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Show Just as of Old. I THE vehement assertion of Senator Suther- laud that he believed in free discussion I and so long as he presided the humblest member of the convention should have his say, is a reminder that some twenty years ago, more or less, Hon. John T. Caine came back from Wash- I j lngton, and the church, through the old People's party, called a constitutional convention In session ses-sion to frame a constitution which was to be pre-J pre-J sented to the President and Congress" with a po- I j tltion for statehood for Utah. The convention was solemnly convened, all j the committees were appointed, each committee brought in its completed work, then the sections were taken up in regular order, amendments J were introduced and motions to add to and strike U out were made; the debates sometimes became tipped with passion, and the thing ran on for two or three weeks. Then the ragged ends were woven together, and Anally agreed upon. The News praised the wisdom and patriotism and single-minded disposition of the body as all, apparently ap-parently intent nly upon framing a constitution which was not only an honor to "Utah, but as an instrument which could not fail to receive the approval of the wise and fair men of the East. It will all be found in the flies of the News. We are trying only to give the spirit of the thing. But when the work was Anally completed it leaked out that the constitution which had been agreed upon was a fac simile of the paper that had been prepared by Representative Scott of Pennsylvania, given to Mr. Caine and brought I by him in his grip from Washington. I But every member of the convention had his say, just as Mr. Sutherland demanded on Tues-j Tues-j ' day last. It did the members good, it did not change a word of the foreordained constitution. . |