For some years, a bitter sectional fight arose in the territory for the annexation of the northern counties to Washington. Congress passed both houses of congress but was killed through the medium of a pocket veto by President Cleveland. As an aftermath of the annexation movement, the territorial legislature created the University of Idaho, at Moscow, and through liberal appropriations of funds supplemented by United States land grants for its maintenance, has expanded into an educational institution with a record of which every citizen of the state of Idaho should be proud.

Constitutional Convention. In 1889, Edward A. Stevenson, then territorial governor, issued a proclamation calling for an election of delegates to a constitutional convention to be held at Boise City, July 4, 1889, to make a constitution for the state. The division measure Idaho was admitted to the sisterhood of states on July 3, 1890, and since obtaining the right of self-government and self-determination as a sovereign state, and under its just and equitable laws there is a more even distribution of wealth and less poverty than in any other state. Idaho is still in its infancy, with possibilities of advancement and development in every department of industry which are now undreamt of. 