Show HOW SHALL WE GET THERE the present movement for state lood differs materially from every previous effort in several respects A glance at the reports of the several committees is sufficient evi bonce to prove that the members of i fie te convention have fully reali realized zed the situation and understood the ponderous task assigned them had they not been able to grasp tile ithe situation th their ei r labows labors would in all likelihood prove unsuccessful hope has lured them on and alid confidence has characterized their every effort to arami frame a constitution so broadanx broad broa dand and liberal that COD congress gress cannot with any degree g of consistency i ignore 0 nore it heretofore the people have importuned importuner through n a sense of duty scarcely daring to hope that their efforts would ue be crowned croWn cd with mth success but now confidence and assurance take the alace of former doubts and misgivings 0 the following from the S L herald show the mods operandi nai employed by other territories to atta into statehood states have been admitted into the union in three ways 1 where the people of a TI territory either by spontaneous action or by y le legislative 0 statute or executive proclamation have formed acon ution and have elected off officers to administer it and have present presented it to con congress ress for admission under it 2 where congress liar has first past an enabling act authorizing azin r the formation of ot a Ceni Cons titu tiou tion prescribing conditions and providing for admission when the constitution should be adopted and the condi conditions tiong accepted 3 when a constitution J formed without a congressional con g ress ional enabling act has been presented to congress 0 and congress has accepted it conditionally to the acceptance by the people of certain terms or qualifications it will be seen therefore that spontaneous action of the people of utai mall in the present instance as U in accordance with precedent irwill it will be seen also thatis that if the people see fit to complete their state organization to the extent of electing the officers necessary to administer it they will be sustained hy precedent we entis eider laer that if tile the latter I 1 project were carried into effect and a d par portion i of the atri ollices cs filled with prominent members of the minority that it would have h a telling efrece ulon uron congress t notwithstanding ill all of the technicalities it is simply a question of time before we atvill get viere flere and that too without sailing under false colors |