Show aki B II 11 alone AND MANY TALK FOR IT the article on public lauds has been reported ted petitions presented pastor of the unitarian church bay stanley M hunt opened the thursday greer of utah presented a petition signed by bilty citizens of fork asking that the prohibition question be submitted to the legal voters of the territory the following article on public lands was received and referred to the corn of the whole 1 all lands of the state that have been or that may hereafter be granted to the bbate by congress and all lands acquired or grant or devise from any person or corporation or that may be otherwise ac are hereby received and shall be the public lands of the state and shall be held in for the people to ba disposed of aa hereafter provided for the respective purposes for which they bave been or may be granted donated devised or otherwise acquired and none of such lands nor any estate or interest therein ahall ever be of except in pursuance of general laws providing for each disposition nor unless the full market value on the estate or disposed of to be ascertained in euch manner as may be provided by law be paid or eai elv secured to the state nor shall any lands that the state holds by grant from the united states in any caad in which the manner of disposal and minimum price ore eo be disposed ol 01 except in the manner or for at leat thu price prescribed in the rant thereof the consent of the united states said lands shall be classified by ane board of land as fo llowd first lands which are valuable only lor grazing purposes tie cond those which are principally valuable for the limber that ie on them or anu stone and coal which ia in them third agricultural lands fourth lands within the limits of any town or city provided that any auca lands may be reclassified whenever by reason of increased for irrigation or otherwise they be subject to different classification sec 2 lands of the farat of said may be sold or under auch rulea and regulations as may be prescribed by law the lands of the aanond class may be fold or the tim bar or the atone and chai therein may ba abeld auch enlea atad as may bo prescribed by law the agricultural lands may be either cold or leased under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law the lands of the fourth class be cold ia lots not at mora than flye acres each sec 3 all other public lands may be disposed of in such manner as may be by law sec 4 the lauds of the state dball be under the supervision ion and control of three land commissioners commissi onera electea by tha people and said land commissioners shall locate and dispose of the public lands under auch rules and aa the legislature may prescribe the convention then went into coc of the whole on iho article B H roberts mide a speech 0 an hours duration opposing comans womans sun rage there waa very little real substance to the speech be believed suffrage would tend to post pono if made a part of the i constitution mr Ohi deeter of garfield chairman of the committee followed with a speech favoring comans womans Thoo Bands though oat the territory had petitioned for it and both parties were pledged to it if any mistake bad been made it was when both parties incorporated the equal plank in their platform mr anderaon of beaver read a caret tally prepared speech wom ans intellectual equality with men mr of utah was in for logic and not oratory his friend from DATI B could indulge in the latter bat hi would treat the logically he denied that the adoption of comans womans would endanger the constitution what confidence would the people of utah have in both parties if they failed to carry out their none tee dominant church need not be feared with equal it would let politics alone if politicians would leave it alone mr richards read a prepared speech on the subject there waa ni more fancer he thought in letting his wife acte than in letter g him vote mr cannon denied that it would arouse ohp animosities of the past mr robinson of kane was for the plat tom pledge he would rather have utah remain out of the union than have her women denied their rights the committee then amoeo and the convention a journea without voting on the question it will be further |