Telegram on Montana Statehood
2/18/1889
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The Montana Territorial Legislature sent this telegram to a delegate in Washington D.C. about Montana's impending statehood.
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Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. C. Feby 18 1889
Dated Helena Mont 18
To Joseph K. Toole
Delegate From Montana Washn DC
The following resolution has just passed both branches of the legislature and is hereby transmitted as directed; "To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled - your memorialists the legislative
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Received at Corcoran Building, S.E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D.C. feb 18 1889
[Dated] assembly of the territory of
[To] Montana respectfully represent: that the people of Montana rejoice in the belief that our statehood and the statehood of our sister territories is so near at hand, and that our ambition will be fully realized under the terms of the bill for admission as contended for in Conference.
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Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. C. feb 18 1889
[Dated] by the senate of the United states;
[To] that we express our grateful acknowledgments and obligations to the Majority of the House of Representatives for their gallant fight in having the unjust provisions of the so called omnibus bill eliminated from that measure; that we do most earnestly pray that the bill as insisted
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Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. C. feb 18 1889
[Dated] upon by the Senate and which
[To] we believe is now pending before the House of Representatives, receive the immediate and favorable action of your honorable bodies, to the end that our right, so long and so unjustly withheld may finally be granted
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Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. C. feb 18 1889
[Dated] us; The Speaker of house
[To] of Representatives and the President of the Council be and are hereby authorized to telegraph this memorial to the president of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to our delegate in Congress at Washington
C K Cale - President of the
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Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. C. feb 18 1889
Dated
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Council. Lee Marble, Speaker of the House
This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.
National Archives Identifier: 306567
Full Citation: Telegram from Montana Territorial Legislature to Delegate in Washington D.C. on Impending Statehood; 2/18/1889 ; Accompanying Papers of the 50th Congress; Accompanying Papers, 1865 - 1903; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/telegram-montana-statehood, April 23, 2024]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.