Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-02-22
STATEH00D'S
DOOM SEALED
Opposition to Jointure BIuntIy
DEGREES Stubborn and
Conclusive fiIibuster.
NO ACTION POSSIBLE
Judge A. |. Morrison Writes Logical
and ForcsfuI Defense Of New Mexi-
co in Chicago er-0cean.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican
Washington, Feb. 22.-Although
there was no session of the Senate or
House today because it is Washing
toms birthday, there was much state
hood talk in the committee rooms
and corridors. 1t has come to pass
where the opposition to the Hamilton
joint statehood bill makes no secret of
the fact that they will filibuster to
defeat the measure. Statehood of any
kind is dead for this session of Con-
gress and Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory are poWerless to separate them
selves from New Mexico and Arizona.
Even the Foraker amendment, allow
ing a separate vote of the two latter
territories in the matter of jointure is
Objectionable to all Arizonans and
most New Mexicans. This seals the
! doom of statehood until next Decem-
Der.
Morrison's Strong Defense.
Under the caption "a Plea for New
Mexico" the following article written
by Judge A. L. Morrison of Santa Fe
appeared in recent edition OF the
Chicago InterOcean:
To the ditor:-Permt me to call
your attention to the cartoon in the
Inter-Ocean of the 7th instant, called
mot the Way to Get In" While l am
willing to make all due allowance for
the imagination of your able cartoon
list, | unhesitatingly assert that the
cartoon referred to is unjust, unfair,
and untrue.
Any unprejudiced observer will ack.
nowledge that the laws are as loyalty
obeyed, that life and property are as
safe. and that good order is as unlver-
sal in New Mexico as in any state in
the Union. If the frequent allusions
of the Inter-Ocean are true (and /
have no doubt they are) as to burg
larry. holdups, porch climbers, reigns OF
crime, and shameless dance halls IN
Chicago, then I, with no fear of contra
diction from any one, assert that your
city presents striking contrast to
the peaceable towns and cities OF this
Territory l do not remember one
case of burglary in Santa Fe in ten
years. "hold-ups" and highway rob-
berry are almost unknown, and the dis
gusting dance halls of Chicago and
other eastern cities would not be toll
Grated an instant among us.
Many years ago laws were passed
forbidding women from going into sa-
looms, although even then such laws
were unnecessary. When your col
umns are SO largely filed with expo
sures of "boodling" in the legislatures
of Missouri, Illinois, Delaware and
Kansas 1t seems hardly necessary to
look for notes in our eyes when such
large beams exist in optics so near
home.
AS specimen of the unfairness
with which New Mexico is treated IN
the Senate present the views OF Sen
ator Burroughs, who gave 1T as one OF
his reasons for opposing single state
hood for New Mexico that he reared
that although the bill under considera-
tion prohibited Mormonism in that
Territory, that on becoming state
New Mexico might remove the restric-
ton and nullify it and added: II
brings us face to face with condltlon
that should alarm the country" me
Senator, for whom have great adml'
ration. must have been woefully ill-ad'
vised. I have lived in New Mexico for
almost twenty years and should know
something about its public affairs, ana
desire to inform the Senator that
his fears are entirely unnecessary. :.
The number of Mormons Is so small
here that I have never heard OF them
being taken into consideration as the
smallest factor in politics, and there
is as much probability Of this people
favoring Mormonism as there Is OF the
people Of Michigan establishing the
worship of Jupiter, Ammon or Venus.
Senator Burroughs ought to know
that the overwhelming majority of the
people Of New Mexico are Catholics,
among whom (as among their core
ligionists everywhere) polygamy is un.
known and divorce is unheard Of.
On Sundays every saloon is closed
here: the streets are almost deserted
except by people going to and return
ing from church, and no town in the
entire Union presents more Sab
bathlike aspect Another Senator says
that the admission of New Mexico to
the sisterhood Of states would result In
adding two more Democratic Senators
to the United States Senate. The
absurdity OF this assertion is made
manifest when tell you that our leg
islative assembly (now in SESSION. Il
composed Of fve Democrats ana thirty
one Republicans. Can any state ~ tne
republic make a better political snow
ing than that? This Is not accid ental
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