Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-23
FOR TWO NEW STATES
Recommendation of House Ter
ritories Committee.
TWO REPORTS SUBMITTED
Minority Opposed to Linking Arizona
and New Mexico.
IN FAVOR OF A PLEBISCITE
Outline of the Position of Democrats
and Republicans on the Ham
ilton Bill
IN FAVOR OF A PLEBIscITE

The question of absorbing interest to
members of the House today was How
many insurgent republicans will shy at the
statehood hurdle when they ride up to it to-
morrow" The statehood bills We're re-
ported today, with majority and minority
reports. the ironclad rule will be brought
in tomorrow, providing for consideration of
the bill without amendment and the insur-
gents will face the alternative of boiling
or supporting the party organization.
On the eve of the crisis the insurgents are
bold and somewhat boastful. The stall
warts might be described as pale and de-
termined. They say the only thing they
have to fear is absenteeism and they can
not quite gauge its extent today.
Pledged to Both Sides.
There are some members of the House
who have been ''sat up with" of late by
members of both the stalwart and insur-
gent factions, and who. result, have
become hopelessly tangled in a maze of
promises, pledges and the like. One of
these, a member from middle western
state, wanted so badly to be very nice to
everybody that he woke up this morning
pledged to both factions. There was only
one way out of it. and so he cut the gordon
knot by securing ten days leave of alb
sence on account of "illness in the family"
1t may be mentioned, too, that there are
others in the same boat.
Digging Up Records.
The House managers are springi1g tie
deadly parallel column on their adversaries.
They dug up this morning the vote of ApTl
10, 1904, in the House on a rule Identical
with this one for consideration of this same
statehood bill, and found that the following
men who are now claimed by the insur-
gents voted upon that occasion for the rule:
Messrs. Adams, Bonynge. Brooks. Brown.
Calderhead. Kaur, Davidson, Davis, Esch,
French GiHett (California); Goebel, Her
mann, Hogg. Hughes. Humphreys, Jones,
Mondell, Often. Reeder. Steenerson and
Mudd. 1t was also found that Mr.. Bah
cock was paired for the BILL as were
Messrs. Bede. Fsudney, Darragh and Beid-
Ter.
The Insurgents claimed this afternoon
that they have sixty votes and that there
will be twenty-five republican absentees.
The insurgents were in session at late
hour this afternoon perfecting their organi-
cation for tomorrowS. battle. The House
managers insisted that the insurgents
would not have more than 40 votes 81 be-
Ing necessary.
The Majority Report.
Representative Hamilton of Michigan,
chairman of the House committee on terri
tories. today submitted favorable report
on th1 Hamilton joint statehood BILL which
provides for the admission of Oklahoma and
Indian territory as the state of Oklahoma
and provides joint statehood for New Mexi-
co and Arizona under the name of Arizona.
The report reviews the bill in detail, ex-
planning that the capital of Arizona is to be
at Santa Fe until 1915, and that the capital
of Oklahoma is to be at Guthrie for the
same length ofetime, when the people can
choose their capital sites with justice to all
parts of the states.
The report says:
.'This committee considers the criticism
as i'll informed which finds fault with New
Mexico because Of its alleged foreign
population. Out of a population of 105.310
New Mexico has only 35,625 foreign born In
habitants. a smaller foreign born percentage
than most of the states in the Union.
New Mexico was made territory in 1850
and ever since that time the people of that
territory have been eiecting their own legis-
!atures, making their own laws, conduct
ing their own local government and con-
tributing revenue to the federal treasury
We're It not that the twe-fifths OF It's popu-