Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-01-11
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Get Impatient and Try to
Rush the Hamilton Bill as
Applies to Themselves.
ANDREWS IS FIGHTING
Is Backed By the Arizona Delegation
Which Says Let Arizona Remain
Territory Forever Rather
Than Jointure.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, Jan. 11.-Fifty dele.
gates from Oklahoma and Indian Ter.
ritory are storming the Senatorial
committee rooms this afternoon de.
r,nandins the passage of the Hamilton
joint statehood bill with its main pro.
visions as applying to Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory. Senator cui-
Ium of illinois, now says that the bill
will surely pass. He admits that there
may be some amendments. Senator
6everidge of Indiana, who is leading
the fight for the bills passage states
that the bill will unquestionabIy pass,
but with what amendments he could
not say. Delegate-eiect w. H. An
drews Of New Mexico is the only rep
resentative Of that Territory here to
fight the bill. He is working heroic
ally to prevent today's stampede of
the Senatorial committee rooms from
effecting the passage Of the bill. N.
Cakes Murphy, former governor and
ex.deIegate Of Arizona, Delegate J.
Francis Wilson and Deiegate-elect
Marcus A. Smith of Arizona, insist If
the bill is passed that Arizona be
eliminated from any part in it, saying
that the people Of Arizona prefer to
remain a territory If need be forever
rather than be merged with New
Mexico into the proposed joint state
Of Arizona. Numerous amendments
have been offered to the Hamilton bill
as it now stands during this forenoon
and all have passed with the excep-
tion Of that one which proposed to
appropriate $5,ooo,ooo to the proposed
now state Of Arizona for the main.
tenance Of it's public schools. Sena.
tor German Of Maryland is now lead
ing the opposition to the bill and has
asked time to examine It.
President Interested.
The President has been taking es-
pecial interest in the statehood bill
for the past day or two for the reason
there have been statements to the ef- |
feet that the Republican majority OF
the committee know and knew that
the people of Arizona were utterly op-
posed to the bill. Something of fog
has been raised over the allegations |
and the President has some strong
opinions on the subject.
Plan Of Opposition.
There seems to be we'll defined
plan on the part Of the opposition to
keep the discussion hot until some of
the appropriation bills or the food bill
demand action and then to have the
bill indefinitely sidetracked.
There are those who think in view of
the strenuous protests to jointure from
many sources that it is not improbable
that Oklahoma and Indian Territory
will be admitted as one state and
that New Mexico and Arizona will be
allowed to remain for the present ses-
sion as they are. There seems little
doubt that the Oklahoma-Indian Ter
ritory section of the bill would readily
pass If the Arizona-New Mexico COM
plication were eliminated.
Morgan's Broad Charge.
/: Senator Morgan in his recent two
hours speech in opposition to the bill
spoke particularly of the character OF
the population OF New Mexico and In
dian Territory. He declared that the
trainers Of the constitution were Of the |
white race, and that 1t was not the in
tention that Mexicans, Indians, ne
groes and half-breeds should be
brought into citizenship. He said that |
Il Arizona and New Mexico were ad-
mitted into the Union this class Of citi-
zenship would control the elections
and said bribes and whisky might con-
troll.
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