Arizona republican., 1903-02-04
Senator Quay in Earnest.

Monday. Senator Quay said:
 II am thinking of going home for few days. on private business. l am sure the senate now believes that am in earnest about statehood. l hope that your people also begin to under stand that I am somewhat in earnest
 Ii was not necessary for the great Pennsylvania senator to assure the people of Arizona that he is in earnest and his statement was, of course, his way of stating that he is determined to pass the omnibus bill through the sem ate. Nobody in the territories has doubted his earnestness, and as he grirnly suggests, no doubt the senate now begins to understand his purpose. The parliamentary status of the state hood bill is remarkable. and the able senators who have been trying des- perately for weeks to make minority win must realize by this time that they are in the clutches of an adver-~ sary who, having received no quarter proposes to give none.
 In addition to holding its place be- fore the senate as the unfinished busi- ness, the omnibus bill now forms part of three great appropriation bills. In succession Senator Quay has intro duced the statehood measure as an amendment to the agricultural appro- priation bill, to the sundry civil appro- priation bill, and to the postoffice ap- propriation bill. Neither of these bills can be considered without consider ing the omnibus bill. and neither of them can be voted upon without vote on the statehood bill. Under a strict construction of the senate rules, Sem ator Quays amendments are, of course. not germane to the appropriation bills, and may be ruled out by the presiding officer on a point oi order. For a number of years. or ever since it be- came manifest that resolute minority in the senate could talk any measure to death, it has been the custom to offer bitterly contested bills as amend ments to appropriation bills. By this method the republicans last session overcame the democratic opposition ana SuCCeeQeU III securing llle DdSSd5C of the Spooner bill for the government of the Philippines. Upon the occasions where points of order have been made by the minority the chair has been forced to sustain the point, but an ap- peal from the chairs decision was merely necessary in order for the ma jority to have it's own way. Occasion ally, to be sure. even appropriation bills have been talked out of exist ence, as was the case two years ago, when Senator Carter of Montana oc- cupied the last two days of the session with a speech against the rivers and harbOrs bill, because the two houses had failed to make an appropriation for national irrigation. The govern ment can get along first rate without an appropriation for rivers and har- bors. but there must be appropriations for the expenses of the government it. self
 It is not believed that even Senator Beveridge would dare talk the agricul- | tural. the sundry civil, or the postoffice l appropriations bills to death. Should i he do so, however, the final trial of | strength would be postponed but a few l weeks in any event. Should one of the | appropriation bills fail, an extra ses- l sion would be inevitable. and as Sen ator Elkins pointed out to our corres- pondent on Monday,
 Tn that extra session. of congress an | appropriation would have to be made i for the postoffice department. or all of | the mails would stop at midnight of | June 30th the end of the fiscal year. | It is a mistake to suppose that Mir | Quay or his co-laborers will cease | their efforts in an extra session of con- gress, and it is also mistake to sup | pose that we will not have a majority | in the next congress"
 As our readers will remember, Sena- tor Elkils closed his interview with ! this prediction:
 The bill Ghe postofice appropria- tions) must be considered. and with 1t the statehood amendment; and that means that the omnibus bill will be passed with it.
 That Senator Quay has a majority with him is beyond question. Two test votes have shown it conclusively and if there were any doubt about it Sen ator Beveridge would consent to a vote. And considering the manner in which Senator Quay has laid out his campaign for the remainder of the session, it is hardly conceivable that a vote can be prevented in any event But If there is no vote at this session there will be a vote on a new state hood bill at the extra session, and in either case success seems assured.
 And reports that President Roose- veit will veto the bill when passed are undoubtedly without foundation. Sem