Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-09
JOINT STATE.
HOOD BILL
To Be Considered By RepubIi
can Senate Caucus Decem.
Der Seventeenth.
EAST SENATORS FOR IT
Foraker and Ga|Iinger will Oppose
Favorable Action. democrats Won't
Make Strong Fight Against.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 9.-Senatt
Beveridge, chairman of the senat
committee, on territories, stated toda
that the Hamilton Joint Statehood Bi
combining New Mexico and Arizon
into one state, would come up as III
finished business, and would be next
order after the passage of the Phili]
pine Islands Bill on the 10Th inst, an
would likely be called for Saturday
the 18th inst. Senators Blackburn
Bailey, Bate, and other Democrat
senators will speak against the pas
sage Of the bill, but will not filibuste1
Business Planned for Senate.
A recent dispatch to the st. Loui
Globe Democrat has the following tt
say regarding the Hamilton Join
Statehood Bill passed by the House O.
Representatives and now awaiting &C
tion in the United States Senate:
The steering committee of the sen
ate has framed the order of business
for the senate until the holiday recess
Four matters will be given attention in
this period. They are the Philippine
bill, on which the senate has agreed
to vote December 16; statehood legis.
lation the nomination of William D.
Crum to be collector of the port OF
Charleston, South Carolina, and the
question of filling vacancies on senate
comittees.
At informal meetings of senate lead
ers several of the measures have been
discussed and the tacit understanding
reached that some of them should be
kept in the background until late in
the session. Notably is this true of
the proposed legislation granting the
Interstate commerce commission sup
ervision over railroad rates.
1t is believed by senate leaders that
there will be no substantial opposition
to the statehood bill in it's present
form, admitting Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as one state and Arizona and
New Mexico as one state The Crum
nomination, doubtless, will go through.
Leaders of the Republican party in
both houses have already been given
assurances of the passage of the
statehood bill at this session of Con-
gress. 1t will not surprise any one if
the Hamilton bill passed by the House
of Representative during the first ses-
sion of the present Congress, is re-
ported from the Senate committee by
Senator Beveridge in the first ten days
of the session. Careful canvass of the
situation shows that the opposition
which it will encounter will be from
Republican and not from Democratic
Senators. Among the strongest of
these men is Senator Foraker. Sen
ator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, is
also credited with intense opposition to
the present statehood bill, and with an
intention to oppose the proposed bill.
Senator Bard, of California, who has
lived much in the Southwest and has
seen the conditions of the newly Gre
ated and smaller states, has let it be
known that he will give his support to
no other statehood bill that may be
Opposition Not Understood.
1t is known in the case of Senator |
Foraker, at least, that some time ago |
he favored just the sort of bill which is |
now proposed to pass. There is a |
strong suspicion that the opposition of |
both Foraker and Gallinger grows out
Of the personal feeling against Senat-
Or Beveridge, of Indiana, rather than
to the provisions of the bill. Senator
Beveridge was put forward during the
last session of the Congress by some
Of the old Eastern senators as the man
to make the fight against statehood for
each of the territories. The coterie
Of Eastern senators were determined |
that if statehood must come for the
territories, the represen-
.ation of the West in the Senate should
be increased just as little as possible.
It was these senators who stood be-
QlQQ Senator DtVcIluSC WAOA uc lOuuu |
FOR the compromise of making two
states out of four territories, such as
Is now proposed. In making this fight
It was inevitable that he should run
to some of the other senators,
who did not accept the mandate from
out of New England and the far East
srn states, that the representation from
vest of the Mississippi river should be
Kept down If possible. Advocates OF
statehood say that they can never mus
,er enough votes to insure the passage
II their bill without the votes of the
senators named. All they are trying
o do now is to get these senators to
lgree not to fight the bill, claiming
hat they will see that there is the
'equisite number Of votes for the
Measure.