Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-25
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
How the Statehood Contest is Viewed
on the GrOund-DemOcratS
to Push 1t.
Cechiti Discoveries Attract Attention
Tariff Reform and Trusts
Created by Republican
Laws.
pecial Correspondence New Mexican.

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
Washington, Aug. 2O.-Now that the
tariff bill is out of the way and the con-
gressmen are anxious to escape to their
districts to look after the campaign, final
adjournment of congress for this session
is not far distant and it can be stated with
absolute certainty that the passage of the
bill to allow New Mexico to form state
will not be made until the short session,
when it will probably be pushed through.
That the work was not finished this
session was no fault of the Democrats in
could get the Utah bill ont of the COM
mittee and through the main body without
much trouble that they had a fight on their
hands with the Republicans on both the
New Mexico and Arizona bills. The men
who we're most bitter on these deserving
commonwealths were Platt, the aged and
fanatical protectionist goldbug from Con-
necticut, and Davis, the goldbug corpora
tion .attorney, who has been put in the
senate by the moneyed interests of Mime
sofa.
On the floor of the senate the principal
opposition will come
FROM THE REPUBLICAN sIDK,
as it is not desirous in their view that
any more senators who will vote against
the protective cormorants and goldites
shall come in and stop the stealing that
is now going on. They will be aided by
one or two goldbugs on the Democratic
side, belonging to the conservative ele-
ment that in the late tariff fight proved
themselves to be without the pale of the
Democratic party and entitled to be con-
demned.
But Chairman Faulkner, of the commit
tee on territories, told your correspond
ent in the plainest terms few days ago
that he does not intend to let the New
Mexico and Arizona bills be killed by
this opposition. The Democratic party
has given a promise of home rule and in
tends that it shall be carried out. There
fore early in the short session the bills
will be called up and it will be the policy
of the Democrats, aided by one or two
silver Republicans from the west who are
not SO hide-bound as their eastern breth
rem, to hammer at the matter until the
bills become law.
THE ARIZONA BILL
at present provides that the state shall
be admitted under the constitution draft
ed in 1891 on the 1st of next August,
which would make it outrank both Utah
and New Mexico, but it is the intention
of the committee to move in the senate
that substitute enabling act similar to
that of New Mexico shall be passed in
stead of the present bill. This would
place Arizona behind both the other
newly admitted states, as the New Mexi-
CO bill is now the first on the calendar
and it is very likely that the president in
issuing his proclamation will Justly pay
attention to the order in which the bills
were passed.
Therefore the prospects are that the
forty sixth state will be New Mexico and
thus curious coincidence would result,
as the territory out of which it was
evolved was admitted as part of the
United States in 1S46. There will be an
attempt to have this coincidence carried
out so that it would add another thing to
cause people to remember the state.
THE GREAT GOLD DISCOVERIES
near Santa re are attracting great deal
of attention in the east and if the good
reports continue it would not be surprls-
lug to find great many emigrants from
the overcrowded cities to the new Ell Do
RADIO that has been opened for the benefit
of man. People do not know what to
think of the stories that have come thus
far, but are waiting to learn if there is
really the reported richness.
Feeling reflected by the Democratic
party leaders, in fact by nearly all the
congressman, and by the party press in
general, is that the Democratic party has
done great deal in passing the tariff bill
that was put through congress. It is con-
ceded on oil sides that Senators Vest and
Mills we're right when they said that there
is not Democratic majority in the SEN
ate on the question of tariff reform and
with this impressed ON the people they
can not fail to see that the only course to
pursue now to have themselves relieved
of the terrible burdens of Republican war
taxation is to reinforce the Democrats,
tried and true, that are now in the upper
body.
Still the tariff bill, going as it does
long step in the direction of that
REFORM PROMISED BY THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY,
is far from being bad measure. If it
makes concessions to the sugar trust, to