Arizona republican., 1906-02-21
PROTEST
 AGAINST JOINTURE
A Summing up of Objections Lodged
 With the Senate.

There were received in Ph-eniX y S
 terday copies of senate document No.
 PIG of the first session of the fifty
 ninth congress. More specifically the
 document is the protest against
 jeinture, prepared by the Arizona dele
 gation in Washington, and ordered
 printed in the senate on February F.
 It is presented in the form of a me
 morial to which are appended as con
 cisely as could be the reasons or argu-
 ments in protest, offered by the dele
 gation. The memorial, including the
 first two pages of the document was
 printed in these columns several days
 ago, having been sent here by mail in
 advance of publication. The entire doc
 ument comprises twenty Tages and 1t
 is all meat. The entire publication
 might be appropriately termed Arizo-
 mas brief in the case of the United States senate versus Arizona.
 It is not worth while to repeat at
 this time the many arguments against
 jointure for the readers of the Republi-
 can are almost of one accord on the
 subject and are nearly all well posted
 on it. It may be of interest however to
 recapitulate the various headings under
 which the delegation has set forth its arguments, that the reader may judge of the thoTOughness Of their work and that the people may know that if the blow falls will not be done at the instance of senators who were blind to
 the facts unless they closed their eyes
 to them when they were presented.
 The captions referred to therefore and following the memorial named are first
 a short address, then Opposition of the
 people of Arizona to the proposed join ture; Character of Arizona's popula-
 tion; table showing school statistics;
 table showing church statistics; min ing; agriculture and irrigation; table showing number of farms and irrigated acreage; commercial and banking de- ve,opment; live stock interest of the territory; live stock sanitary condi- tions: sheep raising; timber resources; manufacturing and its possibilities; transportation; public institutions; geo. graphical reasons against jointure; ob jectiOn to joint statehOod-constitutio provisions: congressional promise for separate statehood; courts and leg.s.a- ture of New Mexico conducted through Spanish interpreters; New Mexico stat utes in both languages; difference in
 election laws; difference in other laws;
 Arizona jury system; New Mexico will control the constitutional convention:
 difficulty of adjustment of deb.s; tax ation; appendix. The document is sign ed by the different members of the Ari-
 zona delegation in Washington. Beside the figures in the table referred to the text matter under nearly every caption f is filled with statistical references con corning resources. present development,
 property valuations and where perti- nent dates, etc. It is altogether a sol , idly compiled book of reference to Ari-
 zona as she is and as she will be if allowed to work out her own destiny without interference. Not a para graph is devoted to "oratory'' or fine writ ing" or figures of speech" It is all argument straight clean cut and unan- swerable and is vOuched for by the chairman. Dwight B. Heard, the eecre-
 tary, Roy s. Goodrich and all IT. | lbers of the delegation.
 The appendix referred to above con i is a schedule showing the distance from seventeen of the leading towns in the
 territory to the present carital. Phoe
 nix; the dist7nCe from the same towns to Santa Fe via their nearest route of railroad travel and the highest alti- | tudes necessary to pcss over in going , from these towns to Santa Fe. Tn re-
 spect of distances to Phoenix they range from Florence g miles. to St. Johns 415 miles. In respect Of distances | to Santa Fe they range from HOlbrook i 33S miles to Douglas 917 miles. ENce2t Holbrook every town is over 400 miles ! from Santa Fe, nine of thu seventee l towns are over 500 miles, seven of them