The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-26
New York Papers Say the Repub-
licans Will Not Admit Utah.
THE REASON WHY GIVEN.
Senator Carey Thinks Otherwise and
Says an Act viii Pass.
The Real Purpose of an Enabling Act and
What Such a Measure Enables the
People of Territory
to Do.

statement was printed here and in varl-
Gus New York papers this morning that
/ the Republican caucus yesterday was not
sincere in its intention to admit Utah,
/ New Mexico and Oklahoma. The news
items in these Washington and New York
papers relative to the caucus indicate that
the territories bill will not be considered
at this session because OF the vast accu-
mutation of business on the calendars of
the two houses. Senator Carey today de-
nounces all these statements as mislead-
ing and wholly unjust. He insisted that
the Republican majority in the Senate is
earnestly in favor of admitting the three
| territories in question, and is equally
firm in his belief that the bill giving the
territories an enabling act will be passed
before the 4th of March.
Senator Faulkner of West Virginia,
who is one of the most consistent friends
that Utah ever had in public life, today
introduced bill giving statehood to that
territory. The Republican senators say
the Faulkner bill will not be considered.
1t is their purpose to pass an omnibus
bill giving an enabling act to Utah, New
! Mexico and Oklahoma, and they will not
agree that admission shall be accom-
plished in any other manner.
I cannot find g Republican senator,
with the exception of those two gifted
political fakirs, Messrs. Platt and Hoar,
who is not favorable to the passage of an
enabling act for Utah. Even Senator
Proctor of Vermont, who belongs to the
Ky otoh 10 nf
ter-day statesmen, is heartily in sym
pathy with the proposed measure. was
! talking with him today regarding the
matter, and he assures me that in his
| Judgment Utah ought to be admitted,
and that when the measure giving her an
enabling act came before the Senate he
would support it both with his voice and
vote.
AS there seems to be some misunder-
standing as to the real purpose of an en-
abling act, it may be briefly said that the
passage of such a measure enables the
people of territory to form state con-
stitution. In the case of the New Mexico
bill, on the lines of which the Utah bill
will be drafted, provision is made for the
election of seventy-fve delegates, who
shall within sixty days meet in conven-
vention and form a state constitution at a
special election to be held as soon as
practicable thereafter.
The qualified voters of the proposed
state shall vote diredtly for or against the
proposed constitution and for or against
any article or proposition separately sub
mitted. The returns of the election shall be
submitted to the secretary of the terri
tory, who, with the governor and chief
Justice, shall canvass the same. Ii ma
iority of the legal votes cast be for the
constitution, the governor shall certify the
result to the President of the United
States, and if the constitution and gov
ment of the'proposed state be Republican
in form, and all the provisions of the act
framed by Congress have been complied
with, the President of the United States
shall issue a proclamation announcing
the result of the election and thereupon
the proposed state of Utah shall be
deemed to be admitted by Congress into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original states, from and after the date OF
the presidents proclamation.
III nuSU DC DOruS IL Au1no IndI Ulle IN
tention of the Republicans in the Senaue
is to amend the New Mexican bill, which
gives an enabling act to that territory, by
comforting the same privileges upon it
and upon Oklahoma. The measure thus
amended will in their opinion be passed
more readily than if three separate bills
were to be considered. If this omnibus
bill secures consideration in both houses
before the 4th of March, and its friends
propose to secure this consideration if
such thing be possible, the constitu-
tional convention may be held certainly
within ninety days from the passage
of the bill, and it ought not to be more
than a month or six weeks after the as
sembling of the convention before the
presidents proclamation will issue, and
Utah become sovereign state.