Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-09

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formity with his wishes
We all hopes to see him returned
as a Senator from the State o.
New Mexico.
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Mr.. Springer SAID, 1 desire I,
state, at the beginning, that tn,
Delegate from New Mexico Mr.
Joseph / is detained from attend
ing by reason of severe illness. H,
has been diligent for many year,
in serving her people on this floor
in urging the admission Of New
Mexico in to the Union; and no mar
has served his constituents more
faithfully in that respect than has
the Delegate from New Mexico
have received a telegram from hin
stating his inability, on account OF
sickness, TO be here: and in his be-
half 1 ask this committee to con-
slider this bill now and do justice
to New Mexico and her people.
In the Forty-third Congress,
which was Republican in both
branches, a bill passed both Hous-
es, by large majorities, admitting
New Mexico and Colorado into the
Union; but the same bill did not
pass both Houses. In the House
Of Representatives, in the closing
hours of the Forty-third Congress.
there was a general agreement
among the members, upon both
sides of the question of politics,
that both these Territories should
then be admitted into the Union.
A motion to suspend the rules and
admit Colorado into the Union was
carried by three or four more than
the two-third vote required to sus-
pend the rules. A similar motion
was Immediately made in regard to
New Mexico; and, Notwithstanding
that House was nearly two-thirds
Republican, that motion only fail
ed by two or three votes of the
necessary two-thirds to give recog-
milton to New Mexico at that time.
1t was then believed by every
body, OF nearly everybody in Con-
gress, that those two states should
come into the Union together in
1876; and Congress at that time.
although both branches were Re-
publican, had done everything il
seemed possible to further the adj
mission of New Mexico, the bill
having passing both Houses by q
large majority, and nearly every
Republican on that side of the
House at that time voting in favor
of New Mexico coming into the
Union. But owing to the necessi
ties of the closing hours of the
session, when it required a two
thirds vote to pass it under a sus.
pension of the rules, it failed.
In the Flftieth Congress a bill
was passed by a large majority il
favor of the admission of New
Mexico into the Union. The Sen.
ate rejected New Mexico. A con.
ference committee was called, anC
that conference committee was in.
structed by a vote of this House
on the motion of the gentlemen
from New York Mr.. CoxB t.
eliminate New Mexico from the
bill, and although but few Dem
ocrats voted for the measure al
the Republicans at that time voted
to eliminate New Mexico from tina.
bill. We believed then that New
Mexico was entitled to be admitted
into the Union, and after th,
House had instructed the confer
ence committee, the committee
promptly obeyed the instruction
and brought in a bin admitting the
two Dakotas, Washington, and
Montana, and that Democratic
House passed the bill in the clos.
ing hours of the session, and i
was signed by Mr.. Cleveland be
fore the expiration of his term.
The Fifty-frst Congress, which
was Republican in both branches
admitted the States of Wyoming
and Idaho into the Union, neitheI
of which States has one-half Of tn,
pop ~lation that New Mexico hai
to-day and had at that time. Or
this side we voted against the adj.
mission of those two State, for the
reason that we believed that Ari.
iona and New Mexico were equally
entitled TO admission, and desired
that the four should be admittedin
stead of the two.
We offered no bargain, but VIC