New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
A NEW STATE.

The bill admitting New-Mexico as a State,
after having passed the Senate, has been re-
ported by the Committee on Territories to the
House with a recommendation for its passage.
The original bill has been modified by an
amendment providing that the first election
shall take place in 1871 thus showing the new
State over beyond the Presidential election.
The proper thing to do upon the birth OF
new State and the addition of another star to
the galaxy, and the extension OF the area OF
freedom and all that sort of thing, Is OF course
TO glorify the Union and talk pleasantly about
the march of empire. 1t does not happen to
strike us in that way. New-Mexico, il we may
credit the reports of people who have been
there and got back, is a very large part OF
out doors with little population to speak OF,
and none to speak well of. 1t has no more
business to be a State than the Great Desert
of Sahara has to be an empire. The only object
to be accomplished by organizing its waste places
and scattered aridIty as II State and admitting
it To the Union is to get two more persons
into the United States Senate and one more
into the House of Representatives. No candid
man can look over the two branches OF Con-
grcss and say that any more are needed In
either house. There arc altogether too many
there now, and the addition of two rotten
borough Senators at one end of the Capitol
and a mule driver at the other would only
give us an increase in numbers aud no i'm
proycment whatever i'm character. Moreover, to
take three men out of the Territory would 20
far to depopulate it. If they can manage to
stay there and make living, it is best on all
accounts that they should do it. New-Mexico
tIy
seats in Congress or State Government. We
take it upon ourselves to say in addition that
there's no such Lack of statesmen in Wash
ington that we need make draft on New
Mexico for any more.
This bill passed the Senate, we suspect, be-
cause each party hopes to gain couple OF
Senators. Ii our information is correct, as
suranccs have been given to both sides, and
the Offices are all twice mortgaged. But really,
have MT we had enough of this rotten borough
busness7 None of these new States send Keep
rcsentatiyes or Senators to Congress who do
their State. the country, or themselves any
credit. In nine cases out of ten they are adj
yenturers of the worst sort fellows who any
where else could not be elected town consta
Bile. But they get Territory organized and
admitted as State, and then shiftless,
lazy, gOod-for-nothing handful Of greasers-
no, they are not a handful: they are too few
and too far apart-arc bought up to give the
soft places to the managing politicians who
have added the new star to the galaxy. Ii Is
humbug and nonsense OF the most pernlciOus
sort. Nobody in New Mexico, except the two
or three fellows who want Office, will be bene-
fitted by its erection into State, and GER
tainy nobody out of the Territory can posi-
bly, reap any advantage from it. 1t is too
late, we presume, to put in any protest
against this proceeding, which could by any
possibility be cilectual and yet we could wish
that tho House before passing the bill would
give the condition of Mexico little care
full study, and inquire whether upon the whole
To saddle it with State Government, and
withdraw three leading statesmen from its
active population, would DO good thing to
do. Aud it would not be amiss for each mem
Der of the House to go over to the Senate,
and, after taking one good look at that body,
ask himself if it would be any advantage to
the Senate to have two greasers added to it,
or any comfort to New Mexico to spoil two
good mule-d drivers to. make two bad Senators.
The Senate has passed this bill, we suspect,
because it bankers for low company. The
House had better defeat it, and save the SEN
ate from itself. New Mexico no more needs a
State Government than u cat needs two tails.
SM4LL-CHANGE FAMINE.
L. Al.