St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-16
UNDER THE WHIP AND SPUR
ARIZONA. ADMISSION BILL DRIVEN
THROUGH THE HOUSE.
REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO VOTE

The Rich and PopuIous Eastern
States Jealous of the Power
the New West Will Weld,
Hence the Opposition to the
Entrance Of Any More Terri
tories.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. The course
of events in the house today resembled
the halcyon days OF the Reed congress,
when legislation was rushed through at
galloping speed The bill for the adj
mission Of Arizona was put through
under whip and spur, and the bill for
the admission of New Mexico was we'll
under way when wrangle over what
was to be done with Oklahoma inter-
. vened, and the debate thus precipitated
lasted until adjournment. The bulk of
the Eastern OPP position to the territories.
as expressed by Mr.. Bingham, of Phila.
delphia, was predicatedson the theory
that while the Eastern states. rich in
wealth and strong in population, would
be able to hold their own in the house.
where the basis of representation was
population, the influence of the real
states of the Union would be Overbal-
anced by the greatly increased state
representation in the senate. The Nc
Garrahan claim bill, which came up
again in the morning hour, was filibus-
tered against, and the morning hour ex-
PRED without action, thus sending the
bill to the foot of the calendar. In the
nf Mr. pnndIatnntc
this subject the fact was developed that
a special order for the consideration of
this claim will be asked for.
Mr.. Cultivate rose to a question of
personal privilege, and made to the
house the explanation previously sent
out by the Associated Press regarding
the publication of a railway map in one
of the public documents of the military
committee.
Mr.. Pendleton. from the committee on
claims, called up the famous
MGARRAHAN BILL.
Before any conclusions were reached
the morning hour expired, and Gen.
Wheeler moved to go into the committee
of the whole on the Arizona statehood
bill. The Republicans continued their
filibuste1ing tactics, and the ayes and
nays were demanded. AS on yesterday
the Republicans. except a few from the
West, refused to vote, in order, if pos
slble, to break a quorum. They were
unsuccessful, however, as the motion
was carried by vote of 1S2 to 5.
Mr.. Snodgrass. of Tennessee, took adj
vantage of a verbal amendment to de-
liver speech on the money question.
An amendment proposed by Mr.. Baker,
of New Hampshire, reducing the per-
centage of the proceeds of the sale of
public lands to be set aside as a perma-
nent fund for common school purposes
from 10 to 5, making it in this respect
conform to the Utah bill, was adopted
without objection.
Mr.. Hepburn, of Iowa, in an impaS-
stoned speech. precipltated very lively
discussion of the merits of the bill. He
said the house ought to stop and cou-
slider what it proposed TO do when it
passed the bill. 1t proposed to give to
Arizona four sections in every range or
one-ninth of the total area of the state,
73, 600, 900 acres. In addition to that it
gave the proceeds one-tente of the
land, besides several other grants of
100.0 600 acres.
Mr. Smith. the Arizona delegate, in
terrupted to declare that Arizona would
get by this bill
JUST WHAT IOWA GOT.
This Mr.. Hepburn denied. Even if
it,had Iowa, he said. mad 100000 inhab-
itants. TO suggestion that people
would leave Iowa to go to Arizona, Mr..
Hepburn simply moved his hand con-
temptuously. 1.-THE idea that people
would go from Iowa out to that arid
country is preposterous." said he. II
went out there once and l never saw
green thing-unless,' he added, lit
wore breeches." Laughter.]
Mr.. Bowers (Rep., CALI, in heated
reply, drew graphic picture of the
valleys of Arizona, more fertile, he de-
clared, than the plains of the Nile. In
five years, he predicted, the population
IN Arizona would be increased over four
fold.
Mr.. Cockrell, of Texas, said he was
sorry that the question of politics had
been raised in connection with this bill.
Instead of desiring to cut down the
land grants III the bill he would be glad
| to see all the government territory in
Arizona turned over to the state for ir-
rigation purposes. Very few amend
ments were adopted. One increasing
the grant of lands for state institutions
as follows: lone hundred thousand
acres each for an insane asylum. peni-
Tertiary and deaf and dumb asylum,
| and $4,000 acres for hospital for dis
abled miners" was adopted. also one
| striking out the scale of fees tor court
| officials and making them conform to
EXISTING LAW.
Motions to consolidate the ju dicial
| districts of Utah and Arizona and to
reduce the salary of the federal judge
were defeated. The Republicans gen.
| orally did not refrain from voting on
the final passage of the bill, although
many of them voted against it. The
motion was carried, 1S5 to go, and the
| bill for the admission of Arizona was
| passed. AS soon as the vote was an
| nounced Gen. Wheeler moved that the
| house go into the committee of the
whole on the bill for the admission of
New Mexico. The Republicans made
| no attempt TO nnDuSter against the
motion, which was carried without
division.
Gen. Wheeler asked to dispense with
the reading of the bill. Mr.. Loud sug-
| gested that there ought 70 he at least
show of decency in admitting states to
! tn efederal Union, and he therefore OBJ
| jected. The debate that followed took
| a wide range.
Gen. Bingham Rep.. Pa.) made a
vigorous speech in opposition 20 the
| policy of bringing these territories into
the Union.
Mr.. Pence, of Colorado. In reply, said
he deprecated the fact that the silver
nneStInn had been ORA ggad intn this dis