The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-24
REPORT ON
 STATEHOOD Hamilton Bill Presented
 to House. PROVISIONS OF THE MEASURE Santa Fe and Guthrie Proposed
 Capitals. After 1915 the People Can yste for New Seats of Government--De- fense of the Committees
 Action.

Washington. Jan. 2S.--Representa- tive Hamilton of Michigan. chairman of the House Committee of Territories. today submitted a favorable report on the Hamilton joint statehood bill. which provides for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as the State of Oklahoma, and provides joint statehood for New Mexico and Arizona l under the name of Arizona.
 The report reviews the bill in detail. explaining that the capital of Arizona is to be Santa Fe until 1915. and the capital of Oklahoma Is to be Guthrie for the same length Of time, when the people can change their capital cities with justice to all parts of the State.
 New Mexico.
 The report says:
 This committee considers the oriti- eism as Uniformed which finds fault with New Mexico because of it's all legged foreign population.
 Out of population of isS.s10 New Mexico has only tS,62s foreign-born inhabitants, 8 smaller foreign-bofn percentage than most of the States tn the union.
 New Mexico was made a territory in iS50 and ever since that time the people of that territory have been electing their own legislature. making their own laws, conducting their own
 
 enue to the federal government.
 Were it not that two-fifths of it's population, which arc native-born but of Spanish descent have been hereto fore enormously referred to as foreign, 1t would be an aspersion upon a pa- triotic people even to refer to their loY- alty. The remaining three-fifths of its population are of the same charae- ter as the people of Arizona"
 Arizona Valuations.
 Of the alleged undervaluation of property in Arizona for purposes of taxation. which was warmly discussed in hearings, the report says:
 Tt has a total assessed Yaluation of taxable property as shown by the re- port of the Secretary of tho Interior Of s57,s2o.3 .372. but 1t is proboble that it's property ls neturned for taxation at T conlparatively small percentage Of It's market value in some instances, as in- dicated by Government reports at not oven per cent. of it's actual value"
 Concerning taxes in New Mexico the report says;
 ''The assessed valuation of property within the territory for the year 1903 was $42.57S,792, but 1t is asserted that for purposes of taxation property is not returned at much more than 20 per cent of it's market value
 state of Oklahoma.
 The report concludes as follows:
 ''Inasmuch as Congress intended by the organic act of the territory of Ok lahoma that all of the original Indian Territory. together with what Is now Beaver County. should become one State; and inasmuch as the present territory of Oklahoma has for some time been qualified for Statehood. which has been deferred until Indian Territory should be ready to be joined herewith in Statehood, and.
 "Inasmueh as conditions in the In dian Territory imperatively demand some better form of government than now exists there: and,
 'Inasmuch as Indian lands will be allotted in severalty before tho time when Statehood can so into effect this committee reports in favor of the Joinder of the territory of Oklahoma and the Indian territory in one State. not. however. before March 1, 1s07, such State to be known as the State of Oklahoma
 '"ro that end and to the end that the territories of Arizona and New Mexico may be joined in one State to be known as the State of Arizona, this committee recommends that the bill do pass