Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-08
NEW STATES MATTERS.
Washipgtou's Plea for rAdmission-Utah's
r..' Protest.

ELLENsBURG, w. T., Jan. 8.--Seventy.
five delegates attended the statehood con.
vention which convened here. Ex-Gov
Watson G. Squire presided. A long peti-
ton was adopted praying congress special
ly to admit Washington with the Idaho
panhandle annexed. The petition sets
forth that the people Of the territory are
fully prepared and willing to shoulder the
responsibility of statehood, having pop
ulation of 100000, gain of 10000 in
eight years. Democrats and Republicans
are alike anxious for the admission of the
territory under the name of Washington,
which name the convention favored.
CHANGE OF NAME.
Washington, Jan. 8.--The residents of
Seattle, W. T., have petitioned the senate
for the admission of Washington territory
as a state under the name of Washington.
They suggest that "this name has never
in theory or in practice been associated
with failure" When congress shall be
ready to admit the territory of Washing
ton as state there will be a very strong
pressure against the use of the name Of
Washington. The residents of Washing
ton city here have already entered pro-
test that such q designation of the new
state would tend to a great confusion, and
the citizens Of the national capital would
undoubtedly be joined in this protest by
the post Office department, which is op-
posed to duplication of names of states
and territories.
UTAH's STRONG PROTEST.
Salt Lake, Jan. S.--The canvass for sig
natures to the great protest against state
hood for Utah closed yesterday, with over
$4,000 names appended to the document,
which will be forwarded to Washington
immediately. Attached to the petition is
a statement showing the local situation
and the evils which would follow the ad-
mission of Utah into the union.
1t sets forth that both Democrats and
Republicans, representing about $1,000
Gentiles, are opposed to statehood, and
that joining with them are many Nor
mons who have disregarded the orders Of
the church, that the Gentiles, though they
but one-fourth of the population
of the territory, pay nearly one half OF the
taxes. They have opened large and val
liable mines and have produced therefrom
ONCl FlOOJooo,OoO' NSulIC HAL VI tlllS Suill
has been paid to Mormons for labor and
supplies. Before their advent the Nor
mon element VISA so poor that several
whole families did not secure $40 per
year.
The Gentiles have churches of the value
of half million dollars.
They support 100 schools, independent
of the territorial school system. They
have established hospitals and libraries
and newspapers; have built magnificent
business blocks, and during the last year
in building in Salt Lake City
alone, upwards of 81 100000.
They oppose the admission Of Utah into
the union as state because it would be
under the tyranical domination and con-
troll of secret organization, commonly
called the Mormon church, with its %, 900
office holders; because polygamy, which
is an essential of the creed of the church,
would be perpetuated, and laws against
the crime could not be enforced because
it would place the common schools under
control