Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — THE NEW STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW STATES.

The House and Senate conferees on the omnibus territorial admission bill have reached a conclusion. The bill,as agreed toby the conferees, fixed the names of the two Dakotas as North Dakota*and South Dakota. The peonleof South Dakota are to vote upon the adoption of the Sioux Falls Constitution May 14. and the location of the capital is to be settled by election. On the same date, the residents of North Dakota, Washington and Montana, may vote for the election of delegates to constitutional conventions and for a lull list of State officers. On the first Tuesday in October the people may vote upon the constitutions proposed by the convention, and if adopted, after the President’s proclamation to that effect, the Governors of each'may order hn election of members of the Legislature, and of Representatives in Congress. The Legislatures may meet and elect two Senators each, in time to take their seats at the beginning of the first regular session of the Fifty-first Congress, in December next, at which time the Representatives shall also be admitted to seats. The provisions apply also to the Senators and Representatives from South Dakota.