Arizona silver belt., 1889-01-19
ADMISSION er TERRITORIES.

The Phoenix Ari2enan takessus to task for speaking of "a population limit in connection with the adeis. sion of Territory to Statehood. Easing our statement on the evident intent of the Constitution, and the declaration of the Ordinance of 17S7 for the government of the Territory Of the Northwest, we still maintain that such limt was intended and provided. The Ordinance sf 17S7 specified 60,0e0 free inhabitants as de- slraele for a Territory to possess be- fore applying for admission, and this one hundred years ago and when the basis ot representation was only 30,000. If 60,000 was deemed necessary then, how very much greater should be the population of Territory now, before taking upon itself the responsibility and burden of Statehood. No State gains increased representation in Con- Gress, except every ten years-not withstandins her population may have increased million m the interval and then only on new apportion- meat which IS continually being raised, lsssening the influence of the East Tn Congress and gradually but surely moving the balance of power west ward. Therefore the older States nat urally look with isalousy upon the attempts made to admit Territories with loss population than the appor- tionment of representation under the previous census.
 Article l, sechen of the Coustitu- ton explicitly declares that rspresen. tativss shall be sppsr;ioned among the several States according to their re- spective numbers (pepulatioa), in order that the people of tls several States forming the Umon may enjoy equal representation in Congress. Therefore the injustice is paipable of adV'itting Territory having a popH- lstion of 6Oo00 or 10000 on the same footing with State having more than twice that number of people, and the uniairness of such an act is more man. itest when va consider that States  wl,h the smallest number of inhabl- tants have an equal yolcs la the Senate of the United States with the great commonwealth of New York with its 6,000,000 population, winch is more than hundred times the present pop nlatisn of Nevada,
 The fact is it has generally been par tizan sel6shness, desme to strengthen the party in power, that has led Con- gress to ignore the restrictions m re- gard to the admission of new States, winch the framers of the Constitution supposed they had provided. There have been repeated attempts made to secure the enforcement of the original rules, with the modification resulting from the increase in the population oi the Union, which provided that the number of free inhabitants in a Ter. ritsry seeking admission should equal the number established as the basis ot representation in Congress, as deter mined by the preceding census. but without success, owing to paltizan zeal. But while precedent seems tc sanction the admission of Territorie; without much regard to population there is, nevertheless, growing dis position on the part of Congress tc look with disfayor upon ths formation of States whose people are deficient 1T numbers, intelligence and moral rec titude, and the development of whos' resources is insufficient to prove thu ability of the Territory to bear tn, increased burdens which Statshoot imposes.
 As far as Arizona is concerned i can be predicted almost with certain ty that the incoming Republican ad mInistrahon will deny her admission The Territory is Democratic, and is sc chiefly because Sf the adherence of th' Mormens, who come very near hold ing the balance of power, and who ar' increasing in numbers. There art other weighty reasons why we are no likely to be clothed with full suffrag, for few years yet at least Ant while this is the situation, it would b' folly to incur the heavy expense ant worry which the various steps pre- liminary to our application for ad nission would necessitate. Nothins will be lost by waiting.
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 We are indebted to Dr. Ajax. Trip pei fer the report of the Director O the M,nt upon the production 0 precious metals in the United State