Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-11-12

THE PROCLAMATION.
Full Text of the Presidents Procla,
nation Admitting the State
OF Montana.
Disastrous Details Of the Great Snow
Storm in New
Mexico.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The president
at l0A0 O'Clock this morning, issued the
following proclamation:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did by an act approved on the
twenty-second day Of February, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
provide that the inhabitants Of the Terri
tory Of Montana, might, upon the condi-
tidns prescribed in said act, become the
State Of Montana, and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the delegates elected, as therein
provided, to constitutional convention
in the Territory OF Montana, should meet
at :he seat of government Of said terri
tory, and that after they had met and
organized, they should declare on behalf
of the people of Montana, that they
adopt the constitution Of the United
States; whereupon the said convention
should be authorized to form a state gov
ernment for the proposed Stale of Mon
tana, and
Whereas, Ii was provided by said act
that the constitution SO adopted should
be republican in form and make no dis
tinctlon in civil or political rights on ac-
count of race or color, except as to In
dans not taxed, and should not be re-
pugnant 10 the constitution of the United
States and the principles Of the Declara-
tion Of Independence: and that the con-
vention shO. i'd by an ordinance irrevOca-
bic without the consent Of the United
States and the people of said state. make
certain provisions prescribed in said act,
and,
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of Montana, should by any Ordi-
nance of the convention forming the
same, be submitted 10 the people of Mon
tana, at an election 10 be held therein on
the first Tuesday in October, eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, for ratification
or rejection by the qualified voters of
said proposed state, aud that the returns
of said election should be made TO the
secretary of the territory, VINO, with the
governor and chief justice thereof, OF
any two Of them should canvass the
same; and If a majority of the legal
votes east should be for the constitution,
the governor should certify the result TO
the president of the United States, to-
gether with a statement OF the votes cast
thereon, and upon separate articles,
propositions and ordinances; and,
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me
by the governor of said territory that
within the time prescribed by said act of
congress, a constitution for the proposed
State uf Montana has been adopted, and
that the same. together with two ordi-
nances connected Herewith, has been
ratified by majority of the qualified
voters of said proposed state, in accord
ance with the conditions prescribed in
said act: and,
Whereas, A duly authenticated COPY
of said constitution and ordinances, as
required 10y said act, has been received
by me;
Now. therefore, /, Benjamin Harrison,
president Of the United States of Amer
lea, do in accordance with the provisions
of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare
and proclaim the fact that the condi-
tions imposed by Congress ON the State
of Montana to entitle that state to ad-
mission TO the Union, have been ratified
and accepted, and that the admission of
the said state into the Union is now
complete.
In witness whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States 10 be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
eighth day Of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine, of the independence of
the United States of America the one
hundred and fourteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BY the president:
JAMES g RIAINE, Secretary of State.