Arizona republican., 1902-12-21
PHOENIX, ARIZONA. DEC. 21. 1s'
The Senator's "Findfngs." :"

On another page or to-day HepuDh-
 can is printed a lengthy extract from
 the report made by Chairman Beve-
 ridge of the senate committee on
 territories against the omnibus state
 hood bill. This extract, while not
 covering all of that portion of the re-
 port which relates to Arizona, gives
 the main features and discloses clearly
 the nature of the remarkable find
 ings" arrived at by the majority mem-
 bers of the sub-comm ttee after they
 had passed through the territory on q
 flying train and had taken the testi-
 mony of a few witnesses at Prescott.
 Phoenix and Tucson.
 We do not belittle this report. IL
 was framed with extraordinary skill.
 Had the investigation been made with
 the same care that was used in draw
 ing this indictment, the distinguished
 senators might have been converted in spite of themselves. The more it IS
 examined the more it is apparent that
 the document will be of incalculable damage to the business interests of the territory, for in the debates which will ensue after the holiday recess all the senators who oppose the omnibus bill will take the report as the text for their speeches, and their speeches, or the gist of them, will go to every read ing person in the land. But~while the report was drawn with consummate care and ability, it is evident to any resident of Arizona that the senators theories from the beginning, and upon a false foundation had proceeded to build a case with but one point In view to prove that conceptions previously formed were correct. Starting with misses formed before they came here or gathered during their hurried trip: ignoring positive evidence to the con- trary from competent witnesses, the senators have made up a brief of an extremely dangerous character. It Is dangerous because of it's frank accept ance of many facts in our favor, It's equally frank assumption that all the strongest claims in behalf of the ter ritory are greatly overdrawn, and be- cause it treats as unworthy of con- sideration the most potential argu- ments for admission.
 For illustration, it is clear that the senators before coming here were un- alterably of the opinion that every | mining community is an unstable or ganization; that the mining business has no continuity; that any mining | state is likely to become depopulated; | that Bret Harte's stories of deserted | placer camps in California are illustra- tive of mining characteristics every where; that the mines in operation in Arizona may, as asserted. last a hun dred years, but that all the mines of any value are not only discovered all ready. but are developed. The sena- tors saw one great mine (the Congress- and heard the names of several others. Fitting what little they saw to their previous conceptions, they had learned, as they imagined. all that was to be known about Arizona mines. To be sure reliable citizens thought they knew more about it. but it must be that citizens have bias They must be heard in kindness. but care must be taken 10 discount what .hey say.
 It seemed to be impossible for the senator's to realize that in our vasi lrea of 113,OO square miles there are districts after districts, each of which s as large as some of the minor states, and each mile of which is min that, in short prospecting for mines and the development of new mines will be going on in Arizona for thousands of years. They preferred to ritory do not play out'-that, in fact. the life of a developed mine in Arizona l