Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-14
DEMOCRATS WILL FILLIBUSTER Before they Will Allow Ham. iltol Bill to Pass the
 Senate

W. H. Brophy member of the Ari zona Anti-Joint Statehood League, and one of the delegates appointed by Pres dent J. c. Adams to go to Washington to assist in the fight being waged against the passage of the bill, re- turned to the city last evening, after a stay in Washington of two weeks.
 In accord with other members of the delegation, who have returned to Arizona during the past ten days, Mir. Brophy yesterday expressed the opin- ion that the Hamilton Joint Statehood bill would not pass the Senate until the Foraker amendment was made a part thereof.
 Mir. Brophy states the amendment to the bill in the Senate, which was offered last week by Senator Foraker, was prepared by Hon. Robert E. Nor rison and was drawn with the object of allowing the people of Arizona Io vote separately and independently upon the question of the adoption of the Constitution apart from any other proposed election to be held in the new state. The ballot to be used on this occasion will contain the words YES and NO, for and against the Constitution.
 After leaving Washington Mir. Brophy spent few days in New York returning via New Orleans.
 Everywhere I went in the east and the south," said Mir. Brophy yester- day, the people were thoroughly fa- miliar with the statehood question and their sympathies are with the people of Arizona in their efforts to resist a union with New Mexico.
 The good work done by the Arizona delegates and the bold stand made by the insurgents in the House, all though they went down to defeat un- der the party lash, has caused the people to know the resources and wealth of Arizona as never before. The territory has been favorab!y ad vertised from one end of the country to the other, and if I mistake not, the President has already heard the underground rumblings setting in against his statehood policy.
 Too much credit cannot be gwen Arizona's delegate in Congress, the Hon. NJ. A. Smith, said Mir. Brophy. ''He has directed the campaign against the passage of the Hamilton bill from start to finish, and without exaggera- tion, he is one of the most popular representatives at the National Capi- taI today"
 During the first few days at Wash ington Mir. Brophy, together with Hon. B. A. Packard ct al.. were engaged in preparing a memorial to the Sen ate, setting out clearly the reasons why Arizona should not be joined with New Mexico, and which was in- troduced in the Senate by Senator Patterson on Monday of this week. After this work had been accomplish ed the delegates interviewed Senators and Mir Brophy, in recounting his trip, recalls a very pleasant inter- view himself and NIT. Packard had with Senator La Toilette of Wiscon- sin
 Before I left Washington" said Mir Packord had with¬-u-oa cestlg Mir Brophy, Mark Smith assured me as 6 last resort in the Senate, the Democratic Senators proposed to talk the Hamilton Joint Statehood bill to death Although this is considered reprehensible tactics in the Senate, the Democrats are determined on this course as the last resort"
 MT. Brophy reports business condi- tions in the east good and great activ- ity in all industrial lines.