The record-union., 1894-07-16
special to the REcoRD-uNIoN.

tive lndicatlon Ior the week III LnS oeHdte
is that the consideration of appropriation
bills will be continued. There is prob
ability that day or two will be given to
the Chinese treaty, and possibility that
tariff conference report will call for at
tention in some shape. Taking up of the
treaty will depend upon whether the
managers of the appropriation bills will
consent to yield the time for it, and the
further consideration of the tariff ques-
ton will depend upon whether the con-
ferees will make their report, and Incl
dentally upon the character of the report
when made. Senator Gray, representing
the Administration, is very anxious to
have the treaty disposed of, and he has
expressed the opinion that it will be pos
sibIe to get it up Tuesday or Wednesday.
When considered it will probably con-
sumo an entire day, ii not more time, in
executive session. Secretary Gresham
does not conceal the concern he feels with
regard to the treaty, and he has been re-
inforced during the past week IN his ef-
forts to secure early and favorable con-
sideration by the presence and arguments
OF Minister Denby, who has visited the
Senate on different occasions on that be-
half.
If the tariff conference report shall
reach the Senate it will undoubtedly
evoke considerable discussion If it should
attempt to lower the rates or change any
of the material amendments of the
Senate.
When the Senate adjourned Saturday
the executive and judicial appropriation
bill was under consideration. 1t is ex-
pected when it shall be disposed OF, as it
is thought it will be on Monday, the In
dian appropriation bill will be taken up.
and that out of the way, the agricultural.
District of Columbia, sundry civil and
general deficiency bills Will be conslG-
cred, probably in the order named. These
will complete the list. 1t is possible there
will be more or less debate on all these
bills, but if other questions are not al
lowed to interfere, all can be disposed OF
during the week.
There is no settled programme in the
House for this week. Everything will
be subject to displacement in favor OF the
conference report on the tariff bill, when
one is agreed upon. The House mana
gers, in case report is made this week,
are not disposed to allow too much time
to be consumed by debate, especially II
disagreement is reported on the vital dlf-
ference between the two houses. Though
the time will be limited, 1t is the desire OF
the House managers to give sufficient
opportunity for the leading House MEM
bers TO place their positions squarely be-
fore the country. The absence of Speaker
Crisp, who is expected on Tuesday unless
the condition OF his son does not improve,
makes the business of the House, pend
ing the report from the conference, prob
lematic. Tomorrow is suspension day,
and Tuesday will probably be given to
the Committee on Judiciary. Further
than that, however, no programme has
been mapped out.
Private Secretary Thurber has in his
custody in the White House a gold pencil
and silver holder. The implement is
from the artisan standpoint fine piece
OF work, but if it fulfills its mission its
will never be dipped IN ink but once.
That will be on Monday, July 10, 1894,
and it will inscribe the name of Grover
Cleveland on parchment head: IAN en-
actment TO enable the people of Utah TO
form a Constitution and State Govern
ment 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 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,
and tomorrow Mr.. Rawlins. having Sc
cured the signatures of Vice-President
Stevenson and Acting Speaker Richard
son TO the enablingAct, viii carry it TO the
White House for the Presidents auto
graph. The ceremony would have taken
place on Saturday but for Mr.. 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 but
the President will sign the Act, and when
he has done so Mr.. Rawlins will take
charge of the pen which has made it a
law. At first it was intended 10 have a
solid gold pen and holder, but as Utah
comes in as q bimetallism State. and
Westerners who are makinga silver fight
III politics attach some sentiment to the
white metal, silver was allowed to share
honors at the accepted ratio. After the
pen has done its work Mr.. Rawlins will
take possession of it, and it Will be suita-
bly, 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-tifth star in the flag. The con-
stltutional convention will meet next
March to frame q State constitution, which
will be submitted to the people for rati-
tieation at an election in November,
1885, when the Governor and other State
officers and member of Congress will be
elected. If the constitution is ratified,
and if the President finds that 1t provides
for a Republican form of government
under the provisions of the Act of Con-
gress, proclamation will be issued an
nouncing the fact, and declare Utah a
State.
The Legislature elected at the Novem-
Der election will meet early in December,
and one of its first acts will be TO choose
4 f1r
saiely said that the senior Senator Is
likely to be the present delegate from the
Territory, whose fight Ior Statehood is
expected to certainly receive recognition,
If the views of his Congressional col
leagues are shared by his constituents.
The Government pays the expenses OF
the Territorial convention as it does for
the Territorial Legislature.
There will be a new registration of the
voters upon which the appointment OF
seventeen delegates to constitute the con-
yention will be made. Each county is to
have at least one delegate and one addi-
tional for every 700 of population.
First the convention must declare on be-
half of the people of the State to adopt the
Constitution of the United States. Sew
eraI 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 Constitu-
ton of the United States and the princi-
pies of the Declaration of Independence.
One of the most crucial requirements oi
the State Constitution which was ever
evoked by the power OF the Mormon
Church IS that it shall provide by ordi-
nance irreyocaDle, without the consent oil
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