The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-16
RawIins Will Present the Act
for Signature.
CONDITIONS OF THE STATEHOOD
December, 1895, the Time When
the Forty-fifth Star VIII Be
Added to the Flag.

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dipped III ink but once. That will be on
Monday. July 16, 1894, and it will inscribe
the name of Grover Cleveland on parcn-
ment headed:
IAN enactment to enable the people Of
Utah to form a constitution and State
Cove rnment and 10 be admitted to the
union on an equal footing with the origl-
nal States"
Dele gate Rawlins of the Territory of
Utah, whose efforts were largely instru-
mental in bringing about the passage OF
the act, secured the pen and holder and
entrusted them into the keeping OF Secre-
tary Thurber until the time for their use.
Tomorrow Mr. Rawlins, having secured
the signatures of VicP-Presdent Stevenson
and Acting Speaker Richardson TO the en-
abling act. will carry it to the White
House for the Presidential autogra phi.
The ceremony would have taken place
Saturday but for Mr. Richardson's absence
from the city, and it was hoped to have
Speaker Crisp's name on the document,
but the Speaker will not return from Geor-
gia in time. No one but the President will
sign the act. and when he has done so Mi.
Rawlins will take charge OF tAe pen when
has made IL law. At first it was intended
to have a solid gold pen and holder, but as
Utah comes 10 as bimetallism State and
Westerners who are making the silver fight
in politics attach some sentiment TO the
white metal, silver was allowed to share
hOnors al the accepted ratio.
After the pen has done its work Mr..
Rawlins will take possession of it; it will
be suitably engraved and eDshrlned in the
State Capitol of the new State with its
other historical souvenirs.
The signing of the act does not make
Utah a State, but merely sets in motion
the machinery by which she becomes one.
December of 1895 will pro bahly be the
time when Utah will be entitled to the
forty fifth star in the flag. The constitu-
tiOnal convention will meet next March to
frame State constitution, which will be
subm itted to the people for ratification at
an election in November. 1895. when the
Governor and other State officers and a
member of Congress will be elected. If
the constitution is ratified and if the
President finds that it provides for Re-
publican form of government under the
provisions OF the act of Congress he will
| issue proclamation announcing the fact
and declaring Utah STATE.
The Legislature elected at the Novem-
Der election will meet early in Decem Der
and one of its first acts will be to choose
two United States Senators. 1t may be
| safely said the senior Senator is likely to
be the present delegate from the Territory,
whose fight for statehood is expected to
certainly receive recognition If the views
| of his Congressional colleagues are shared
! by his constituents.
The Government pays the expenses OF
the Territorial convention as does for the
| Territorial Legislatures. There will be a
new registration of tile voters. upon which
the apportiOnment of seventeen delegates
to constitute the con vention will be made
Each county is TO have at least one dele.
gate aud one additional for every 1000 oil
population. First the convention must de.
clare on behalf of the people of the Sta te
to adopt the constitution of the United
! States. Several important requirements
| for the State constitution are made BY
| Congress. That it shall be republican in
! form and make no distinction In civil oil
political rank on account of race or color
| except as to Indians. who are not entered
that it shall not be repugnant to the con.
| stitution OF the United States and the prln
| ciples of the Declaration of Independence
| One of the most crucial requirements oil
| the State constitution which was evel
evoked by the power of the Mormon
| Church is that it shall provide by ordin
| ance IrrevOcable without the consent oil
the United States and the people of The
State that perfect federation of religious
sentiment shall be secured. and that no in
habitants OF the State shall ever be
mole sted on account of the mode Of
religious worship. provided that polygam
Gus or plural marriages are forever pro.
hibited. The State Is to disclaim all title
to the unappropriated public lands, and
! all Indian tribes are TO remain under the
absolute Jurisdiction of the United States
However, the Government concede:
| liberal grants of land to the State for pub
| lie PURPOSES. One hundred sections are
given for public buildings at the capital
| 10000 acres for an agricultural college
two townships and no. 900 acres for the
| University of Utah: for irrigation pur.
poses. 500 900 acres; for an insane asylum
for a reform school. for Staie norma
school, for an institution for the blind
each 10000 acres and for a miners hos
pital $4,000 acres. The United States
penitentiary near Salt Lake City is giver
TO the State. All granted lands are To BIZ
sold at public auction at not less than 81
an acre. the State to lease them for tern
Of five years.
A percentage of the proceeds of public
| lands after the admission of the State i:
to be paid by the Government as perma
nent fund for the support of the common
schools, of which the interest only i:
available. 1t will be seen that liberia
provisions are made for educational insti
tu.ions and charitable purposes. All o.
the educational institutions are TO remain
under the exclusive control of the State
and no part of the proceeds of the LAND
can be used for the support of any sec
tartan or demon national school.
These are the principal provisions of the
contract upon which the Government Of
the forty.four existing States admits tC
statehood the Territory of Utah. He,
popula ton is now estimated at 225, 900, and
the proportion of foreign born is less than
| in thirteen of the States
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