Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-24

proved, is an act that is extremely sectional. extremely political, and is a blow at the equality of the southern part of this Union to equal representa- ton in this Chamber.
 Mir. Foraier. Mr.' President. this is the firSL time for a long while-I be lieve it is the first time since ] have Eeen a member of this body--that have heard a speech pitched in a sec tOnal key. 1 do not want 10 say very much in answer to it but I do want IO say to the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. MOney.) that there is, in ny opinion, no occasion for the turbulent condition into which his mind seems to have passed. l say this with the more freedom because I have been in accord with the Senator from Miss issippi all the while as to separate. rather than joint statehood for the two Territories of Oklahoma and yindjan Territory. spoke in favor of that prop osition in one of the preceding Con sresses. when we had bill of thac kinG under consideration. and 1 tried very hard at that time to get an op- roTtunity to vote for it. l have sup pOIred this bill in this respect. and l in- tend 70 vote to accept this rOrferCGce report. notwithstanding these two Ter r;tories are jointed together. not that politics has anything to do with it, but because the best interests within our power 10 subserve require it.
 Having the attitude with respect to
 this matter that I have maintained, 1 think I have heard as much as any other Senator in this LOGy Of the req sons why Senators on IEis si le of the Chamber have voted to join these two Territories together as ono State. and
 do not think have heard any Sen
 ator on this side of the Ehambe" give politics or political aGyanr1%e as a reason.
 MT. President. the Senator talks as though these two Territories arc l Democratic in their politics. and tha1 | the Republican members of the Senate l are seeking to obtain some kind of al 1 improper advantage by conSOlidatine them and making only one State ot 1 them. so that it can have only two : Senators. Perhaps the Senator ha: | not been reading the election returns 1 from Oklahoma. There have not beer 1 any returns from the Indian Territory l But in Oklahoma, from the very begin | ming Of the organization of that Ter l TitOry, from the very beginning of the | time when they commenced to vote | the Republican party has been con l stantly gaining strength. It was found to be Republican Territory by tho
 vote of 1902, again in 1904, and l have l before me. having sent to the Library ] for it after the Senator made his re
 marks. the report of the election ot 1 last year, when they elected a legiS l lature. The result of that election wa! l eight members of the council, or sen
 ate, Republican, and only five Demo
 cratic; fifteen Republicans in the house as against eleven Democrats
 making a Republican majority of thre( ] in the senate and four in the house, O. | q Republican majority on the join ! ballot of seven. So it is that Republi 1 canism is gaining all the while. PolIric. l had nothing to do with this provision for according to the latest indication:
 We would have gained by having then | come in as two States.
 MT. Money. Will the Senator iron Ohio permit me?
 The Vice-President. Does the Sen
 ator from Ohio yield to the Senate
 from Mississippi?
 MT. Foraker. Certainly.
 MT. Money. The Senator thinks
 have not been reading the election re turns. l am quite familiar with thG
 election returns. and want to say ti
 him that I do not know of any Ter
 riUories that do not take the complex
 ion generally of the Administration l hich appoints the officers who con duct those iections. It is quite com
 mon If the Senator will pardon me
 I fully expect every one of these Ter riIories 10 send Republican Senator: l and Republican Representatives wheI | they are admitted into this Union
 ard l do not expect them ever to re | peat it.
 Mr. Foraker I have observed wheI
 Territory or a State takes on the Re | publican political complexion it gener | ally retains it.
 1 But however that may be. what ] wanted to call the Senator's attention | to is the fact that have not heard tht
 reason assigned by him urged by any member of the Senate on this side o | the Chamber. The Senator will re member that when Oklahoma Terri | tory was created it was provided 1T
 the organic act that Congress reserved the power 10 re-unite, for purposes o statehood, the two Territories, or tc deal with them as Congress might se' fit. While there has been some ob iection manifested 70 a union of tho two Territories, there has been com paratively very little. The petitions
 that have been receiving have been as a rule, in favor of joint statehood