Arizona republican., 1906-03-10
ARIZONA MADE FREF
The Two Western Territories Stricken
 From the Statehood Bill

came 10 an end at F o'clock and the session of today was commenced at | once. Under the head of morning 2 business, MT. Beveridge undertook to have read number of teIegrams in support of the statehood bill, but Mr. Teller objected on the ground that they should come in properly as a part of the discussion of the statehood bill.
 MT. Beveridge then stated that he ! had received hundreds of messages most of them from Arizona, urging joint admission.
 'I, too, have received hundreds of messages on the subject of statehood" responded MT. Foraker. cone Of them is from a gentleman who gives his name and who says that a telegram i signed by the senator from Indiana is being circulated in Arizona urging that five hundred telegTams be sent to the senate from Arizona in favor Of state hood"
 The incident created laugh at Mr. Beveridge's expense and in which he joined. He said he knew nothing about the telegram. The telegrams were not read.
 4 communication from Secretary Hitchcock recommending an extension of the time for the opening of the Sho- shone Indian reservation in Wyoming from June 15 to August 15 was read. A bill apprOpriating S40O,OOO for the improvement of the mouth of the Col umbia river was passed
 FORAKER OPENS DEBATE. The statehood bill was then resumed. and MT FOraker made the first speech under the ten-minute rule. He pointed out that Arizona was not asking ad- mission, and said that there had never a fn an unwilling territorial constituency. MT. Dubois followed in support of the amendment of the bill prohibiting MormOns and pOlygamists from voting in tn" proposed state of Arizona as was originally provided in the Idaho state test. He said he had seen a list of some 90 to 100 pOlygamists living in Arizona, and there also were many in New Mexico. There was. he said. no power in Utah to punish pOlygamy and AiormonIsm was so strong in his own state Of Idaho that -notwithstand- ing the leader of the sect in that state had testified that he was the husband of three wives, there was no possibili- ty of bringing him to account for it. because of the political power of his church.
 Wherever there is Mormonism there is polygamy,' he said. and he | polygamy was to strike at the origin i that encourages it.
 JOINTIST INCONSISTENCY MT. SpOoner said that MT. Bever- idse speech was at variance with the former reports of the committee on ' territories, and he alluded to the con tentiOn of Mir. Nelson in advocating the union of Arizona and New Mexico as the best plan for the Americaniza- rH ,E were MT. Teller. MT. Hopkins. MT Hansbrough, MT. Gallinger, Mir. Hep burn, MT. Clark CVyoming)' Mir. DiI- lngham and MT. Carter. The latter said that he was unaIterably opposed to the coercion of any body of Ameri- can citizens, much as he would like to vote for a bill supported by the president and the republican house of representatives.
 Brief speeches were also made by Messrs. NewIands. McCumber. Fulton. Shoot, and Burrows. The Utah sena- tor introduced an amendment annex ing to his state all that part of Ari- zona lying north of the Colorado river and spoke in support of it. He said that strip was unwatered and without value,
 THE MORMON QUESTION.
 Mir. Burrows advocated the elimina-
 
 the bill and presented an amendment 10 that end. He based his opposition on the ground that there were many polygamists in the territories and spoke of pOlygamy as an "offense against the civilization of the age" He said the real Offense was not in plu- rality marriages, but in poIygamous cohabitatiOn pTacticed after mar riage elsewhere. He quoted from let ters to show that there were many MOrmons living in pOlygamy in Ari- zona and New Mexico, and said that notwithstanding the difficulty of get ting testimony there had been some convictions for pOlygamy.
 In this connection he read a letter from the attorney general of the Unit ed States, stating that recently there | had been thirty-one convictions under i the Edmunds act, a majority of which | were for unlawful coha abitation. Tue | senator said he should oppose the ad- | mission of these territories until they should purge themselves of this law | less element.
 He also quoted from testimony in