| Show TO HAVE A MORMON STATE the telegraph announces that a bill his bits passed tho the territorial legislature of utah for a convention to frame a state constitution it wu was introduced on last thursday anil ga ca I 1 friday 7 it was waa carried through throng lt ill all its readings and its final passage in the brier brief space of an hour this rivals the tha most reckless haste baste of a tammany legislature do but can til the egui by which this speed was wag as relentless as any ever plied by tho the CI ex BOM dow the bill is said ea id to be a church measure and bears upon its rice face clear traces or of its paternity the present legislature is 19 strongly ugly mormon sea and the convention to be called would be of the tamo ilk it is ia altogether improbable that such a body of delegates could frame a constitution that would pass muster in Con greba they could never deviso an organic gorganio law that would insure to utah a republican form of gove government and congress will never dever permit them to es cs cablish for themselves one bat will not insure this but supposing it possible for them to lo construct a constitution precisely lilo lilio that of his bis or any other state slate there would still till bo be little probability ly of their gaining admission to the union at least before dismisses toly polygamy gamy from its creed admission as a state would bring to utah the sovereign rights of a state slate it would no longer bo be subject to that a t ho rit y which bt ell congress tow exer ciach 5 a 0 over r it its governor and judiciary would bo be elected by the people not appointed from washington what a relief relict this would be to the tha mormons cormons can be readily seen when we observe that their present troubles are I 1 ro the ho sole ola result of the action of federal authorities local officials anio ala mla have not the desire or not the courage to attack the unlawful tod outrageous practices of brigham and lis bis a sinta 1 i only officers officer who do not owe their places to the votes of normans have aie tho the disposition position diB and add boldness bold cess to mote out to bl barmon rmon crime the convention to bo be voted for on tho the twenty ninth of hid month is a movement to rid the isaials of further legal there is i little probe proba ability that hat it will bo be successful atwi Lc |
