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Show P10 Statehood: The Dream Comes True Lake City-County Building at 4th South andState It was a diverse group indeed those 107 delegates. Their task was arduous, especially sincethey were faced with addressing such sensitive issues as separation of churchand state — particularly prickly question in Utah — and @ Continued from P-8 female suffrage founded Salt Lake Collegiate Institute (later to become Westminster College) in 1875, while the Catholics established St. Mary's Academy, and Utah Agriculture College was foundedin Loganin 1888 as a product of a federal land-grant act As for mission schools, the Presbyterian Church established 49 in theterritory, the Methodists 46, the Congregationalists 38, and the Baptists 13 Utah’s population reached 210.779 by the 1890 census, and as the territory camein closer harmony with the national scene 1891 saw Republican and Demoeratic parties organized in Utah while the MormonPeople’s Party that had so staunchly fought the Liberals was dissolved. The Liberal Party eventually would disbandin 1893 Once President Harrison had officially pardoned polygamists. the way was clear to again pr for self-rule — work was begun on Utah's seventh attempt at admission into the union Gov. Caleb West, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior for 1893, now strongly urged passage of an enabling act allowing Utahns to formulate a consti- tution; he also recommendedrepeal of the Edmunds-TuckerLaw which escheated the property of the LDS Church There is left, neither reason nor excuse, in my judgment for taking from the Mormon Church and people their property, andit ought to berestoredto them,” the governorsaid West's use of the word “escheated” was, in the eyes of many residents, merely an available legal termto describetheact of outright confiscation. Nevertheless. the return of nearlya half-million dollars in personal property was more than welcometo an almost bankrupt Mormonpopulace The year 1894 saw Utah's Legislature pass a law mandating an eight-hourworking day intheter- ritory. h 1895, And in M UTAH CENTENNIAL 1896-1996 Sunday, January 28, 1996 The Salt Lake Tribune the 107 members of Utah’s Constitutional Convention convenedin the civil courtroom of the new Salt If nothing else, the delegates brought a wide range of experi- compromise, preparations were made for election of state offi cers, and all the other requirements being met, President Grover Cleveland signed the college. an equal footing with the original eight men to carry it. Throughthe cutout shape of the 45th star, five 32-candlepower electric lights exciting farming centers, whose chief buildings revealed the in- states “is now an accomplished fact! The date was Saturday, Jan. 4 8966. had served in previous constitu- bration: cannons, bells, whistles tional conventions and were fa- and general jubilation miliar with the infighting and po- Precisely at 9:13 a.m., the superintendent of Western Union Theconvention was steeped in talent. There were former legis: tors. mayors. county selectmen, county attorneys. probate judges, justices of the peace, businessmen, lawyers, merchants, manu- facturers andcivicleaders bythe score. Many had beenactivein the MormonPeople’s andthe Liberal parties Utah’s then a voice, and counties all had a sharp eye was peeled for potential problems such as water rights, the school system, a realistic homesteadlaw andcollateral headaches Blurred by a century of hind- sight, the perspective of ArticleI, Section 4, a 134-word guarantee of religious liberty stricter than that found in the First Amendment to the U.S, Constitution, became controversial in the 1990s when it was arguedthe 1895 delegates overdrew the constitutional line between church and state Yet it was framed by men who represented the extreme and mainstreamof 19th-century soci- ety in Utah (In 1992, that paragraph was targeted for changeinafailed ef- fort by those who supported prayer in public meetings.) A uniquesituation existed in 1895 to ensure aless turbulent at- mosphere for convention dele. gates. Recognizing that the Woodruff Manifesto indeed met conditions for admission to the union, non-Mormons and their supportive newspaper voice, The Salt Lake Tribune, opponents of polygamy andecclesiastical con trol ofpolitics, reacheda delicate armistice with the LDS Church and cameout for statehood In this way, the national press was robbed of fodder to fuel antagonismover Utah’s latest try at self-rule With the adjournment of the convention on May 8, 1895, after 66 days of vigorous debate and Logan, with 5,000 inhabitants. was beginning to orient its life aroundits 8-year-old land-grant 78 feet, made from1,296yards of alt Lake City explodedin cele- litical maneuvering that marked suchevents. long, but it was steam-powered proclamation declaring that admission of Utah into the Union on Several ence to the job at hand. street railway was only six miles nies that would invest the new state withits first slate of elected officers. Inside, the Tabernacle dome was festooned with an American flag measuring 132 by Telegraph Co. had rushed franti- cally from his Main Street office brandishing a double-barrelshotgun, the contents of which he discharged skyward in two resounding reports. A small boywitnessing the unusual scene froma distance dove for cover assuming a holdup was in progress. Meanwhile, two blocks away, at 133 S. West Temple, Benjamin Midgely wasraising the first 45star Americanflag over TheSalt Lake Tribune building Utah wasa statein the Unionat last! As the newsspreadthrough the city, merchants began decorating their stores and buildings with national emblems. bunting and flags. According to the Deseret News. George M., Scott and Cunniugham & Co. had installed tem- bunting and so weighty it took neuvered the enabling through Congress. Wells, the new governor. with a vigorous toot on his tin horn On inaugural day, the following Mond. Salt Lake al residents crowded the Tabernacle for ceremo- marked, Utahalreadyhad a larger population thanfive of its sis- terstates; of its residents, eight of 10 were American-born and nine of 10 were Mormons. “Apart from approximately 3,000 Indi- ans, mostly on reservations, the 571 Negroes and 768 Chinese counted in the 1895 territorial census werethe largest racial minorities. Ralph/Ted Owners ‘We'll provide you with superior products, Fewof the newstate's residents livedincities, though the 50,000 populating the capital enjoyed manyof life's urban amenities. award winning workmanship, and customer service at extremely competitive prices. Call today Power and telephonelines pre- and see for yourself why city boasted a university and eight we've been Utah's #1 siding company since a7 SIDING, EAVE USA AND WINDOWS recently completed gravity sewmains, and the 3-year-old resort air, perchedonpiles in Great Salt Lake, were further evidence of progress. But as progress moved fromthe heart of town, it still marched on unpavedstreets As Poll points out Twenty-seven years as a railroad center had brought Ogden 15,000 inhabitants, 10 miles of street railway, two academies, oneof thefirst hydro-electric projects in the United States, and someof the most eventful Saturdaynights to be found outside the mining camps. Provo, with only 400 students in its Brigham Young Academy and the Geneva steel plant not even dreamed of, was a quiet Free Estimates 561-3781 800-432-5888 county seat with 6,000 people; its Haaga’s We’re proud of our Pioneer Heritage Our “family owned business” has — Madein Utah been serving Utah for over 40 yrs. by Utahn’s MATTRESS FACTORY n 1895, when AnneLarsen was born ANY SIZE MATTRESS Salt Lake City was a very different place. During her younger ablishedin 1897 andthe Legis. tate created the Utah ArtInsti tute to sponsor finearts Thehorizons for this spanking new 45th state were bright and beckoning as the new century dawned during the Utah War Ashistorian Richard D. Poll re- age system with seven miles of amid enthusiastic the the first in thestate, was commander of the Nauvoo Legion LDS Temple. And just before noon a Utah National Guardartillery battery throng of Utah celebrators. The Deseret News also noted that one Bill Bingley and his shotgun brigade” kept things popping with repeated volleys opposite Browning Bros. store while a youngster nearby joined national forest” NortonS” Wells was the son of Daniel H. Wells, third mayor of Salt Lake City and academies, a limited distribution of natural and manufactured gas, 68 miles of street railway, three daily newspapers, three theaters and two businessmen’s clubs. A cheering from the gathering occasionally As Utah moved forward, Uinta Forest Preserve, act Chief Justice Charles S. Zane administered the oath to thestate officials, headed by Heber M pret alion Wo hastily strung the acd Stripes between the east and west towers ofthe Salt Lake half-dozen “bombs’ a downtown street rattled windows for and gone tomorrow but were notori ously here today was read by Joseph L. Rawlins, the territorial delegate who ma- vailed in the downtown area; the whistles; a boomed on corner and half a block All this the towns of the artistic imagination of the pioneers, or unpaved and uninhabit- The statehood proclamation busi esses and blared their ap- a salute of 21 guns followed by ringing bells and hooting steam dustriousness beamed downward on the audience. porary but effective steam whistles outside their respective assembledat the Capitolandfired As for the rest. 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