Arizona republican., 1904-12-28

the passage of the bill now penclnS on the following grounds:
 First. It violates our sense Of local pride; sentimental possibly, but a sem tirnent underlying and necessary to loyalty, patriotism and the higher as- pirations for good government and good citizenship.
 Second. It subjects us to the dom ination of majority heretofore strang- CTS to us living under different insti- tutions, observing different customs, having different laws and different rules of property as to its acquisition, enjoyment and disposition subject to different environment, having different trade relations, and the larger propor- ton of whom cannot and do not under stand, speak or write the English lan- guage.
 Third. That such union involves either a concession by that majority of their laws, customs and habits or an abandonment by us of ours and the consequent unsettling of our laws and jurisprudence which are the growth of nearly half a century of different. dis tinct and separate government, and by experience shown to be adapted and adaptable to our institutions, customs, habits and peculiar wishes.
 Fourth The union of these two ter ritories would create a<state the area of which would be greater than Iowa, Michigan New York and all the New England states combined. This would entail extraordinary expenditure Sot money and time in the transaction of public business working hardship and more Or less operating to deprive us of participation in the transaction of our public affairs. It is, we submit, cardinal principal of American fnstitu- tions that the more nearly within the actual observation of the people the functions of a government are exercis- ed and the greater facility afforded them for actually participating therein, the safer those institutions are, and the more economically, honestly! efficient Iy and capabIy they are carried on.
 These considerations principally perhaps other--more than forty years ago induced a congress of the United States to establish the government of the territory of Arizona, separate and apart from that of New Mexico. The lapse of time has not, we submit, rem dered these reasons of less efficiency, but has on the contrary not only justi- fled the act of that congress but em- phasized and made more apparent and urgent the reasons that then prompted the separation. The proposed enabling act is violently opposed to our wishes, and as we deem it twill necessarily re- suit in the subversiOn of our rights. We, therefore, respectfully but most earnestly protest against the passage of the proposed law. implicitly believing that in so doing we express the senti- ment of the vast and overwhelming majority of our people.
 And as members of this honorable | profession we appeal to the congress of the United States that as a matter of l right and justice this distasteful union 1 be not imposed upon an unwilling peo- pie.
 The report included also a copy of a letter which the secretary was instruct ed to send to each of the senators. The letter reiterates the argument of the resolutions and closes with the follow | ing appeal:
 ] We therefore implore you not to lend | your countenance or assistance to the l passage of this measure, which if it | becomes a law, will practically dis franchise and enthrall as progressive, l loyal, and patriotic body of American l citizens as any whom the members of your honorable body represent. | Separate, independent statehood has lever been the hope of our people: yet we willingly, gladly consent to defer the fruition of that hope indefinitely rather than incur the irremediable dis aster of the submergence of our iden- | tity which the proposed union with 1 New Mexico would entail.
 | Judge Pinney introduce a resolution empowering President Millay to ap- ! point a committee of five to go to Washington and oppose the statehood | hi TT@a nd after that there was a debate on it which resulted in it's reconsideration and withdrawal
 | The chief opposition to the resolution lay in the fact that no provision was
 made for the payment of the expenses
 of the committee. W. B. Cleary believ- Ted that the patriotism of the associa- tion would furnish a sufficient fund. If the lawyers themselves could not raise sufficient money there were enough other patriotic people who would sup plement their efforts. Eugene Brady | O'Neill said that MT. Cleary had never
 made a bigger mistake in his life. He i had undertaken since his residence in Phoenix to raise subscriptions for var ious purposes aggregating not less than S12.000. His experience was that it
 was harder to separate lawyers from their money than any other kind of people. They were generally without | money.
 Judge F<ibbey said that he would be one of the fifty lawyers to raise a fund
 of $2.500. It was the opinion of MT. | O'Neill that no considerable part of such 9 sum could be raised.
 Judge Kent as at the former meeting
 was not hopeful of the effect of the re-
 solutions and the letter. The senators
 had their minds made up and would 1 not, likely change them on account of
 such representations. A committee
 night do something by personal contact but whatever was to be done should
 be done quickly and in a business like manner.
 It was finally resolved to appoint a
 committee of which the president
 should be the head to devise ways and
 means for sending a committee to Washington. The appointments were l made AroODo T1aD1 haTS COT