Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-02-06
TREMBLING IN
THE BALANCE
Vote Set for Tomorrow on HamiI.
ton Statehood Bill in Sen-
ate Will Be Very Close.
BOTH SIDES GUESSING
Today il Looks As if Either the Bard
Amendment or the Jointure will
Become Law.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 6.-Predic-
tions as to the result of the vote on
the Hamilton statehood bill and
amendments tomorrow, are at wide
variance, depending altogether upon
who makes them. If the amendment
to admit New Mexico as separate
state is passed the necessary votes on
the Republican side will come from the
following: Senators Foraker, Elkins,
McCumber, Hepburn, Bard, Hansbor-
ough, Alger, Gallinger, Kearns,
Smoot, Perkins, Scott, Burrows, Fos-
ter, Quarles, Clark of Wyoming and
Stewart. These eighteen Republicans
and thirty-two Democratic Senators
would give New Mexico so votes, but
Senator Beveridge asserts that not
more than one-half of these eighteen
Republicans will vote to admit New
Mexico, Senator Bard and several 9TH
ers being opposed to admitting either
New Mexico or Arizona in any form.
1t is also said that one other Demo
cratic Senator in addition to Senator
Clarke, of Arkansas, is opposed to ad-
mitting New Mexico unless Arizona is
admitted at the same time. The vote
however, is likely to be so close, that
the result will depend upon the votes
of Senators Smoot, Burton and Nit
chell. The latter two are under in
dictment, and there may be an effort,
in fact, there is strong probability,
that these two Senators will not be
permitted to vote or to be paired.
Senator Beveridge is an astute poll
tical manipulation, and it is pointed out
that he would not have permitted day
to be set unless he was certain that
he had sufficient votes to carry the:
Hamilton statehood bill without
amendments that would change its
character entirely. The correspond
ent of the Globe-Democrat, generally
well posted, telegraphs his paper the
following synopsis of the statehood
situation:
"The indications are that the Ham
ilton joint statehood bill will pass. The
Bard amendment will be voted upon
first. It proposes to erect but single
state and that out of the territories OF
Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Two
thirds of the Senators favor this and
would vote for it were it not for the
effort to pass the Hamilton joint state
hood bill as it was reported from the
committee on territories. A careful
canvass of the Senate resulted in forty
votes as certain for the Hamilton
bill, not counting the votes of Burton
and Mitchell who are also for the bill.
Nine Senators are still in doubt as to
how they will vote but Senator Bever-
idge counts on at least five for the
Hamilton bill, which would leave 80
votes as certain for the Foraker
amendment, six more being necessary
for a bare majority. The weakness OF
the opposition to the Hamilton bill is
that it is not united on any one OF the
many amendments offered and while
some favor the admission OF New
Mexico and not that of Arizona, others
favor the admission of both OF those
territories as separate states, while
the California Senators do not want
either to be ,c.dmitted.
1T can thus be seen that the oppon-
ents of the committees two-state Dill
are so divided that unless they get to-
gether on the Bard amendment they
cannot muster enough votes to defeat
the bill. II they adopt the Bard
amendment the fight is over, SO far as
the committee Is concerned, but II
leaves the two other territories for fu'
ture disposition, course that is pleas
ing to most of the members OF the
committee"
On Saturday, Senator Bailey gave
notice of motion to strike out the
provision of the hill prohibiting the
abridgement of the right of suffrage
on account of race, color, or previous
condition Of servitude as unnecessary
He also gave notice of other amend
ments intended to extend the author
ity of Congress over the proposed
states. One of these eliminates the
provision making Guthrie the capita
of Oklahoma until 1910. He said he
did not favor the union of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, but he recogniz
ed the probability Of that result and
he believed the state would be one
OF the richest in the Union.
This will complicate matters still
further for the opposers of the Ham
ilton bill and outsiders freely predict
that the Hamilton bill will pass with
out material amendments, unless tht
Bard amendment cutting out mentor
Of New Mexico and Arizona altogether
is adopted.
The Washington Post says:
Railroad interests also are beint
noticed about the Senate in favor @
the admission Of New Mexico at thi'