Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-17
aenAskAsLE SYMPOSIUM

ro-nrttfess OF territories has agreed 70
i hali providing for = !ointure Of New
MEXICO and Arizona into che STATE y
ABSOLUTELY srorg Every member Of
The minority has signed . telegram =
lie Phoenix Enterprise saying We
are unaiterably opposed To toint state
hood Il New Mexico and Arizona a
separate statehood bin viii pc report
ed ii he minority report and se VII
Ifght ,olntpre 70 The last ditch II bota
the house and the senate
Il r. Wilson.
Delegate to Congress from Arizona.
ssasemert BY Governor 6rodie.
SPECIAL TO the New Mexican.
Phoeni1. Arizona. March is--The
dispatch quoted III me al the Tuscon.
Arizona. territorial Republican consen.
TOD on March s was an authorized
dispatch 10 the Los Angeles Times a.
follows. washington. p G.. March
3-There was sent broadcast from
washington last night the statement
that The president had come into line
for statehood for Indian Territory 2
Oklahoma. New Mexico ard Arizona
and that be would favor and assist any
Legislation following statehood lines.
That statement ii may be said upon an
shority Il absolutely false. In the first
| place the president has taken 10 parf
ia the statehood Legislation before on.
gress and again he has not changed
his views on The statehood question
since last year. he above authoriz-
ed dispatch has been corrobora,ed BY
Walter welIman In the Chicago-Rec'
ord-Hera!d.
o. a. BRoDiE.
Governor of Arizona
rnder those circumstances. q
course, il Is absolutely out o. the qnes
lion that i joint statehood bill viii
pass the United states senate al THU
session
The above was run ID biaeS fyi,'
under a bold head on the front pas'
OF the New Mexican.
or all the contributions to state
hood literature no stronger argu
argument that the joint statehood BIZ
win pass the house OF congress ma
been offered than that contained 4
the dispatch signed by Delegate WI
son, aud no more p~reposterons decis
ration has ever been given 70 u
public than that found 10 the Brodi
dispatch. and more than that, ~
assumption which the New Mex
can bases upon Mr.. Brodie's Y
terances ought TO be handed down
posterity as the most remarkable g
ample Of logical deduction extant.
Mr.. Wilson's denial OF the truth 9
the dispatches sent out from Wasi
ington, amounts To nothing, OF course
as II refers only 70 the action OF tn
minority. The tenor OF the dispatche
sent out from Washington was this
i majority OF the committee q tc
ritories had agreed on q measure !
be introduced. Not a single dispatc
said that every member OF the con
mittec was In concord. But republ
cans of the territory who are In fave
OF statehood for New Mexico and Az
roma viii Welcome the eonfirmatio
from Delegate Wilson that the onl
opposition the statehood bill viii me-
in committee and In congress VIII I
from the democratic minority. IL
not believed for a moment that q
republicans of congress. backed by q
administration, con not pass the stat
hood Hills. The only possible chant
OF defeat Is In the senate. but even
, that body there Is slight chance thi
the democratic senators viii block q
! legislatIon An which they are int
/. ested for the sake OF killing q mca
urc. which they believe VIII strengt'
) en- their party Mr.. Wilson migl
have some hope 81 inducing q maiori'
! OF his constituents 10 vote with hif
j but 1hen he goes IN against a big IN
jority of the United States congrei
, he will find tina, that + another ms
, ter. Ills telegram viii encourage q
) friends u Joint statehood 10 the e
j ritory. Governor Rrodie Of Arizoi
( has remarkable andacity IL rcitera
] ing his ridiculous contradiction q q
!, best Kind n authority III The pre-.
dents attitude on the statehood ma
ter. Because several weeks ago Pfe
laent Roosevelt said Il was ~ B
province 10 express III opinion % q
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