Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-06
ASSAULT UPON
 ARIzONA'S PEOPLE

by reason of his nervousness, has been led to do and say some very fool ish things in Washington. MT Coler has succeeded in injecting into the statehood debate a subject which has no relation whatever to the question before the senate. Being the holder of certain Arizona county bonds which had been in litigation for a number of years. he went before the President and certain hostile senators and urged, it is represented, that the present ter ritorial officials are seeking way to repudiate a territorial obligation; that the people of Arizona are repudiators, and if admitted to statehood would take steps to repudiate finally the bonds held by him. Wherefore, he prayed that the omnibus bill be defeat ed, in the senate, or, if passed, that the President would veto the same on be half of honesty and the aforesaid bonds
 Immediately. there was futter ID the senate. and a clamor for Senator Quay to stay his hand ere the admis- sion of such a disreputable lot of peo- pie. This new phase has been the subject for powerful" speeches, and very able sermons on the subject Of public honesty, and the conclusion has been arrived at with much fervor that . MT. Coler's disclosures made it ueces- sary to exclude Arizona from place in the union. The incident developed A curious. but very common, psychol- ogical fact Able and honest, and or dinarily fair-minded, senators, jumped to decision m their own minds that all the allegations discreditable to the people of this territory must be true, So anxious are they to defeat the statehood bill that they are in state of mind to believe anything prejudicial to the citizenship of Arizona and New Mexico. In most affairs of life these senators would weigh judicially any indictment brought against people as 9 whole and would be very reluctant to believe Americans in one section or the United States are substantially different from their fellow citizens in other sections. But confronted by a perpIexing and annoying situation and looking desperately for an avenue of victory, they readily accepted as true an absurd statement.
 The Phoenix Republican says that the case presented by Mir. Coler was not worth their consideration. MT Coler is an estimable gentleman, and no doubt feels that he has been put to unnecessary expense in collecting on bonds honestly held by him. But as to the question of litigation, there are certainly two sides to it, and II awaiting the final decision or th' courts the territorial officials have performed their simple duty. As matter of fact, when MT. Coler go nervous and rushed of to Washington the last question in the litigation ha' been decided several days previousl. by the supreme court of Arizona. Flo several months there had been n question as to the validity Of the bond themselves. or Of the necessity of thei being funded into territorial bonds The only point of doubt was as 10 th amount for which the territory shoul obligate itself. The decision of Lh supreme court of the United State was entirely clear on the question O validity. and there was no disposition 10 evade it. But when the mandat al last reached Governor Brodie an the loan commission it spparentl called for the issuance of bonds | cover interest compounded. Wer compound interest to be paid, the az gregate bond issue would be increase by quite slOO.OO0 Very properly, Gov ernor Brodie after conferring with tn attorney general of the territory d' cided to await an interpretation of tn mandate from the supreme court o the territory. This interpre tation was given at the las term. and it was held that the terri tory must not pay this additions