Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-24
UNCLE JOE LABoRs WITH MS
 soURI MEMBERS.


 the Cincinnati Inquirer sends the fol lowing interesting article to his paper under date of January 12
 President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon. of the House of Representa- lives. have discovered that "Show me, I'm from Missouri" IN something more than d mere colloquiaism. They know now that it is part of Mlssou' rian's religion, n grim reality, 80 to speak, which people in this country, b" their station high or low, must always reckon with.
 The Missouri delegation contains nine Republicans, eight of whom were carried into the house on the great tidal wave of l9Oi These eight cam. to Washington last month pre- pared to do their duty as statesmen. They had ideas on public questions which they expected to assert on any and all occasions. They did not know that "rncle Joe" was IL in the house: tha, his committee on rules made up the legislative program, and that new member was supposed to bc n mere commodity to be voted as the leaders saw iit.
 That is why. all of them had figured i. lao. I points of the joint statehood bill Out in Missouri they are near enough to Arizona and New Mexico to bc able to absorb some of the local atmos. phcre, and thus some of them con cluded that joint statehood for these two territories was undesirable. Had they understood that Uncle Joe and his little cabinet had already done all the thinking which in their judgment was needed for the good of the country. the Missourians might not have taken this intellectual exercise. But they did not know, and thus four or five of them found themselves in the ranks of the insurgents The Speaker, knowing that they were "kids, naturally had assumed they would be regular, but when he learned they had convictions of their own. he was pained beyond measure. He sent some of his trusty lieutenants to point out the error of their way. but they failed to make an impression.
 ! Then Uncle Joe sent for them, and yesterday he had them all in his office. at the capitol. He addressed them as "boys,' and expoundcd the doctrine of regularity and expatiatcd upon the evils of insurrections. The "boys" lis. tened respectfully, and when the lee. ture was over they filed out, and in n chorus said: "Wc'rc from Missouri, and you haven't shown us yet The speaker was deeply pcrturbed, and somewhat mortified. He needed their votes to win the statehood fight,
 
 aid of the President, whose fight i, is also. Today the President asked the entire Republican contingent to call at the White House, and the nine men went, chaperoned by the genial Dr. Bariholdt, who for nine consccu. tive terms has represented one of the Si. Louis districts. The President un. derook to show them by explaining that the Hamilton bill was party mca- sure and should be passed. The Re. publican leaders, after good deal of careful investigation, had settled ,hs question, and the members from Mis-. souri ought to accept their judgment. It was an impassioncd cxhortation, but apparently had no immediate effect, for no cheers were heard in the outside offices. Tonight neither the President nor the Speaker knows how all the Missourians are going to vote. Some of them. of course, believe in admitting Arizona and New Mexico, together with Oklahoma and Indian Territory. hut those who came here with oppo. site convictions are still counted upon by the insurgents.
 The efforts of the speaker and the President to make prosclytes amoag the opposition indicate that the insur. gents still have the upper hand