The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-16
PRESENTED BY MIR. BATE
Replies to Arguments Ad-
 vanced by the Majority.
Says There are Sufficient White RsS sons to Leaven the Others in New Mexico and
 Arizona.

washington, Dec. 15.-Senator Fate to- sav presented in the Senate the minority report of the Committee on Territories fayoring the immediate passage or tne House omnibus Statehood bill without amendment.
 The report opposed the uniting of OK ,aboma and the Indian Territory into one State. t
 It shows minutely the condition of eacn of the three territories as to popuiation. wealth and general features of the terrs- tories and says that they are such az = call forth immediate Statehood. R shows that both Republican and Demo- cratic parties in their last national con- yention adopted with perfect unanimftv platform blanks recommending eacn oa the three territories by name for states hood. Such expression. the report con- tinutes, should be respected by both par ties.
 The report says: Tt was never intend. ed that Congress should bar by party objection admission when population, wealth and institutions were the same as in the case of other States"
 Enough for Leaven.
 With reference to the qualifications oz the population of the territories, the re- port contends that it ought to sufficG that 95 per cent of the population are white in Oklahoma and the 5000 white population in Arizona and the 122, eco whits population in New Mexico are quite suf< ficient to leaven all the foreign-born in each of those territories"
 Then follows the remark: "Whethsf some of the Northwestern States now | booming with foreign population had aa large a leaven of American born people when admitted, need not now be discuss- ed as their successful example of state- hood shows how soon the whole mass be- comes Americanized."
 Referring to the proposition to unite Oklahoma and the Indian Territory as one State, the report says:
 "Ai legislation for the admission of new States has been preceded by ex- precision of desire on the part of the peo- pie for admission to the Union. But the amendments substituted by the Senate Committee on Territories incorporates the Indian Territory with the State of Ok lahoma. So far as your committee has information this alliance may be the union of an unwilling people and undesirable connection. In no case in the past have the people of any territory been compelled by the enabling act to form a constitu- ton against their expressed will. How ever much the people of Oklahoma de~ sire statehood, the Indians have made no expression of any such desire" Summing up, the minority say: Has Complied With Requirements
 Each of these territories has compiled with every requirement heretofore made by Congress for admission into the Union: Each has a population sufficient for representation in Congress. Each has wealth abundant to support all the ex- penses of statehood Each has institu- tions in harmony with republican gov- ernment as understood in the nation."
 Liberal quotation is made from the re- port of the majority on the statehood bill One of the portions quoted is that referring to a statement made by Q witt reses that some of the white people in the territories are like the riff-raff who follow the construction of railroads" Commenting on this statement, the mi- nority says:
 ',rhe riff-raff who follow the railroads
 have been the sturdy Irishmen whose
 pick and shovel and spade and labor have built the 100. .O0o miles of American rail- road Why that 'riff-raft should not be good citizen in New Mexico as they are in every other State and Territory. the
 report does not advise the Senate. Pro- testing that the witness upon whose tes-- timony this slur as to riff-raff has been made was greatly misinformed, we are | forced to conclude that there has been
 mistake made somewhere between the
 witness and the committee since the tes- | timoy has all the ear marks of a pur-
 pose to convict of unpreparedness on the part of Arizona and New Mexico rather
 than to enl yhten the Senate as to their republican form Gf government. The report is signed by Senators Bate, | Heitfelt. Bailey and Patterson, consti- tuting the Democratic membership oe the Committee on Territories.