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Show UTAH IN CONGRESS. The news cornea from Washington that the committee on territories will report adversely upon Delegates Can-non'i Can-non'i bill or the admission 1 Utah into the union of states. If anyone ever had faith in the passage of the bill he was certainly more verdant and sanguine than there was occasion for. We have not believed the present pres-ent congress would admit Utah. The biennial knocking at the door has become a sort of habit, and is continued con-tinued and expected aa a matter of course. With certain conditions changed we are not sure that Utah wants a state government. If she is to be ruled and preyed upon as she has been for the last decade, then she is desperately in earnest in asking the privilege of bearing her own burdens and working out her own destiny. II precedent were worth anything Utah would long ago have been in the Union, Few if any of the territories admitted since Vermont went in, 1791, had so large a population, popula-tion, or were so well qualified in any respect for sustaining a state government, govern-ment, as Utah is, Ohio was admitted with a population of 41,915; Oregon, 52,465; Nevada, 40,000; Nebraska, 60,000; Illinois, 34,620; Arkansas, 52,240; Florida, 54,447; Colorado, perhaps 100,000; while the population of Utah, to day, is between 150,000 and 175,000. Besides these figureB in our favor, the territory is otherwise better qualified for managing her own affairs than many of the states, But a lhrn ia na virtnft in nrecedent and little respeot for just claims, we have not expected a favorable report on the enabling bill. Nor, as said before, do we care for a state government if a diflerent policy is pursued by the federal power with the territory. There is good reason tor believing such change will be made, and this is ecu firmed by the additional Washington news that Mr. Cannon has been requested to prefer formal charges againBt the federal |