Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-23
STATEHOOD hill As AMENDED.


The NEWS has received theamendea
copy of lIouss OF Representative BILL
No. sie-ln other words can Act Ga
enable tho people Of Utah to form d
consiliutlon and state governmcntand
to be admitted into The Union ON an
equal footing with the original uiaio''"
This is the interesting measure which
was cracked through the lower house
OF Congress with such admirable
speed and unauimily early lat Docem'
Der, passing ON the l3lh; and which,
coming ~ The senate On the 18Th Of
that month, was read twice
and referred 10 the committee on
territories, where 70 remained until
May NJ; being then reported with
amendments 10 the Senate by Chair.
man Faulkner, a. fist told the local
public by this paper 10 now foposcs
en- tho Senate calendar To- number on
too docket being i52.
with the blll as 30 passed the House
The attentive reader IL already familiar
Present Interest ccuiofs IN the am,nI-
monia made by the Senate committee,
which Il is expected viii bu approved
by the whole house, anu unless ss-
rious objection ~ made DO the lower
house, will also receive the bppfovh.
OF that body. These amendments
are not numerous; they are confined
70 fuch changes Oh will postpone the
admission Of the Territory until after
the election Ia November, 1896, and
the seating Of ~ representatives and
senators until the i.h Of March, 1893.
The original bill provided:
within tsonty days anor tho passage
~ thls HUi Tho governor shall uy pfurla-
mattuu order ana election ui IIU delegates
Aforesaid in said Territory tu DO hpIi 1u
tuoh day ne ho may iu such pruoInmH-
ton designate. NOS lOss than sixty nor
moro than ninety days aHUr tho Issuing
thofuuL
The amendment, strike out the fore.
going and substitutes the followingi
Tho governor Of aid Territory shall.
on the nrst day Of August. i-Yi, issue "a
proclamation ordering an election OF thr
delegates Aforesaid TO tho constitutional
conyontIonl iu said Territory 10 Boo hold
on tho Tuesday next amor tho nrat Sion.
day la November following.
The original bill provides that the
delegates to the convention thus
elected should meet on tho third Mon.
day after their election, etc. The
Senate amendment provides that "lhe
delegates n tho convention thus
elected shall meet at the scat Of gov.
ornmonl Ia said Territory on The nrst
Monday In March, 1895, 4" and shall bo
authorized to form a constitution aui
state government ior said proposed
state, etc.
The other amendment occurs la sec.
ton 4, where tho bill as passed by the
House provided that "at an election 10
DO held At time fixed IN said ordi.
nance" 1.-THE ordinance formed by the
convention Tor submitting the constilu.
tion to the people for raliiicatlou) "lho |
qualified volon Of said proposed state |
shall vote directly Tor OF against the |
proposed constitution" etc. A.
amended by the Senate committee, tho |
section now provides that this election |
Tor the ratification or rejection OF the |
proposed constitution by the qualified |
yoloru OF tho proposed state shall |
be held "on the ru,sday next after the |
not Monday In November, lsDi, 4" aud |
tho next section continues the pro.
vision that at this election the repre-. |
sentative in Congress, tho governor |
aud other officers provided Tor In the |
couatlluiiou, may be ALEC elected.
These are the only ohsugrs suggested /
by tue committee on territories in tue
upper house ot Congress; and ~ stated,
they merely Indicate little more
delay Ia UnA's admission than might
have been necessary II tho Senate
should nave promptly passed, and th,
President a. promptly signed, tho BIN
~ II came from tho House.