That argument was presented to the Committee on Territories by as intelligent and reputable a delegation of citizens as ever came before that committee from the Territory of Dakota or any other Territory. gentlemen who represent the wealth. the social position. and influence of the northern portion of the Territory of Dakota. It asserts what is absolutely true. and that is that the intermediate territory between Northern and Southern Dakota has received the largest amount of population in the last five years. that the system of railroads now projected and being built in the Territory runs from north to south. that great corporations. such as the Milwaukee road. the Saint Paul. the Northwestern the Illinois Central are competing with each other in building railroads running from north to south and connecting together these two sections of Dakota. The old argument which has been made for the :ast ten years that persons wishing to come from Fargo to Yankton were compelled to go on the North Pacific to Saint Paul. and then on the Union Pacific in order to get to the southern portion of Dakota. has been exploded. it has disappeared under these railroad projects and under the increased immigration to the central portion of the Territory. Not one shadow exists for any such pretext today. The Senator from Indiana spoke of what is known as the Huron convention. held in 1883. upon the 19th day of June. when four hundred delegates came together. adopted a State constitution out of hand. and declared that Southern Dakota should become a State. and that its admission into the Union should be demanded of Congress. but the Senator from Indiana did not read in this connection the proceedings and the unanimous resolutions of a convention larger than that. held at Fargo on the 11th of September following. which protested against the project of dividing the Territory and making a State government in the southern portion of it.
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