Arizona republican., 1905-02-25

vent any action contrary to the wishes of the senate. He added that most of his time for the past few weeks bad been largely given to service on the committee on Indian affairs and that the information gained there had been of such a character as to convince him that the best course to pursue in the interest of the people in that territory is to annex it to Oklahoma and ad- init the two territories as one state. This he thought should under the cir cumstances be done as speedily as pos sible.
 Mir Teller concluded three minutes before the time for the court to con- vene. The chair announced that his original attention had been to appoint Messrs. Beveridge, Dillingham; and Bate as conferees on the part of the senate and was proceeding to say that on account of MT Dillingham's ab- sence he would substitute MT. NelSon's name, when MT. Morgan asked if the motion to appoint confereeS had been put. The chair said no and was put ting it as the hands of the clock point ed sharply at the noon figures "I de- sire to be heard on that motion" said the Alabama senator. This meant that the motion must go over and it caused
 
 of the bill.
 When at noon the consideration of the Swayne case was resumed, Mir. Perkins on behalf of the house mana gers, was recognized to continue his argument in support of the articles of impeachment. He devoted himself to the point of residence, claiming that non-residence on the part of Judge Swayne in his district had been absO- lutely established.
 After MT. Higgins had concluded his first speech in defense of Judge Swayne an adjournment of the trial until to- morrow was taken to afford the sen ate an opportunity to return to the consideration of the motion for a con- ference on the statehood bill. Mir. Morgan said that it would be better to have it go ov 1T to another congress, when there would be more time for consideration. He charged that there was party pressure to get the bill through, and declared that scandals had attached to the passage of such legislation.
 "No state should come into the un- lon with reproaches upon the charac ter of her people, or of her leading men," he said. and then he intimated that pressure to secure the passage of the bill was due to wOuld-be office holders. Speaking of the provision for voting by the Indians, he said: ''The pettifogging politician could find no better field than this. With a bottle of whisky, a few pipes and some gew gaws. he can achieve marvellous re- sults.'
 He predicted that the scandal that would come out of these elections would adhere not only to the new state, but to the people of the United States. MT. Morgan read a magazine article, quoting Governor Garvin, of Rhode Is- land, on political corruption in that state That he said, ''is the cultured state of Rhode Island; if men go open ly into the market there to buy votes. what may be expected from a com munity like that of the Indian Terri tory, unrestrained by safeguards of any l1ind?"
 A quotation from the last annual message of Governor Durbin of Indi- ana was similarly commented on. MT. Morgan declared that if the Indian Territory is to be converted into a state, there should be a law making it penitentiary offense to go to the polls with a jug of whisky. Otherwise, he said the Indians would all be drunk as there was whisky.
 After the Alabama senator had spolx- en for about an hour, MT. Bate ap- preached him privately, asking him to