Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-09
MONTANA IS A STATE.
President Harrison Issues n Proclamation
Formally Admitting the New COM
monwealth-AlI of the Condi.
tfoua HIVE Reen Accented.

tions Have Been Accepted.
WASHINGTON, November 8.-President
Harrison signed and issued the following
proclamation at 104O o'clock this morning:
WHEREAS, The Congress Of the United
States did by an act approved on the I'D day
of February, 1889, provide that the inhabitants
of the Territory of Montana might on the con-
dit;Ons prescribed in said act, become the
che State of Montana;
And. whereas, it was provided by said act
that delegates elected as therein provided to ;
constitutional convention in the Territory Of
Montana should meet at the call of the Cover
nor Of the Territory: and 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 government for the proposed
State of Montana:
And, whereas, it was provided by said act
that the constitution SO adopted should be re-
publican in form and make no distinction In
civil or political rights on account of race or
color, except as to indians not taxed and not to
be repugnant to the Constitution of the United
States and the principles Of the Declaration Of
Independence, and that the convention should,
by an ordinance irrevocable without the con-
sent Of the United States and the people of
said State. make certain provisions prescribed
in said act
And, whereas, It was provided by said act
that the Constitution thus formed for the peo-
pie Of Montana should, by an ordinance of the
convention forming the same, be submitted to
the people of Montana at an election to be held
therein on the first Tuesday in October, 1889,
for ratification or rejection by the qualified
voters of said proposed State, and that the re-
turns of said election should be made to the
Secretary of said Territory, who. with the Gov
ernor and Chief Justice thereof, or any two of
them, should canvass the same; and, if ma
jorlty of the legal votes cast should be for the
Constitution, the Governor should certify the
result to the President of the United States,
together with a statement Of the votes cast
thereon, and upon separate articles or propo-
sitions, and copy of said Constitution, ar
ticles, propositions and ordinances;
And, whereas, it has been certified to me by
the Governor Of said Territory that within the
time prescribed by said act Of Congress Con-
stitution for the proposed State of Montana
has been adopted, and that the same. together
been ratified by a majority Of the qualified
with the conditions prescribed in said act;
And whereas, duly authenticated copy of
said Constitution and ordinances as reduired;by
said act, has been received by me:
Now, therefore. /. Benjamin Harrison. Presi-
dent of the United States Of America, do in
accordance with the provisions of the act of
Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the
fact that the conditions imposed by Congress
on the State of Montana, to entitle that State
TO admission to the Union, have been ratified
and accepted and that the admission of the
said State into the Union is now complete.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.