Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-01-27
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS.


will be subject to revision and l
without notice. s
Advices received from Washington {
on the subject is about as
varying in its nature as the news from
day to day concerning the far eastern
inbroglio.
One day Delegate Wilson writes to
the governor of the territory saying a
deadly peril hangs over the question
in the shape of joint statehood and
implores the governor to lmplore the
boards of supervisors of the territory
to implore the people to assemble en-
masse and implore congress not to in
fiict this undesirable condition upon
the territory.
The next day he is quoted as writ
ing to the secretary of the territory
that there Is not and never has been
any danger of joint statehood.
The associated press sends out the
statement that when an interrogatory |
was profounded in the committee on
territories, by member of the COM
mittee, whether the committee would |
be called upon to consider the state
hood question at this session, it was
answered with an emphatic "no" by
Chairman Beveridge.
Furthermore, as in confirmation OF
Senator Beveridge's no, to this ques-
ton it was given out that Senator
Quay, who has been the champion of
statehood has been compelled to go to
Florida, on account of ill health,
and with this information was
coupled a sort of intimation that he
had abandoned statehood entirely to
its fate.
Senator Quay and senators opposed
to the admission of the territories as
states we're quoted as having come to
an agreement whereby the claims of
the territories for admission will not
be pushed at this session.
Now comes c. G. Randolph, Wash
ington newspaper correspondent, and
in a special telegram from Washing
ton gives the situation there as he
sees it as follows, the telegram being
dated January %:
"The statement attributed to Sena-
tor Beveridge that there would be no
statehood legislation enacted in the
present session of congress is wholly
discredited by those who are in po-
sition to know existing conditions in
the senate committee on territories.
"When Senator Quay left for Flor
ida upon the imperative advice of his
physician, it was perfectly understood
that the bill which he had introduced
few days before, making one state of
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory,
was but a forerunner of bill which
he then had in contemplation making
one of Arizona and New Mexico.
Before leaving Senator Quay made
the request of his associates on the
committee that nothing be done until
he returned, and this agreement, 1t is
believed, gave rise to the statement
credited to Beveridge. Mr.. Quay took
with him to Florida the draft of a
statehood bill for Arizona and New
Mexico with a host of suggestions
from those most interested in this
proposed legislation.
cit is expected that on his return
about February 18th the bill will be
introduced. Mr.. Quay does not ap-
pear to be worried over statements
coming from Arizona that the people
of that territory will decline to rat
ify constitution merging the two
territories into one state. >"
Under date of January -, p. 5.
Creager, another newspaper correspond
ent, wires as follows:
ga definite program as to state
hood legislsIon at the present session
OF congress has been outlined and an
agreement has been reached, provid-
ing for the admission of Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory, substaD-
TALLY under the terms of the bill in
troducd by Senator Quay on Wednes-
day.
"Another bill will be introduced
in the course of a few days sprnviding
for the admission jointly of Arizona
and New Mexico as one state. This
agreement was reported after short,
but important conference, which did
not last above five minutes, held in
the senate.
"At this conference Senators Quay,
Beveridge, Hale, Allison, Platt of
Connecticut, representing every fac
ton involved in the last statehood
fight III the senate we're present. This
meeting was merely the eliminating
event of a number of sessions looking
towards an understanding, the up
shot of which was an agreement with
QUAY, that in consideration of his
help in the passage of important leg
islation without unnecessary delay,
the senate majority would agree to
some form of statehood bill.
"In the last congress any form of
statehood legislation was bitterly
fought because Senator Beveridge,
chairman of the committee on ter
ritories, who is now in the combine
for Joint statehood stood out against
it. His leading supporters we're Hale
and Platt of Connecticut, who we're
at the head of combination of New
England and eastern senators, who
met daily in the committee room OF
the committee on naval affairs and
we're bitterly arrayed against state
hood. They are also in the combine
and with them are Senators Aldrich,
Allison and others, practically unit
ing all the republicans in behalf of
the Quay bill"
SAM JONES ON THE CANAL.