The oasis., 1906-06-23

Der present who has tbe least intima- ton knowledge. or even belief, that the statement implied in the Dsinuation of the gentleman l~ true. to say so
 When Speaker Cannon finished the house was m an uproar. 1T could not De controlled nor did the presiding of- iicer make any effort to do s0. Mem bers who had sal n silence during the delivery 0f the speech, democrats and republicans alike crowded around the speaker 70 shake him by the hand and tell him how glad they were that the long-drawn out fight for statehood had been happily ended in compromise and that his speech voiced the senti- ments of the members
 Following are the assertions of Mir. Smith which called forth from Mn Cannon the foregoing
 Mr. Speaker Three times through the house 0f representatives. twice de- mocratic and onets republican we haze succeeded in passing bills for the erea. fion of separate Stales of New Mexico and Arizona The less -aid about tue way this bill las iareh thp better for the history of this congress
 here IN < laN 10 Arizona that If ono legislator trades with another 0n the legislation before that body, lie is guilty of 3 very high niademeanor and il tho governor shall attempt, iu that benight- ed land, to influence legislation bv pro- misses of veto or withholding of veto to secure other legislation he goes to the pen.
 N congratulate Arizona thanking the house tor what it has ultimately done and we Shali at the next session of this congress, when the election returns are shown, demonstrate to this house whether in spite ot what 1 conceive to l rejected that before tue committee we have people above such considera- ti0n 1 have A0 doubt We shall come back with such veto on the present proceedings that this will be the last We shall hear q iaint statehood for Arizona and New Mex co (Applause on the democratic sde
 The following press telegram de- scribes the scene at tue White House when the President affixed the executive approval:
 
 Washington. June l6-The President signed the Hamilton joint statehood bill st , o'clock this afternoon with the gold pen which cost $40 and which was es- pecially purchased for that purpose, and which, after the signature, he hand- ed to Delegate N H. Andrews 0f New Mexico, with his compliments and ! dis- tinct smile. There were present at this suspicious occasion Senator Albert ] Beperidge who congratulated the Presi- dent on the success of the efforts of the administration and the Republican party to give statehood to the four Ierri- tories as two states and on the result Of the well fought and strenuous light made; Representative E. l.. Hamilton chairman of the hpnse committee on Territories; so were Delegate w H. Andrews of New Mexico Delegate Bird c. McGuice of Oklahoma, large num- bee of influential citizens of Oklahoma and many correspondents, among them Ira M. Bond, of New Mexico, who rep resents the santa Fe Daily New Mex ican, the Albuquerque Citizen and the Las Vegas Optic, the three leading papers of the Territory. The President smiling all over, said he did the best he could for the four Territories, because most of his regiment was recruited from their citizens and limits. He said
 ''If Arizona does not take statehood now with New Mexico, 1t may wait fifty years; if Arizona rejects the proposition it will remind me of what the Union man said in South Carolina when the Confederate states seeded Too small for a nation, too large for lunatic asylum
 Of course 1t is freely predicted that the proposition of statehood as now presented will be voted down in Arizona by tremendous majority. That question Is no part of this article. This is to pre- sent simply outside facts and opinions. This is from the Denver Republican: