The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

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 the
artisans standpoint, .he piece of
work, but : it fulfills its mission it will
never be dipped in ink but once. That
will be on Monday, July 16, 1894, and it
will inscribe the name of Grover Cleve-
land on a parchment head:
IAN enact to enable the people of
Utah to form a constitution and state
government arkl to be admitted to the
union on an equal footing with the
original states
The PEN ami Holder.
Delegate Rawlins, of the Territory
OF Utah, whose efforts were largely in
strumental in bringing about the pas
sage of the act, secured the pen and
holder and entrusted them into the
keeping of Secretary Thurber until the
time fer their use.
Tomorrow, Mr.. Rawlins, having Sc
cured the signatures of Vice-President
Stevenson and Acting Speaker Richard
son to the enabling act, will carry it to
the White House for the presidential
autograph. The ceremony would have
taken place on Saturday, but for Mr..
Richardson's absence from the city and
ii was hoped to have Speaker Crisp's
name on the document, but the speaker
will not return from Georgia in time. No
one doubts chat 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 to have a solid gold pen
and holder, lat as Utah comes in as
bimetallic state, and westerners who
are making the silver fight in politics
attach some sentiment to the white
metal. silver was allowed to- share
honors at the accepted ratio.
After the pen has done it's work, Mr..
Rawlins will take possession Of it, 1t
will be suitably engraved and enshrined
in the state capitol of the new state
with it's other historical souvenirs.
Sets the Machinery in Motion.
The signing of the act does not make
Utah a 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 emit
fled to the forty-fffth star in the flag.
The constitutional convention will meet
next March to frame a state constitu-
ton which will be submitted to the
people for ratification at an election in
November, 1895, when the governor and
other state officers and a member OF
Congress will be elected. If the con-
stitution is ratified and if the presi-
dent finds that it provides for Repub-
iican form of government 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 Novem-
Der election will meet early in Deem
Der. and one Of its first acts viii be
to choose two United States senators.
1t may be safely said the senior sem
ator is likely to be the present dele
gate from the territory, whose fight
for statehood is expected to certainly
receive recognition, if the views of his
congressional colleagues are shared by
his constituents.
Work to be Done.
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 appoint
ment of seventeen delegates to consti-
tute 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 the state 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 taxed; that it shall not be repug-
aant to the constitution of the United
@tates and the principles Of the decla-
Cation Of independence.
One of the most crucial requirements
Of the state constitution which was
ever evoked by the power of the Nor
mon church is that it shall provide by
ordinance irrevokable without the con-
sent of the United States and the peo-
pie of the state. that perfect liberation
of religious sentiment shall be secured
and that no inha bitants of the state
shall ever be molested on account of
the mode of religious worship, and it
is provided that polygamous or plural
marriages are forever prohibited. The
r3tate is to disclaiBl all title 10 the I'M
appropriated public lands and all In
dian tribes are TO remain under the
absolute jurisdiction of the United
States.
Liberal Land Grants.
However. the government comedies
liberal grants of lands 10 the state for
public buildings at the capital; $4,000
acres for an agricultural college; two
townships and 10000 for the Univers-
ity of Utah; for irriga tional purposes.
500, 600 acres: for an insane asylum,
for a reform school, for a state normal
school, for an institution for the blind,
each 10000 acres, and for a miners
hospital $4,000 acres. The United States
peniteatiary, near Salt Lake city, is
given to the state.
All granted lands are to be sold at
public auction at not less than IS an
acre. the state to lease them for a