Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-05
A NEW TACTICS.
He Wants the Statehood Fight Passed
Up to the House.


Up to the House.
A special dispatch from Washington,
dated February 2, to the st. Louis.
Globe-D Democrat, says:
An interesting turn has been taken
in Senator Quay's plan to add the ON
nibus statehood bill as a rider to the
two appropriation bills. Mr.. Quay has
told the leaders on the other side that
unless the house sustains him he will
not force an extra session by insisting
on this rider remaining on an appro-
priation bill, rider and all, and let the
house decide whether to retain the
rider. This is a shrewd proposal. The
house has already voted for statehood
by a large majority, but in a spirit of
~insincerity, under the assumption that
the senate could be trusted to kill it.
Now, the house republicans who so flip
PANTY voted for the creation of more
states a year G would be compelled
to disavow that action or desert the
great body of their party associates in
the senate.
1t is very doubtful if the house would
reverse its position on statehood. The
republican majority is small, and 1t
would obviously be invaded by the de-
sertion to the statehood camp of many
of the Pennsylvania members. who.
would regard their obligation to the
boss of the state as paramount. The
Rocky mountain republicans, as in the
senate, would furnish some statehood
support.
A further complication in this Quay
plan arises from the necessity it i'm
poses Of putting senate members on
record concerning statehood. Several
senators do not want to have to vote
again, and every energy of the leader
ship is now directed toward avoiding
show of hands. Quay is taking advan-
tage of all these considerations, and
seemingly intends to give the repub-
lican organization satgood deal of
trouble If they are to avoid an extra
session, as all unite in desiring to es-
cape. Mason has offered, as chairman
of the p~ostofice committee, to report
the postal budget with the statehood
rider from his committee, which con-
tains a Quay majority in case there is
any trouble in doing this elsewhere.
Mr.. Quay has promised to have the bill
attached as a rider to three other ap-
preparation bills.
There was another effort to compro.l
mise today on a plan admitting Ari-
xona n New Mexico as n state,
with Oklahoma to be admitted as pro-
vided in the original house bill. Imme-
diately after the adjournment of the
senate the republican friends n oppo-
nents Of statehood legislation, as the
result of informal conferences held
during the day, met and agreed to a
proposition of the compromise charac-
ter. The seventeen republicans who
have been following the lead of Sen
ator Quay agreed to the proposition,
and the republican senators who have
been leading the fight in opposition to
the bill expressed a willingness to
come to an agreement on that basis.
The compromise plan was suggested
to the democratic senators, and was
very promptly turned down. Without
exception, every democrat in the cham
Der insisted that under no conditions
would he accept the proposition which
looked to the union of New Mexico and
Arizona as one state. This was some
thing of a surprise.