St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-12
President Harrison Issues His
Proclamation Admitting
the Territory.
Legislators in Session at
Olympia Shout Themselves
Hoarse for Joy.
Everything Arranged to Ele-
vate Judge Edgerton to
the Federal Woolsack.
Ex-Congressman Guenther
u Aims to Be Sergeant-at-
Arms OF the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Nov. ll.-Sacretary
Blaine to-day telegraphed the territorial
and state governors of Washington that
the president signed the proclamation
declaring the territory to be IA state in
the Union at 5:27 this afternoon. The
proclamation is as follows:
BY the president of the United States--A
proclamatOn
States did. BY an act approved on the 22d
gay or February, 1899. provide that The in
hahitants OF the territory Of Washington
might. upon the conditions prescribed in
said act. become the state of Washington !;
ana
Whereas, As provided by said act. that
delegates elected. as therein provided to g.
constitutional convention in the territory of
washington. should meet ut the seat Of gov
eminent of said territory, and that after
they had met and organized. thew shonid de-
clare. on behalf of the people of Washington,
That they adopt the constitution Of the
United States. whereupon the said cOnven-
ton should he authorized to form site
government for the proposed state of Wash
ington: and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that
the constitution so adopted shonld be repub-
nran in form and make no distinction in
civil or political rights on account Of race or
color. except as to Indians mot taxen and
v be repngnant to the constitution of The
United states and the principles of the
Declaration of Independence; and that the
constitution should by an ordinance ire.
yocable. without the consent Of The United
States and the people of said state. make
certain provisions prescribed I'm said act;'and
whereas. 1t was provided by said act that
the constitution thus formed for the people
Of WASHINGTON shonl1, by an ordinance of
the convention forming the same, be snb-
mitted to the people of Washington It an
election 10 he held therein on the first Tues
dav In October. eighteen hundred and eighty
nine, for ratification or rejection by the quali-
fed voters OF said p'orosed state: AID that
the returns of said election should be made
to the secretary of said territory, who, with
the governor and chief justice thereof. or
any two of them, should canvass The same
and II majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution the governor
should certify the result 10 the pre- ident of
the United States. together with a statement
of the votes cast thereon upon ser ara'e arti-
cles or propositions, and copy Of said con-
stitution. articles. propositions and Ordi-
nsneeS: and
Whereas 1t has been certified to mo bv the
governor of said territory that wi hin the
time prescribed by said act of CONGRESS- COZ,
stitution for the pronosed state Of Wash e.
ton has been adopted. and that the sam his
been ratified by majority of the Gu 'lifi d
voters of said proposed state in accordance
with the conditions prescribed In said act;
ard
said governor that at the same time he pody
of said constitution was submitted to vote
lOf the people. two separate articles entitle
Woman Suffrage" and ''Prohibition were
likewise submitted. which said separate arti-
,,cles did not received majority of the woes
cast thereon. or upon the constitution. and
were rejected: also al the election the aurs-
ton of The location CT q permanent seat of
government wss submitted and that no 7 / zee
received a majority of all the votes cast upon
said question; and
= Whereas duly authenticated cory or
said constitution and 'c!es, as required by
said act, has been received bv me:
Now therefore. |, Benjamin Har IN,
president of the United Statas # A. er "a.
do. in accordance with the rrovisi ms of th,
act,of CONGRESS- aforesaid daclare AMI pro-
claim the fact tirat the conditions imposed
'by CONGRESS on the S atn OF WASHINGTON to en-
title that, state to admission tn the Union
hive heen, ratified and accepted. and that u
admission of the said state into the Union is
now comnlete.-
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
nv hand and caused the snal Of the United
States to be affixed. D"ne ut the eiiv If
Wash ngton this l ! tn day of November in t.
year OF our Lord one thousand Ell bit b m
dred and eightv-nine. and # the indppand-
enee of the United States of Ameri the
one hundred and fourteenth.
T>eti1 BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BY the President.
JAMES G. BLAINE Secretary Of Slate.