Show statehood for on monday a bill was introduced in congress by carey of wyoming for the formation and admission into the union odthe state of wyoming provides that the governor of the Territory shall order an election for the selection of delegates to form a state constitution but that election shall held previous to Ju nelst 1889 the constitutional convention under the provisions of the bill will consist of about sixty members the bill further provides for a grant of land to the state for school purposes to the amount of acres one hundred sections of land for an agricultural college eighty sections for public building twenty five sections fora penitentiary and ten sections for an insane asylum the bill provides for a grant to the of acres of arid lands on condition that the state shall reclaim or cause such lands to be reclaimed and shall not part with its title to any subdivision of said lands until reclamation is complete carey says the territory is as well prepared for state government as fifteen states were at the date of their admission that the territory without congressional aid supports a compulsory school system and maintains a free university that the territory is well provided with good courts and school houses that it takes care of its insane and convicts that the territory annually expends for the territorial and municipal government the support of public schools and public improvements and that the general government doos not contribute on an average more than the boundaries of the proposed state are tbt same as those of the territory |