Arizona silver belt., 1906-03-15
JOINT STATEHOOD IS
 DEFEATED BY SENAT E
Ari1ona's Autonomy Preserved -Foraker Amendment Adopted and then Ari-
 ,ona and New Mexico Eliminated


 Washington, D. C., March 10. Fri day afternoon at exactly 5:35 the sen ate passed the bill for the admission of a new state to be called Oklahoma and to be composed of the territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It was the house joint statehood bill with all provisions relating to Arizona and New Mexico stricken out.
 The motion to strike out was made by Mir Burrows, and it was carried by the close vote of 37 to 36 after having been lost by the still closer vote of 35 to36. The vote on statehood came as cil- max of a day devoted exclusively to that bill. Most of the time was given to discussion, but the voting on the hiil and amendments consumed an hour and half.
 When promptly at o'clock the gavel fell at the end of MT. Beveridge's final appeal for the bill, the voting was be- gun.
 Foraker Amendment Adopted
 As soon as the committee amend ments were disposed of, Mir. Foraker formally offered his amendment pro v;ding for separate vote on joint state hood The vote was immediately taken and carried by the decisive vote of 42 to 29, as follows:
 Yeas-Alger, Bacon, Blackburn, Bulkeley, Burrows, Carter, Clark (Montana), Clark (Wyoming), Clay, Culberson, Daniel, Dryden, Dubois, Flint, Foraker, Foster, Frazer, Fulton, Gallinger, Gearin. Hansbrough, Hey burn, Lattimer, McCreary, McCumber, Mallory. Martin, Morgan, Newlands, Nixon, Sutherland, Taliaferro, Teller, Tillman-42.
 Nays-Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bev- eridge, Brandegee, Burnham, Clapp, Crane, Cullom, Dick, Dillingham;, Dol liver, Gamble, Hale, Hemenway, Hop kins, Kean, Knox, La Toilette, Lodge, Long, Willard, Nelson, Penrose, Piles, Proctor, Shoot, Warner, Wetmore- 29.
 The pairs were as follows:
 Aldrich with Berry; Elkins with Bai ley; Burkett with McLaurin; Clark (Arkansas) with Overman; Depev with McEnery; Frye with German Kittredge with Platt; Warren with Money.
 New Mexico and Arizona Cut Out
 The proceedings up to this time haC been in committee of the whole When the bill was reported to the sen ate MT. Burrows renewed his motion to strike out the part of the bill relat ing to Arizona and New Mexico, am this time it prevailed, 37 to 35, as fol lows:
 Yeas-Alger, Bacon, Blackburn Bulkeley, Burrows, Carter, Clarl (Montana), Clay, Culberson, Daniel Dubois, Flint, Foster, Foraker, Frazer Gallinger, Gearin, Hansbrough, Hey burn, Lattimer, McCreary, Mallory Martin, Morgan, Newlands, Overman Patterson, Perkins, Pettus, Rayner Scott, Simmons, Spooner, Stone, Tali aferro, Teller, Tillman-37.
 Nays-Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bev eridge, Brandegee, Burnham, Clapp Clark (Wyoming), Crane, Cullom Dick, Dillingham;, Deliver, Dryden Fulton, Gamble, Hale, Hemenway Hopkins, Kean, Knox, La Toilette Lodge, Long, McCumber, Willard, Mel son, Nixon, Penrose, Piles, Proctor Smoot, Sutherland, Warner, Wetmor -35.
 The changes from the first vote wer Scott, who voted aye, and Overman who transferred his pair with Clark o Arkansas to Carmack, and voted in tn affirmative.
 The bill as amended was then passe by unanimous vote. Announcement