Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-14

MT. E. E. Ellenwood, former United States. attorney for Arizona, and for mer Gov. Murphy. of that Territory appeared before the House Committee on Territories yesterday, and argued for single statehood for Arizona. Chairman Hamilton and the members of the committee present interrupted with frequent questions. and the hear ing was regarded by them as one Of the most interesting that has been had before the committee.
 Mir. Ellenwooo devoted himself al most exclusively to a discussion of the population of Arizona, with re spect to numbers and character, al though n conclusion he spoke of the veal and resources of the Terri tory. The census of 1900, he said, gave Arizona a population of 123.000, but the census was incomplete, and in addition the Territory since then has made rapid strides. both in popu- lation and development. He offered the county registration books to show that from 1900 to 1902, the latter year that of the most recent registration, there had been an increase of more than B per cent in the number of voters, with corresponding increase in population. He admitted that along the railroads and in the mining camps the population was Of more or less a floating character, but he pointed ut that there were counties deyoted entirely ito agriculture, in which the population was as stable as in any State of the Union.
 Small Foreign Population.
 MT. Ellenwcod vigorously resented the charge that the people of Arizona were made up of the riff-raff of the United States, with a preponderance of Mexicans and other foreign ele ments. He showed by the census figures that of the 123,OOO people ir the Territory. only about 4,0OO were of foreign birth, while of this nun Der there were but 700 Mexicans. The number f present citizens of Arizona who were born in each. and asked the members of the committee, as he came to the state of each. if they were will ing to characterize the people of their own States, the sons and daughters of their neighbors ana friends. as riff raff and scum, and not fit fer citizen ship.
 l will venture 10 say he remark ed, that many of the people from Michigan, now iu Arizona, have -rfsten ed to the words of wisdom as they feil from the lips of the chairman of this comittee. end have respoken them to their new neighbors in the Western Territory, fitting them for the highest duties of citizenship"
 Mir. Hamilton demurred at the broad compliment of the speaker. but he ad mitted the figures presented were mighty interesting
 Mir. Powers, of Maine. interrupted the speaker to say that he desired to bear witness to the good character of the people of Arizona Undoubtedly, said Gov. Powers, there are hard char. acters about the mining camps, as there are bound to be about mining camps everywhere, but he had never seen more intelligent and enterprising people anywhere than he had found in making a trip through the Territo- ". ass..
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 With Statehood dsirrigation, MT Elenwood argued, the future of Art zona would be of assured brightness He did not believe, however, that joint Statehood with New Mexico was desirable for either of the Territo- ries- He called attention to the fact that 1t was 500 miles from the present capital of New Mexico to the present capital If Arizona, and that from one end of the State to the other,. should they be joined, would be greater than from New York to Chicago.
 The same line of argument was fol lowed by former Governor Murphy In arguing for single Statehood. He said there was nothing in common between the people of Arizona and the people of New Mexico, except their desire for Statehood and the rights of Amer ican citizenship.