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Show LEUISLATl'llE OF DKSKRKT. Kin lluf l ulled Sltr Stuilors. Saturday, April ti, 172. lloth senate and house having organized or-ganized at 12 m. met in joint conven lion, president K. Snow, of the senate, in the chair. It appiariug from the journals of both bouses that Hon. W. 11. Hooper had been elected by each is I'uiled States senator, the president announced that la'lotiug would Le ejiuuicueed for the other senator. Nominations being in order, senatoi Peacock nominated Hon. Thos. Fitch. Senator llompstead, in a neat und hu inorous speech, said that while it wa.-gratilyiug wa.-gratilyiug to him that the gentleman he had nominated in the senate General Gen-eral Henry A. Morrow had received so many voles and was evidently so popular, he found that the gallant gen- tlcman wascveu more popular with hu j lair constiluenls so popular, indeed '. (hat they did not desire him lo go ai-far ai-far away as Washington but preferred ; that he should remain here; while, ov the other hand, the ladies were per feotly willing that Mr. Fitch should not : only go to Washington but remain there the entire sis years of the long senatorial term (laughlei). lie would therefore withdraw the nomination ol General Morrow, while reluming thanks lo those who had voted for him; and would -ubstitute the name of Mr. Fitch, Mr. Akers nominated Judge! Z. Snow. ! Balloting commenced, resulting asj follows: Senate roll Thus. Filch, 10; I house roll Thos. Pitch, IS; Z. Snow, I 4. The president then announced ! that Mr. Filch was duly elected. Senator L. Snow, aud Mr. Mann, of the house, were appointed a com-i milfce lo telegraph lo Messrs. I looped and Fitch of their election. On motion the president and secre-1 tary of the senate and the speaker and; chief clerk of the house were instructed to furnish credentials lo Wm. II. Hooper and Thos. Fitch as United Slates senators elect from the Stale ol Dose ret. After reading the journal the joiul convention dissolved, and the senate retired lo their chamber. In the house Mr. Akers handed in a loiter of resignation and p&quested permission per-mission to explain orally his reasons for so doing. Permission being granted he spoke as Ibllow.-: Mr. Speaker : In tendering my resignation as a member of this body, l feel it to be due, both to myself and to the cause which has brought u-i together, to ! state plainly, so that nobody may mis-: mis-: understand me, why I have felt called jupon to do so. This I am able to do in a single sentence. I resign simply 'and solely because the state of my ; health demands it. If I had been consulted before my name was publicly presented as a candidate for representative, represen-tative, l should have declined the . honor without a moment's hesitation; but wlien I found myself placed in nomiualiou, I felt that a declination, at that time, besides seeming ungracious ungra-cious on my part, might possibly be misconstrued by my 'Gentile fricuds who are and have been from the b eginniug opposed to the State movement. 'These considerations consider-ations induced me to waive my personal wishes until such time as I could give expression to them without prejudice, cither to my own notions or to your prospects of success in obtaining obtain-ing admission into tho Federal Union as a State. That limo has, in my judgment now arrived. Your State organization is complete. I have cordially cor-dially sustained the movement from the beginning; and l intend to give it my hearty support lo the end; but it has been my settled purpose, from the outset, out-set, to lake no part or lot, whatever, in the management aud control of Slate allairs. If my health was robust, and I felt any political aspirations for the future, I might, and doubtless would act diil'ercntly. Rut as the facts are otherwise, I feel that I may follow my inclination without censure, and as matters now sland without misconstruction. miscon-struction. L take it for granted, in retiring from this body, that no one will misunderstand misunder-stand mc. I am to day as anxious to secure a State government as I have ever been at any former time. Not, perhaps, as anxious as some of you; for the reason that I have not felt the galling weight of Territorial vassalage so long or so keenly as you have felt it. Still, I am uot insensible as to the nature and extent of your political disabilities dis-abilities and the positive suffering those disabilities occasion. 1 know how long you have waited and how anxiously you have watched for the day of your deliverance. You have wailed with 2ommendabIe patience. 1 ou have waited with a degree of anxiety which finds its littest expression in the beautiful language lan-guage of inspiration you have waited "more than they who wait for the morning." How simple, and yet how expressive is this language ! The priest at his altar how anxiously he waits for the morning ! The invalid on his couch, wracked with fever and frenzy, and wakefulness how impatiently impa-tiently he waits for the morniugl The prisoner in his cell, locking out through the grated window and counting count-ing the hours and minutes as they drag their slow length along how anxiouslv he watts lor the morning ! The ship wrecked mariner, clinging to the fragment frag-ment of his ruined vessel, to.-aed ail night ou an angry sea, wild with tempest and covered with darkness-how darkness-how anxiously he watches and how impatiently im-patiently he waits for the morning! The traveler, gone up the day before, and coweriDg all night amid the summit sum-mit snows of the Alps how anxiously he waits lor the morning ! And when, at length, the grey east mellows with amber, and flu.-hes with rose, and the sunhimself comes forth from his chamber, cham-ber, flooding the world with glory how do the full hearts nf all these anxious watchers expand and almost burst with thanksgiving aud praise ! And how even inanimate nature rejoices with tbeai ! The mountains, robed in purple pur-ple and gold, seem to pay princely obeL-;;cce lo the sun. The living fountains foun-tains catch the living lustre and leap with it into a thousand welcoming valleys. val-leys. 'I he sea, from shore to shore, lifts up its jewelled arms and claps its hands for .by. Rut words after all are vain. The picture which 1 have painted from imagination ima-gination is but a feeble foreshadowing of the joy and gladness with which you as a peop'c would hail the dawn of thai day which .-ball deliver you from ' the lon night of Territorial vassalage, and clothe you with the rights and d:gnitie of statehood. Such a consummation con-summation would -till the throbbing throb-bing of thousands of aching-hearts. The loouj which now hamrs over you would be promptly" dhrsi-j parted. All darkness would be driven away; all clouds dispersed; and: beautiful as the evening star be-1 yond would come forth in the bright I gaiaxy of States the star of DeseretJ Allow me, in retiring from this body, : '0 leave with you'as my last utterance, the assurance that in my sympathies 1 shall remain identified with the State 'uovement to the end. , Tho motion to accept Mr. Akers' resignation was sustained in fitting and feeling terms by several members, who expressed I heir deep regret that ihe condition of the honorable member's j health would deprive them of the ben-i ben-i jfits of his abilities and experience u x legislative capacity. The re-ignition wa.-, accepted and a vole of thauLs to Mr. Akers, for hi! past services, was adopted. Roth senate and house, after di.-, po.-ing of some concurrent resolutions, adjourned to meet at the time specified speci-fied in the constitution, should Deseret be admitted us a State. |