The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-11

be adopted that any new state should
have Population equal TO the average
population Of the rest OF the states.
This rule would require d population
for any proposed new state at the pres
ent time of 1859, 0v0.
The report asserts that the courts of
the justices Of The peace are practical
ly all in Spanish, and that int :preters
are necessary in the other courts in the
legislative and in political conventions,
that while both Spanish and English
are taught in the schools the children
generally converse among themselves
; in Spanish.
The report says many people OF the
territory are opposed IL its admission.
but intimates that Conditions make
them fear to express their sentiments.
Speaking of Arizona it is said the ed
ucatfOnal progress of the territory has
been fair and that there is a large per
centage OF refined people, but that they
are not i'll sufficient number to dominate
the inhabitants. The report declares
that even were all the people of the
territory of the admirable class above
described they would be far lou few to
justify statehood. The resources and
development OF the country also are
declared to be too limited to entitle the
territory to statehood.
Replying to the contention of the peo-
pie of New Mexico and Arizona that de-
velopment has been retarded because of
the lack OF statehood the committee
points out that Oklahoma has developed
without statehood.
The committee says that the two ter
ritories of Oklahoma and Indian terri
tory have a combined population of
about million people. OF the people
Of Indian territory only $4,000 are In
dams and attention is called to the fact
that many of the people Of New Mexico
and Arizona while called MeXicdnS ore
descendants of Indians as well as OF
MeXicans and Spaniards. C0ntending
for its union of Oklahoma and Indian
territory the report says that Oklaho-
ma is too contracted in area fur state
hood alone, and that nature, commerce
and all human conditions have decreed
that they should be united.
'"nasor Quay's Report.
Senator Quay presented an individual
report in favor of the omnibus state
hood bill. He says the republican ma
tional convention in 1860 adopted the
following resolution:
We favor home rule for and the
early admission to statehood of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Arizona and
Oklahoma" and calls attention to the
fact that the president and certain sem
ators, whom he names, were delegates
to that convention. The proposition
to exclude New Mexico and Arizona as
recommended by the majority of the
committee, Mr.. Quay says, is indirect
violation Of the pledge made by the re-
publican platform. Mr.. Quay says the
/ Indian territory should not be included
in the state Of Oklahoma because treaty
agreements between the United States
and the Five Tribes provide for a sepa-
/ rate political organization for Indian
territory and extends the Jurisdiction
to the tribal governments to 1906 and
adds that it should be dishonorabe on
; the part of congress to violate those
treaties and agreements with the In
dams The Five Tribes, he says, pro-
; test against it's becoming a part of Ok
lahoma that not an acre Outside of a
few town lots" segregated by the town
site provision of the Curtis act is not
subject to taxation. No greater injus-
tice, he asserts, could be perpetrated
against the people of Oklahoma than to
require them to bear the burdens of
Indian territory with it's nom taxable
lands and anomalous conditions. The
i Introduction of liquor into Indian terri
tory, which, he says, would follow a
union Of the territory with the state of
Oklahoma, would demoralize the tribes.
In conclusion Senator Quay says:
For the reasons, therefore, that the
republican party in 1900 promised state
hood to the territories of Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma, while no such
pledge was made or promised in the
national convention to the Indian ter
ritory, which is not now fit for state
hood, and that these territories COM
pare favorably in number and charac-
ter of population as well as in resources
and territorial extent with nearly all
the states admitted to the union, for
many years past, and in accordance
with the precedent of our history I
recommend that The house bill be passed
without amendment
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