Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-16
Joint Statehood Bill
 and Its Provisions
THE BILL CREATING TIRE NEW
 STATE OF ARIZONA.
Provisions of the Measure Which Dele gate Rodey, of New Mexico, Be- -lieves Win Pass the House and Sen ate of the United States.

Of the bill which has been present ed in the house of representatives au- thorizing the creating of the state of Arizona ont of the territories of Ari- Zona and New Mexico, and the state of Oklahoma out of the territories of Oklahoma and Indian, Delegate Rodey has the following to say in reference to its provisions:
 This bill will probably be amended in the senate so as to give the state of Arizona three representatives in stead of two, and several millions of dollars in cash, and if it is, the house committee agrees that they will not resist the amendments in conference. It will pass the house the third week in April, and may pass the senate this session.
 ''The state of Arizona, under this bill, can be created, if the people vote for constitution under it, in as short a time as seven and one-half months, or as long a time as eleven and one half months, after the president ap- proves the act" The portions of the bill of special interest are as follows:
 Section 19. That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the United States now constituting the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, as at present described, may become the state of Arizona, as hereinafter pro vided.
 Sec. 20. That all qualified electors Of said territories, respectively, as de- scribed in this act, are hereby author ized to vote for and choose delegates to form a convention for said terri tories; such delegates shall possess the qualifications of such electors. The aforesaid convention shall consist of 110 delegates, 70 of which delegates shall be elected to said convention by the people of the territory of New Mexico and 40 by the people of the terrotary of Arizona; and the governors, chief justices and secre- taries of each of said territories. re- spectively, shall apportion the dele gates to be thus elected from their respective territories as nearly as may be equitable among the several coun- ties thereof in accordance with the population as shown in the United States census of anno domini 1900; and such governors respectively, shall, within thirty days after the approval of the act by the president of the United States, by proclamation, in which such apportionment shall be ful- ly specified and announced, order an election of the delegates aforesaid in their respective territories to be held on the tenth Tuesday after approval of this act as aforesaid, and the prep CT officials, as now provided by law in each of said territories, respectively, shall immediately upon the issuance of such proclamation, make, or cause to be made, as the case may be, in time for the election, supplemental or general registration, as may be neces- sary, of the male citizens of the United States over the age of 21 years who shall have resided in said territories, respectively, for six months. in the county for ninety days and in the pre- cinct, ward or election district where they are to vote, thirty days next preceding the date fixed for said cleo ton, whose names shall be placed up- up or added to the great registers or registration lists, as the case may be, exhibiting the names of the qualified voters of said territories, respectively. And the persons so qualified shall be entitled to be so registered and to vote for delegates to the constitution al convention. Such election to be governed by laws regulating members of legislature
 Third. That the debts and liabilities of said territory of Arizona and of said territory of New Mexico shall be assumed and paid by said state and that said state shall be entitled to all the rights of reimbursement which either of said territories now has.
 Sixth. That the capital of said state shall temporarily be at the city of Santa Fe, in the present territory of New Mexico. and shall not be changed