St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-04
IDAHO IS ADMITTED.
President Harrison Signs the
Bill Creating a New Sow
ereign State.
Wyoming Must Wait Until
Her Enabling Act Is
Made Straight.
Cuba's Emphatic Reply to
Uncle Sans Declaration
of Economic War.
The Chief Magistrate Of the
Nation Goes to the
Seaboard.

WASHINGTON, July 3.-The president
signed the act for the admission of Idaho
as state at 10 o'clock this morning.
In signing the bill admitting Idaho to
the sisterhood of states this morning the
president has disappointed number of
people in that state who had hoped
that the new state would take up her
position in line on the Fourth of July.
The reason for his action was an inter-
esting one. The president, it seems,
found that the law ordained that new
star should be placed upon the Ameri-
can flag for each new state on the
Fourth of July succeeding its admission
to the Union. The president left it to
Mr.. Dubois, the delegate from Idaho,
to decide whether to have the bill
signed at once and get the star, or
leave the star over until July 4, 1891.
Mr.. Dubois chose the star now, and as
result, the bill has been signed and
forty-three stars are to be put upon the
flag tomorrow.
The Idaho admission bill, which to-
day became law, declares the present
territory of Idaho to be state and rati-
fies the constitution framed by the COLI
vention of July 4, 1887, and adopted at
the election -, in the following
clared entitled to one repre-
sentative in congress until after the
census is taken. The usual grants of
sections 16 and 36 of public lands in
each township for the support OF COM
mon schools: of fifty sections for pub
lie buildings; of 5 per cent of the pro-
ceeds of the sales of public lands to con-
Stltute permanent school fund is made,
and the state confirmed in its title
to Seventy-tWO sections of land
granted the territory for university
and to the lands on which the peniten-
tiary at Boise City is situated. For the
support of an agricultural college 10000
acres of land are granted; 100000 acres
for scientific school; 100000 acres for
state normal schools; $4,000 acres for the
insane asylum at Blackfoot; $4,000 for
the state university at Moscow, $4,000
for the Boise City penitentiary, and
10000 acres for other state, charitable,
educational and reformatory institu-
tionS, none of the lands to be sold for
less than $40 an acre. General lands
are excepted from the grants
made. An appropriation of $4,000
is made to defray the expenses
of the constitutional convention. The
state is made judicial district to be
attached to the Ninth circuit court to
be held at the capitol. The usualcourt
officers are to be appointed and
proper provisions made for trans
fer of suits. The state cOnStitu-
ton which is ratified by the
act contains special provision prohib-
iting polygamy and declaring that no
person shall be entitled to vote, to hold
Off ce or to serve as juror who is
bgamist or a polygamist, or who prac-
tices or encourages plural marriages,
or is q member OF or cOuntenanceS
any organization which teaches
such doctrines. The state has a
Mormon test oath which is required of
voters, and it was not until the supreme
court upheld its cOnsttutlOnality that
the bill was considered by the senate
territories committee. In the house the
Democrats refrained from voting, and
asserted an intention to make test
on this bill of the speakers right to
count quorum.
BOISE CITY, Idaho, July 3.-The long
looked-for news of statehood was re-
ceived here Tuesday afternoon. directly
after the passage by the senate of the
Idaho admission bill. The people in
all parts of the state are jubilant and
are now celebrating. In Boise, the per-
manent capital, all business was sus-
pended upon receipt of the news, and a
general celebration was commenced
which will be continued till the Fourth,
when the president is expected to sign
the bill. Delegate Dubois, chairman OF
the Republican state committee, has
telegraphed call for a meeting of the
Republican committee the 18th inst. at
this place.