Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-08
The Statehood Fight in the
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Senate.
CAUCUS SUGGESTED
EASTERN FINa9uIAL INTERESTS
IN SOUTHWEST TERRITORIES.
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The preliminaries to the statehood, fight
which will beginsfn the Senate Wednesday
indicate that it will be bitter. There is a
good deal Of gossip OH the. outside which
will not be heard in the Senate chamber,
but which may bear fruit in senatorial
action. =
"Commercialism IN legislation" are words
notslikely to be used In the Senate; sena-
tors do not impugn other senator's mo-
tives But the words are freely used in
private conversation and applied to the
proposition to admit. New Mexico and
Arizona TO statehood
1t is charged by some OF the opponents of
the omnibus statehood bill that one Of the
reasons urged for the admission Of New
Mexico and Arizona IS purely commercial
namely, the benefit to accrue to property
and industries in those territories. The OPP
ponents contend that such reason should
not be sufficient to+warrant padding" the
United States and the, electoral college, with
the additional representation statehood
The republican friends of the omnibus bill
wave all these insinuations aside and "stand
pat" on one proposition-namely, that adj
mission of the territories was recommended
That is good enough doctrine for me-"
they say. .lf thesrepublican party in ma
tionaI convention 81 assembled thought 1t
wise policy to admit those territories, we
thus expressed.
A Caucus Suggested.
Senator Hanna and Senator Beveridge,
opponents of the o4sinAsals BILL both say that
a caucus Of republican senators must be
held on the subject When caucus was
preached to Senator Quay he said:
do you propose to, reverse a republican
national convention with a caucus Of repub-
lican senators?'
Today some of the men who are anxious
for the admission 81 Ok1ahoma-and every
body admits the Justice of Oklahoma's
plea for admission--expressed the fear that
the 1nsistence OF. nc the tristate boomers
might deadlock all statehood legislation.
When that was suggested to Mr.. Quay he
said: A-qs~-
That looks as iftfhe other side were shy
Of votes. Wells athenee will be no deadlock.
", we have :, the y39t st. "a, and we are ready for
Some of the eastern republicans who adj
vocated the omnbbussbtii make no conceal
ment of their viewsfthat it will be a good
thing, financial Wand commercially, for the
territory and for. eastern capital invested
there. They say thatthe $19.C0OO00 or $12.-
100000 of eastern noBFy now in the terri
tories will be pretectEd better under state
laws than under territorial laws. They say
they acknowledge ne, reproach to them
selves in that viAWsaas ;s4
Eastern Capital Invested.
The admission of the eastern senator's of
the investment % large amounts of eastern
capital in the territories Is borne out by the
testimony tskefao before the Senate. COM
mittee on territories Aastsshmmer. At one
of the hearings bsfeee7the committee Dele
gate Marcus Smith se{5AEizona gave the fol-
lowing testimony. q !, at 4-
I'VE have railroads cunning through QUIZ
territory that are assessed at only $500 a
mile that we know are bonded for 10000
and are paying a, great dividend on their
bonded indebtedness And only. one OF
those railroads is assessed at all. =
:, 1.-The. assessed valuation OF the property,
however. Is the point to which I am adj
dressing myself. There is the great Cep=
per Queen NINE. belonging to Phelps
Dodge &. Co. of New York, it is true. at
Bisbee that is held by friends from the dis
trict OF the senator. who sits opposite to me-
Mr.. Bard, by whom millions Of dollars
worth OF Land isNnow owned. These are
the great Clifton mines and the Shannon
mines. There is the Commonwealth mine
owned largely by Mr.. Penrose, brother
of the present senafor-an enormous mag
nificent goid-producing mine. There Is the
mountain range giving forth its fruits to
the general harvest Of the world.
Delegate Rodey 4N New Mexico also gave
testimony as to the Investment of eastern
capital. He said: e & 49,
81 Will also state that there are now vast
enterprises on foot. concerns about to en-
gage in legitimate business in New Mexico
from which reasonable profit will result.
which are waiting to see whether or not
they will get, the opportunity to issue their
bonds under a state rather than a terrific
rial form of government. ~ A.
'Citizens in Michigan and Indiana have
bought tract Of timber OF 100000 acres in
western central New Mexico, south Of the
new Santa Fee Pacific, railroad. That land
was given as q land grant by Congress to
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in 1866
It was originally sold by the railroad to
Mitchell Brothers of Cadillac Mich, After
ward one of the Mitchell brothers acquired
the interest Of his Brother. and he and 9TH
ers have now orgapfzed q corporation Of
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois capitalists
with a capital stock OF $4,000, O0O They are
waiting to issue their bonds under a state
rather than territorial form Of govern
ment. -: .c-.s.,S:
The chairman-"And they want the terri
tory admitted to statehood so that they
would have advantage OF the market that
would result p, - - 5-s+ :
Mr.. Rodey-"Yes. sir"
The chairman-"These railroads want to
have you admitted to D., statehood for the
same purpose, do they! 1852
Mr.. Rodey-"Yes, SIR"
The chairman-'"To sell their bonds2''
Mr.. Rodey-'fYes. sir. The state OF Penn
sylvania is particularly interested n. n that
of railroad from Sante. Fe south across the
country joining the Rock Island railroad
at a place in Lincoln county called Tor
renee"
The chairman--,..N sha1s building that rail-
Mr.. Rodey-.fsesphsy9ff vania capital. MIR.