Show BIRTHDAY perhaps it was because of uncertainty ks as to the day which ought to be signalized signalizes as the anniversary of birth as a state that no notice was taken of it in the forenoon of jwu jan 4 1896 president cleveland signed that proclamation declaring utah a state to ilk the union and on jan 6 two daya dasy later the general officers of the state were inaugurated and the machinery of its government was set in moti motion ork the signing of the proclamation wad the official act that made utah a member of the sisterhood of states and not the inauguration of her officers hence jan 4 was the anniversary of her birth into the union and is the date on which that event should always be ba commemorated |