Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-07
ARIZONA AND WISCONSIN


 Arizona has a number of critics wht object to our population and our peo pie, and because Senator Quay hal chosen to champion the cause of thu territories he is demeaned by those who do not agree with him. He j: called tricky" and referred to II other slandering terms. The Evening Wisconsin of Milwaukee on January 29, said:
 Tn order to get his omnibus state hood bill through the senate, Quay has moved his bill as an amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill and also to the sundry civil bill. Oi course, the committee 10 whom these amendments will be referred will re port against them as not germane to the appropriation bills"
 The committee did not see it that way, but, following the lead of Senator Quay, they hitched the omnibus bill onto the appropriation bill. Hence Senator Quay's critic received a jolt in that direction. But the Wisconsin further says:
 We are inclined 10 the. opinion that Quay suspects the President will veto his bad cause he is trying 10 tack the omnibus statehood bill 10 the sundry civil bill, which covers all the ordinary expenses of the government. He cal culates that the President would not dare to veto such a complex bill so be would get through his pet project of forcing the omnibus bill 10 become a law. Quay certainly misunderstands President Roosevelt If such Q mon strous combination could get through both houses of congress, Roosevelt would squelch il with his veto.'
 Here is another assertion that re mains to be proven. President Roose- welt will not ve;O the omnibus bill if 1t is passed by both houses hanging onto every bill that is offered from now until the time for congress to ad- journ. President Roosevelt. would not set himself so far above the congress of the United States as to veto meas ure that has so many friends and is backed by such 8 large number of peO- pie. Continuing that paper goes fur ther:
 The fact that Quay did not dare yesterday to ask for a continuous ses- sion until the omnibus bill was dispos- ed of shows that he is convinced that his omnibus bill cannot become law. There are certainly enough bad men in the senate already without precip- itating four more rotton boroughs into that august body"
 The Phoenix Gazette says that this Is real interesting. Rotten boroughs" is not the right word. perhaps, but it has suited the august editor Of the Wisconsin. Perhaps our small popu. lation has something to do with the editors idea of rotten boroughs" Ii so We might take little trip back to the year 1S40, when Wisconsin has only 30,945 souls within her borders Arizona now has a population of 15O. GOO, or according to the census report just 122,OOO, which is more than three time as many people as Wisconsin had just before her admission into the un ion. Now, let us take a look at the next census, taken in 1850. a few. years after Wisconsin's admission. Her pop ulation was at that time 305.391. a phe nomenal growth, an increase of over 260,000 people, and no doubt solely due to her admission into the union.
 As to size, Arizona will compare very favOrably with our neighbor The gross area of Wisconsin in square miles is 56,040. The gross area Of Ari- zona is 113,020 square miles. more than twice the size of Wisconsin. Ari- zona's foreign born population is only a little over 10000, while that of Wis consin is 515,971
 Now suppose that Arizona was ad- mitted as a state with our present area of land, our resources. and should the percentage Of increase in population be anything like that of Wisconsin. we would by the next census be a greater state than the one from which comes