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Show LEGISLATION FOR TIIK TEIUU-TOlllK.' TEIUU-TOlllK.' A memorial to congress has been adopted by the Wyoming legislature, asking that the Territories may be erected into minor States, with one representative in the lower house of congress from each, and two United States senators to represent the whole the respeotivo Territorial legislatures legisla-tures to send one or more delegates to some central place to make choice of the senators for the Territories as a major State. The memorial is accompanied accom-panied by a petition from the people, largely signed. These documents also ask that the people may liuvc a right to vote iu the choice of Presidential candidates, and in the sch-ouun of their own Territorial rulers. The Cheyenne Ledger argues the justice of such li gis lation as Ibllows: "The election of 1S70 shows a vote in the nine Territories of about Sl.OiJO, with only mere agems in congress, who are treated almost as bi';rg:irs, while the four Stales of Delaw-irc, lllmde Island, .Nebraska and .Nevada, with eight votes in the senate and four votes in the house, poll a less vote by some thousands. The three Territories of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah poll within 1,700 votes of three of the above-named States. So th:it in reality real-ity these three States for those 1,700 votes have six senators and three representatives, rep-resentatives, a singular distinction, under our form of govcrnmont.agaiDst the citizens of the Territories, with equal rights under the national constitution, consti-tution, well earned by hardships and privations in opening up tho way to jivilization and new States." Walla Walla Statesman. |