Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-04

from the courts of the Territory to the
Federal courts OF the State; and also
provides for all cases of appeal or
wriis OF error in cases pending now or
hereafter in the Territorial courts to the
Supreme Court Of the United States.
Section 10 appropriates 10000 to the
Territory for deiraying the expenses Of
the convention. Section AZ provides
that the convention shall. by ordinance,
provide for the election OF officers for the
new State government, including menu
beers OF the legislature and a Represen-
tative IN the filty.third Congress, all o
whom shall remain in allegiance unit
the State Is admitted Into the Union.
II admitted. the legislature shall
assemble and elect two Senators, in
the manner prescribed by the laws Of
the United States. and upon the
governors certificates the Senators and
Representative shall be entitled to seats
IN Congress. Also, that all laws in force
in the Territory at the time Of its
admission into the Union shall be IN
force in the State until modified or
changed, according to its constitution
and laws.
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
The Mormon Church and It's adj
hcrents have been subject for long years
To the shlrpest and most unkindly
criticisms, and heretofore all PRAYERS OF
the Mormon people for statehood have
been denied. lnasmuch as your com.
mittee have come to the conclusion
that the time Tor statehood for Utah has
ut last arrived, ii is eminently proper
that the characteristics Of the Mormon
people shall be made known, not only
for the Information Of Congress, but OF
the nation.
These statements will be repeated
from the pulpit and the stump and
around Christian fresides.
MANY myriads Of people who here
totorc have looked upon the Momons
as moral outlaws, it is believed, will
change their opinion, and admit that
people showing the characteristics that
the Mormoas possess, are at last worthy
Of statehood with full admission to all
the rights Of American citizenship.
Upon this branch Of the question, your
committee quote from The argument OF
Judge Jeremiah VI. Wilson. OF Washing
ton City, made before the Committee ON
Territories in 1850. Judge Wilson,
among other things, said:
Utah o applying Tor admission and We have
therefore 20 inquire, hui. whether the con.
dIhous Congress has n right to REQUIRE ctist!
and second. u they do. whether there is any.
thing ol,-.'e Of these conditions that will Justify
ID refusal.
Utah has more than 10000 inhabitants.
much above the number required. That IS not
disputed.
"Uuh has a public school system Of the
highest order OF excellence aud university Of
high fcpuic Every denomination Of the Chris
sftf tft-la Il
and the result Of 10 Is as near unycnality of
cduclion-ndoed less illitcmcy than Is 20 be
found 10 any other lcrniory and a majority OF Tie
States. This s not disputed.
As a temperate. orderly. AV.abiling, in.
dusifous, thirty people. the population Of Utah
have At least no suprhon, This o. not disputed.
The ownership Of the land. that great source
Of good conservative citizenship. IS more evenly
and universally distributed among these people
Than those Of any other Territory in the nation.
This Is not disputed.
Her Manufactures include almost every