The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-12-14
OUR FORTY-FIFTH STAR
The Bill for The Admission Of Utah
Passes The Hou;a
PROVISION ON POLYGAMY
Plural Marriages Forever prohIb-
tied In the New State-A Pro-
position for a Union of Utah
and Nevada Rejected.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l3.-The bill for the
admission Of Utah was passed without d.
vision by the house. At the conclusion of
the debate the only amendments of I'M
portancc Incorporated in the enabling act
were one by Powers, Vermont, prohibiting
polygamy for ono year, and another 10y
Wheeler, reducing TO one-halt the land
granted to the state for common school
purposes. DUST before adjournment the
resolution Of Hit. calling for the cor
respondence i'm the Hawaiian affair,
amended SO as To include tho extension
period to he covered by the correspond
encc To March. lssa. the beginning of the
Harrison administration, was taken up
and passed. 1t was expected n lively de-
bate would occur when the resolution was
reported back To tho house. but Hit re-
Trained from criticism and there was no
explosion. Boutelle, who manifested n
disposition To speak. was taken oil his
feet by ~ motion TO order the previous
question.
Newlands, OF Nevada, made his maiden
speech In support of admission. He
thought Utah fully prepared for statehood,
but objected TO leaving the question Of the
allotment of lands in Utah To bureau ofl-
GERS at Washington, who did not under
stand the conditions there. The United
States should cooperate In the reclamn-
tion of arid lands In that section. In de-
Tending Nevada he said he was unable to
understand why there should be so much
aversion to state which, when the co,in-
try was i'm revolution, had poured $780,
100000 into the treasury. Newlands
claimed the cause Of the present depres-
sion in Utah was tho result of legislation
leveled at her interests. Silver that ena-
bled the country TO resume specie pay
ments had been stricken down. and now
democratic tariff bill proposed TO crush
Nevada's sheep raising and borax mines
by placing wool and borax on the free list.
Mr.. Oates OF Alabama proposed union
of Utah and Nevada. He had observed
that Nevada continued 10 lose population
and il was n 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 coniroverted
that tho population was decreasing. Tho
census of 1850 gave her 5000 and recent
San Francisco papers say that her popiI-
lation has since been reduced to :s3 900. II
| her mining industries continue to be de.
pressed, her population. Oates said would
continue to fall of until it might get
down to 2O.O0o
Mahon offered IN amendment reserving
to congress the right TO prohibit and pun.
| ish polygamy, continue the present laws
in force there and give tho United
| States court extensive jurisdiction.
Powers of Vermont offered a
substitute providing that poiygamy
and plural marriage he forever
prohibited. The Mahon amendment was
defeated. Deliver made n speech favor
ingadmission and dwelt on the fact that the
republican party had always been friend
to the territories. The Powers amend
ment was agreed to. The amendment
proposing the reduction by onc-half OF the
land granted to Utah by the bill for school
purposes was adopted. Amendments rc.
ducing the grant Of land to the state uni.
versity from 10000 TO 10000; increasing
the grant for the use of the agricultural
college from $1,000 to 10000, and dccrcas.
ing the proceeds of tho sale of public
lands subsequent to tho admission of the
state. which shall be set aside rs perma.
ncnt public school fund, from 10 to pei
| cent, were adopted.