The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
THE new STATES
ADMISSION OF FOUR TERRIToR-
les NOT CERTAIN.
SOME DEMOCRATS ARE OPPOSED
Il Is Likely That There viii BE Con-
siderable ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cans Not Anxious as the Matter Can
Go oyer to Next Session.

WASHINGTON-In all probability
there will not be two stars added to
the flag at this session of congress.
While there are some democrats who
are disposed to allow the republicans
to legisIate as they please on all ex-
cept great fundamental questions.
there are others who will not consent
| to the admission of states doubled up,
| as proposed in the bill passed last ses-
sion by the house and now pending
In the senate. OF course, it is well
understood that it will be an easy
thing to defeat the statehood bill.
Only a slight filibuster is necessary,
or perhaps a notice to the republican
majority that the bill is unsatisfac-
tory would be sufficient The repub-
licans are not at all anxious. They
are willing the present bill should
pass, but if the democrats want to
defeat it they will not complain.
Senator Du BOis of Idaho is lead
er of the opposition to the bill in it's
present form. He recalls that when
he was struggling to have the terri
tory of Idaho admitted as a state
there was a great deal OF opposition
to the anti-Mormon test oath, which
he insisted should be incorporated in
the constitution. Du Bois took the
ground then that congress had no
right to bring territory into the
union against the will of the people
of the territory. He said then that
Idaho would prefer to remain out
rather than be deprived of the test
oath. "Now," said Mr. Du Bois, 'the
people of Arizona, with few eXcep-
tions, and a majority Of the people
of New Mexico prefer to remain as
territories rather than to be admitted
as one state.
81 think their wishes should be re-
spected. What ought to be done now
Is to admit Oklahoma, not coupled
Indian territory, but according to the
Sresent boundaries. There would be
nothing favoring the democrats in
that, for Oklahoma is as likely to be
republican as democratic, and, in fact,
it is the one territory where the re-
publicans are strongest. But aside
from all political consideration, the
rights of the people of the territories
should be respected"
Speaking of the statehood bill Sen
ator BeVeridge, chairman of the COM
mittee on territories, remarked the
other day that had Senator Quay liv-
ed the measure would have been put
IN his charge while being considered
in the senate. Perhaps no one knew
whether Senator Quay would have ac-
cepted the doubling up of the terri
tories. Four years ago he fought for
nearly three months to secure separ-
ate statehood for three territories,
leaving out Indian territory. When
the republicans doubled up the terri
tories in the last session, with a view
of making two states of the four, there
was no sign from the silent Pennsyl-
vania senator as to whether that kind
of a proposition suited him or not. He
was intensely interested when the
fight was on before. He devoted
more time to senatorial work than he
had ever given before in a winter,
out after the bill was defeated and
when new scheme was tried he new
er seemed to show the same interest.
No one knows what he would have
done if he had lived.