Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-02

estly opposed to this proposition. Le
 me say to you that the people of Ari
 zona do not want to be joined to New
 Mexico. and when I have said that
 think I have said all that we need tc say to convince a fair-minded commit tee that we should not be joined. Blu the gentlman seems to want other
 other reasons. One of them is this l-now. please follow me: Here are three men who are going into partner ship. l will take MT. Rodey and my
 self. for an illustration, as two of the
 men. He and I have S40.00o. 900 tC
 put in that partnership; and let the |ex-Governor of Maine be the other
 man, and suppose that he has s60, GOO, 1000. Now, Mr. Rodey and myself are golng in with s40, 1000 900. and NIT. Pow. CTS has s60.0o0, 900. The proposition is this: We are going out to do bust ness. We are coming in equally. We are just going to join and form a copartnership. Now, which of you gentlemen would like to trade places with Mir Powers? See; he is going to put in S60, ,000, 900; Mr. Rodey and I are going to put in S40,000. 900. Mr. Rodey and I are going to poll two votes, and he has only one. Do you see it?
 The Chairman. Go on.
 Mir. Riggs. That is plain, and yet you ask what are our reasons for not wanting to come in with Arizona poll ing only one vote and New Mexico polling two. Do you see it?
 Mir Mckinney. Yes: we see it.
 Mir Riggs. Is not that conclusive? You would not form a partnership of that kind. There is not a man in this room who would go into partner ship in which he put up two-thirds of the money and the other man had a two-thirds vote as to how that money should be used. Somuch for that. If I am wrong in my premises in any way I would be glad if you would correct me, because if am wrong am honestly wrong,
 We are not kicking on misrepre- sentation, but l am giving it as sea son why it would not be unfair to give New Mexico admission with two Sen ators and give Arizona admission with two Senators: and if Arizona was nothing but a land of sage brush and rattleSnakes it would still be fair 10 do so, because you would be giving that population down in the south western part of the country an equal representat ion-or going in the di- rection of giving it an equal represen- tation-with this population up here in the Northeast. That is why it would be fair even if We did not have appropriation in Arizona; it seems to me that it would be perfectly right.
 I ned not tell you that Cochise County has over 250 miles of railroad; that she has over 60,00o head of live stock; over 10000 acres of cultivated lands. that she has artesian wells, beautiful homes, orchards, vineyards, per mines in the world; that these mines. like the mines of Michigan and Montana, are permanent, not tempora- ry: that from them there is manuIac- tured a product, staple product, just as from the great fields of the South there Is produced one of the world s greatest commodities
 Cochise County Is proud of her towns and cities, two of which, Doug las, and Bisbee, support population of over 25,000 people. Our county school census over a year ago showed something like 4,2o0 children. In the very short period of four years We have risen from an assessed yalua- tion of s3,ooO, 600 to SIP 2,0eo,00o, and yet the contention has been made that we are not progressing. The reclama- ton srvice has plans, surveys, and es- inmates for water storage on the San Pedro River which, when carried into effect, will more than double our pres ent cultivated area Still there are those who assert that Arizona Is ready to retrpgrade. No, gentlemen. What is true of Cochise County is true of every county in the Territory. As a matter of fact, we are only getting fairly started in our development. Ari- zona is in her infancy yet. Truly when fully developed she is great big empire herself.
 We are not here as a delegation from Arizona In opposition to the President or his policy. The people of 10 State ir the Union maintain higher personal regard for MT. Roosevelt than do the cssizeus of Arizona. Arizona is proud of her contributions to the list of the gallant men that made Theodore Roosevelt the hero of SanJuan Hill
 All we ask is to be let alone. We seriously ask that. gentlemen, and 1t seems SD little, so small thing to ask. that we think it ought to be grant ed
 The sentiment in Arizona is ex- pressed by what one of my neighbors said to me rfbemfIoethleo ley tepo ( said to me before l left home. He said: Riggs. go tell the President to give us to Old Mexico if he doesn'' want us. President Diaz will he good to us" One can hear expressions
 like that from people everywhere in Arizona. We are unit in this mat lter. It is true there are a few men like Nat Hughes. Fighting Wilson, J Knox Corbett, and few others that are advocating this bill. They ma.
 have motives that are right; it is noi r