St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
UTAH SOON TO Be A STATE.
ADMISSION BILL PASSED BY THE
HOUSE WITHOUT DIVISION
poLvGARY is PROHIBITED.

Land Granted to the State for
Common School Purposes Re-
duced One-Half-H Hitu's Reso-
luton Passed Calling for Ha-
waiian Correspondence From
March, 1889, to Present Time.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.-The bill for
the admission of Utah to statehood was
passed without division by the house
today at the conclusion of the debate.
the only amendments of Importance
incorporated in the enabling act being
one by Mr. Powers, of Vermont, pro-
hibiting polygamy forever, and another
by Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama, reducing
TO One-half the land granted to the state
for common school purposes. just be-
fore adjournment the resolution of Mr..
Hit calling for the correspondence in
the Hawaiian affair, amended so as to
include an extension of the period to be
covered by the correspondence to
March, 1889, the beginning of the Har-
riSon administration, was taken up and
passed. 1t was expected that lively
debate would occur when this resolu-
tion was reported back to the house, but
Mr.. Hit, the author, refrained from
criticism, and there was no explosion.
Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine, who mani
tested disposition to speak. was taken
off his feet by the motion to order the
previous question.
The Meyer resolution for the appoint
ment of joint co mmittee to investi-
gate the rank, pay and other questions
relating to the personnel OF the navy.
which has been fili6ustered against for
several days, was fin ally passed in
THE MORNING HOUR.
Judge Holman, of Indiana. intro
duced resolution to investigate the
question of premiums earned by con-
tractors for government war vessels.
Mr.. Meyer, during the morning hour,
moved to go to into the committe of the
whole on his resolution to appoint a
joint committee to investigate the per-
Eonnel of the navy, and after some par
liamentary sparring the resolution was
adopted. The house then resolved it.
self into committee of the whole for
the further consideration of the bill for
the admission of Utah.
Mr.. Newlands. of Nevada, made his
maiden speech in support of the admis-
sion of Utah. BE though Utah was fully
prepared for statehood, but he objected
to leaving the questi on of the allotment
of lands in Utah to bureau officers at
Washington, who did not understand
the conditions there. The United
States, he thought, sh ould cooperate in
the reclamation of the arid lands in that
region. In defending Nevada he SAID
he was unable to understand why there
should be SO much aversion to a state
which, when the country was in revolu-
tion, had poured S60O,OOO,0OO into the
treasury. Mr.. Newlands claimed that
the cause of the present depression in
Utah was the result of legislation
leveled at her interests. Silver, that en-
Rbied the country to resume specie pay
ment is, had been
STRICKEN DOWN,
and now the Democr attic tariff bill pro-
posed to crush NeVada's sheep raising
and borax mines by placing wool and
boraX on the free list.
bill in Enthusiastically vigorous
speech. charging the opposition to its
admission with being moved by narrow
and prejudieed sentiments. The fact
that Utah would send two senators and
a representative here who would vote
against the financial ideas of the East,
he thought, was the sole ground of op-
position. With regard to the circular of
Gov. Lewellyn, he SAID 100000 men
out or employment wero tramping the
streets and roads of the country out of
work. Whatever the cause, whoever
was right, the Populist party believed
in lending a helping hand to the poor
and distressed. When a Populist gov
ernor promulgated this doctrine ne was
denounced as crank by petty pollti-
clans and newspapers.
Mr.. Arnold. of Missouri, and Mr..
Washington, of Tennessee, supported
the admission.
In ten years Mr.. Washington pre-
dicted that Utah would be state which
any man would be proud to rep resent
on this floor.
Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, proposed the
union of Utah and Nevada. He had
observed that Nevada continued to lose
population. and that it was question
as to what was to become of Nevada.
He had no doubt of the intelligence of
the
PEOPLE OF NEVADA,
but the fact could not be controverted
that her population was decreasing.
The census of 1899 gave her 10000, and
recent San Francisco papers say that
her population has since been reduced
to $4,000. If her mining industry con-
tinues to be depressed her population,
Mr.. Oates said, would continde to fall
off until it might get down to 10000.
Mr.. Mahon, of Pennsylvania, offered
an amendment reserving to congress
the right to prohibit and punish polyg-
amy, to continue the present laws in
force there and to give the United
States courts exclusive jurisdiction.
MIR. Powers, of Vermont. offered a
substitute providing that polygamy and
plural marriage be forever prohibited.
The Mahon amendment was defeated.
Mr.. Dolliver, of Iowa, made speech
1dNOllHS Vic dulnlSoIOu Ol y Idu, d0U
dwelling on the fact that the Republi-
can party had always been the friend OF
the territories.
Mr.. Brown, of Indiana, declared that
ihe Powers amendment was useless. Il
was in effect simply an advisory state
ment to the legislature to legislate on
the subject. The Powers amendment
was then agreed to. An amendment
proposed by Gen. Wheeler reducing
half the land
GRANTED TO UTAH
by the bill for school purposes was
adopted. Amendments reducing the
grant of land to the state university
from 100000 to 10000, increasing the
grant for the use of the agricultural
college from 10000 to 100000, and de.