The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-11
THE DEED Is DONE
Said President Harrison to Dele
gate Carey,
AS HE HANDED HIM THE PEN
With Which the Wyoming Admission Bill
Was Signed-It Will be Kept in the
New States Archives.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-lSpecial telegram
to THE Herald. Wyoming entered the
union to-day. Judge Joseph M. Carey, who |
has for three Congresses represented the
territory in Congress, was the delighted |
witness of the act which admitted the ter
ritory to the union Of the states and made
him private citizen. Wyoming will have
no Representative in Congress until the
election of her new officers under the new
state constitution, which will probably take
place in the latter part of September
Judge Carey had asked the President to let
him be present when the bill was signed
giving birth to the new commonwealth. He
received telephone message at the
capitol this afternoon that the President
was ready to see him and he FASTENED to
the White House. ''Well, l am ready to sign
your bill, +" said the President. Judge Carey
expressed himself as delighted that the
auspicious moment had come, but said that
he wished first to be assured that the bill
had been signed relating to abandoned
military reservations III the territory AS
the bill was drawn up on the assumption
that Wyoming was still territory he
feared that legal complications might pos
sibly arise if the bill were not signed
until the territory had become a
state. 81 have just signed that" were the
reassuring words Of the President and he
promptly took up the pen to sign the adj
mission bill He said that the Dakota
people had come 10 him with big gold
stub pen which they wanted him to use IN
signing their enabling act, but he was only
able to write easy with small steel stub
pen and he intended to sign the Wyoming
bill with the same sort of pen. Judge
Carey expressed himself as entirely salts
fed with this SC long as he could keep the
y pen for preservation in the archives of the
new state.
I There was little talk about the terms
of the bill, which the attorney general hac
!. declared were satisfactory, and then tht
= president drew the parchment into place
= and in a bold hand wrote the words: sap
proved, BENZ. Harrison" Handing the pei
. and the simple wooden holder to Judg
:. Carey, he remarked, 'iThe deed is done
1t was exactly half past 8 o'clock by tn
= watch which Judge Carey held in his hand
q and within few minutes he was walkin
"a lrCul Il6 w AluO ilOuoO W liz AASSNA ~ -
" huberant with delight that he greete
everyone he knew as he went along wit
% the exclamation, "Wyoming is state 6
is lastn
he Among the dispatches which he sent
+. his friends in the west was one to F'athe
- Nugent, the Catholic priest who made sue
IN an eloquent speech in the last political can
ne paign, comparing the territory to biusI
of ing maiden waiting for the marriage to tt
or union. The dispatch to Father Nugel
~ ~ was as follows: "The blushing maiden W
ON oming, of whom you spoke so eloquent
last November, was welded to the unlo
lg Let us bless the nuptials."
q fa Judge Carey will go to Wyoming in
n. few days to join in the Notification over tt
on admission of the state. He is likely
mt come back here. at the next session of Co
IN gress as one of the two Senators to whi
, ea the state will be entitled. 1t is large
pe to his efforts that the admission of WY
es- ming to the union is due, although
int ascribes a liberal share OF credit to Ser
'as tor Platt, of Connecticut, the chairman
'0O the committee on territories who has be
on the steadfast friend of the new state a
ess constantly labored for her admission VIII
Ihe other eastern Senators were hostile or
1nr different.