The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18
UTAH'S STRUGGLE
She Has a Hard Time to Become
the Forty fifth State
It Has Been Forty-five Years
Trying to Get In.
DESERET is NO MORE.
Utah Resembles Very Little Its
Original Extent.
DEsERET Is NO MORE.

WASHINGTON, July IS Especial =
The forty fifth state will enter the union
just As years to d month after its first at
tempt to do so, for it was in December
1849, that the Mornons called their first
convention to frame a state government,
and next December if the bill is carried
out as it has just passed the senate, Utah
will become a state. 1t is only by sort
of apostoIical succession that this can be
called the state the A1ormons first design
ed, for the boundaries they laid out in
cludcd '-all that part Of upper California
between the dividi nss SUBMITS Of the Sierra
Nevadas and the Rocky mountains and
they named their state -Deseret' Their
intended state contained all of the present
Nevada all Of Colorado west Of the sum-
NIT and considerable portions of Wyom-
ing, Idaho, Arizona and southeastern Cal
ifornia The Mormon pioneers reached the
site of salt Lake City July "a, 1917, when
there were not 100, 900 white Americans
west Of the meridian OF Kansas City, and
after many desperate attempts to break
into the Union as state their Deseret''
IS no more, and their Utah Is the last of
all the northern and central territories to
come in The vicissitudes of the bill pre-
sent something of a mystery a few weeks
ago it was announced, as if by authority,
that Mr. Cleveland would veto any new
state, and that the senate would take no
action, but suddenly the senate committee
took up the Utah bill and reported it IA
vora5ly, and it now goes through Never
theless il would DO rash to prOphesy as to
any Of the other three territories and
their delegates Will only say that they
have hopes
Important Measures
Among the measures OF really national
importance yet to be decided the Mica
ragua canal bill will doubtless excite great
interest and probably some very earnest
discussion. On the general principle that
the canal should be built and that the
United States should control it there is
little or dissent, but when it comes to
the proposition That the United States
shall guarantee tho bonds, leaving q mar
gin Of possibly $I3, O0U OC0 for the prOmot-
ers, there is a deal Of humIning and haw-
ing, and the average member who viii
talk at all says that the government had
better get rid of its present entanglenents
with big corporations before it gets into
any more. The oft deferred bill to settle
the indebtedness Of the Pacific railways
furnishes the opponents of the canal with
material for much sarcastic comment,
and truly just now is not very good time
to ask favors in the line of government
bonds. Another measure of great national
interest is the NcRae bill for FORGETTING all
railroad land grants the terms of which
have not been strictly complied with
The total involved amounts to 81, 3s33, $50
acres, the greatest section of which is in
the Northern Pacific grant-namely, &c.,
9O7, TAI acrcs-and the greatest difficulty,
according to the lawyers of both houses,
IS that bona fldc settlers have taken up
much Of tho so called railroad land on the
railroad companies terms, relying upon
the companies to perfect the title. The
house passed it easily, but the railroaders
laugh at the idea that tho senate will
Tariff Delays.
Another important and greatly delayed
- D. ~
rival of Minister Charles DENLY after some
seven years at Picking gave fresh impulse
to the discussion and was quite an event
in Washington society and diplomatic cir
cles. The California members are par
ticularly active on this and the Nicaragua
canal As to the latter, Mr.. Mallory, who
has it in special charge, says ''There is
no doubt whatever that the bill reported
by me Will pass the house if we can ever
get it to the front, but there is no hope of
doing that at this session unless the COM
mittce on rules viii name a day for us,
and they are very slow to do that so late in
tho session Our bill l. condensed from
several offered on the subject, and, as
think, avoids the points in the senate bill
which are most objected to, or, in other
words, it leaves no opportunity for a job .
An Interview Repudiated.
The labor leaders who recently descend
ed upon the capitol are indignant over the
charge that they came TO blacklist mem
DcES VINO vote against JDClr resolutions.
All they ask is that the federal troops be
withdrawn; that the George bill for com
pnlsory arbitration be passed; that the in
functions which have lately caused SO
much talk, be dissolved, and that Attor-
ney General Olney be impeached. They
are modest gentlemen Now that the ex-
element is over all parties are having fun
with Senator PETER The Populists look
coldly on him for his vote on the tariff,
the Republicans are severe on his speech
about the strike, the Democrats never did
like him, and now the critics have fallen
on him FOR plagiarism and Measurements
of history. 1t somehow happened that a
small paragraph in his speech is a repro
duction almost word for word of an inter
view reported with ex-President Harrison.
The latter has repudiated the interview,
which he was reported as saying that 10
president before Mr.. Cleveland had sent
troops into a state without the request Of
the governor, and if the senator actually
did bone the interview he got caught
both ways, for the statement is far from
true.
Among the many cases cited the most
interesting perhaps is that of the John
Brown raid on Harper's Ferry. The sci
zure was on Sunday night, and before the
next night troops were organized at Wash
ington, Richmond, Baltimore and Freder-
lex, Nd At p m John W. Garrett
president of the B. and O. railway. teIe-
graphed to Secretary Floyd that the road
was DISTRACTED by a strike of the armory
men, by band Of robbers or by aboli-
tionists." The president replied:
Your dispatch has been received and
shall promptly be attended to. Orders
have been issued for three companies of
artillery from Old Point Comfort, and I
have already accepted the services of Cap
tain Ritohie's company from Frederick
You will hear further from the secretary