Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-29

passed the statehood bill according to
schedule yesterday. The republican
opposition to the measure spent its
entire force Wednesday and no effort
was made to defeat the bill on it's
final passage, only 80 of the "insur-
gents voting against the measure.
The bill passed by a vote of 1914 to
$50.
The debate which preceded this
vote began at II o'clock and was prac-
tically featureIess so far as any hope
was entertained of changing the
measure in the slightest degree. The
advocates of the measure placed in
the record, through the medium OF
several speeches, arguments upon
which the joint statehood policy is
founded Likewise the opponents OF
joining Arizona and New Mexico.
which embraced the entire opposition
10 the bill, produced their reasons for
printing in the record. Several in
surgents' made plain the ground of
their opposition.
The bill as passed provides that
Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall
constitute one state under the name
of Oklahoma and that Arizona AMI
New Mexico shall constitute one
state under the name of Arizona.
Should the terms of admission be
ratified by the residents of the terri
tories in question, their respective
state constitutions must contain
clauses prohibiting the sale of intox-
icating liquors and plural marriages.
The constitution of Arizona must pro
hibit the sale of liquor to Indians for
ever and that of Oklahoma for q
years There are many other stipu-
iatiOns governing schools, courts an
political subdivisions of the proposed
new states
Little interest was manifested in
the proceedings aside from the actual
vote on the bill. Thirty-three repub-
licans voted against the statehood
bill They were:
Messrs, Adams (Wis.) Babcock
Bede, Beiller, Bonynge, Brown, Cal
derhead, Cushman, Davidson, Esch,
French. Gillett (Cal), GoebeI, Hayes.
Hermann, Howell (Utah), Humph-
rey (Wash), Jones (Wash), Kahn,
KnowIand Loud, McCreary (Pa.), Nc
KinIey (Cal), Marshall, Minor, Mon
dell. Mudd, Murphy, Nee lham, Reed
ersmith (CalD, Thomas (O) and
Wachter.
Foreign Affairs in the Senate.
Foreign affairs of the United
States continued yesterday to hold
the attention of the senate, Moroccan
and Dominican matters being the
questions Immediately at issue. Sen
ator Money was the principal speaker
and he talked for over two hours in
opposition to the course of the admin
istratiOn with reference to both San.
TO Domingo and Morocco. He con-
tended that there was danger of be-
coming involved unnecessarily in af-
fairs of other countries by participant
ing in the Algeciras conference and
that this country was not sufficiently
concerned with the conduct of affairs
in Santo Domingo to justify our
course in that island. He also took
tlAC pOSlllOu tICtl INC plSSluGuI udu
transcribed his authority there. Sen
alter Hepburn spoke in support of the
annexation of Santo Domingo.
The consular reorganization bill
was read at length, but was not acted
upon.
la Toilette Appears.
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin
appeared on the floor for the first
time since he was sworn in.
VenezueIa's Lesson Waits.
1t is the belief here in official circles
that the French program for the treat
ment of the Venezuelan question will
be delayed until the crisis in the Mo,
roccan conference is passed.
Dinner for Supreme Court.
The justices of the supreme court
and their wives were guests of honor
at a dinner given by President and
Mrs. Roosevelt at the white house last
night. Invited to meet them were the
members of the senate and house and
a few other friends
Sands Shields Officers.
The submission by Secretary Bona
parre of an anti-hazing bill, and tesu-
mony by Rear Admiral Sands, super
intendent of the naval academy. as to
the discipline at Annapolis, were the
features of yesterdays meeting of the
house committee on naval affairs Al.
miral Sands surprised many men,
bers of the committee by stating frank
ly that no investigation had been
made at Annapolis to determine
whether the officers have had knowl-
edge of violations of the anti-hazing
laws which went unpublished. He
furthermore made it clear that he dio
not think such an inquiry necessary or
desirable.
In the opinion of Admiral Sands,