Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-24

country IS to determine NHelHeI II i0 fitted to come into the Union and with what boundary it should be taken as a State into the United States.
 Following the speech of MT. McCum- Der the conference report was agreed to ic the Senate.
 The conference report on the Ham, ilton joint statehood bill as finally adopted and as approved by the Pres ident a week ago is at hand. The sections relating to the creation of the State of Arizona to be composed Of New Mexico and Arizona are from and including g 10 il.
 The Review publishes herewith sec tions 23, A, and p of the law which contain the only changes which have been made in the text of the Hamilton bill heretofore published in this paper.
 Document No. 4s7.
 Conference report made by Senator Beveridge:
 Sec 2s That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the United States now constituting the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, as pres ent described, may become the State ATlZOud, dS uSI plONiuChs
 Sec. 24. That at the general cleo ton to be held on the 9th day of No vember. 1906, all the electors of said Territories, respectively, qualified to vote at such election, are hereby au- thorized to vote for and choose dele gates to form a convention for said Territories. The aforesaid convention shall consist of one hundred and ten delegates, sixty-six of which delegates shall be elected to said convention by the people of the Territory of New Mexico and forty-four by the people of the Territory of Arizona and the Governors, Chief Justices, and Score taries of each of said territories, re- spectiveIy. shall. apportion the dele gates to be thus elected from their re- spective Territories, as nearly as may be, equitably among the several coun- ties thereof in accordance with the voting population as shown by the vote cast for Delegate to Congress in the respective Territories in 1904.
 That at the said general election and on the same ballots on which the names of candidates to the convention aforesaid are printed, there shall be submitted to said qualified electors of each of said Territories a question which shall be stated on the ballot in substance and form as follows:
 Shall Arizona and New Mexico be united to form one State?'
 Yes --- ~~- ...No
 Electors desiring to vote in the af- tirmative shall place cross mark. in the space to the left of the word Yes" and those desiring to vote in the mega tive shall place a cross mark in the space to the left of the word No, in the form above prescribed. The Gov ernors and Secretaries of the respec- tive Territories shall certify and trans init, as soon as may be practicable, the results of said election, each to the other and likewise to the Secretary of the Interior, and if it appears from the returns thus certified that majority Of the qualified electors in each of said Territories who voted on the ques- tioD aforesaid at such election voted in favor Of the union of New Mexico and Arizona as one state, then, and not otherwise the inhabitants of that part of the area of the United States now constituting the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico as at present | described may become the State of Ari- zona as hereinafter provided; but if in either of said Territories a majority ! of the qualified electors voting on the question aforesaid at such election ] shall appear by such certified returns to have voted against the union of said | Territories, then and in that event Section g and all succeeding sections of this act shall thereafter be null and void and of no effect, excepting that the appropriation made in Section 40 hereof shall be and remain available for defraying all and every kind and character of expense incurred on ac- count of the election of delegates to the convention and the submission of ! the question aforesaid.
 The Governors of said Territories, respectively, shall, within thirty days after the approval of this act, by proc. lamation in which the aforesaid appor. tionment of delegates to the conyen. | ton shall be fully specified and an. nounced and the aforesaid question to | be voted on by the electors shall be | clearly stated, in order that the dele gates aforesaid in their respective Ter. ritories shall be voted for and the question aforesaid shall be submitted to the qualified electors in each of said Territories as herein required at [ the aforesaid general election. Such