The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-05

~ AfooAamstton OIL the PRESIDENT Yes
terday-she Has Elected Delegates to
Convention Which Has Provided
Perfect Toleratios Of Religious SEN
timent, Except That Polygamous or
Plural Marriages Arc Forever Pro-
hibited.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The President
o. ~ O'CLOCK this morning signed the
proclamation admitting Utsh to state,
hood. The proclaim alton reads as fol-
lows:
"By the President Of the United States
of America-A proclamation.
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:
AN act to enable the people of Utah
to form constitution and State gov
ernmens and to be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the
oriRlnal States" which act provided for
me election OF delegates to consti,u-
tlonal convention to meet ns the seat Of
government Of tho territory of Utah, on
tho hrss Monday in March eighteen
hundred and ninety five, for tho purpose
cf declaring the adoption OF the cousri
tuition of the United States by the ueopla
OF the proposed State and forming cor
stitution and State governs emit for such
State, and
Whereas, delegates wore accordingly
eiec'ed, who mot, organized and de-
clared on behalf OF the people of said
proposed State their adoption OF the
constitution OF the United States as
provided in said act, and
whereas, said convention, 80 organ
ICED, did by ordinance irrevooable,
without the consent of the United
States and the people OF ssid State, as
required by ssid act. provide that per-
tect liberation of religious sentiment
shall be secured, and that no inhnbi-
tant OF said State shall ever be molasted
IN person or property on account OF his
or her mode OF religious worship, but
that polygamous or plural marriages are
forever prohibited; and did also by said
ordinance mako the other various asiuu.
lations recited in secti n s OF ssid not.
and
whereas, said convention thereupon
termed constitution and State govern.
mens for said proposed State. which
constitution In including said ordinance,
was duly submitted to the people thereof
at an election hold on the Tuesday nexs
after ate me hras Monday OF Novembsc.
1895, as droctsd by said act; and,
Whereas, the return OF said election
has been made snd osnvaesed end the
result thereof certified to me, together
with statements of the votes cast and
acopy Of said legislation and ordinsnces,
all as provided in said sos, showing tina,
M sjorisy of the votes lawfully cast st
such election was for she ratification
and adoption OF said constitution ana
ordinances, and,
Whereas, the constitution and aoy-
eminent of said proposed State are
Republican in form, said constitution
Is not repugnant to the Oonstitu sion of
the United States and the Declaration
of independence; and all the provisions
OF said act have been com piled with in
the formation OF said constitution and
government; now, therefore, I. Grover
Cleveland, President OF the United
States OF America, in accordance with
the act OF Congress aforesaid and by
authority thereof, announce the result
OF said election 10 be IS so certified,
and do hereby declare and proclaim
that the terms and conditions pre-
scribed by tho Congress- Of the United
States to entisle the State OF Utah %
admission into the Union have been
duly complied with, and that sha orea-
tionyot said State and its admission
into the Union on an equal &c otinr
with the original States is now accom-
plished.
I'm testimony whereof, have here's
unto set my hand and caused the seal OF
the United States 20 be affixed. Done
at the city Or Washington this fourth
day OF January, in the year of our Loid
one thousand eighteen hundred and
ninety. six, and OF the independence OF
the United States OF America the one
hundred and twentieth.
(Seal.) "GRoyER CLEVELAND"
by the Presidents: Richard Olney,
Secretary Of State"
The signature Of the pfoclamatio was
awaited with great interest by Governor
West and Delegate Cannon, just outside
OF the Presidents room. The instru-
ment used Was an ordinary wood pen
holder with steel stub psn. This was
handed to the governor, who will take
it to Salt Lake, where ie will be placed
upon exhibition and then preserved as
an historical relic.
According to promise, Private Secre-
tary Thurber also sent telegram i'm
mediately upon the signature OF the
document to she governor of she State
OF Utah announcing the fact and the
exact moment OF signaturs, which was
10 o'clock. The people OF the new
state had made preparations in advance
to celebrate the occasion.
The proclamet alton itself, after being
shown ID Governor West and Delegate
Cannon. was sent by special mesBengers
to the Department of State, where it
was placed among the archives of the
United States Government
BUY Tine CELEBRATED