Show THE STEPS TO STATEHOOD September 6 1893 Delegate Joseph L Rawlins a Democrat introduced into the House of Representatives a bill authorizing au-thorizing 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 It was immediately referred to the House Committee on Territories The bill was considered by that committee com-mittee which was Democratic reported re-ported favorable to the House and made the special order for December 13th 1S93 The bill was debated for two da sand s-and finally passed by the Democratic House of Representatives on the 14th of December 1893 The bill was received In the Democratic Demo-cratic Senate on December 18th 1893 read twice and referred to thd Committee Commit-tee on Territories In that committee It was amended and reported back to the Senate on the 17th of May 1894 with the request that It be passed The bill was called up on the 10th of July 1894 and passed by the Democratic Demo-cratic Senate 4 July the llth 1894 the bill was returned re-turned to the House for concurrence in the Senate amendments July 13th 1894 the Democratic House concurred in the Democratic Senates amendments and the hill was ordered sent to the President of the United States for his approval July 17th 1894 President Grover Cleveland a Democrat signed the enabling en-abling act November the 6th 1894 an election was held in the several counties to choose delegates to a convention to frame a constitution The majority of the delegates chosen were Republicans March 4th 1895 the convention met to frame a constitution May the 8th 1895 the convention completed com-pleted the constitution It was signed that day and the convention adjourned November the 5th 1895 an election was held in the territory of Utah for the ratification of the constitution It was adopted by a vote of 31305 in favor fa-vor of it as against 7686 opposed to Its adoption December the 16th 1895 the constitution constitu-tion and election returns were placed in the hands of President Cleveland by Commissioner J R Letcher a Democrat Demo-crat December 21st 1895 Attorney General Gen-eral Harmon announced that he had examined the Utah constitution submitted sub-mitted to him for inspection by President Presi-dent Cleveland and found that the enabling en-abling act had been complied with fin every respect January 4th 1895 President Grover Cleveland s Democrat Issued a proclamation procla-mation declaring Utah a sovereign state of the American Union That good people of Utah Is a statement state-ment of the several steps by which Utah became a state A Democrat introduced in-troduced the bill for an enabling act Into Congress A Democratic House and Senate passed it a Democratic President signed It making It a law and the same Democratic President today will Issue the proclamation admitting ad-mitting the state into the Union It now only remains for the Republican Republi-can officers that the people of UtaJli o have chosen to take their oaths of office of-fice and the career of statehood will have begun Let us only say this in couclusion Though betwasn the time of the introduction I intro-duction of the enabling act into the I House and its final passage through Congress Utah went Republican the way of statehood was not blocked on that account the door of statehood was not shut in the face of Utah either by a Democratic Congress or a Democratic Democrat-ic President though In the estimation of some Utah had becom hopelessly Republican In taking that course the national Democracy rose above the i kind of partisanship we have sometimes some-times heard expressed in Utah and it is to be hoped that Democracy will always al-ways do so History will record and we are proud that it will be so that statehood came to Utah by gracE of the Democratic party |