The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-30
INTERESTS OF YHD WEST.
General Wheeler on Admission
of the Territories.
SOME VERY FAIR VIEWS.
A Theatrical Annanias Turned Loose
In Denver.
Gold Mining in Idaho-The Midland and
Cripple Creek-Aspen and Her
BIines-A Rich Strike
Ia Nevada.
SOME VERY FAIR VIEWS

A special dispatch from Washington to
the st. Louis Republic, under date of
September %, gives the following interest
ing talk on the admission OF the terri
tories:
One of the important questions to coma
before Congress az soon as the repeal
bills are out of the way is the admission
OF new states. Several bills have already
been introduced on the subject and
Others are IL course of preparation.
General Wheeler, of Alabama, who is
chairman OF the committee on the admis-
sion of new stats, announces that he is
strongly in favor OF admitting territories
as soon as they have the necessary popu-
latioc. General Wheeler was asked today
j he expected to see the remaining terri
tories, Including Oklahoma, admitted as
states at this session of Congress. In re-
ply he gave his views on the subject OF
admission OF ritories as follows:
Il have ways been an advocate of adj
uniting t. tories IS soon as they have
populate of such size as to justify 1t.
The por llation OF The four territories
June l. 1890, was: Utah, 207 ,905; New
Mexico, 153, 594; Oklahoma, 81, S34; Ari-
IONA, IS, 62b. The population of all these
territories has increased very much since
states admitted to the union was very
much less than these territories.
We cannot state the accurate popula-
ton of any state at the time of Its adnls-
sion, nos can we state the accurate popu-
lation of the territories now seeking adj
mission, but here is the population of
many as shown by the census
taken next preceding their admis-
sion: Minnesota, GOT; Nevada, 6,S57;
Illinois, II, 2S2; Oregon, ID, 2S4; Indiana,
"a, $50; Nebraska, 2S, S4I; Arkansas, 80,
5SS; Wisconsin, 80. 945; Michigan, ST.
635; Tennessee, Sc, 691; Colorado. SO, 1854.
have given the question of statehood
for Utah much consideration, and have
introduced a bill providing for its adj
mission.
Zone provision of the bill is that the
constitution submitted to Congress with
the application for admission must con-
tain a provision prohibiting polygamy.
This is 10 satisfy those members of Con-
gress, whose information on the subject
does not satisfy them that polygamy has
virtually ceased to exist. l doubt
very much whether 1t would be a
good plan to omit the combination of
Utah and Nevada. 1t would be a new
procedure without any precedent and
would provoke other propositions of q
similar character. 1t might be followed
by bill to combine Rhode Island and
connecticut Wnlcn, OF course, could not
be accomplished. 1t is true that there is
q law existing which authorizes a com
bination of Nevada and Utah, which
makes that case different from Rhode
Island and Connecticut.
1.-the inception of any such measure
would, l think, create bad feeling, which
ought at this time to be avoided. 1t is
difficult to say, moreover, what the po-
Htical result would be of a combination of
this character / think That INV or
admitted by the Democratic party while
it is in power would probably elect Dem
ocratic officers and Democratic congress-
men,