The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-10
SENATE VOTES FOR ONLY
 ONE NEW STAR IN FLAG
PASSES BILL CREATING OKLA HOMA AND INDIAN TERRI
 TORT 4 STATE.

Provisions of House Joint Statehood
 Measure Relating to Arizona and
 S5--SpeechmaIking ExcItes Very Lit
 tie Interest---FOrmaI Consideration of
 the House Railroad Rate Bill to Be-
 gin Monday.
 Washington, March 9-To-day at 5:S5 p. m. the senate passed bill for the admission of a new state to be call- ed Oklahoma, and to be composed of the territory of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It was the house joint state- hood bill, with all the provisions relat- ing to Arizona and New Mexico strick- en out The motion to strike out was made by MT. Burrows, and it was car ried by the close vote of 37 to S5, after having been lost by the still closer vote of 35 to 36.
 Immediately after the disposal of the statehood bill the house railroad rate bill was made the unfinished business but as the senate adjourned over Sat- urday and Sunday the formal consider ation of the measure will not begin un- til Monday. The vote on statehood came as the climax of day devoted exclusively to that bill. The speech making excited comparatively little in terest, but there was pronounced ex- citement throughout the voting period, and 1t eliminated when the success of the motion to eliminate Arizona and New Mexico was announced after the second vote on that proposition. The test vote, upon which the opponents of | joint statehood showed their greatest strength, was on the Foraker amend ent, which provided that Arizona and New Mexico should have an opportun- | ity to vote separately on the proposi- tion of joint statehood. This was car l ried by vote of 42 to 29. Previous to this action provision for increased ap- propriations in the bill was stricken out in order to afford an opportunity for a motion to concur in the senate amend ments when the bill Is sent to the house. The speechmaking began at II o'clock, and was under the en-minute rule after the first hour. About doz- en speeches were made, but the notable ones were made by Messrs. Dubois and Burrows in denunciation of polygamy in Arizona and New Mexico. MT. Du- bois secured the incorporation of an anti-polygamy amendment, but the elimination of Arizona from the meas ure detracted somewhat from the irn- portance of the accomplishment.
 As amended by the senate the bill provides for the creation of the state of Oklahoma out of Oklahoma and In- dian territories upon the adoption of a constitution.
 The state is allowed the usual quota of officers, two United States senators and five members of the national house of representatives. A constitutional con vention with 110 members, tifty-ive from each of the territories is provided for, male citizens or male Indians twenty-one years of age being eligible to membership. There is an especia provision protecting the Indians 1T their rights and continuing the prerog' ative of the national government tc control their affairs. The sale of intoX- icating liquors in what is now Indiar Territory is prohibited for twenty-one years, and longer unless the constitu- tion is changed. Two sections of eacf township of land in Oklahoma are set aside for the benefit of the common school system, as is also five per cent of the proceeds of the sale of publi, lands. There is an appropriation o $5,OO0,O00 from the national treasury for the benefit of the schools. Provi sion is made for the support of higher education and charitable institutions courts, one in Oklahoma and the othei in Indian Territory, are provided for Guthrie is made the temporary seat O government, but the house provision continuing it in that capacity until 1911 was eliminated.