Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-12-10

MEXICO ana AFlZOlld are pooitlNc LII
stating that the statehood bill will be
passed by the senate when called up for
a vote on Wednesday. They assert that
the reports that President Roosevelt is
against admission are without founda-
tion, but on the contrary that the pres
ident is strongly in favor of having the
claims of all three territories recog-
nized. They also deny reports in circu-
lation that the chief interest of Senator
Quay in the statehood fight is to have
his business partner former State Sen
ator w. H. Andrews now citizen or
New Mexico, made one of the hrst
United States senators from New Mex
leo, and to have a brother Of Senator
Penrose, living in Arizona, made one OF
the senators from that state.
Notwithstanding the confidence eX-
pressed in the result by Messrs. Rodey
and Smith, the opinion prevails that
the statehood advocates will not win at
this session.
Senator Beveridge is preparing the
report of the committee on territories
and expects to present it Wednesday.
The opposition of the committee to the
claims of New Mexico and arizona will
probably be based on the fact that a
large percentage Of the people OF these
territories do not speak English, and in
many of the courts Interpreters are nee
essary. This is taken to indicate that
the population is backward in learning
English 1t is likely to be contested.
The report will probably say also
that the agricultural resources of Ari-
zona have been so fully developed that
a large increase of people who till the
soil cannot be expected, especially since
the available land is arid and can be
redeemed only by costly irrigation en-
terprises.
The Arizona mining regions are said
to be at the high tide of prosperity.
but may not remain SO, and there is be-
lieved to be no stability in the mining
population. Senator Beveridge, who is
leading in the opposition to statehood
for New Mexico and Arizona, is urg-
ing the Republican members Of the
senate to caucus on the proposition, but
it has as yet not been determined to do
this
GOOD REASONS FOR STATEHOOD.
The Denver Republican, editorial1y,
takes the report of Governor Otero for
1902 as the text of statehood editorial.
1t says: 1.-The annual report Of Govern
or Otero of New Mexico to the secre-
tary of the interior, presents that ter
ritory in a favorable light. He says
that it is unusually prosperous. Irri-
cation has taken great strides, new
mines have been opened and new
towns and cities are springing into life.
There can be no doubt that the wave
of prosperity has reached New Mexico,
and that If it is admitted as state 1T
will receive a new and powerful i'm
pulse. 1t is the experience of the far
west that territoriaes do not thrive as
well as states. So inbred is the love
of self government in Americans, that
they avoid territory in comparison
with a state, and hence the latter re-
ceives the benefit of greater growth in
population and more liberal invest
ments of capital. New Mexico has, ma
tural resources to fit it to become
great and prosperous state. But these
need the aid Of capital for their devel-
opment; and investments will wait un-
til the people acquire the right to gov
ern themselves and to provide that sta
bility in their institutions which must
always be lacking under territorial
form of government. The people Of
Colorado and especially those of Den
yer are deeply interested in whatever
will promote New Mexico's prosperity,
for the greater and more rapid the
growth of that community the larger
will be the market for Denver's trade.
When Colorado was admitted it's popu-
lation was almost exactly that of New
Mexico at the last census, but now it
is nearly three times that amount It's
growth has been closely connected with
the new dignity and the independence
that came with statehood