New York Tribune

DAKOTA.

The passage of the bill for the organization and admission of Dakota discloses a state of feeling in the Senate which, though not unexpected, is altogether discreditable. A measure of this sort, one of justice to many thousand industrious and thrifty settlers, ought not to involve any partisan feeling whatever, but should be treated upon its merits. If the population of the proposed State is of a permanent character, if it is now increasing and measurably certain to increase hereafter, and above all, if it is already sufficient to entitle the people to one Representative in Congress, there ought to be no doubt as to the decision, unless in the social condition of the Indians, or in its attitude toward the United States Government, valid objections can be found. In the case of Utah in one instance, such objections exist. The Territory is in the hands of what we who had done more to undermine the government of the United States the social condition of the Indians the right to ask that to it that out has been looked from the beginning at the discussion of the case of Dakota. In social condition the Territory is on a level with the most intelligent and prosperous states of the Union: in maintenance of order, obedience to United States laws, enforcement of all proper regulations, the people of the Territory have already abundantly manifested their fitness for the duties and responsibilities of State government.