Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-04-19

| Washington, April 19-SOOn after
the House met today Mr.. Dalzell OF
Pennsylvania, presented a rule for the
immediate consideration of the state
hood bill. Following brief explana
ton of the bill by Mr.. Dalzell, Mr.
Williams. of Mississippi, a minority
leader, charged that the bill was but
pretext to stay the demand of the
territories for admission. He express
ed the opinion that the Republicans
had no idea of passing the bill at this
session, or in fact any idea that it
would pass at all. The bill, he said,
was simply "apples to the eye and
ashes to the taste," and offered in such
form that it was known before haI d
it could not receive the appreciation
and votes Of the minority.
In opposing the rule Mr. Moon of
Tennessee, declared that the bill was
intensely wicked and partisan meas
ure which if passed would violate the
plighted faith and honor of the United
States to the five civilized tribes OF
Indians in the matter of treaty Obliga-
tions He inquired of the Republicans
if they were going to pass. bill in vio-
lation of their party platform. and OF
treaty obligations The territorial
delegation in the House, he maintain
ed, had protested until the hour of
the coercion by the Republicans to
meet the political eXigencies." Deny
ing that the Republicans had been
guilty Of bad faith, Dalzell said the bill
would take it's course as party meas
ure because it was reported by the ma
iority of the committee, submitted to
party caucus and brought into the
House pursuant to rule adopted by
the cav Gus. He justified the measure
on the ground ''that we are endeavor-
ing to sustain the relative power OF
the Senate and the House OF Represen-
tatives in legislation After the pre-
vious question had been ordered by
1877 to 1913, a party vote, yeas and nays
were ordered ON adoption of rule. The
rule was adopted $50 to Ill. The bill
was taken up, the rule requiring that
a vote be taken at 4:30 today with no
opportunity for amendment.
Stathood Bill Passed House.
Washington, April (Bulletin)-
The House passed the statehood bill,
which provides that one state, each,
shall be created out of the territories
of Arizona and New Mexico and Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory The
vote was 147 to 104.
Socialism Growing.
Washington, April 19-"The growth
of Socialism will be the great surprise
to both the parties during the coming
campaign" said Wilbur Wakeman,
head of the American protective asso-
citation, who is here to call upon the
President. Mr. Wakeman has made a
scientific study of political and social
conditions in the country for number
of years. He has some rather startling
conclusions, which he has brought to
Washington and which he tells the
leaders of his party were developed
through the work of investigation OF
the association of which he is the head.
The association sought to sound sentl-
ment throughout the country on the
question of protection, and because Of
the agitation of the tariff question,
and the popular belief that most of the
sentiment in favor of tariff revision Is
confined to the northwest, it was in
that particular part of the country that
inquiries were made
The investigation was conducted
through the medium of first voters
bureaus" The most minute inquiries
were made in Oregon. The occasion
for this was a most natural one. Ore
gon holds her election in June and as
it will be the first of the state cleo
tions, it was the desire of the assocla-
tion to sound sentiment there, SO that
it could be ascertained whether or not
there is to be great political upheaV-
al. 1t was also desired to sound sentl-
ment there because of the possible
view that would be taken that the Ore
gon elections would be an index to the
results later in other states
The discovery that most surprised
the investigators was that the state Is
honeycombed with Socialism. Turning
from that state to general survey OF
the country, the growth of the move
ment is particularly noticeable in all
of the larger cities. Recently in Mil
waukee the Socialists polled almost as
many votes as the Republicans, and
there were five times as many Socialist
votes as there had been in the previous
election. In Chicago the growth of So
cialism is shown by the recent over
whelming vote in favor of the public
ownership of the street railways One
of the leading Republican politicians
of the state of Illinois, when asked