The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-11

 BILL IS UP Quay is Leading Fight
 for It. BEvERIDGE'S SUBSTITUTE Proposes to Keep Out Arizona and New Mexico. Says Citizenship of These Territories is Not of Such High Glass as to Justify Their
 Admission.

 The bill came over as the unfinished business from the last session and by agreement today was fixed for calhng it up.
 Early in the morning hour MT. Quay submitted a report of his own and its reading occupied the time of the Senate until o'clock, when the Statehood Dill was laid before the Senate.Its reading was begun immediately thereafter. fol- lowed by the reading of the substitute MT. Beveridge. chairman of the Commit tee on Territories, then presented the com mittee report, giving the reasons for rec ommending joint Statehood of Oklahoma and Indian Territory and for not favor ing the omnibus Dill.
 In the course of the reading of the sev- eral reports and the Statehood bill the senate passed a bill refunding certain revenue taxes to owners of private dies and also a bill relieving certain import CTS from the duty on tea placed in bond ed warehouses.
 During consideration of the Statehood measure MT. Quay never left the cham. ber For the most part he remained In his chair. only once or twice leaving 1t for the purpose of conferring with some Senator near by. Delegates Reed of New Mexico and Flynn of Oklahoma were on the floor of the Senate and closely fol- lowed the proceedings.
 Ruled Against Quay.
 Just before adjournment Mir. Nelson se- cured permission to withdraw the substi- tute in order to perfect 1t. Mr. Quay promptly insisted that the substitute if withdrawn should be sent back to the committee but the chair ruled against IL
 When the reading of the bill and sub stitute was concluded at S:So p. m., MT
 aVsAy ant changing the name of the proposed State from OkIahCma to Jefferson.
 MT. Quay gave notice that when the substitute was again offered he would move to lay it on the table.
 The Senate at 5:16 went into executive session and at 5:35 p. m. adjourned.
 Senator Beveridge, chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, today presented the report of the committee against the bill for the admission of Ok Iahoma, Arizona and New Mexico as States.
 He introduced bill to admit Indian and Oklahoma Territories as one State.
 The admission of New Mexico and Arizona is based on the grounds that the population of each Territory is in- sufficient in number and that a vast ma iority of the people of New Mexico are of Spanish descent and speak the Span- ish languag ge only; that many of the peo- ple of both Territories are illitsrate and do not unuerstand English. The asser- ton is also made that many of the peo- pie of both Territories do not want State hood.
 The report discusses at some length the abstract question of the necessary quail fcations for Statehood and then takes up the preparedness of the Territories under each of the requisites specified.
 Arizona Falls Short.
 Accepting the unfit of representation rule, which under the census of 1900 is 1g4. ls2, it is found that New Mexico with lg5, BIO people would come in, but that Arizona would fall considerably short of the requirement.. The committee lays down the general rule that while no new State should necessarily be as large in population as any existing State, 1t Is contended that 1t should be large enough to bear some fair proportion to the pop ulation of the rest of the republic and 1t is declared that it would be well if the rules could be adopted that any new State should. have a population equal to the average population of the rest of the States This rule would require a pop ulaton for any proposed new State at the present time of 1,650,OOO
 Referring specifically to conditions found by the subcommittee to exist in New Mexico 1t Is asserted that the courts of the Justices of the Peace are prac- ticauy all conducted in Spanish and that interpreters are necessary in other courts as they are in the Legislature, in political and even in campaign speeches. It Is further asserted that while both Spanish and English are taught in the schools the school children generally converse among themselves in Spanish and that when the children finish their school career, their tendency is to re- Ia pse into the Spanish as the language of their daily life. It Is stated that many jurymen make their marks. The com mittee admits that there are many excel | lent people among the Mexicans and say that when the Territory becomes more Americ lnized no one will object to State | hood for this Territory.
 Of the so-called Americans 1t Is said that some of them are not nearly so good citizens in conduct or in the un- Mexican element"
 Fear to Make Kick.
 The report says many people of the Territory arc opposed to It's admission but intimates broadly that conditions make them fear to express their ssnti- | ment.
 Speaking of Arizona. it is said the edu- progress of the Territory has | been fair and that there is a large per- | centage of refined people who have been | attracted by the climate and by the op- | portunity for adventure and enterprise | But 1t Is stated that while these ele- ments are important and invaluable to the Territory and while their influence l Is altogether for good or will steadily | grow, it cannot he truthfully said that ] at the present time they are in sufficient | number to dominate the mass of inhabi | tants of the Territory. This is proved | by the fact that saloons and gambling | houses are by tn laws of the territory | permitted to run by day and by night | on Sunday as we'll as on week days, and | attempts to repeal this law have been futile"
 The report then declares that 'even vera All the naonla Of fha tarritorY of the