Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-07-20

a state. The legislature elected at the
November election will meet early IN
December. and one of its first acts will
be to choose twa United States senators.
1t may safely be said that the senior
senator is likely to be the present dele
gate from the territory. whose fight for
statehood is expected to certainly re-
oeiye recognition, if the views OF his
congressional colleagues are shared by
his constituents. The government pays
the expenses OF the territorial conven-
ton, as it does for the territorial legis-
lature.
There will be new registration of
the voters upon which the apportlon
ment of IL delegates to constitute the
convention will be made. Each county
is to have at least one delegate and one
additional for every 1000 of population.
First the convention must declare on
behalf of the people of the state to
adopt the constitution of the United
States Several important requirements
for the state constitution are made by
congress; That it stall be republican in
form and make no distinction in civil or
political rank on account of race or col
or, except as to Indians, who are not
entered; and it shall not be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration of
Independence. One of the most crucial
requirements of the state constitution
which was ever evoked by the power of
the Mormon church is that it shall pro-
vide by ordinance, irrevocable without
the con sent Of the United States ard the
people Of the state, that perfect teller
alton OF religious sentiment shall be Sc
cured, and that no inhabitant IF the
state shall ever be molested on account
of his mode of religious worship, pro-
vided that polygamoLs or plural mar
riages are forever prohibited
The state is to disclaim all title to the
unappropriated public lands, and all In
dian tribes are to remain under the alb
solute jurisdiction of the United States.
However, the government is to concede
libe al grants of land to the state for
public purposes. One hundred sections
are given for public buildings at the
capital; 10000 acres to the agricultural
college,; two townships and 10000
acres for the university of Utah; for irri-
cation purposes, 100000 acres; for an
insane ASYLUM, for reform school, for
state normal school, and for an insCitu
ton for the blind, each 10000 acres, and
for a miners hospital 10000 acres. The
United States penitentiary, near Salt
Lake. is given t. the state. All granted
lands are to be sold at public auction at
not Tess than So an acre. the state to
lease them for a term of five years fol-
lowing.
A percentage of the proceeds of public
lands, after the admission of the state, is
to be paid by the government as a per
manenc fund for the support of the com
mon sch, OILS, of which the interest only
is available. 1t will then be seen that
liberal provisions are made for educa-
tional schools and charitable purposes,
All 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 sectarian or UNCONVENTIONAL school.
These are the principal provisions of
the contact upon which the government
of the a existing states admits TO state
hood the territory OF Utah, Her popu-
laton is now estimated at 225,O00, and
the proportion of foreign born is less
than in Is of the states.
No Trace of colgate.
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