The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-12
COMPROMISE WiNS
 IN STATEHOOD CASE
Arizona and New Mexico Shall
 Vote on Question
BOTH HOUSES HAVE AGREED
Carter Compromise Gives Outline of the Method In Which the Election In the Two Territories Is
 to Be Conducted.

Washington, June 1.-The Carter conn promise on the statehood bill was agreed upon today by republican leaders of the Senate and House. Nothing now stands in the way of the admission of Oklahoma and Indian territory as 9 state, and choice by Arizona and New Mexico as to whether they desire to come in as another state. It is expected that the pending conference report will be recom- mitted or withdrawn when it comes up tomorrow and amended report returned to both houses enbodying the compro- mise. In this way the discussion of a question that has been before Congress almost continuously for six years, will be ended.
 The compromise presented by Senator Carter provides for the. rejection of the Burrows amendment striking from the bill all reference to the admission of Arizona and New Mexico, and the adop- ton in lieu of Section 24 of the original bill of an amendment, providing the fol- lowing:
 That at the general election to be held November 6, 1906, all the elections of said territories respectively qualified to vote at such election are hereby au- thorized to vote for and choose delegates to form a convention for said territories. The aforesaid convention shall consist of no delegates, 66 of which delegates shall be elected to said convention by the people of the territory of New Mexico and A by the people of the territory of Arizona ,l,f ,faF f..gf .1 secretaries of each of said territories, respectively shall apportion the dele gates to these thus elected from their respective territories as nearly as may be equitable among the several counties thereof in accordance with the popula- ton as shown by the federal census of 1900.
 That at the said general election and on the same ballots on which the names of candidates to the convention afore- said are printed, there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of each of said territories a question which shall be stated on the ballot in substance and form as follows:
 Shall Arizona and New Mexico be united to form one state?
 Then follows in the instructions in de- tail for marking the ballots and the trans | mission of the results to the secretary of the interior, after which 1t Is provided: If 1t appears from the returns that a majority of the electors in each of the territors voted in favor of the union then, and not otherwise the inhabitants | of Arizona and New Mexico as at present
 described may become the state of Arl-
 zona, but if in either of the territories q
 majority of the electors shall hove voted | against the union. then the provision Of
 the bill for the assembling of the con stitutional convention shall be available for defraying all and every expense in- cured on account of the election of dele. gates to the convention, and submission of the question of statehood
 Each territory will elect a delegate tc Congress and vote for regular territorial officers at the same election, so that ir case the joint statehood proposition Is rejected the affairs of the territories shall continue as heretofore"