Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12

or the remedy of which will euutle New Mexico to come into the Union. It Is an indefinite postpOnemeut of her admission, a postponement without cause or reason, without justification, and contrary to the spirit of our own institutions aud our own treaties.
 Why. sir. there Is found one of the most energetic and powerful communities in any Territory Ill the American Union. Those men have spread their influence, the influence of high civilization, over that Territory Ill places where 1t was not expected that a human being could live, and through their irrigation and cultlva- ton of the soil large and abundant crops have sprung up in New Mexico and upon the plains and the hillsides and river valleys that we considered to be abso- lutely sterile | do not know any com munlty in the United States that really compares with the people of New Mexico in the development of their natural re- sources, considering all the embarrass- ments and difficulties under which they have labored. They are there with enor- nous masses of coal at their command, with valuable bodies of iron ore. The fundamental conditions exist there for the building up of the most prosperous of communities. It Is the only place l have ever been where a man could dig coke out of the ground that had been made by the sweeping fires that passed over the coal beds that were exposed on the surface of the earth.
 The mineral power and wealth of New Mexico Is uneXampled and inexpressible. It true she has not got very great amount of running water; neither has Kansas Kansas, from the middle of that State back towards Colorado. Is as far from being q well-watered State almost as New Mexico; yet by irrigation, by strife with the elements ofnature, by con tinual labor, those people have built Kan sas up into a wonderful agricultural development. If Kansas had the mineral wealth in her borders that New Mexico has she would be as rich as Califor- nia.
 But are we to neglect Territories en- tirely either because their people are somewhat illiteratc or because the sur face of tie earth does not bear fruit ex- cept under the compulsion of the hand of labor and of skill? If we had waited for these things there is many highly pop ulated area ip the United States to-day that would be desert at this moment. But let us come to the other proposition of filling up the boundary line between California and Texas with organized States. Does any man in the Senate fail to see a great opportunity in the achieve ment of that result? Why, sir, without reference to any future possibility of hostility between ourselves and Mexico
 without reference to future strifes that may arise between us, having a view to nothing elsS than mere commercial com petition and the protection of our border there against the intrusion of wild bands of Indians, and against instrusions by Chinese and others, and against smEg- gllng, we have the most important reasons for concentrating upon the southern bOr- der of out country between Texas and California organized States that will carry into thgt area the attractions that draw heavy populations We need organized States upon our border far more than we do in the interior. The spread Qf the power of the United States cannot be adequate to the majesty and grandeur of 1 thls Government unless our populations are foaBd distributed around our outside
 borders and srs there organized into ! States.
 Now, it was these Inducements, as have said before, more than any other thai caused me to vote, against many ob- jectious tha. 1 had. for the preparatory steps that were necessary to bring into the Union the four great States of which l hsve been speaking, three of wh.ch lie along the frontier of Canada. l do mol | believe we have accomplished for the peo | pie of the Ulited States ln any 1 thing in a half century that Is more bene- ticial, that gives us greater security, that will develop our progress to its full extent , than the bringing in of those four State;
 in tho Northwest.
 When I voted for those bills 1 knew
 that those States would be Republican
 I had a mere suspicion or expectation, l
 will call it, that one of the States nigh seud Democratic Senators to this body
 Notwithstanding I felt the need, and dC
 now, of Democratic power in this body a
 much as any man in 1t, and you'd priZ' f, it as greatly as any person here, did IG' | hesitate to vote for the admission of those States into the Union, as l have said, con
 trary to many objections that otherwis,
 would have prevailed in iHy mind; no did my colleagues on this side of thi
 Chamber refuse to vote for that measure
 We stood then. as we stand now, for meas
 ures that will benefit the country, wheth
 CT of not they will bring an increase O
 power in Congress and in the electora
 colleges to the great party we belong tc
 We laid aside the question of how mucl
 intueuce those particular states mlgh
 exert the Presidential election now ap
 preaching.
 trust, sir, that the time will be, it i
 not now, in the Senate when those gentle
 men who have charge of the great destir
 ies of this opportunity will be able to loo
 beyond a particular Presidential electiol
 and the fruits of that election in the dis
 tribution qf the offices among thei friends or power in their oyn hands, an will be able to read on the more distan
 horizon of the glory, progress, and tn , firm establishment of this great countr : upon principles Of government that wi endure and bless the people, regard the proposition of the Senate from Arkansas as being the most Ill portant and most beneficial to the peC pie Gf the United States that has bee presented in many years to this bod! It will have reviyiIg effect upon Ill migration and industry of every kind ] , in all these four States proposed; an { after expressing our opinion here upo ; whatthe constitutions of these new State ought to be, in crder to make them nC lutIclg I6pltDilcdu Alf tLtiitg Dill III EOll pondence with the original thirteen Stat, 3 or the States now ill tl5 Union, we ca ! afford then to go on and allow them Ill 8 der their constitutional conventions, oi < ganized ,I due form and by legal autho
 ity, to establish foT themselves an organ ] law and to come back here to be admittC D into the Union
 5 It must require some violent emergent l. to instfy Us in the action we are abo, - to take
 2 There Is Eo haste about the a r mission of Idaho or tho admission r Wyoming into the Union thst does n l. equally apply to New Mexico and Al !, zona, unless 1t may be the political ca t cuist!on that when these States are a y mitted in.o the Union there will be s O more Republican electoral votes to counted by the Houses in deciding t - next Presidential campaign.
 l. Senators cannot very well escape the
 conclusions They may imagine that t Is country will not suspect them of su y design, or they may even proclaim! th IS personally they have no such designs, | Iy that this bill was born of tI d feeling there Is Bot dou l. in the world. Why Wyoming a, Ie Idaho have been now selected out b. thess other Territories to be christen ry and admitted into this great sisterho, ot is a matter of pGrs political calculati Ig and nothing else, and no one Js going