Show I K KNOW UTAH sA H I I. I By ALBERT L r j p. p PHILIPS I L 1 Disappearance of ot the constitution under which the territory or of Utah was admitted to the union recalls the fact that It was th the seventh constitution formulated formulated formu formu- for tho the provisional sta state e of or Deseret and territory terri terr- tory and that it w was is-as s the he first one adopted under the enabling act acU signed by President Grover Cleveland on July 16 1894 1894 All AU of the previous constitutional conventions called for the purpose of being admitted into the union bad lind been upon the initiative of th the people of the provisional state and territory and without authority of congress S S The first moye toward tho the adoption of a constitution tion was as made at a convention in Salt Salt Lake Lake March 8 8 J 1849 when the tho question pf or petition to the union congress congress congress con con- gress for adm admission was yas ras discussed The convention was vas in session three days A committee consisting of John M r M. M Bernhisel Albert Carrington ton John S. S Fullmer Fullmer Fullmer Full Full- mer Joseph L. L Heywood Parley arley 1 1 Pratt Charles C. C lich RIel William W. W Phelps John Taylor antI and Erastus Snow were sere delegated to draft a n constitution for a state government nt Little time was as consumed in the I o ot of the constitution for lor it was s submitted to o th the convention a short time after the committee was vas appointed The name of Deseret was vas given the proposed state The document vas was subjected to a brief debate and was vas then adopted S S SAn An election n followed the he adoption d of th the constitution tion Lion on March 12 1849 for officers of the provisional state and aid Brigham Young was elected governor Meanwhile Almon W. W Babbitt had been delegated by the mal convention to proceed to Washington Washington Wash Yash ington with the he petition to congress and the constitution constitution constitution tion praying for admission Into the union of the state of Deseret I It was ws a a a. long trip to the capital from froni Deseret and more than two months was required to tomake tomake make male the journey Mr Air Babbitt B w was s given a a. cordial rec reception by members members' of congress but when he presented presented presented pre pre- the petition petition- to congress and after i it was vas as de debated de- de bated f for r several weeks weeks' the pra prayer cr of the petition n was denied S S S Wh While 10 congress declined to grant the p petition forthe for forthe for fo the admission of Deseret into the union a law creating creating cre cre- the territory tei p 9 of Utah wa passed and signed by y President Fillmore on September 9 1850 S S The original territory or- or U Utah hh was was was' bounded bound d on the he north by the territory of Oregon on the east by the summit of Jie Rocky mountains mountains' on the tle south by the thirty-seventh thirty parallel of north and on the west by California The area was as approximately ly square re mil miles s and included was th the country now embraced by Utah And va the western p part r rt of or Colorado and the southwest cornet corner o of Wyoming S S 5 President Millard 1 Fillmore appointed Brigham Young governor on September 20 1850 Four months months' later on January 27 27 1851 Mr Ir Young received notice of or his appointment ent and andon on February 3 1851 took the oath of office S S The state of ot Deseret had elected a a s' legislature which met c n D July 2 2 and 1849 adjourned April 5 1851 A A |