The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-11

admirable class above described, they would be far too few to justify State hood. The resources and development of the country are also declared to be too limited to entitle the territory to State- hood.
 pie of New Mexico and Arizona that development has been retarded because of the lack of Statehood the committee points out that Oklahoma has developed without Statehood and sayE
 The Indian Territory.
 'Srhe Indian Territory, even with no form of government at all. has neverthe- less attracted hundreds of thousands of American citizens from the other States of the Union who have opened its mines, worked Its fields and built up towns which astonish the observer and confound even the most confident believer In the energy of the American people when the un- toward conditions of the Indian Territory are considered"
 The committee says the two territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory have a combined population of about 1000, ,o0o Of the people of the Indian Territory only 86000 are Indians and attention is called to the fact that many of the people of New Mexico and Arizona, while called Mexican, are descendants of Indians as we'll as of Mexioans and spaniards. Con- tending for its union of Ok ahoma and Indian Territory, the report says that Oklahoma Is too contracted in area for Statehood alone and that nature, com merce and all human conditions have de- creed that they should be united.
 In conclusion the committee says that 'If 1t is a mistake not to admit New Mexico and Arizona at the present time, 1t is mistake which can be remedied by any future Congress. If 1t is mis- take to admit and that mistake is con summated. 1t never can be undone."
 Senator Quay presented an individual report in favor of the omnibus State hood bill.
 He says the Republican national con- vention in 1900 adopted the following reso- lution: We favor home rule for and the early admission to Statehood of the ter ritories of New Mexico. Arizona and Okla homa," and calls attention to the fact that the President and certain Senators whom he names were delegates to that convention. The proposition to exclude New Mexico and Arizona as recommended by the majority of the committee MT. Quay says. is in direct violation of the pledge made by the Republican platform.
 Treaties With Indians. f MT. 1uay says the Indlan Ierrltory could not be included in the State of Oklahoma because treaty agreements be- tween the United States and the five tribes provide for a, separate political organization for Indian Territory and ex- tends the jurisdiction to the tribal gov- ernment to 1906, and adds that Tt would be dishonorable on the part of Congress to violate those treaties and agreements with the Indians"
 The Five Tribes. he says. protest against becoming part of the State of Oklahoma and not an acre outside of a few town lots segregated by the town site provision of the Curtis act is now subject to taxation" And that "ali allotments to be made to 5000 Indians for homesteads are to be exempt from taxation for a period of twenty-five years. No greater injustice could be perpetrated against the people of Oklahoma than to require them to bear the burdens of In dian Territory with it's non-taxable land and anomalous conditions" @
 Mir. Quay continuing, says: Because of the illiteracy or crime within the limits of the five tribes in Indian Ter rItory it presents a record more deplora- ble than exists in any State In the Union' and adds that the census of 1900 shows that 20 per cent of the entire pouplatlon of Indian Territory is iliterate.
 The introduction of liquor into Indian Territory which, he says, would follow A union of the territory with the State of Oklahoma. would demoralize the tribes. MT Quay adds:
 "oklahoma is ready for Statehood. The Indian Territory Is unfit in all respects to enter the Union"