The herald., 1894-07-16
THE FORTY-F|FTH STAR
Utah Soon to Be Admitted
Into the Union.
The President Will Sign the
Bill Today.
A Gold Pen Specially Made for the
Purpose.
Conditions OF the Enabling Ast-House
and Senate Forecast for tho Cur
ront Week-Ths Tariff
Conference.

BY this Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Private Secre-
tary Thurber had in his custody at the
White House gold pen set in silver
holder. The implement is, from the
artisan standpoint, a fine piece of work,
but il it fulfills its mission it will never
be dipped in ink but once. That will be
on Monday, July l6. 1864, and it will
inseribe the name of Grover Cleveland
on parchment headed An Enactment
to Enable the People OF Utah to Form a
Constitution and State Governments, 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 instru-
mental in bring about the passage OF the
act, secured the pen and holder and en-
trusted them into the keeping of Secre-
tary Thurber until the time for thsir use.
Tomorrow, Mr.. Rawlins having Sc
cured the signatures of Vics- President
Stevenson and Acting Speaker Richard
son to the act, will carry it to the White
House for the presidential autograph.
The ceremony would have taken place
Saturday, but for Mr.. Richsrdson's ab.
sence from the city, and it was hoped TO
have Speaker Crisp's name on the docu-
ment, but the speaker will not return
from Georgia in time. No one but the
president will sign the act, and when he
has done 30, Mr.. Rawlins will take
charge of the pen which has made it q
law. At first it was intended to have q
solid gold pen and holder, but as Utah
comes in as bimetallism state, and the
westerners who are making the silver
fight In politics attach some sentiment
to the white metal. silver was allowed
aitel- vho- pen ha5 uons-r.s work, MIR.
Rewins will take possession of it, il
will be suitably engraved and enshrined
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 forty-ffth star in the flag. The
constitutional convention next March to
frame q etate constitution, which will
be submitted to the people for ratifica-
tion st an election in November, 1895,
when the governor and other state
officers and q member OF congress will
be elected. Ii the constitution ie rati-
fed and if the president finds that it
provides for republican form OF gov
ernment under the provisions of the act
of congress, he will Issue proclamation
announcing the fact and declaring Utah
a atate.
The legislature elected at the Novem-
ber election will meet early in Decem-
ber, 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 recogni-
tion, if the views of his congressional
colleagues are shared by his constitu-
ents.
The government pays the expenses of
the territorial convention, as it does for
the territorial legislatures. There will
be new registration of the voters, upon
which the apportionment of II dele.
gates 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 to adopt the constitution OF the
United States.
Several important requirements for
the state constitution are made by con-
gress: 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 tho 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 provide by ordi-
nance. irrevocable without the consent
of the United States and the people of
the state, that perfect liberation of relip.
ious sentiment shall be secured and that
no jnhabitsnt of the state shall ever be
moleated Oh account of their mode OF
provided that polygamous or
plural marriages 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
absolute jurisdiction of the United
States. However. tie government con-
cedes liberal grants of land to the state
for public purposes. One hundred sec-
tons are given for public buildings at
the capital. 10000 acres for an agricul-
tural college, two townships and ITO 900
acres for the University OF Utah; for
irrigation purposes, 10000 acres for an
Insane asylum, for a reform school. for
an institution for the blind, each 10. 900
acres, and for miners hospital, so coo
acres. The United States penitentiary
near Salt Lake is given to the state. All
granted lands are to be sold at public
auction ut not less than So an acre, the
state to lease them for term OF i've
years.