Arizona republican., 1902-12-16
Sectional Statesman.

In a long dispatch to his paper, the Washington correspondent of the Kan sas City Star gives some interesting details of the situation in the senate:
 "The younger and less experienced republican senators believe themselves in safe republican company with Quay and Platt of New York, who contro, the biggest delegations in republican national convention. The republican senate steering committee isn't big enough to read these two senators out of the republican party. The charge of commercialism against Quay gives him an opportunity of making Q personal plea for his colleagues. Statehood for New Mexico has become the paramount issue with him.
 Quay has been loyal to Roosevelt when other republican senators have sought to stab the administration in the back. When other republican sen ators urged their conventions to go slow in the matter of endorsing Roose- welt for 1904 and talked about lack of precedent. Quay replied. we will es- tablish a precedent" It is. therefore not matter of surprise that President Roosevelt wants a compromise.
 ''Beveridge, whatever else he may or may not have done. has made a sad mess of his committee work. He has caused to be printed in every paper in the United States an indictment against the people of New Mexico and Arizona. An opportunity was offered him for juggling figures and words, and he in stituted comparisons for the sole pur- pose of arousing eastern sentiment. The same argument he submitted in these comparisons between the popu- lation of New York and Arizona, and between Chicago and New Mexico, would apply as between New York and Rhode Island and between Philadelphia and Delaware.
 From his sick bed MT. Hale of Maine has sent instructions to his lieutenants and advice to Beveridge as to the man ner in which the fight against the terri tories should be conducted. New En- gland has never wanted a territory west of the Allegheny mountains ad- mitted to the union of states, unless 1t was in the case of Kansas. It came in to help strengthen an issue for which New England contended. Gal finger of New Hampshire is for state hood, but Gallinger is independent in his ideas and fearless as Hoar. Aid rich and Hale seem to think that some grievous wrong is about to be done the great and glorious state oi Rhode Island, with its three counties, no larger than Utah school districts. and the progressive state of Maine, with its pineries and lakes and wilderness.
 "This precious bunch of sectional statesmen havefnot been permitted to have their way. They stand in the way of the compromise because they want no new states. big or little. The atti- tude which Beveridge caused the sen ate committee on territories to assume is in itself an argument against the compromise which many of his sup porters as well as the president wouli be glad to see brought about Bever- idge charges illiteracy against both ter ritories. He shows that there are 8 per cent of illiterates in New Mexico and % per cent in Arizona. For this reason he argues that neither is ready for statehood. How, then, is 1t going to help matters to combine the two territories into one state?"
 It will be noted that The Republican did no injustice to Senator Beverldge when it described his report against the omnibus bill as an indictment of the people of Arizona and New Mexico.