The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1906-06-16
STATEHOOD BILL AGREED UPON
Burrows Measure Stricken Out
and the Carter Amendment
Substituted.

Washington, June 1.-THE
Carter compromise on the state
hood bill was agreed upon today
by the Republican leaders of the
senate and house.
Nothing now stands in the way
of the admission of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory as a state, and
a decision by Arizona and New
Mexico as to whether they desire
to come in as another state.
1t is expected that the pend
ing conference report will be
recommitted or withdrawn when
it comes up tomorrow, aud an
amended report returned to both
houses embOdying the comprOm-
ises. In this way the discussion
of question that has been be-
fore congress almost continually
for six years will be ended.
The compromise presented by
Senator Carter provided for the
rejection of the Burrows amend
ment, striking from the bill all
reference to the admission of
Arizona and New Mexico, and
the adoption, in lieu of section
"a of the original bill, of an
amendment providing the fol-
lowing:
THAT at the general election
to be held OH the 9th day of Nov
ember, 1905, all the electors of
said territories, respectively,
qualified to vote at such election
are hereby authorized to vote
for and choose delegates to form
a convention for said territories.
The aforesaid convention shall
consist of 110 delegates, 66 of
which delegates shall be elected
to said convention by the people
of the territory of New Mexico,
and Al by the people of the ter
ritory Of Arizona, and the gov
ernors, chief justices and secre-
taries of each of said territories,
respectively, shall apportion the
delegates to be thus elected
from their respective territories,
as nearly as may be equitable,
among the several counties there
of in accordance with the pop
ulatiOn as shown by the federal
census of 1900.
That at the said general cleo
tion and the same ballots on
which the names of candidates
to the convention aforesaid are
printed, there shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of
each of said territories a ques-
tion which shall be stated on the
ballot in substance and form as
follows:
Shall Arizona and New
Mexico be united to form one
state?' I"
Then follow instructions in de-
tail for marking the ballots and
the transmission of the results
to the secretary of the interior,
after which it is provided:
IF it appears from the returns
that a majority Of the electors
in each Of the territories voted
in favor Of the union, then, and
not otherwise, inhabitants of
Arizona and New Mexico, as at
present described, may become
the state Of Arizona, but if in
either of the territories q major
ity of the electors shall have
voted against the union, then
the provisions of the bill for the
the assembling of the constitu-
tiOnal convention shall become
null and void, excepting that
the appropriation made shall be
available for defraying all and
every kind and character of ex-
pense incurred on account Of the
election Of delegates to the con-
vention and submission Of the
question of statehood.
Each territory will elect a
delegate to congress and vote for
regular territorial officers at the
same election, so that in case
the joint statehood proposition
is rejected the affairs Of the ter
ritories will continue as hereto
fore.n