Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-26
ARIZONA AND OKLAHOMA BY Name.
Arizona and New Mexico TO Form
FirSt===OklahOma and Indian
Territory the Second.

Washington, Jan. 2j.-The House
passed the statehood bill today. The
Republican opposition to the measure
spent its entire force yesterday ard no
| effort was made to defeat the bill on
| It's final passage, but SO of the 'insur-
gents voted against the measure.
The bill passed by vote Of 1870 to
$50.
The debate which preceded this vote
began at II O'Clock and was practically
featureless so far as any hone was ell
tertaincd of changing the measure in
the slightest degree. The advocates Of
the measure placed iii the record
through the medium of several speeches
the arguments upon which the joint
statehood policy is founded. Likewise
the opponents of Joining Arizona and
New Mexico, which embraced the en-
tire opposition to the bill produced
their reasons for the record.
The bill, as passed, provides that Ok
lahOma and the Indian Territory shall
| constitute one state under the name
"Oklahoma" that Arizona and New
Mexico shall constitute one state under
the name "AriZOna." Should the terms
OF admission be ratified by the resi-
dents of the territories in question.
their respective state constitutions
must contain clauses prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors and plural
marriages.
The constitution of Arizona must pro-
hibit the sale OF liquor to Indians for
ever and that of Oklahoma for u years
There are many other stipulations
governing schools. courts and political
subdivisions Of the proposed new
states.
With 20 members in their places the
House at II o'clock took up it's special
order on statehood. The debate was to
run until 3 o'clock when a vote on the
bill was to be taken.
AS an echo of yesterdays battle
Lloyd. Mo-, the Democratic whip"
made an explanation regarding the Is
Democrats who were absent when the
vote was taken OH the statehood rule.
"a report is current he said, ito the
effect that some Of the Democrats yes
terday got away without voting and
did so cOrruptly." He then proceeded
to give the cause Of the absence Of the
members in question. The three rea-
sons, business. politics and sickness
covered all the cases.
BaSing his prediction Of the great flu
turc dcN elopmcnt of Arizona and New
Mexico on the accomplishment of his
own state, Kahn, Cal, depicted the
wrong that was being done in joining
those two territories as one state. Mon
dell, WyO, followed in the same line.
The debate then shifted to the other
side. Capron. r. l.. began speech in
favor of the bill and then said he would
yield to Hepburn if he would recount
the experiences of the territories of
Maine and Iowa. Hepburn complied.
Three times, he said. the people of
Iowa rejected statehood and when he
accepted it was by the barest mai or-
ity; four times the territory of Maine
refused to come into the Union and her
final choice was barely carried. Should
the people of the territories now in
question vote against coming in they
would not be dragged in.
Asserting that IS per cent of the peo-
pie of Arizona We're opposed to be-
coming a state with New Mexico,
Webb, n. c.. based an argument
against the bill.
A word for the bill was said by Hig-
gins, Conn.,. after which Smith, dele