The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
AMENDMENT OF BARD
PREVAILED IN SENATE
Arizona and New Mexico viii Not be Joined as
One State
oklahoma and Indian Territory Went Through All Right With
21Year Prohibition Amendment-Debate
Was Interesting.

lhI ASHINGTON, Feb. AFTER a
w continuous session OF nine hours
the senate at $40 tonight passed
the joint statehood bill As passed the
Llll provides for the admission of the
states of Oklahoma To be comprised of
Indian territory and Oklahoma. and
New Mexico. according to the present
boundaries. with Arizona eliminated.
The long session was chara CT srized
by many surprises. Beginning prompt
~ upon the converting at u O'Clock.
The senate proceeded To consider the
Various amendments which had been
suggested by the committee on terri
tories and which had been passed over
one Of the first of these taken up was
the amendment prohibiting the sale of
Intoxicating liquors in what is now IN
dian territory for the next ten years.
and this was displaced with a substi-
tute offered by Mr.. GaIlinger. which
extended the amendment to the entire
state for 4 period of twenty-one years,
and this was adopted.
Foraker's Amendment.
The first surprise of the day came
~ hen the committee accepted Mr.. For
akers amendment providing for a sep
alate vote by each of the territories of
Arizona and New Mexico on the con
stltution TO be adopted by the proposed
state of Arizona That provision had
scarcely been made a part of the bill
" hen Mr.. Bard presented his amend
1nent, which had been originally offered
10y Mr.. Patterson and which provided
for the admission of New Mexico as a
state without the addition of Arizona.
This amendment proved to BE- the point
around which all the subsequent pro-
Ceedings of Importance revolved 1t
was at first adopted by the close vote
of II to 40. This vote was taken while
the senate was sitting in committee of
The whole and was reversed in the SEN
etc proper by the tie vote of IS TO IS.
Bard Finally Won Out.
Subsequently the senate decided by
Z vote of 50 to 80 TO entirely eliminate
New Mexico and Arizona from the bill,
and this result had hardly been an
nOunCed when Mr.. Bard. in slightly
changed form. renewed his proposition
for the admission of New Mexico as
state. and this time the amendment
prevailed by the vote of 40 to IS. One of
the affirmative votes was cast by
Mr.. Beveridge. in charge OF the bill,
Tor the purpose OF moving the recon
sid ration OF The vote. He was prompt
il making the motion as, soon as the re
suit WAS announced, but the motion
was laid on the table by "A vote of 80
TO IS. The effect was to eliminate Ari-
IONA from the bill and to establish a
state OF New Mexico and another Of
Oklahoma and Indian territory. In this
form the bill was passed
Interesting Incidents.
The defeat of the Bard amendment
il the senate after it had been adopted
in committee of the whole gave rise to
come interesting incidents. Mr.. Bailey
animated that there had been a trade
regarding the adoption Of an amend
lnent adding a portion of Arizona to
Utah.
The Mormon question also received
an airing during the day. While the
provision for the separate admission
IF New Mexico was under COnSiderd-
ton Mr.. Burrows. chairman of the COM
mittee on privileges and elections an
bounced his opposition to the bill and
stated it was due to the practice of
i olygamy in that territory to such an
extent that ne considered it unwise to
take the administration away from the
federal authorities. Mr.. Dubois, Mr.
McComas and Mr.. Plat of Connecti-
cut referred to the question Of polyg-
smy and to the revelations before the
committee. The bill originated in the
house and viii go to conference.