Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-11
STATEHOOD BILL FIGHT.
Opponents Of the Bill Fear II Will
Pass II Allowed 10 Come to a Vote.
SENATOR QUAY's MOTIVE.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Mail and Express, un-
der date of December 6, says:

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the New York Mail and Express, un-
der date of December 6, says:
The fight over the omnibus state
hood bill in the senate has developed
into an assault upon the motives of it's
advocates, and particularly upon the
motives of Mr.. Quay. 1t is intimated
that Mr.. Quay has friends who may
profit, either financially or politically
or both. by the simultaneous admission
to statehood Of Oklahoma, New Mex
leo and Arizona, and by implication his
colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr.. Pen
rose is included in the charge.
Senator Quay makes no ~concealment
that he wrote a letter to Arizona, and
one to New Mexico as well, saying it
would be better IL the territories
should go democratic in the recent
election than that they should elect
republican delegates to congress. His
notion was that If the territories went
democratic, 1t would tend to hold the
support for the omnibus statehood bill
of democratic senators. without whose
assistance there would be no chance
for it to pass. BE4NI
Mr.. Quay's Reasoning.
Quay regarded 1t as more Important
to promote the success of this bill
than to elect two delegates, who have
the right to speak in the house and no
right to vote. 345Ir .c4l
Republican supporters of the omni-
bus bill regard Oklahoma and New
Mexico as reliably republican and
count upon four republican senators
and four republican members of the
house from those territories, so soon
as they have beer authorized to erect
state governments. The tendency in
Arizona is so strongly republican that
Senator Quay feels confident that the
two senators and the member of the
house chosen, in the ven of the terri
tory's admission to statehood, would
also be republican.
Therefore. in advocating the election
Of democratic delegates from Arizona
and New Mexico, he says he felt he
was promoting the interests of the re-
publican party by advancing the cause
of statehood, and so strengthening the
party in congress.
Charges by Opponents.
That is the Quay side of the case.
But it Is evident that the opponents of
the omnibus statehood bill propose to
make great capital out of the Quay
letters and to emphasize the fact that
friends of the senator are interested
in Arizona Senator Quay has not de
MED that he has friends who have in,
terests there, but the fact that they
would be benefited should the terri
tory become a state-and that all in
terests would be similarly affected
does not seem to him to be at all es
sential in view of the far greater rea
Sons which appear to him to justify
and require the passage of the omni
bus bill.
Senator Quay is confident that the
bill will pass il a vote can be secured
and its opponents are worried because
they believe his claim that a majorit,
OF the senate favor the bill Is baset
upon a careful canvass
But the fight in favor of tne bill re
ported by Senator Beverage, chairman
Oh the committee On territories, to ad
NIT Oklahoma and Indian Territor!
alone, as the one state of Oklahoma
win be determined one. Mr.. Quay ha
arrayed himself against some of tn
best republican thought in the senat
in this contest.