Show THE COMMITTEE REPORT washington jan 24 herald D delegate isgate caines bill giving an all enabling en ibling act to utah which was agree agreed d to by the house territories committe commett e at its last meeting 0 was today favorably reported to tile houss the report which accompanies the bill was written by mr caine and mr mansur of missouri it is an interesting document mr Caine and mansur begin their report by quoting president harrisons proclamation granting amnesty to the dis franchised as a supplement to the manifesto of prest woodruff in which poly polygamy ganly as an article of church faith was solemnly is also 9 given ell the report details at some length the subsequent action of the mormon people where in general conference the presidents manifesto was approved the petition bior for amnesty referred to by the president in his proclamation signed by the leading men in the mornion mormon church cherchis chur chis is given in full ful lasis as is also the letter written by y governor thomas and the federal judges of utah asking tho the presidents favorable consider consideration atio n of the petition caine and mansur 11 ansur referring specifically to the statehood question quote from efroni the resolution of the republican territorial convention on ven tion held in the summer of 1892 wherein tile the party pledges itself that its best efforts shall be exerted to secure stat statehood chood for atall they also copy the tn planks of the democratic territorial convention upon the same subject as well as tile the planks in tile hie republican and democratic democrat ie national I 1 platforms of the last year the report from this point says whon when we remember that utah has a population of people and property of an assessed vi valuation of over if and of afi a real value of not less than being a population and wealth far exceeding c tZe ecoling that of any territory except south dakota Di kota that has ever been admitted in the union as states it is and must be evident to all that tile the only barrier in all the past to adais admission ion of utah butali as ar a state was that of polygamy a in y while your committee utterly condemn the doctrine oi of polygamy and hold that so long 0 as the ae mo cormons mormons constitute the larger part of the population of the territory of utah and personally or as a matter of faith with or without the irac practice tice believe in the doctrine of polygamy then it was pi proper oper and right for the federal government to use all of its vast powers to secure the overthrow and destruction of that practice yet in view of the foregoing facts i set forth in the report as well as tho the concurrent testimony of all 1 birties arties interested in the w elfare of atall who have appeared before your 3 alir committee in its hearing hearin during ri n the present congress n as as well a the vast amount of testimony submitted to your committee during the fiftieth congress upon the same topic compel your your committee to believe without doubt or hesitation i on that the institution of polygamy amy as taught by tile the mormon church whether it is faith or practice is now absolutely stamped out the interview with chief J justice zane which was printed sho shortly rt after mr teller introduced the statehood bill in the senate is also given it in I 1 the report to show the confidence which that distinguished jurist has in the integrity and industry of the I 1 mormon people as well as the testimony given by the late frank dyer before tho the house territories committee upon the same subject the report also hows that utah possesses in market degree those essentials of state statehood hoad nap iely the necessary population resources it quotes from recent census reports to prove that the population of tile the territory in 1890 was in round numbers to winch which is more than the combined population bation of the state of montana and nd wyoming byomin 0 and 17 in excess of the entire tion of the adjoining states of af nevala idalio and wyoming arid and 1000 more inore than is required in the census of 1890 for a representation in congress it explains that the number of the inhabitants it in tile tho territory has t greatly since the last census and estimates the present population as being a the report refutes the statement that the people of utah are mostly foreigners by using the figures of the iho census to show the population in 1890 were american born and aej were of foreign birth the reports adds that tile the population of foreign 0 born to Arne american rican burn born in uta utah h is less than in the states of north dakota minn aeota montana nevada Wis wisconsin consi n rhod island california massachusetts south dakota new york michigan washington and tho territory of arizona only in three of the states stales and one of the territories has the foreign population decreased more than in ill utah during the last census decade the pre of aliens who speak the english language 0 is greater in utah t that hat in ill thir thirty ty two states and two territories the population of utah coi consists insists largely of the white element clementt there liere being of colored persons embracing civilized indians chinese Ja phanie and hawaiian Hawaii ans as well as negroes nc groes only 2001 2000 in the entire territory less in population to the whites than any of the pacific keates and territories terri toris the census reports are freely drawn upon to show tile material benefits deraven from irrigation th the amount of dic ii live ve stock int interests acresti in tile territory as well as tile the mining the manufacturing and other important industries the real value of the property in territory is asserted to lie ile worth not bess less than the steam railway system embraces 1291 miles of roads while tile the street railway systems in the three cities salt lake O ogden oden den and provo aggregate 1 I seventy four miles the healthful growth of the frac school system is referred to with pardonable pride and a long array of fi figures agures 0 are given to show not only t alie lie amount of school property but the number of pupils oi of all religious denominations who are enjoying its benefits the conclusions of the committee upon this point are given as follows only about 5 per rent cent or of the people of utah are illiterate and this fact considered in connection with ahe the facilities of tile territory and the ambitious char actor of the people is ample assurance of the tone of the most essential characteristics of good citizenship zen ship but thenia of education is not merely to reduce the number of those who are technically denominated illiterates but to give to the pupils the same training that may be had in the best schools of the cast and therefore the course of study includes not only the usual ier or ordinary branches branche but extends to the hi leigber r studies which are taught in the schools of the older com communities mu n i ties an explanation of the provisions of the enabling n act bill as given an all and the report concludes a as s follows tile mormon church and its adherents have been subject je at a along lon time to tn the sharpest and most unkind criticisms and heretofore all prayers of the mormon people for statehood statehood h ha e afen denied inasmuch is your am matteo have come to the conclusion that the time for statehood for utah lias at last arrived it is eminently ay iy proper that the characteristics of the mormon people shall be made known not only for the information ot of congress ID but of the nation the statement will be repeated from the pulpit and the jhb stump and around christian fi resides many myriads of the alie people who heretofore fore e have looked upon the as moral outlaws it is believed will change their opinion and admit that the people showing 3 the characteristics that the mor cormons mormons trolls posse pos sei Lq are arc at last worthy of state hood with tile tho full admission to all to rights of american citizenship |