mr. Logan characterized as a part of a great scheme to keep out States that sent Republicans Re-publicans to Congress. Ho appealed to the justice and magnanimity of the Senators Sen-ators to give ear to the voice of the energetic ener-getic people who were applying for admission ad-mission to the Union of States. Mr. Morgan opposed the admission of Dakota under present conditions. He thought the Senate was asked to admit hew States merely for the purpose of admitting ad-mitting office holders that had been sent here. The patriotism that had been so much referred to had in it a strong flavor of self-interest. Mr. Harrison then took the floor and gave notice that he would ask the Senate to bring the bill to a vote to-morrow. The Senate then adjourned. - |