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Show DAKOTA AT THE DOOR. The Bill Passes the Senate Ogata Iz-liC Iz-liC the State of Dakota and the Territory of Lincoln. Washington, Feb. 5 After Butler of South Carolina had finished in the Senate this afternoon. Lotran nniil hia of. I .D oiVMuuuu, iAiguu waiu nis attention at-tention had been directed to the vote of South Carolina, because the Senators from South Carolina and Missouri had complained that Dakota in 1884 had polled poll-ed 55,000 votes, while on the adoption of the proposed constitution onlv31,000votes had been polled. He (Logan) had then called attention to the vote of the Sena-' tor's own State, South Carolina. Dakota with only a quarter of a million population popula-tion had polled 31,000 votes, while South Carolina had with a population of a million mil-lion polled only 91,000 votes, and he (Logan) (Lo-gan) had inquired whether, if an expiation expia-tion was required for Dakota, if an explanation expla-nation was not also required for South Carolina. " .. Mr. Butler replied that the explanation explana-tion was that at the last election in South Carolina political friends and allies of the Senator from Illinois were industrionsly neglected. They had not been i nstrncted or even approached by the Senator. He (Butler) believed all the people of South Carolina, white and colored, were satisfied satis-fied with their State government. Mr. Logan commented on the reference of Mr. Butler on the "lolling in their tents" ot the officers while the "soldiers were on the march." That remark; he said, was not just to the gentlemen "on this side of the Chamber." Mr. Butler declaimed having intended its application to any Senator. Mr. Logan recognized equal merit in all where there had been faithful service. In conclusion, Mr. Logan repeated that j whatever pretense mav be made as to the reason for excluding " Dakota; however Senators may "higgle" over the words, the real reason was that it would have a Republican majority. Men mav arma as they please with flimsy pretexts, that was, however, the real source.of the diffi-CuJ diffi-CuJ t7' Bat the American people had an abiding sense of justice. They know that the elements of Statehood existed in Dakota Da-kota ; that it had the necessary population popula-tion and area and all the conditions of I industryenergy and civilization. Then why, he asked, should not this new State be placed in the cluster of the American Union, that it may addlts share to the light and lorv of the Rfinnhlip? Mr. Call opposed the committee's bill ihe will of the whole people of Dakota, he said, had not been ascertained . on the question of division or on the proposed constitution, and they should have an opportunity of voting on . those questions before any action of Congress was necessary. neces-sary. , . Edmunds inquired whether Mr. Call Mr. Butler and ; their associates would' vote for the bill if an amendment were made to it, providing for the submission of the new constitution to the people for their approval before it should go into operationor would they vote" for a bill which' would be submitted to the people of the whole Territory, for them to sav whether they wanted a division or not. Mr. Call saw no necessity for such urgent ur-gent haste. This matter had to be decided de-cided with a view to the future as well as the present. Mr. Butler Will the Senator from Vermont, Ver-mont, before submitting this bill, eliminate elimi-nate from it everything that has been done in the way of the election of Senators, Sena-tors, Congressmen, etc. ? Mr. Edmunds I will not: After all these years of effort and application by these people, the matter should now be disposed of. Here was a constitution like the constitutions of other States in respect re-spect to the security Of property, the administration ad-ministration of justice, the equal levying of taxes, : and everything that goes to make up the best of modern constitutions. I would not, therefore, say to those people peo-ple that they must be again put off for one, two or three years. A Territory, Mr. Edmunds continued, had no right to remain a Territory forever. The United States paid a very large part of the Territorial Terri-torial expenses and should be relieved of that burden as soon as it was consistent with the general good. It was the misfortune mis-fortune of fate for the Senators on the Democratic side that the Dakotans did not have political opinions with whicn those Senators could agree, and .that was what the matter was. - - - Mr. Beck denied the right of a Territory to divide itself, that being a power lodged only in Congress. The population of the new Territory, he said, consisted taa considerable con-siderable extent of foreigners Scandinavians Scandina-vians and others who were not ' yet pre-, pared for citizenship. The debate then closed and Mr. Butler's substitute was put to a vote and lost yeas 22, nays 33. ' The bill reported from the committee was then passed yeas 32, nays 22. The only Democrat voting in the affirmative was Mr. Voorhees. The negative votes were all Democratic. The bill divides the Territory of Dakota on the Hue of the forty-sixth . parallel of latitude; provides for the admission of the Southern portion as a State under the title of Dakota and the organization of the Northern portion into a seperate Territory Ter-ritory under the name of Lincoln. |