Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03
THE NEW STATE.
She viii Take Her Place as
the FOrty-fifth Star.
HER FUTURE VERY BRIGHT.

tory of Utah is to Admitted to the
Union PoIygamous or Plural Mar
riages Forever Prohibited.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Private Secre-
tary Thurber has in his custody at the
White House gold pen set in silver
holder. The implement is from an arti-
sans standpoint fine piece of work,
but if it fulflls it's mission, it will never
be dipped in ink but once. That will
be Monday, July Is, 1894, and it will in
scribe the name of Grover Cleveland on
parchment headed:
" An enactment to authorize the peo-
pie of Utah to form constitution and
State government and to be admitted to
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States"
Delegate Rawlins of the Territory of
Utah, whose efforts were largely lnstru-
mental in bringing about the enactment
of the act, secured the pen and holder
and entrusted them into the keeping OF
Secretary Thurber until the time for
their use. Tomorrow Rawlins, having
secured the signature OF Vice President
Stevenson and Acting Speaker Richard
son to the enabling act, will carry 1t to
the White House for the Presidential
autograph. The ceremony would have
taken place Saturday but Tor Richard
sons absence from the city, and it was
hoped to have Speaker Crisp's name on
the document; but the Speaker will not
return from Georgia in time. No one
II 81 tba M nd
when he has done so Rawlins will take
charge of the pen which made it law:
At first it was intended to have a solid
gold pen and holder, but as Utah comes
in as a bimetalism State, and Western
ers, who are making the silver fight in
politics attach some sentiment to the
TACT, the white metal silver was al
lowed to share honors at the accepted
ratio. After the pen has done its work
Rawlins will take possession of it. 1t
will be suitably engraved and enshrned
in the State capitol of the new State
with its other historical souvenirs.
The signing of the act does not make
Utah State, but merely sets in motion
the machinery by which she becomes
one. December of 1895 will probably be
the time when Utah will be entitled to
the forthwith star in the flag. The
constitutional convention will meet next
March to frame a State constitution,
which will be submitted to the people
! for ratification at an election in Novem-
| Der, 1895, when the Governor and other
State officers and member of Congress
will be elected. If the constitution is
ratistied, and if the President finds that
| it provides for republican form of gov
eminent under the provisions of the act
| of Congress, he will issue proclamation
announcing the fact and declaring Utah
a State. The Legislature elected at the
| November election will meet early IN
| December, and one of its first acts will
| be to choose two United States Senators.
1t nav 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-
ceive 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 apportionment
of III delegates to constitute the conven-
ton will be made. Each county is to
have at least one delegate and one adj
ditonal for every 1000 of population.
First the convention must declare on be-
half 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 shall be republican in form and
make no distinction in civil or political
rank on account of race or color, except
as to Indians, who are not entered that
it shall not be repugnant to the consti-
tuition of the United States and the
principles of the Declaration of indie
pendence. One of the most crucial re-
ouirements 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 consent of the United States and
the people of the State, that perfect
liberation of religious sentiment shall be
secured, and that no inhabitant of the
State shall ever be molested on account
of his mode of religious worship, pro-
vided that polygamous or plural mar
riages are forever prohibited.
| Nicaragua Canal Bill.