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Show A UTAH STATEHOOD BILL. Introduced in tin- Ncmit.- by Teller of Colorado Colo-rado Totlay. Washington, Jan. Is Senator Teller today to-day introduced a bill to admit Clan into the Union as a state. All persons qualified to vote for representatives to the 1 ijdslative assembly are made eligible by the. bill to be eleeteil to the convention to form a state, constitution, which a ti a 1 1 meet ou tho first Tuesday of October, 1893. The bill, after reciting the usual provisions of a constitution to be adopted, further pro-videa pro-videa that it shall secure perfect toleration tolera-tion of religion sentiment nnd forbids the molestation of any person in the state in person or property on account of mode of religious worship. All rights to public lands are to be dis-claimed. dis-claimed. by the state and November, lS'.ri, is fixed as the date of the ratification of the constitution by the people. |