The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-06-22
STATEHOOD IT IS.
The House Agrees to the Conference
Report Which Had Already
Passed Senate.
NOW GOES TO PRESIDENT.
Remarks by Arizona Delegate Net
tied Sensitive Skin of Speaker
Cannon, Who Left Chair and
Made Statement.

washington, June l6.-OklanOms
was formally invited to come into The
Union of states Thursday afternoon
| An invitation was also extended t.
Arizona, but the conditions imposed
/ clined.
The 100000 people living in what
| is now Oklahoma territory and Indian
| territory have it altogether within
their own power to form the state OF
Oklahoma After such a hiater fight
the door to statehood was opened wish
almost ridiculous ease. Not one vote
in 1856 was cast against the PROPOSE
tion and no roll call was required.
II took exactly 20 minutes for the
speeches to be made which were per-
mitted and the motion to be carried
which formed the proposed state of
Oklahoma and the proposed state of
Arizona.
The steps which will have to be
taken in the two states before two
new stars can be added to the flag are
entirely different New Mexico and
Arizona must first indicate by vote
that they want to be united before
even the preliminary of constitution
al convention can be disposed Of
Oklahoma and Indian territory will
have a constitutional convention and
later vote upon state officers, five rem
resentatives in the lower house Of
h. olnrtinn ~ tho
stitution at special election which
probably will be either in January or
February next year
The territorial election. which would
have been this fall, probably will be
wiped out by a resolution introduced
in the house Thursday by Delegate
Mcclure OF Oklahoma.
Important Provisions of the Bill.
The call for the election of dele
gates to the constitutional conven-
ton will be the first step in the forma-
ton of the state government. There
will be 112 delegates, So each from Ok
lahoma and Indian territory and two
from the Usage Indian reservation.
The capital will remain at Guthrie
until 1918, after which it shall be per-
manently located by the electors
two territories. who have lived
The state is divided into five con-
eressional districts.
The sale or manufacture of intoXi-
eating liquors in Indian territory, the
Usage Indian reservation or any other
Indian reservations jim existence jan
uary l. 1906 is prohibited for q years.
except that the legislature may au-
thorize. under certain conditions, the
sale of liquor in public dispensarles
for medicinal and scientific purposes.
The establishment Of senarate pub
JIG schools is permitted. The sum of
s500O,OOO is appropriated by congress
for public schools, in lien of school
lands in Indian territorv. School or
other lands owned by the state, val
liable for minerals, may be leased for
mining purposes and must not be sold
prior to January /. 1915. There is 10
mandatory provision for the sale of the
school lands.
The state is divided into two feder-
FL districts Indian territory being the
eastern and Oklahoma the western
district. For the time being. the seot
of these courts shall he. respectively,
ut Muskogee and Guthrie.
The, state shall never eI act any law
restricting or abridging the right Of
suffrage on account of race color or
previo. 3 condition of servitude.
All men more than 81 years old,
who are citizens of the United States,
or members of any Indian tribe in the
two territories. who have lived with
in the state boundaries for at least
six months prior to this election, shall
be permitted to vote for delegates and
may serve as delegates. This election
must be held within six months after
the approval of the statehood act.
The state officers shall be voted for
the same day the constitution is rati-
fed or rejected.
For the necessary expenses in or
ganizine the state, congress appropri-
eted 100000
Roosevelt to Sign 1t.
Nobody doubts that the president
will sign the statehood bill. for in
his message to the present congress
he urged the admission Of the four
territories as two states. Oklahoma
and the Indian territory will be in
fact a state only after a proclamation
BY the president announcing the rati-
fication of the state constitution. 1t
Is impossible to tell just how much
time will be consumed in making the
necessary steps which are required be-
fore a new state is born. Those who
have given the subject the closest
thought believe that the presidents
proclamation will be coincident with
the adjournment of congress- March
9. 1907. 1t will require the full
time allowed under the law for the
constitutional convention to be held.
Speaker Cannon Explains.
Mr.. Moon of Tennessee, the ranking
member of the minority on the COM
,,,sttaa IN forrifOriac had r,aada q