The Delta independent., 1889-10-08
PREPARED TO ENTER.
Closing Acts Of the Wyoming Con-
vention With an Address
to the People.
A COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENT.

day presented the Constitution entire,
ready for the final reading and adoption.
Article was amended by limiting the
first Legislature to a session Of 60 days in
stead of 30 previously passed. The article
upon Judiciary was amended by providing
that the number of judicial districts and
district judges shall not exceed four until
tho valuation Of taxable property in the
State shall equal $lOO,0O0,00O. Upon the
question Of educational qualification con-
test occurred, but the article, which makes
it qualification Of the voter that he be
able to read the Constitution of the United
States, was adopted by a vote of 25 to 6.
Tie entire Constitution was then adopted
by a unanimous vote
| An address to the people of Wyoming
urging the adoption of the Constitution
was presented by committee of five
Democrats and five Republicans. A synop-
sis of the address is as follows:
The convention convened Sept. 9, 1889, to
frame Constitution for the State of
Wyoming, has completed its labors. The
| Constitution so framed will be submitted
to you for adoption or rejection on Nov. 8,
1859.
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has been laboring under the disadvantages
| of Territorial form of government Those
disadvantages are numerous. We have no
voice in the selection of the most important
officers who administer our local affairs, no
voice in the enactment Of laws by Con-
| gress TO which we must yield obedience,
and no voice in the election of the chief
magistrate of the Republic. II has been
well said, "A territory cannot have a
settled public poiicy.'' The fact that Con
gress may at any time annul its legislation
on any matter of purely local concern pre-
vents active cooperation by the people on
those planes of public life which
result in the establishment Of a per-
maneut State policy. The abuse Of the
| veto power by alien Governors; the lack
| OF familiarity of alien judges and our laws,
and the frequent changes of our executive
and judicial officers, as it has been in the
past and may be again in the future, can
not but discourage the people. Although
| citizens OF the United States in name, we
have in fact been disfranchised. Territor-
ial representation in Congress is delusion
the Territories of the United States have
no representation. Taxation without rep
rcsentation, a condition in many respects
allied to colonial vassalage, with the many
other wrongs that follow the application
of those two anti-American ideas, and with
| which you are all familiar. have ali united
| 70 render the condition of the people of
wyoming-the most energetic, intelligent
and patriotic citizens OF the United States
| well nigh intolerable.
II is admitted that Wyoming Territory
| stands next in order in its right to adms-
| sion into the Union. We believe she is
| now ready to assume the responsibility Of
statehood, to cast OF the burdens and in
| convenicnces of territorial vassalagc. She
can now ask for admission with the hope
| of success. For the first time in ten years
! public opinion in the older States has so
| changed as to view the admission of new
States with a fair degree of favor. Her
time has arrived.
While the cost of State government is
increased over the Territorial government
| in some departments, the saving to other
departments, the retrcnchment in other
directions, the increase Of population, as
scssablc property that will follow an ad-
mission as State, will in short time
materially lessen the burden of taxation.
| BY the terms of the Senate bill for the ad-
| mission of Wyoming there is donated to
the State about l,le2, 900 acres of land
| There is also donated to the State for the
| support of the public schools per centum
of the p, oceeds Of all public lands sold by
the United States after our admission as a
State. This fund would average SO, 600
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us loss in value of lands donated and se-
lccted of 500, 900 per annum.
The constitution adopted is believed to
be fairly conservative and also progres-
sive. 1t is the first constitution adopted
by man which gives to eachkcitizen the same
rights guaranteed TO every other citizen
| Under its provisions pure elections arc
practically guaranteed and economy of ad-
minis.ration assured. Restrictions upon
legislation and loose appropriations of pub
lie moneys are clear and positive. The
salaries of officers have been fixed accord
ing to to the value Of the service rendered
and proportion to the means of the people
to pay. Public trusts are carefully con-
trolled and corporations restricted to n
single line of business. Tho establishment
Of compulsory courts Of arbitration to set
tlc disputes between corporations and their
employees, tho protection Of laborcrs in
mines, the prohibition of tho importation
of foreign police to usurp local authority,
are nll measures that commend themselves,
and in tho convention received the sup
port Of the representatives Of both capital
and labor.
Tho extravaganza in management of
county affairs that has prevailed in the
past has been circumscribed and rendered
impossible Tho restrictions upon loca-
ton and the creation Of public debts arc
such as to nccessitate economy In public
affairs and insure to the people tho highest
excellence in government for tho least
money.
In the interest OF local self government,
to promote tho gcnoral good and to encour.
ago tho future growth and development Of
tho state Of Wyoming, the constitutional
convention having finished Its work ro-
spcctfully solicits your candid considcra.
ton of tho constitution herewith submitted
and tho ratification OF tho same by your
suffrages.
DIR. Clinc Of Philadelphia, and some Col.
orndo Springs parties arc negotiating with
| Nytlllnra Rohtnsnn of Rohinaon,a I.nkoa