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Show FORTT-XINTH CONGRESS. The Senate. : . Washington, January 28. In .the Senate at 2 o'clock the bill providing for the admission ad-mission of Dakota came up. Butler's substitute sub-stitute for the committee's bill was read. It is an enabling act providing for the admission admis-sion of the Territory of Dakota as a whole, as a State in the Union, when an election shall have been held under this act and a constitution, republican in form, shall have been adopted by the people of such Territory. The substitute also prescribes pre-scribes in deW. the conditions to be observed by tl proposed State as to public lands, school i; etc. Butler then took the floor in suppuiG of his substitute. He insisted in-sisted that the action of South Dakota had been ultra vires and void. Besides, he had' received intimations of fraud in the proceedings proceed-ings taken there, of criminations, recriminations recrimi-nations an d Tingism. Much division of opinion opin-ion prevailed in the Territory as to the division di-vision on the line of the 4Gth parallel. - WHY NOT HAVE A FAIB HEABING all the questions involved, so that when ' Congress should meet again it should have material for intelligent action? Butler could hardly conceive that any professional discourtesy dis-courtesy had been meant by railroading througn the Committee on Territories of an adverse report on the resolutions offered by Vest and himself, relating to Dakota. They had been adversely passed upon at the very first meeting of the committee after their reference by the Senate, without notice or opportunity, Butler said, to him to be present pres-ent at their consideration. He inquired whether this haste was because of the fear that if full consideration had been given to those resolutions. The weakness of the case now made for Dakota would be made manifest, or that the motive behind the efforts of tisp "State Executive Committee" would be exposed? IT DAKOTA WEEE ADMITTED Under the constitutional action already taken, we might as well abolish all parliamentary parlia-mentary proceedings and judicial forms. "When Dakota shall come here," said Butler But-ler in conclusion, "provided with the proper countersign, if it shall be my duty to be on guard, I will, with pleasure, pass her on to the heart of the citadel of the Nation." ' Wilson, of Iowa, contended that the Senators Sen-ators who should insist that every step for the formation of new States should be in accordance with their own view of the form, displayed but little knowledge of the processes pro-cesses by which the States had been made. Some of the most loyal and patriotic States had laid their foundations in violation of Congressional action. . OUB HABDX PIONEEBS Had carried civilization yearly farther westward, west-ward, and planted the States as the milestones mile-stones to mark the onward progress of their journey. It had taken the United States Government a long time to understand under-stand the movements of those pioneers." The action of the people of Dakota, Wilson insisted, was in every sense proper, peaceful peace-ful and constitutional, and no narrow partisanship par-tisanship or political bias should be permitted per-mitted to interfere with the manly and honorable demands of its people to admission admis-sion as a State. The population of South Dakota was sufficient te entitle her to two Representatives in Congress. . Wilson compared com-pared the conditions of South Dakota in weath, population and resources with those of many other States at the time of their admission, and argued that THE NEW APPLICANT FOK STATEHOOD Presented a case that challenged criticism. Her methods had been orderly, conservative and creditable. .'We should welcome her to the sisterhood of States. The debate then closed, and the bill went over tiil 2 o'clook to-morrow, at whioh hour Vest will have the floor. Washington, January 29. Among the bills introduced was one by Call,-at the request, he said,' of. the Governor of Florida, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to settle and pay ' THE CLAIMS OF FLOBIDA On account of expenditures made to suppress sup-press Indian hostilities. In introducing the bill, Call said that a similar bill had been before the Forty-eighth Congress, but at the request .of the then Governor of Florida was allowed to remain unacted upon because be-cause the Washington claim. agent, named Wailes, claimed commissions amountmg to $62,000 for services in connection with it. As the amount of cash allowed by Congress was only $92,000, there would be little money left after paying the commission. Call regarded re-garded it as a reflection upon the members of the Senate and House that the money should be paid or contracted to ba paid for services never Tendered in connection with legislation, while SOLDIEBS WHO HAD BENDEBED HABD SEBVICE To the State, and the widows and orphans of such soldiers, went unpaid and unprovided unpro-vided for. Under any circumstances he regarded re-garded it as a public scandal that a vast sum of money should be paid to lawyers, or pretended lawyers or agents, for votes to be given in Congress. The idea of - paying $62,000 out of the State's claim of , $92,000, should receive publio condemnation, and Call desired from his place " in j the Senate to give pubho expression to this opinion. There were no "services" to be rendered, Call said, in connection with such a bill. The question was one well settled by the history of the county, and the legis lation on it was nothing new. He believed, however, that the Government should pay interest on the claim of the State. Piatt submitted a resolution for reference to the Committee on Rules, and it was so referred, providing that . - - - V EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS . Shall hereafter be considered in open session. ses-sion. - A resolution offered by Edmunds was agreed to, direoting the Secretary of the Navy to transmit to the Senate copies of drawings and report of the recent survey of the Nicaragua Canal route, made by the Chief Engineer. . ... Proceeding to the calendar, the Senate resumed consideration of the title to divide the Sioux reservation in Dakota. Logan said if his (Logan's) proposition of ten years ago in this Senate had been agreed to there would have been no-Indian no-Indian wars after that time. His proposition then was that it made it a penal offense for anybody to sell a gun 'or powder or bullet to an Indian. That was what the trouble was in our Indian affairs. : At 2 o'clook Vest took the floor on the Dakota Da-kota bill. - He disclaimed any hostility, per-' sonal or political, to the people of Dakota, and claimed himself to be a western man and proud of the western country- and -ita- magnificent development.. : . :. The Ilouie. . Washington, January 29. After a few private measures had been reported by the committees, the House,' at 1:30, went into committee of the whole on private calendar. The first measure on the calendar was McMillan's Mc-Millan's bill providing for the payment of "Fourth of July" claims. Geddes explained that the bill comprised 943 claims, distributed among eleven States and one Territory, and called for the expenditure expen-diture of 229,000. |