Show KNOW UTAH L By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS In the Inaugural address ot of Governor Heber M. M Wells ells the first governor ot of the state ot of Utah he trac traced d the history ot of the several attempts to bring about statehood Two ot of those attempts have been detailed d ln in this column the third This movement began In D December r. r 1861 and on the day clay ot of that month the Utah legislature was as con con- v n d In regular session In Salt Lake City and nd organized or- or by electing Daniel H. H Wells president ot of the council and John Taylor speaker ot of the house The latter had been appoInted the delegate to Wash ash Washington ashIngton Ington to carry the second constitution and accompanying documents to congress However they were quietly laid upon the congressional shelf shelt and were never resurrected Governor Wells In telling the story pertaining to statehood continued d by saying At the beginning beginning begin begin- ning ot of the eleventh annual session ot of the territorial assembly a a. bill was Introduced for tor an act providing for a ot of delegates delegates' for tor the formation ot of a constitution and state convention The bill was passed by byboth both branches ot of the assembly and when presented for tor signature ot of approval by Governor John W. W Dawson Dawson Daw- Daw son he vetoed the measure and gave as his principal principal prin- prin cipal reason that the time Intervening between the passage ot of the tho act and the date dato fixed In the act Itself Itself- January 6 6 on 1862 n whIch to take tako the sense sensa ot of the electors ot of the territory for tor or against a state convention con con- was too short to allow duo notice to be given the leople or for tor the act to be submitted to congress prior to the election ot of delegates to the tho convention or th thO holding ot of the convention itself Governor Dawsons Dawson's views were not satisfactory for It was held on the other hand that the legislature legislature legis- legis lature and the tho people generally felt It was neceSsary necessary sary to first submit the act ot of congress ln in ordEr to render it operative so far as holdIng a constitutional convention was l. l The legislature was of course powerless to do more In the premIses prem prem- but Lut the people convened In mass meeting January January Jan Jan- uary 6 6 1862 and elected delegates to a. a state convention convention con con- to be held at Salt Lake CIt City January 20 1862 In the meantime Governor Dawson had left the territory Governor Dawsons Dawson's stay In Salt Lake was unusually unusual brie brief He arrived early ln in December and remained but thirty days dars his departure being due to remarks made to a woman At Hanks mill the stage stagecoach stagecoach coach In whIch the governor was traveling was wa way laid by a gil gang g ot of ruffians it was said who robbed and maltreated him With the departure ot of Governor Governo Dawson Frank Fuller who had been secretary ot of the territory succeeded succeeded suc suc- and assumed the duties ot of the and he approved a 0 memorial to that body to arrange for tor the admission ot of Utah Into the union Action ot of the general assembly and the approval of the measure by the acting governor resulted In the delegates selected to the state convention assembling assembling assem- assem bling ln in the county courthouse In Salt Lake City on the date set January 20 1862 Organization was perfected by the election of Daniel H. H Wells elIs aspres ident William Clayton secretary Patrick Lynch and Robert Hobert L. L Campbell assistant secretaries and Robert T. T Burton sergeant |