The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
UTAH NOW A STATE.
President Cleveland Issues His Proc
IamatiOn.

IamatiOn.
Washington, Jan. 4-Utah was admit
ted to the sisterhood of states at 1905
O'Clock this morning, when President
Cleveland signed the proclamation to that
effect.
There was no ceremony about the mat
ter. Mr.. Cleveland and Private Secre-
tary Thurber were alone in the Presi-
dents office at the time and the signing
was done with a steel stub pen point
affixed to wooden peiholder. The pen
and penholder were, presented to Gov.
West of Utah, who came to the white
house about the time the proclamation
was Signed. The proclamation reads as
follows:
BY the President of the United States
of America:
Whereas, the congress of the United
States passed an act which was approved
on the sixteenth day of July, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, entitled, IAN
Act to enable the people of Utah to form
a constitution 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 a constitutional convention to meet
at the seat OF government OF the terri
tory of Utah on the first Monday in
March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,
for the purpose of declaring the adop-
ton of the constitution of the United
States by the people of the proposed
state, and forming a constitution and
state government for such state;
And, whereas, delegates were accord
ingly elected who met, organized and de-
clared on behalf of the people of said pro-
posed state their adoption of the consti-
tuition of the United States, all as pro-
And, whereas, said convention, so or
ganized, did, by ordinance, irrevocable
with the consent of the United States and
the people of said state, as required by
said act, provided that perfect liberation
of religious sentiment shall be secured, and
that no inhabitant of said state shall ever
be molested in person or property on ac-
count of his or her mode of religious
worship, but that polygamous or plural
marriages are forever prohibited; and did
also, by said ordinance, make the other
various stipulations recited in section Of
said act.
And. whereas, said convention thereupor
formed a constitution and state govern
ment for said proposed state, which con-
stitution, including said ordinance, was
duly submitted to the people thereof at an
first Monday of November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-t1ve, as directed by said
And, whereas, the return of said cleo
ton has been made and canvassed, and
the result thereof certified to me, to-
gether with a statement of the votes cast
and copy of said constitution and ordi-
nance all as provided in said act, showing
that a majority of the votes lawfully cast
at such election was for the ratification
and adoption of said constitution and ordl-
nance.
And, whereas, the constitution and gov
eminent of said proposed state are repub-
lican in form, said constitution is not re-
pugnant to the constitution of the United
States and the Declaration of Indepen-
dence; and all the provisions of said act
have been complied with in the formation
of said constitution and government. Now,
therefore, |, Grover Cleveland, President
of the United States of America, in ac-
cordance with the act of congress afore-
said, and by authority thereof. announce
the result of said election to be so
certified, and do hereby declare and pro-
claim that the terms and conditions pre-
scribed 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 original
states is now accomplished.
In testimony whereof L have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
(Seal.)
Done at the city of Washington this
fourth day of January in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and twentieth. Grover Cleveland
By the President: Richard Olney
Secretary of State.
The President to-day approved a Joint
resolution transferring the officers of the
United States for the territory of Utah
with all their fiXings, etc., to the state of
Utah.