The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-04
ONE MORE STAR
Is Added to "Old Glory" This
Morning.
Utah Made a State by Presi-
Dental Proclamation.
UTAH HAS PROMISED
That There Should Be No More
Polygamy
And OtherWiseCo Conforming with
the Law is Admitted.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-The president
at 10 o'clock this morning signed the
proclamation admitting Utah to state
hood. The proclamation read as follows:
By the President of the United States of
America.
a Proclamation
Whereas, The congress of the United
States passed an act which was approved
the 10Th day of July, eighteen hun
dred and ninety -four. entitled "an act to
enable the people of Utah to form con-
stitution and state government and to be
admitted into the union on an equal
footing with the original states" which
act provided for the election
of delegates to constitutions al
convention to meet at the seat of govern
ment of the territory of Utah, on the first
Monday in March. eighteen hundred and
ninety five, for the purpose of declaring
the adoption of the constitution of the
United States by the people of the pro-
posed state and forming a constitution
and state government for such state.
Whereas, Delegates were accordingly
elected who met, organized and declared
on behalf of the people of said proposed
state their adoption of the constitution
of the United States all as provided in
said act. And
Whereas, said convention SO organ
lied, did by ordinance, irrevGcable with
out the consent of the United States and
the people OF said state as required By
said act, provide that perfect federation
of religious sentiment shall be secured
and mat no inhabitant of said state
shall ever be molested in person or
property on account of his, or her mode
of religious worship, but that polygam-
GUS or plural marriages are forever pro-
hibited, and did also by said ordinance
make the other various stipulations re-
cited in section three of said act; and
Whereas. Said convention khereuDoa
formed constitution and state govern
IneDt for said proposed state, which con-
stitution, including said ordinance was
duly submitted to the people thereof, at
an election held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday OF November,
eighteen hundred and ninety-fVe, as di-
rected by said act, and
Whereas, The returns of said election
has been made and canvassed and the
result thereof certified to me, together
with a statement of the votes
cast and a copy of said constitution
and ordinance. all as provided in said
act, showing that a majority of the votes
lawfully cast q: such election was for the
ratification and adoption of said constitu-
tion and ordinance, and
Whereas, The constitution and govern
ment of said proposed state are Repub-
llCdQ IN 10TH, SdiQ CONSTITUTION Is not re-
pugnant to the constitution of the United
States and the declaration of independ-
ence; and all the provisions of said act
have been complied with in the forma-
ton of said constitution and government.
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
president of the United States of Ameri-
ca, in accordance with the act OF con-
gross aforesaid and by authority thereof,
announce the result of said election to be
as so certified and do hereby declare and
proclaim that the terms aud conditions
prescrib bed by the congress of the United
States to entitle the state of Utah to adj
mission into the union have been duly
complied with and that the creation of
said state and its admission into the
union on an equal footing with the origl-
nal states is now ccomDIished.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
fourth day of January in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred aud
and of the Independence of
the United States of America the One
Hundred and Twentieth
(Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND,
GsEALI By the President.
RICHARD OLNEY.
Secretary of State