Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-02-07

Washington, D. c., Feb. 6-The
long drawn out general debate on the
bill creating two states out of the ter
ritories of Oklahoma and Indian ter
ritory, and New Mexico and Arizona
was concluded today with a speech by
Mr.. Beveridge, which consumed the
greater part of the days session He
reviewed the principal arguments of the
opposition to the bill. giving special
attention to the proposition to unite
Arizona and New Mexico. He spoke
for almost three hours, and closed
amid cordial burst of applause from
the galleries.
Previous TO Mr.. Beveridge's speech
Mr.. Foraker spoke in support of his
amendment to eliminate Arizona and
New Mexico from the proposition. The
only other important business of the
day was the receipt, through the
house managers, of tho houses repli-
cation to Judge Swayne's answer in
the Impeachment trial.
Referring to the character of the
people of Arizona and New Mexico.
Mr.. Foraker said that possibly some
are not as they should be, but he con-
tended that they are not alone as .
community in that respect. Mr.. Hans
brough read a letter from H. a. Bur
son. chairman of the republican COM
mittee of New MEXICO, asking for joint
statehood.
At o'clock the senate convened as
a court to receive the replication Of
the house of representatives, to Judge
Swayne's answer in the Impeachment
proceedings against him. This was
presented by the house managers, who
were present to meet here with COun-
sells Thurston and Higgins on behalf
of Judge Swayne. The ceremony con-
sumed ten minutes time. At it's con-
clusion the court adjourned until Fri
day, and when the legislative session
was resumed Mr.. Beveridge took the
floor to make the closing speech in the
long debate on the statehood bill
He advocated the passage of the bill
as reported by the committee on ter
ritories, which provides for the crea-
ton of two states out of the four re-
naming territories. Mr.. Beveridge
based his advocacy of the bin upon the
theory that congress has absolute con-
troll of the creation of new states and
in celebrating he said the interests of
the nation as a whole were paramount
to the wishes of the people Of the ter
ritories. He declared that the cOnsi-
tuition gave congress the power TO i'm
tion and quoted many precedents TO
show that the tendency was toward
large areas and extensive population
in forming ne wstates, which he said
must be the case In order to do justice
to the sister states.
He cOntended that Arizona and New
Mexico were similar in topography
and other circumstances and not nat
urally separated by a mountain range.
as had been claimed by some OF the
opponents of the bill Mr.. Beveridge
contended that in the creation of Ari-
zona congress had not involved any
contract to maintain the boundary
thus established and his argument on
Mr.. Alger. who said the people who
settled Arizona had gone there on =
practical contract with the national
government.
IF" he said, "the United States is
not going to keep its agreement, what
are we here foT?"
Mr.. Beveridge replied that there was
no more reason why a perpetual pledge
should be given to the people of Ari-
zona than to those of any other terri
tory He said that the principal rea-
son for the original creation of the ter
ritory of Arizona in 1868 was to supply
offices for defeated congressman.
Mr., Beveridge asked Mr.. Alger how
many Arizona people had ever read the /
so-called pledge of perpetual autonO- /
my to that territory and Mr.. Alger