Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-12-08

, opens next week. Mr.. Quay is ready tt
! tate vote now and threatens that IL
an :, .tempt is made to prevent this by
| interposing other legislation, he will
! see to it that certain importanu meas
ures in which Republican senators as
a party and individually are interested
including appropriation bills are side
| tracked until after the 4th of March
URGED TO GO TO WASHINGTON.
A telegram was received for Judge
N. b. Laughlin this morning. signed by
Chairman f. A. Hubbell of the Repub-
lican territorial committee, and w. S.
HopeWell of the Democratic territorial
committee, asking him to go to Wash
ington ait once and assist In securing
the passage of the omnibus statehood
bill. 1t is not known as yet whether or
not Judge Laughlin will be able to go.
Governor Otero this morning received
request from the chairmen of the
Republican and Democratic territorial
committees to go to Washington and
aid in securing the passage Of the
statehood bill. The governor will be
unable to leave the territory on ac
count of the absence of Secretary Ray
nolds.
MORE FRIENDS FOR STATEHOOD.
The New York Herald correspondent
telegraphs from Washington: Senator
Quays campaign to force through the
senate the bill admitting to statehood
the territories of Arizona and New
Mexico, as well as Oklahoma threatens
to upset all other legislative programs
and wreck this session of congress.
Champions of Arizona and New Mex-
co led by Quay assert that they have
the support of all Democratic senators
and from II to 20 Republicans, includ-
ing Senator Burrows of Michigan, Elk
ms of West Virginia, Platt of New
York, Penrose of Pennsylvania, and the
northwestern senators. Leaders of the
movement to admit all three territories
| or none, are determined and it is now
expected that if they do not have their
way, they will seek to force to terms
by deferring or defeating measures in
which the opposition is interested. Evil
the attitude of the senators on the Gu
ban reciprocity question. Some of the
statehood senators interposed their In
fuence against the Cuban reciprocity
bin and caused its defeat in the last
session. although it was an admins
tration measure. Now they say they
will vote for the treaty with Cuba, but
couple this with the statement that
they desire very much to have the om-
nibus statehood bill passed.
Efforts are being made to drag into
supporting the bill Senator Platt of
Connecticut, and Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, who are in favor of Gu
ban reciprocity, and Senators Hanna
and Spooner who favor the ratification
of the treaty now being negotiated
with Colombia for the construction of
the Panama canal An attempt is also
being made to bring the president into
the controversy and to get him COM
mitted to the three states bill.
1t will be easy for the statehood SEN
ators to tie up not only the Cuban
treaty and the Colombian treaty, but
also TO prevent any anti-trust legisla-
ton and to stop all other bills that are
on the program for passage. Leading
influential senators, who are opposing
the admission of New Mexico, say they
will not be forced into supporting the
omnibus bill by any such tactics.