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Show i SiteiS in Egress. ' ' i 5l?e I?oueq Qommitte's Report or; Statehood Among tho reports made to tlio national Home ol Kepresentitls.es on January i, 1B93, u is one by the I louie committee on Territories, submitted by the clialtman, Mr. Miniur. The report was on "A bill to enable the people of Utah to form n constitution nnd stile (ovcrnment, nnd to be admitted Into the Union on an equal footing with the original states." It was committed to "the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union." The opening pages of the report con slst of number uf documents which hate heretofore) been published in the MttS. They are given In the following order. l'rochmatton by President Harrison, made January 4, 1S9J, granting amnesty to offenders against the Edmunds law of I S3 J. The manifesto of the l'irst Presidency of the Church, Issued September 93, 1890. The motion in relation to the manifesto, manifes-to, adopted at the Church Conference in Salt llie City, October 6, 1890 Governor Thomas' report to the Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior on the manifesto Official declaration of the I Irst ('residency ('resi-dency of the Church, made October 6, 1S91, denying the allegation of the Utah Commission tint plural marriages had been contracted during the preceding year, The petition of the I irst I'rcsldency and Apostles, asking amnest). This is dated December 19, 1891. The official endorsement, made December si, iSji, uf Cot crnor Thomas Thom-as and Chler Justico ane, to the petition for amnesty. The Gomnor'a report for 189J on the petition. Memorial of the Utah legislature of 180:, asking admission into the Union. Trie resolutions relating to statehood adopted In 1S91 by the Territorial Republican Re-publican and Democratic conventions, sad the references to the tame subject lathe national party platforms ol 1893. The report then says: ' When e remember that Utah liasn copulation of 333 000 people nnd property cf an assessed laluatlouof uvcrfioo,-kccw), uvcrfioo,-kccw), and of a real alue or not less n:ooooocoo, bclngopopuhtlon and uihfirecceding that of any Territory, Terri-tory, eicent South Dakota, that has eer hm admitted Into the Union as n stale, it Is nnd must be evident to All that the only barrier In all the past to the admission ad-mission of Utah as a state uns that of polygamy. rOLYOAMY KXTmUINATEU. "Whllo your committee utterly condemn con-demn the doctrine of pol) garni, nnd hold that so long as the Mormons constituted con-stituted the larger part of the population of the Territory of Utah, nnd personall) or as a matter of faith, with or ulthon the practice, bellee In the doctrine ul poltcamy. then It was proper and right lor the federal Government to use nil of its vast po ens to secure the overthrow over-throw and dctructlon of that practice, jet, in iew of the foregoing ficts set forth In this report, as well as tho concurrent con-current testimony ol all turtles Interested Interest-ed In the welfare of Utah who hate appeared before jour committee at its hearings upon this subject during the present Congress, as well ns the vast amount of testimony submitteil to our committee during the I iftieth Congress upon the same topics, compel jour committee to believe without doubt or hesitation that the Institution ofpoligamy ns taught by the Mormon Church, whether of faith or of practice, Is now absolutely stamped out and exterminated. extermin-ated. CHVRACTkR. Ol' MORMON IT.OrLL. "Your committee, In regard to the funeral character of the Mormon people or thrift, honest), moraht). sobrlct), nnd lrtue, other than their disputed doctrine of pol) gamy, call attention to the following statements and excerpts of evidence produced to jour committee: com-mittee: "The Mormon Church will be 6 jeirs old on the Cth day of April, 1893 Polygamy was not taught or proclaimed in the IkxA of Mormon. The Church long existed without polgam, and was about as, years old when the revelation of polygamy was promulgated, two or the three original witnessed to the translation of the Hook of Mormon seceded from the Church after it had adopted pol)gamy, and upon that account. The revelation concerning It was first made public in 1831, and Cubllshed In the book of "Doctrine anil ovenants" In 1353 I et us now see what are. the general characteristics of the Mormon people under the teachings of the!- religion. The statements of Judge C. S. ane, ex-U. S Marshal I II. Dyer, Governor Ktcphenson, of Idaho, Hi). -ml Tailor, Dr. Miller, Miles Grant. Mrs. 1 mil) I'm Stevens and Judge Alexander White, regarding the people of Utah, are Incorporated In the report. They have nil appeared In'the columns of the News. The committee next proceed with the subject of -- lorLLAiioN, "The Territory of Utah possesses In a marked degree those requirements esscnthl to statehood, 'the necessary population and resources ' The census of IS90 places the population popu-lation of Ulnh at 307.903, which is isoir more than the combined population of the States or Montana andVyomlng,and 17 034 In excess or the entire population of the adjoining States, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, and 34004 more than required re-quired under the census of 1890 for a UeprcscntatUe In Congress. "The popul ition Im greatly Increased since the census was taken The governor of the Territory in Ills report to tho Secretary of the Interior, dated October 1,1893, estimates the (wpulatlon at 331 910 being an Increase of 16,033 over tho census report. This is deemed ncry conservative estimate, and the population today may be safely placed at 333,000 "The Idea often expressed by persons ignornnt of the facts, that the people of Utah are mostly foreigners, is most successfully refuted by the census ic- fiorls, whieh make the following show ng- Total American born 151.841; total foreign born 33 061 "The proportion of foreign born to American born In I tah Is lest than in the States of North Dtkota, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada Wisconsin, ithodc Island, California, Massachusetts, South Dakota, New York, Michigan, Washing-leu Washing-leu and the Territory of Arliona. 1 Only in three States and one Territory Terri-tory hat the foreign population decreased more than In Utah during the last census decade. "The percentage of aliens who speak the Lnglish language is greater In Unll than in thirty-two States and two Territories. "The population of Utah consists largcl) ol the white clement, there being oreolored persons embracing civilised Indians, Chinese. Japanese, mid I la wa-Hans, wa-Hans, as well as Negroes, only 3,006 in the entire termor), less In proportion to the whites than any of the I'aclfic States and Territories "The total number of votes cast at the election for Delicate held In November, 1893, was 31 577, being an Increase uf io,Si3 over the election for members of the legislature held the year previous. VVLAtTll AND KI SOURCES. "Utah has all the elements of greatness great-ness within Its borders. Its resources being varied, diversified Industries llourish and the future gives promise of wonderful results Thespiendid system or irrigation which has been provided largely by communit) co operation, renders crops certain, and assures food supplies at cheap rates. Statistics are given In relation to Agriculture, Irrigation, Live Stock, Mining, Min-ing, Ltullillng and Investments, Hanking, Home Industries the Salt Industry. Suzar Tactor), Manufactures, Assessed Valuation of Property, Public Lands, Kallroads, Natural Gas, etc. The report ta)s, under the heading ot 1 m'CATioN Ni schools: Utah has an excellent free school t) stem supported by taxation, nnd much attention is being given to the cause oC education and the schools ol the Tern lory give promise or great dc lopment and usefulness "Die amount of Tcrntotlil and district dis-trict school tax levies for the benefit of the common free schools for the year 1891 amounted to JutS 633,3c, "Besides the common schpols, Utah has Its due proportion "f private, church, and denominations! hi hooli "In Jiis report for 1893 the commissioner com-missioner of schools for Utal .aja In my last annual report the number of children of school ge In the lerritor) was given at 66,009, of which yi 1 were uf Mormon mrcntaje and 13,963 were of nou Mormon parent i Ac cording to the present report the tot il number of children of school ge in tin Terrltor) Is 73,339. of which t ti an cf Mormon parentago and 13 i, of non Mrrmon parentage. ThL shows the Increase in one) ear of the children of school age who arc of Mormon parent age to Lo 084 per cent and the In creased those of non Mormon ptrent nee to be o 33 per cent The schedule (i'xlilliit A) of school population shows that there are 10,934 children of school age in the Termor) who attend no school The report for the preceding jcir (1891) showed, 11,019 It will therefore be noticed v tlial, while the number of children of school age is rapidly increasing, tha number ol those who attend no school (s decreasing ' A table, showing that the total amount Invested in the educational establish mint uf Utah Is f!,4J7,965 si, and the- Scncral distribution ul the schools iroughout the Territory, Is from the-report the-report or the commissioner or schools for 1S93. The remainder of the com mlttce s statement is as follows "Only about 5. per cent of the people of Utah nrc illiterate, and this fact, considered In connection with thu educational facilities of thel erritoryand the ambitious character of the people, is ample assurance of one uf the most essential characteristics of e.ood citizenship, citizen-ship, llutthenlm uf education in Utah is not merely to reduce the number of those who arc technically denominated Illiterates, but to give to the pupils the same training and learning that may be had in the best schools ol the I ast.nml therefore the course of study Includes not only the usual and ordlnar) branches, but extends to the higher studies which are taught In the schools of the older communities. ' Utah has not been unmindful of the more unfortunate class of its citizens It has established at I'rovo n large an I well equipped as) lum for the insane, and at Ogden n reform school provided w Ith all the nccessarv means for educating and instructing In some industrial pursuit pur-suit such liojs and girls as have no parents or homes and those who can not be controlled by home influences. TUB LNAUt.lNO ACT. 'The bill provides nn enabling net for the people of Utah Territory and the terms upon which the constitutional convention will be held mid the constitution con-stitution framed and submitted to t he-people he-people for their ratification or rejection The enabling net submitted is nhnobt literally 1 copy or that passed at the last session of Congress uv- this House or the ndmlislon of the Terrltor) of New Mexico "All persons qualified to vole for. representatives rep-resentatives of the legislative assembly are authurijed to vole for delegales tu form the convention, which shaNco-islst of 107 delegates, who nrc apportioned upon the following theory of representation' represen-tation' Kiery county to have ntlenst one delegate-, and one additional for every ooo of population nnd for the I irger fraction thereof The election is to be he! 1 for delegates on the fin-t Monda) hi August after the passage or this act. A new registration of voters Ij to I c made under tin provisions of the laws ol the United States and the Territory, the registration to commence on the lint Monday In June after the MSMgc of this act. Delegates to the convention shall met at the scat of rovcrntnent the third Monday after their election and dcclirc, un behalf of tin. people uf their proposed State, to adopt the Constitution uf the United Statis, whereupon the convention is nuthorlzea to form n state constitution and govern uicnt for the proposed State uf Utah It Is required that such constitution shall be republican In form, nnd make no distinction In civil or political rank on account of race or color, except ns to Indians not taxed, nnd not be r pugnant II the Constitution uf the United States nnd the principles of the D ct nation uf Independence They shall provide bv ordinance. Irrevocable without the consent con-sent of the United Statu, lint no inhabitant in-habitant shall cv er be molested in person or property on account of his ur her moile uf religious worship The con ventlon shall also provide that the proposed State uf Utah shall forever disclaim all right and title tothe unappropriated un-appropriated public lands l)Ing within the boundaries thereof, and all linds I) ing w ithin the limits of the- State'ou ned or lielel by any Indian r any Indian tribes, and until the Indian title si til havu been extinguished by the United States, such In llan reservation shall be and remain suhiect to the disposition of the United States All Indian lands shall remain under the absolute iurls-diction iurls-diction and control of the United Slates. "The other provisions usual In nn enabling act are required, especloll) that the debts uf the Territory are to be assumed and paid by the State, and provision made for the establishment nnd maintenance of public schools, tu be open to all the children of the Stale, free from sectarian inlluencc. The constitution thus formed tu be submitted to the people uf Utah Icnitoi) for ml ficatioo or rejection, at an election to be held at 11 time fixed by ordinance of the convention; hen, if a majority ol vote cast shall be for the constitution, the gov crnor shall certify the result to the President of the United Slates If he shall find the constitution am' govern-nent govern-nent of said proposed State to be republican re-publican in form, nnd all thu provisions or the enabling act nrc compiled with. It shall be his duty to issue n proclamation announcing the result of the election; whereupon the proposed Slate ol I tali shall be deemed admitted by Congress Into the Union upon nn equal footing with the original States Also, that until the next general census or until otherwise provide I by law, Utah shall be entitled te one Representative In tho Congress of the United Mates, who together with the other S'ate officers, may be elected at the same lime the election is held for the n luptlon uf the constitution Sections 6 10 14 Inclusive, relate to the dilTeicnt grants uf lands which It Ispniposcd Utah shall receive from the General Government. In view of the mountainous and arid character of the land, and as the larger part of all agricultural lands tving along the streams fit or cultivation without Ir rigitlou have-cither been hotncstcaelcd, purchased ur secured under the various land acts of the doveinment, It Is provided pro-vided that sections 3, 16 31, ami 36 In every township of the proposed State are kt lilted to It lor the support of common schools, with Indemnity for all lindshcrctofurc taken up, to be nude In such manner at the legislature may provide, with the approval ol the Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior. "One Hundred sections of land are granted for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital, loo.au acres foi the use nnd support of an ngtlcultural college, lopercent of the proceeds of the tales of public laudi within Ihe State sold aft. r the admission of the State, nnd nfter deducting all expenses, ex-penses, shall be paid to the State for a permanent fund, to be ilevutcel tiilhc 1 omnion schools, uf which lh- interest only shall be annually expended. All lauds granted to Utah for educational purposes nrc to be disposed of at public -ale, at n price not less than $5 per acre. Two townships of land arc to bore-served bore-served for the use of the Universit) of Utah. All schools, colleges, and universities provided for in this act are la remain forever under the excluiive control uf the State No part uf the proceeds of the lands can be used lor the support of any sectarian or denomln a tioiul school, college, or universit) All mineral 1 inds areexetnpt from nny grant made under the net The lands here l,h en to the State uf Utah nra In lieu ol all grants of lands for the purposes of internal Improvements also swamp nnd overflowed lands nnd uf saline lands, and shall be In quantities ns follows 'Tor irrigating purposes, 500000 acres, for insane as)luiu, 100,000 acres; for school of mines, ioo,m acres, lor deaf and dumb ns)luin, 100000 acres fir rcfonn school, iooo acres, lor State- normal Sehool, 100.000 acres, for an institution for the blind, 100,000 acres, for miners' hospit d 50100 acres, also the United Slates penitentiary near Salt 1 akc Ol), with all lands nnd appurtenances attached, arcgrtntedto Ihe State of I tali. These arc specific grants of lands exclusively for the purposes mentioned, it Is expressly provided in til- net that Utah Is not to be entitled to nn) further grants of lands. All lands grintcd are tu be sold at puhhc sale nnd not lest than 55 per acre, provided the State m ly lease nn) uf tne lands for n period uf time not more than live ycirs. Ihe Stitc of Utah to comprise one- judicial dibtr ct, for which there shall be une United States district judge, une attornc), one marshal, ami n clerk for each of the circuit and district courts, with proper prov islons for the transfer or all business - I H from the courts of the Territory to the 1 lederal courts of tho State, and also M provides for all cases uf appeal or B writs of error in cases pending now or H hereafter In the Territorial courts to the M Supreme Court of the United States M Section 19 appropriates (30,000 to the I H territory lor defraying tho expenses of ' H the convention. Section 30 provides H that the convention shall, bv ordinance, ( H provide for the election of Officers for the M new State government, Including mem- H bcrs of the legislature and a Keprescn H tatlvc tn the-1 illy third Congress, all M whom shall remain in abeyance unt 'H the State Is admitted Into the Union H U admitted, the legislature shall H isscmble nnd elect two Senators, in M the manner prescribed by the laws or H tho United States, and upon th H governor's certificates the Senators and H Representative shall be entitled to seats H fn Congress. Also, that nil laws In forco H in the 'territory at the time of Its H admission Into the Union shall be in H force in the State until modified ur H changed, according to its constitution H and laws. H SUMMARY AND RI COllllh.NDATlOS B "Ihe Mormon Church nnd Its ad- B hcrcnls have been subject for long years H tu the sharpest and must unkindly B criticisms and heretofore all pra)crs of M the M01 moo people for statehood have M been denied, lnuinuch as ) our com- H mittee have come tu the conclusion H that the time lor statehood for Utah ha H nt last arrived, It Is eminently proper H that thu characteristics of the Mormon H people shall be nude known, not only H I ir the- Information of Congress, but of H the nation H 'These sta'cments will be repeated H from Ihe pulpit an I the slump, and H around Christian firesides H "Miny im tiadsuf people who here- H toforc line looked upon the Mormons H ns nurd otitliwn, it believed, will B change their opinion, nn 1 admit that 1 H people showing the characteristics that H the Mormon possess, arc at list worthy H uf statehood with full admission to all H the rights of American citlrcnshlp, H Upon Uiis branch of the question, )our H committee quote- from the argument of H Judge Jcrcmi di M Wilson, of Washing- H Inn Cit), made before the Committee on H Ierrtturlcs In 1889 Judge Wilson, H among other things, split H ' Leih Is applying far admission and we have 1 en fore 1 1 in u re fin!, whether tl e e i- H Otl rs Congress Im a rcht to require ev t H unit Mcond if thrr do whether time Is any- JM ihnco i-eof these const lions that will Just 1 Utah has mors than 300,090 Inhabitants H mucliauovt the number tcsiuIicu ITutlsnot H Lesh has s public school system of lb- highest order of excellence mil a university of H I Igh repute I very denomination of the Oir s- H llan chui he have their seminaries of learnl l, H and the result of il Is as near universal ly of ' H education indeed less llllteney thin Is to te H fotindlo any other I erritoryand a majority of tJ s H Su es. this is not d spsMeJ. H ' s a temperate orderly, law abMing- in. dustrlo is tl irfiy peoj le the population of Vi ih H uv at le est no superlnrs This Is not ddputr I, H ' The ownership ol the land, that great source H of good conservative citizenship la mora evenly H an Fun vcrully distributed among these people H ihs 1 ihoso of any oilier Iermory In the nat n. H Hi s is rot disputed v H Her tnanutaelurc Include almost every H B8 tsseful stllclf. lbs products uf liertolsnl At yield ef hr mine ofgrrrate ft creal mars' m Mons of dollars annually, und she lias flncVa and herds whete al it alpne W not lest II an M Ijo wvwo. None of Ibis is disputed . "Her cliarltahle Institutions ata abreast of Mi our adranred civilisation, n Is is not deputed HH t "No i eople are freer from the sices that seem bWV I to lie attendant upon humanity an 1 infest com I pea et populations. This will not to disputed Utah Is situated ml Iway between the rmt risers of IheU est and tha Pacific and Is Iraurted by lines of transcontinental railways I Ich-wayt Ich-wayt of the continent, and It Is no esinerttTon to say highways of Jhe world. Her geograph leal position, fogether with 1 er east agricultural, ! fnmersl ana manufacturing: retoorcrs, and the Intelligent1 energy, and high character of lier people malts statehood of fast Importance not sjjk l only to Utah btt to tha whole, country, rhlt ff f will not LenditrHtieil. f "In view of (he foregoing, political Bl reasons alone can no longer be urged Bi i to delay the admission of Utah as a Hi Sut BJ "Alt mouths should be hushed, and BJ. i all opposition silenced, after llto I'res- BJ Y Ident has amnestied all put offenses', i BJ , after both political parties In national BJI convention assembled lave1 declared Bf i that the time has tome for the admission ( of all tha Territories, of which (tali l H I one) after the Tenltorlal conventions of BJ V 1(9, wherein bo(li of raid grrtt parties Bk, 1 declare for statehood, and that the hour BH Is ripe for the admission of Utah; alter BE, the legislature of Utah has declared BH' unanimously for itateliood; after the BJr governor of the Territory, all of its BJ Territorial officers, and Its judiciary, nil BK uf whom are Republicans In politics, BHr have declared, that In their opinion Bfl , polygamy Is abolished and at an end, BjK ' after all the members of the Utah Coin-BB Coin-BB mission, a commission created express-BH express-BH ly to crush and obliterate polygamy, has e BH declared their work practically ac-BH ac-BH comphshed. alter the Mormon Church, BH through all of its heads and olTiclilt, HHf publicly, privately, and in everyway HB possible for mortals to do and proclaim, HHj ha, e with bowed heads. If not In anguish, m pledged tlielrfaith and honor that never- rl mora in the future shall polygamy with-j with-j ft in the Mormon Church lie cither a J doctrine of faith or of practice, there Ja, certainly can ba but one sentiment, but ff one opinion among all lust minded HJ 3 ; legislators In Congress Upon the question ufci oltluty, and tint Is to admit Ltah as a IF State Into the 1 ederal Union. By "Your committee recommend that the H IKI "' P'"'" |