The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-07
OKLAHOMA STATEHOOD.
4 stormy Convention at Kingiisher- I'm
 Resolutions Adopted.

4 stormy Convention at Kingfisher-The
 Resolutions Adopted.
 WINCHESTER, Ok, Nov. 29.-Storhy scenes were the feature of the state hood convention which opened here yesterday There were many factions. One favored single statehood, another double statehood-that is separate statehood for Oklahoma and the Indian territory; another favored immediate statehood and another no statehood at all There are too many politicians in the convention and as result one row followed another.
 Sidney Clark, of Oklahoma City, called tl:e delegates to order. He opened the convention with a speech devoted to the resources of the terri tories and the necessity of statehood. Charles T. Redick. of the same city, was made temporary chairman and George King, of Kingfisher, secretary.
 The appointment of the committee on resolutions precipitated an acrimo- nious debate that lasted for more than an hour. Then the committee on ere dentials permitted one man from each of the three nations-Seminole. Choc- Jaw and Chickasaw-to have place in the convention with forty-nine proxies each. These men practically controlled the convention. They were, however, for double statehood, and upon every question before the body which might be construed as bearing toward state hood their proxies were skillfully punched.
 Some of the western and few of the northern counties were opposed to statehood in any form. Judge l.. NJ. Conkling was vigorous in his protests against it. He submitted that not more than three-tenths of the occupied land in old Oklahoma was now subject to taxation, and that under existing laws the lands in the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Pottawatomie, Sac and Fox countries would not be subject to taxation for several years, and, in the event of statehood, the public burdens must be borne by the few and not the many. It was alleged on the floor by west ern delegate that there was jobbery in the makeup of the credentials commit tee in allowing the two delegates from the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to cast 100 votes, and before quiet was re stored the convention came near break ing up in row.
 After recess J. W. McAdams, of the Chickasaw nation, was elected perma nent president; J. R. Corrigan, O! Perry, vice president, and F.. A. Simpson and George Rainy, secretaries The committee on resolutions, deem ing it impracticable to draft bill to be introduced in congress, in lieu thereof submitted the following resolutions and memorial, which were adopted: | To the Congress Of the United States | At a delegate convention composed of dele | gates from Oklahoma and Indian territory convened at kingisher, Ok, 1t was resolved | that we indorse the resolution adopted at th, | Fl Reno statehood convention August 8, ls9, | and at the inter. territorial statehood conven | ton held at Purcell in Indian territory Septem | Der 30, 1893, and again requesting congress tC | provide for the admission Of Oklahoma aud th, | Indian territory one state and respectfully ask congress to prov de by m enabling act fol | the same:
 We favor the abolition Of all tribal govern
 
 complete division of the common domain | among the citizens of each nation and the In | dian territory be made a state with Oklahoma We at the earliest period, ask that such di | vision of the common domain of the citizens o | the several Indian tribes shall be made 10 then | equally and shall be alienable at their optiol | save the homestead of l5O acres to each indi vidual, and provided further that sections | l and S6 of each congressional township shall b. ! reserved for common school purposes, as pc | treaty stipulations; and provided further, That any lands within the five civilized tribe | of the Indian territory now occupied as town | sites and upon which towns or villages are nov | located shall not be divided set apart to am | individual Indian, but the same shall be pat | ented to the occupants thereof for their severa | use and benefit under the provision of the gen | eral townsite laws of the United States. ant | the proceeds of the sale be paid to the tribe o | nation fin which the townsite is located, and W, | respectfully request that the committee o
 territories prepa-e and introduce in congress | q proper bill embed ing these ideas.
 Resolved. That this convention favors tn abrogation of all existing cattle leases in tn ! Indian reservations in Oklahoma and that al | remaining unsettled reservations be throw open to settlement to citizens of the United
 States without delay.