New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-26
ANOTHER POCKET BOROUGH.

The House of Representatives, by that mo-
nOtOnOus majority which always appears when
party interests are in question, has passed the
bill for the admission of NewMeXiCo into the
Union as State, and the measure now goes
before the Senate with the best prospect of
passage In a Senate where the Logans and
Flanagans have supplanted the Trumbulls and
Summers, it may be hopeless to expect the
voice of reason to weigh against the dictates
of a caucus. But the press cannot neglect its
duty because its labor will probably be thrown
away. The Senate should be told what is the
opinion of the public about such measures as
this, and then the responsibility will be shifted
to the shoulders that shrink from no burden
of ignorance, corruption, and folly.
There is no reason why New-Mexico should
be made State, except that the Republicans
in Congress see a prospect of making few
votes in Congress and In the Electoral Col
lege out Of it, and few politicians in the
Territory hope to get the offices thereby
created. There is no necessity anywhere for
such action. No one in NewMexicO COM
plains that he suffers in mind, body, or
estate by virtue of the Territorial condition,
except the olice-seekers, who would rather
livein Washington at the national expense than
earn their bread honestly in the Territory.
None of the members who advocated the add
mission of the new State gave the least hint
of any advantage which was to accrue to the
Territory or to the nation from the proposed
measure. They simply said the New
Mexicans want to come in, and we
have no right to refuse them an equal
share in the Government with ourselves
NH L.. hut no
New Mexicans are not asking for admission ;
they care nothing, and know nothing, about
the whole intrigue. There are in Santa Fe a
few political loafers who find the place of
Delegate too long in coming around; they
therefore want the Territory made a State SO
that two may go to the Senate, one to the
House, one may be Governor, and the rest
may divide the State plumber. They are
clamoring, not for an equal share in the Gov
eminent but for vastly disprOportonate
share. The intelligent voting population of
the Territory numbers only few thousand
The large majority, fve-sixths at least, can
not read or write, and great proportion of
them know no English, and take no in
terest whatever in anything relating to
the Government of the United States.
nc pdIt VI tHc pVPui"uoh "hi'h
asks admission is confined to those
more or less directly interested in Territorial
politics. and this little handful of politicians,
if this scheme goes through Congress, will
send two of their number to the Senate, to
WELD an equal vote with that of the repre-
sentatives of perhaps four millions of people.
1t is amazing that men can be found 80 care
less OF blind as not to see the folly and in
Justice of this. Yet Mr.. Hoskins of New-York
assumed to speak for this State in advocating
the bill, and Mr.. Cox, though he voted against
it on political grounds, took the gratuitOus
trouble to say that the small size of the pro-
posed State was no objection. Both he and
Mr.. MAYNARD referred to the small States in
the original Union as a justification for the
wholesale manufacture of more. But there is
not the least analogy between the cases. The
little States of the East helped make the
| Union, and refused to come in except on the
condition of equality in the Senate which was
adopted by the larger States as a compromise
To argue from this, that whenever the census
takers can count and estimate hundred. thou
sand human beings scattered over an empire
| OF mountain and prairie already belonging to
! the Union, that few dozen of these have
! the right TO call themselves a State, entitled
to cast an equal vote with New-York or
Pennsylvania is more even than we have q
right to expect from our average politicians.
If there were no other consideration " stay