The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-12
NEW STATES FOR THE
 UNION AGAIN IN SIGHT
CARTER COMPROMI&E ON THE STATEHOOD BILL IS AGREED
 UPON

Nothing Now Stands in the Way of the
 Admission of Oklahoma and Indian
 Territory as a State and Choice of
 Arizona and New Mexico as to
 Whether They Desire to Come in us
 Another State--Matter Has Been Be-
 fore Congress for Almost Six Years.
 Washington, June 1.-The Carter compromise on the statehood bill was agreed upon to-day by republican leaders of the senate and house. Noth- ing now stands in the way of the ad- mission of Oklahoma and Indian terri tory as a state and choice by Arizona and New Mexico as to whether they desire to come in as another state IL is expected that the pending conference report will be recommitted or with drawn when it comes up tomorrow and an amended report returned to poth houses embodying the compromise. In this way the discussion of a question that has been before congress almost continuously for six years will be end ed.
 The compromise presented by Senator
 Carter provides for the rejection of the Burrows amendment striking from the
 hill all reference to the admission Of
 Arizona and New Mexico and the adop-
 tion in lieu of section "A of the original
 bill an amendment providing the fol-
 lowing:
 'That at the general election to be
 held on the 9th day of November, 1906,
 all the electors of said territory respect ! fully qualified to vote at such election
 are hereby authorized to vote for and ] choose delegates to form a convention
 for said territories The aforesaid con-
 yention shall consist of 11O delegates
 S6 of which delegates shall be elected
 to said convention by the people of the territory of New Mexico and A by the
 people of the territory of Arizona; and the governors, chief justices and secre' taries of each of said territories. re- spectively, shall apportion the delegate: , to be thus elected from their respec-
 tive territories, as nearly as may be
 equitably among the several counties thereof in accordance with the popula ton as shown by the federal census O 1900
 ) "That at the said general election , and on the same ballots on which tn } names of candidates to the convention aforesaid are printed, there shall b 7 submitted to the qualified electors o
 each of said territories question e which shall be stated on the ballot Il , substance and form as follows; D "'ShaI Arizona and New Mexico b @ united to form one state?'"
 Q The following instructions in detai Il for marking the ballots and the trans
 mission of the results to the secretar
 of the interior, after which 1t is provld
 ed:
 Q "If it appears from the returns tha q a majority of the electors in each C n the territories voted in favor of tn [ union then, and not otherwise the ir " habitants of Arizona and New Mexico ,- as at present, described, may becon if the state or Arizona, but if in either ( if the territories majority of the electol e shall have voted against the union the rt provisions of the bill for the assent . ling of the constitutional conventio V shall become null and void, exceptin if that the appropriation made shall if available for defraying all and ever q kind and character of expense incurre l. on account of the election of delegate n to the convention and the submissic in of the question of statehood. rs Each territory will elect delega TO to congress and vote for regular terr h torial officers at the same election, Id that in case the joint statehood pro- " osition is rejected the affairs of the te
 ritories will continue as heretofore