, 1889-09-29

THE END is NEAR.
The Constitution Will be Ready for
Signing Monday.
A Proposition Striking at Mormon
ism Defeated.
No Civil Service and Rstrenchment
Unnecessary.
A Wyoming Delegation to Visit
Washington This Winter.


VeutlOn are Drdctlchll} cOulpletcu- LUG
revision committee will have the instru-
ment in shape for signatures at 9 o'clock
to morrow morning when it will be read
as an entirety and approved. Several
members compelled to leave the city to-
day have attached their signatures to a
blank sheet. Judge Holden was the first
to do this and was applauded. La husky
tones the big man whose heart is large
and In the right place thanked the con-
~vention for its kindness to him. Presi-
dent Brown responded appropriately.
OTHER FINAL WORK.
The committees on addresses to con-
gress and the people are in session and
the members are working like Troians.
The people will be told that after the first
year state government will be at least
ST., 900 cheaper than territorial vassalaRe.
The saving on salaries of county officers
is estimated at SAT, 900 annually.
TOUCHING MoRMoNIsM.
Ever since the convention commenced
its labors certain persons have daily antlci-
pated the presentation of a proposition
which would be a direct slap at the Nor
mons of Uinta, Sweetwater and Fremont
counties. DAYS passed and the subject
was not broache1, to the satisfaction of
some and disappointment of others, but
yesterday Mr.. Burritt of johnson made
the issue by introducing the appended
file:
mo person shall be permitted to vote
or serve as a juror or hold any civil Office
who has at any place been convicted Of
an Infamous crime and who has not been
restored to rights OF citizenship. or who
is a bigamist or polygamist or is living
in what is known as patriarchal. plural or
celestial marriage, or in violation of any
law of this state or of the United States
f%orbidding any such crime"
The convention voted to consider the
bill without committee reference and it
looked like a typical piece of railroad leg
~islation when Mr.. Clark, whose manner
of argument is clear and convincing, pro-
tested. He requested postponement as a
concession to delegates who did not COM
prehend the scope of the proposition and
to gentlemen on the floor who could dis
pei ~fallacies about the Mormon element
Mr.. Riner pressed for immediate action.
but the convention reconsidcred the vote
by which it had agreed 70 vote finally on
the proposition at once and sent it to the
suffrage committee.
Early in the afternoon session Mr..
Burritt, a member of the committee on
franchise, created not a little surprise bv
reading the following unanimous report:
THE committee has carefully considered
this entire matter; has consulted eminent
legal authority and is of the unanimous
opinion that the matters embraced in the
proposition are fully covered by provis-
ions already incorporated in the constitu-
ton. Your committee is further OF the
opinion that the application of the file is
neither necessary nor expedient."
Mr.. Burritt, whose method on the
floor is lucid and ~forceful explained, max
ing the manly admissions that he was con
WINGED of the facts as given in the report
and that until he had investigated the
subject with the assistance of com petent
persons he had not understood the situa.
ton in Wyoming. The Mormon vote
was only ! per cent and persons amenable
TO law in this direction could be punished
under the United States statutes, the con-
stitution and laws of Wyoming.
No CIVIL SERVICE.
This resolution by Mr.. Hoyt was re-
iected: The legislature shall make such
provision by law to secure the best avail
able service for all minor places in the
state, counties or municipalities regardless
of purely political considerations"
INFRINGEMENT UNNECESSARY.
Here is another deceased tloyt resolu
ton: TO appoint a committee of five to
review the entire field of the constitution
with a view to reducing the expenses of
the state government as shall be practi-
cable"
FROM JUDGE CARROLL.
In a neat note Justice w. p. Carroll
acknowledged the receipt of a resolution
extending the thanks of the convention
for his services in ~ooligating the members.
Mr.. Carroll added that he appreciated the
high compliment paid him an wished to
remark he deemed it to be the sentiment
of Wyoming's people that the diligent
and efficient labors of the convention
would be approved at the polls.
LEGISLATIVE TERMS.
A final amendment to the chapter on
legislation provides that of the first state
senators elected halt shall serve two years
and halt four. Thereafter senators are
to be elected for four years. A represen-
tative term will be two years.
TO go TO WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Campbell had several days ago
given notice that he would move for the