| Show the passing scepter WESTWARD ol 01 OF POWER remarkable TAPER maper FROM tiie THE LONDON TIMES the tile vast alo ilu minions of the amerl ameri can union are aro divided as all the borhi between en two cl classes ases of or communities those which are fully organized and have taken their places as units of government and those which aro are still partially unorganized and have no share shaie in nominating or directing the federal authority the former class are tile the states the latter the territories but tile tho peculiarity of the american system ii i that every undeveloped portion is slowly ripening bya by a steady process and preparing when cheb the proper time comes to be raised aalst d to the dagni dignity ty and power of ot a constituent member bemb er odthe federation that time may be delayed by political politic al difficulties but ifa if a territory continues to grow it must assuredly obtain recognition ast asi state the admission of colorado coio rado and new mexico into the Fe federal dertil pact fact has for a long time been discussed in america new mexico was ceded to the union by the aiex Alex mexican ican government after the walor wal wai of 1848 and two tivo years later was organized as 09 a territory utah be ing af 4 tile the same time liine admitted on the same footing within the at isit years yeats the thi e vast west was still 11 further partitioned among new territorial governments and one of these was colorado it is no doubt to the tile recent changhsin chan changes dete gesIn in the senate sanate that the dote determination ri of or the republicans to new mexico and colorado as stes stet aitho w ut further delay is due rh rile flie party pirty majority in the Sena senate ilas lias fallen from twenty six to el eight 11 ditl too ado sm small smail all ali a number to check the forces af the democrats in the tho house lfona of representatives but probably each of af the two new states may be relied upon to send two republican senators to washington who will wili be hailed balled as a welcome reinforcement by tho the partisans babs of the administration in the house of lre JRe presen natives the measure will have less significance for nel nei neither therl leiv nety mexico meki Mcki conor nor colorado has anything approaching to tho population th that would atwould anti entitle itle either of more thana single representative senta tive which whid 11 according to the coils constitution ti tuition every ever statte state must return retarn the number hii mba of m members embers of is determined mined arter after fter each decennial census hud and was nixed fixed upon the basis of or the enumeration of 1870 at distributed among the several states in proportion to their population this thia gives one representative to citizens but it is provided that the representatives of any new liew states admitted during the decennial period are to bo be in addition to the members bembera divided among the thirty seven states federated in 1870 one member from new mexico and one from colorado will raise the number therefore to it is remarkable ie that this accession to the organized forces of the union occurring exactly yo years ars ans after the first assembling of the congress of the thirteen colonies at philadelphia will precisely rec ree isely triple the number of the confederated Con federated states whose amalgamation was the work of that famous assembly the thirteen states for whom the american Const ution was framed have grown to thirty nine and have extended their grasp from the seaboard of the atlantic to which a century ago they timidly clung across a mighty continent who shall forecast what teeming populations will in another century inhabit the vast re regions regions rions west of the mississippi it is not too much to say that colorado alone which has now barely the numbers of a fourth rate town 1 will then outweigh in all the elements ef of political strength the whole of new england the territory of this young and vigorous community astride upon the rocky mountains giving one hand to kansas hansas and the other to utah is at least of magnificent ma dimensions new mexico co lying directly south and with its neighbor a arizona stretching across half the continent from the northern wilds of texas to the Californi californian aa frontier has perhaps less possibilities before it but they are such as might dazzle any nation less accustomed to contemplate a boundless inheritance than the people of the united states the organization of or new mexico and colorado as states leaves no great proportion vf of the territories un unorganized zed along the northern frontier of the union it Is true I 1 where it marches with avith ithe tho cana ilan dian iian lian possessions on the tile red bed river ulver R iver lver I 1 and saskatchewan and with th the e province of british columbia there are four vast territories still unorganized and indeed nor for I 1 or the most part dakota mon tana idaho and ind washington and soul south of montana and north of colorado Is wyoming which has recently adopted woman stif atif suffrage frage as Is an experiment these five territories ri had in 1870 1570 some inhabitants yet they covered an area much greater than that of or all the states north of or the potomac and west of the ohio ohia beyond idaho 0 on n the pacific coast is the state of oregon and south of oregon california claims the whole seaboard down to the mexican iron tier eastward from oregon is nevada erected into a state a few years ago but between nevada and colorado we find a singular hiatus in the work of political organization 9 aniza auiza tion the territory of utah was organized a quarter of a cantu century ry ago at the same time with new mexico at tile the last census it had in inhabitants babl babi tants n nearly early as many as the state of oregon moro more than twice as many as nevada nerada yet new mexico and colorado are now to take their place in the order of american government alongside of oregon and nevada but there is no thought of admitting utah to tile the privileges of a state the explanation is of course a simple one congress can refuse admission as a state to any territory and will do so unless satisfied with the he form of constitution offered by the territorial population in the case of utah which claimed to be admitted many years ago as the state of deseret congress re required special guam guarantees against the af pf perpetuation of poly polygamy gamy and the other peculiar institutions of mormonism Mormon isaa that the mormons cormons of utah are not disposed di posed to giveans give any such guarantees may be inferred from the fact that they have lately sent to washington as M delegate delegato from the territory an mider yelden of the iho church whom a committee of the house of representatives has pronounced to be disqualified as an avowed and notorious polygamist in spite of this it may be confidently predicted that the pressure of population in utah will eventually compel congress to organize it as a state the argument arguments ments mentE t for r this course will be greatly increased in weight by the admission of new mexico and colorado and probably will meet with more attention from the democratic party who are now beginning to feel seel the response res responsibilities bili bill ties of their recent victory than they would woud have received from the republicans leavened as th eyare with the puritan traditions of new england london march 1 |
