Speech #480095233

The ratio adopted in all the States of the Union in the cal- in extenso and in detail in the minority report of the Committee on culation of population is 5 to 1. but I submit with all deference to Territories. the Senator from Indiana that this rule should not and can not obtain Under senatorial coercion these people. who have so much regard for in a calculation as to population in a Territory like Dakota. The cen- American citizenshipthese gentlemen who can not live in the air of sus states (and it required no statement from even as high a source as a Territory any longer. but must be clothed and dignified with the that to make good what every Senator knows upon this floor to be true) high attributes which the Constitution and laws give to every human that in the Western States and Territories there is alarge excess of males being within the dominion of our Statesthese gentlemen in their over females. The immigration that goes there is in the main consti- Territorial Legislature did all that could be done to strike down a tuted of young adventurers. miners. cattlemen. and speculators. It is decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and to evade their not men of families. This is mainly shown by the fact that while the honorable and just obligations. and it was not until they discovered proportion of females by the census of 1880 in the whole United States that the only way to secure recognition at the hands of the Senate was is 96.544 women to each 100.000 men. in the Territory of Dakota there by the payfient of their bonds that they ever came to the conclusion are but 64.257 females to 100.000 men.