Show FOUR NEW srUE3 The President has signed the omnibus Territorial bill bringing a little sentiment senti-ment into iho act by attaching his signature Washingtons Birthday The nature on President was ready to sign such a bill I three years ago and has been ready and willing ever since The reason he did not sun one was because none was presented pre-sented to him The bili provides for the creation of four States as follows South Dakota North Dakota Washington and Montana Mon-tana They are to be admitted on the proclamation of the President after they have adopted constitutions and chosen officers by popular elections The elections for members of the Constitutional Consti-tutional conventions are to be held in i May and the constitutions are to ba voted on and State officers and members mem-bers of Congress chosen in October when the Presidents proclamation will be issued and the dependencies be fullfledged States with all the independence inde-pendence rights and privileges of the other States Washington Montana and North Dakota are each to have two Senators and one Representative in Congress and South Dakota two Senators and two Representatives These will take their seats at the opening open-ing of the first regular session of the Fiftyfirst Congress in December We heartily congratulate the colon ej on their emancipation and while Utah is better prepared and more entitled to assume the dignity rights and responsibilities respon-sibilities of Statehocd than either of the fortunate dependencies named our congratulations are as honest and sincere sin-cere as if this Territory were going to the front with her sisters We realize that their good fortune is not our misfortune mis-fortune and that in their happiness there is nothing to cause us to be unhappy un-happy Utah is big enough not to be envious The admission of these four States is most important in a political sense It increases the Republican majorityin the Senate eight at all the new Senators will belong to that party The possibility pos-sibility of the Democrats gaining control con-trol of the upper house of Congress within four years is thus removed and they will be lucky even if they have a majority eight years from now The Republicans will increase their majority major-ity in the House six thus having power tD do as they will in that branch of the national legislature Some assume that the admission virtually settles the Presidential Pres-idential contest of 1892 in favor of the Republicans on the ground that the new States will increase the Republican Republi-can electoral vote by thirteen Talk of this character is idle Before the next national election there will be a pew congressional and electoral appointment appoint-ment under the census of next year At present nobody can say what the tee increase census will develop whether e crease of population has been greater in Republican or in Democratic States nor is it possible to say what will be the basis of representation representa-tion in the new apportionment If the basis shall be the same as atpressnt the number of Congressmen will be greatly increased but where the increase will fall cannot be told until the census returns re-turns are in It may transpire that Democratic New York and the Democratic Demo-cratic South have grown much faster than the Republican northwest If it shall be decided that Congress is large enough the same number of members being apportioned equitably the representation repre-sentation of Republican New England will certainly be cut down very materially ma-terially while that of tho West and South will increase in proportion But all this is mere speculation The new I States mayor may not be influential in the next Presidential contest according to the developments of the comicg census There is one thing however thatmay be accepted as true and that is that the Democrats in Congress have so bungled the business of admitting these Territories Terri-tories that they have alienated the affections af-fections of the coming States If Montana Mon-tana and Washington had been admitted admit-ted two years ago as they should and mild have been they would today be Democratic with a fair probability of continuing with the party They have been made Republican by Democratic incompetence meanness The doing of justice to the colonies at this time is regarded by the Territories as a trick on the part of the Democrats to regain 7 what has been lost by stupidity It was well understood that if the present Congress did not admit Dakota a special session of the Fifty I first Congress would be called for that work and also that at its first regular session the other two Territories would be let into the Union The general BCD ntiment is that tho Demcc alr seeing th3 situation undertook to take advantage ad-vantage I of it and make a virtue of a necessity That they will fail is certain 1 for the party organs in all the Territories Terri-tories are openly blaming the Democratic Demo-cratic Congressmen for the denial of aright a-right that is apparent to everybody |