The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-07

Utah will think with awe and patriot
ism of a day which passed without
any demonstration to show it was
different from any of the procession
of prosaic days that are continually
gliding on. Perhaps the business sue
cesses of the day will have been for
gotten. The pleasures and the cares
will not i've in history But these
coming lerations Will be told that
on yesterday, at 1:O4 o'clock, the con-
stitutional convention of Utah, after
laboring for sixty-five days. formally
adopted The instrument under which
Utah was 70 become the forty-hfth
state in the great union. Even the
$nembers did not realize the great Dig
nifty CT the occasion. Only seventy
two were present and these said aye"
without any Indication whatever that
they apprehended they were making
history. Immediately after the docu-
ment had beer adopted they went on
a junketing trip to Saltair.
The last work to be done in perfect
ing the constitution has beel done,
and ali adjournment will be taken on
Wednesday. The convention will hold
q session today, but it will he very
brief indeed. Ali there will b. ID DO
is to catch up the loose odds and ends
andAEet ready for the reaLing Of the
engk&Sed instrument on Wednesday.
e One on Charlie.
The engrossing viii all be done IN
the handwriting OF Engrossing Clerk
Smith. Apropos of this th=re is
nice little story. On Saturday the
convention instructed the committee
to hire sufficient extra engrossing
clerks TO complete the work by this
morning. In pursuance of this, a
man put in his appearance on Sun
day. He said his name was Tyson
and be had been sent up by Charley
Crane. He was put to work on part
OF the instrument, and had not writ
ten ten minutes before he proved that
the governor from Kanosn, Fillmore
and Salt Lake had selected him be-
cause of his politics rather than his
fitness as a writer. When Mons
Peterson. chairman of the committee
on engrossr ent, put in his appear
aTIsH yesterday, one glance at Tyson's
0SrK was enough, and Tyson was
promptly and unceremoniously fired.
The one experiment was enough, and
the whole work will be done in one
handwriting
The Days Proceedings.
There was another long wait for a
quorum yesterday morning, though
the prospects of a trip to Saltair had
brought many of the members down
with commendable energy. The pros
pect of the session closing within a
few days had also brought in many
OF the absentees who had considered
tha. their presence was not necessary
so long as the convention was making
Itself grammar school.
The call to order was made at 1910,
5hi Delegate Clark, of Tooele, was in
vited to offer prayer.
NcGurrin's Effective Speech.
Lund. chairman of The committee on
ACCOUNTS and expenses, reported that
thssre was disagreement between the
cof@Gittee and Stenographer McGur-
rir as TO the compensation Of the lat
ter, and McGurrin was allowed the
privilege of addressing the house in
his own behalf He said the dispute
had come over the Interpretation of
the contract He insisted that he
should be paid for every day Of the
session, Sundays and holidays in
Guided, at the maximum rate of $50
per day, while the others insisted that
Sundays ard holidays should be de-
Quoted He said that this would be
only fair to him, as he had found the
sessions were longer than he had cal
cui el on, and when the work was
finished the cost would be really low
er than he lowest bid that had been
made before th1 committee. After
AIcGurrin had been subjected TO a
-ross-fire of questions he was allowed
fun compensation by unanimous
vote. This speech was the most eff
fective so far made in the convention.
McGurrin gets $3.50 for his work
Decided to Take the Trip.
s..rvhe next circus came up over the
nrox,os5eton to take the excursion to
Saltair in the afternoon. Chldester
and E;chnor wanted to push business
through and to give up the excursion
but after the house had learned that
it could accomplish nothing by put
ting off the excursion it decided to
take the trip.
Wanted No Hodge Podge.
crane reported that the man who
baF been employed TO help the EN-
f-oTi:ng clerk over Sunday had heen
\ .scaarged, and that Enrolling Clerk |
ssni4n said he could finish the instru-
,77a1t in his own handwriting on |
"wednesday morning. This preoipi- |
tated another heavy discussion. Rob |
erts moved that the work be finished |
by Smith, saying II would De mis-
fake TO have a hodge podge of a con-
st.tution for preservation by the new
state III order to allow the members
to reach home a day sooner. Il would
be against good taste.
Chichester Anxious to 80 Home.
Chidester however. said he wanted
20 90 home. The question OF having
the whole constitution in one hand
writing was one Of taste under any
sondit,ons and ils thought it would
h. the very worst of taste to waste
another s., 600 waiting for this. Hart
60 Ase,v strong in his cnr6Anra tiar1I