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Show rr.FMAn i:k am IIXAm I8SD. Klsowhere in thM columns will be found Uio full tnt of tho iiili recently prepared by tho democratic cent nil committee of Utah introduced in the house of representatives yestardny by Delegate Gum and in the senate by Mr. FAl i.KNr.u, which in nearly every attribute except in name, vests the territory ter-ritory with tho privileges of statehood. In fact little or nothing could be added by it to give Utah all tho attributes of a sovereign fi!:ito except ex-cept tho matter of prCVidifig for tho choice of two senators, a representative and for representation accordingly in tho electoral college. It is a most peculiar measure, so much so indeed that it can never become be-come a law. To any intelligent person who has perused it, tho query will naturally arise, "Why make two biles of a cherry? Why not grant statehood at onco and bo dono with it?" It may bo answered: "Oh! well, it doesn't provido for representation in congress and in the electoral college."' How little, though, that would signify to the country at largo when it is Considered how slight, numerically speaking, Utah's representative would figure in those bodies. Its main features are wholly without precedent in tho construction of territorial terri-torial organic acts or iu amendments thereof. There are now but four territorial terri-torial dependencies left, and it cannot bo longer than a few years at most when all of them except Alaska, perhaps, will havo acquired statehood. With, this fact in view thero can ho no need of haste in giving any one of them the attributes at-tributes of statehood practically, as tho bill in question proposes to extend to Utah. There are no evils existing here in our local governmental conduct that call for such radical departure from the method of territorial government hitherto prevalent, especially so when it is considered that it is but a matter of the comparatively brief period of four or five years in which Utah will havo become a star in tho constellation of our national ensign. |