The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-16
HOUSE TO STAND FAST
 FOR ITS STATEHOOD BILL
REPUBLICANS IN CAUCUS TAKE 4CTIoF BY 4 VOTE OF
 1e6 TO 85.

Insurgents Willing to Accept the Meas
 ure as Amended and Passed by the
 senate-Speaker Cannon Wishes That
 Body Was Twice as Good as If is-
 House Can Stay Three Months to See
 Its Measure Win--Says Rate BlI Wiu
 Pass if All Stand Firm.
 Washington, March 15.-As the result ot caucus which lasted for two And a half hours to-day, the republicans of the house voted 126 to s5 to stand bv the statehood bill as it passed the house ana asked the senate for a conference on the measure. This vote followed frn- meddately after a resolution offered nv MT. Mondell of Wyoming, representine. the insurgents, had been defeated. 193 to 4S, the Mondell resolution being to agree to the senate amendment elindn- ating Arizona and New Mexico from the bill and asking a conference on tho minor amendments from the measure
 Several speeches were made, They were limited to five minutes each but in the case of Speaker Cannon ana MT. Hamilton of Michigan chairman of the committee on territories, the time was extended. Mir. Hamilton opened the discussion with a plea for the orig inal house bill He said it had already been endorsed by three republican con ferences He discussed and opposed the Foraker amendment, declaring if to be in the interest of corporations in the two territories affected. He con- tended that the bill was supported by the president and Iby. Speaker Cannon. Let us follow them and fight 1t out with the senate" was Eis concluding admonition.
 MT. Mondelb in offering his proposi- ton for concurrence, paid high trib- ute to the speaker, but declared that those who opposed his position were only acting in accordance with their duty. He discussed the binding effect of the caucus and declared he should not be bound by this one.
 The speaker followed, touching first on the binding effect of both caucuses and conference, He took the position that where the party took action on any matter of this nature all members participating were bound by that ac- | ton.
 He made the point that there were twenty residents of Oklahoma and The dian territory who objected to. haiHg tied together where there was one in l Arizona and New Mexico. He admitted that he was being deluged with tele- grams on behalf of Oklahoma and h. dian territory at this time and not dis- posing of Arizona and New Mexico only meant that there would be four new senators from Arizona and New Mexico instead of but two senators in case the house stood firm. q wish to | God" he remarked, "the senate was twice as good as it is. It performs It's functions fairly well--it is our senate' But to add four senators where but | two should be added, he declared, would give the senate too much influence as compared with the house, based on population. M | Reviewing legislation before congress he said the rate bill would pass; that ] if the house would stand firm, its state hood bill would also become law, "and we can stay here for three months" he declared Addressing the insurgents, he added: Why join the democracy to have your own way?" The speaker then turned his face towards the senate and remarked: "On what meat doth this our Caesar feed that it hath grown so great?"
 My Judgment is that statehood will come as the house bill contemplates.