Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-10

IlOuoC III tnt nt0ttuOOR ltSnl hafC I been. says the Republican.
 Two propositions were placed before | the House by the Senate amendments. 1 One was, the western territories do not want statehood. The other was, i they shall be allowed to declare them selves on the subject. It was presum- ed by the Senate that an agreement would be reached on the latter propo- sition.
 The House. however, accepted neith- CT, but through the conference has re- turned to the Senate in lieu of the second proposition one which in ef- feet, is this: We are aware. as is manifest by our rejection of the For aker amendment. that majority of the citizens of Arizona are opposed to joint statehood. The adoption of that amendment or agreement to a third proposition to submit the pure ques- tion of joint statehood to vote at the regular territorial election would be equivalent to it's defeat. We there fore propose that an appeal shall be. allowed to the selfishness and small political ambitions of considerable part of the voters of that territory. and we refuse to submit the question of joint statehood on it's merits. Un- less you concede to us the privilege of bribing the bribable voters of Ari- ] zona, we wash our hands of the whole statehood business, and the blame for the defeat of the worthy aspirations of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory will rest upon you.
 This is the plain position of the House.
 We do net believe that the people of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory themselves would lay it up against the Senate if they should be denied ad- mission in this state of the case. We are certain that the rest of the coun- ! try would not.
 | This controversy has attracted more widespread attention within the last {, six months than any attempted legis- | lation within recent years, excepting only the railroad rate bill and the great tariff legislation within the last sixteen years. The whole country has discussed it, and fair minded people and newspapers have overwhelming | ly agreed that the position of the House has been tenable only upon the \ theory that territories have no moral right to be heard regarding the dis position of them.
 It is true that the president has accepted that theory in his message, but the Senate and the country, so ! far as it has made expresson, has talk eu a widely contrary view, recogniz- ing the rights of the territories to be heard.
 | It is the prevailing opinion. that if it was desirable to admit the two joint states there should have been two bills. The unfairness of the House was therefore betrayed in the drafting of the omnibus jointure bill. Next. it continually cropped out in the manner in which that bill was dis cussed. in the brutal throstling of its members who pleaded for fair play.
 Now, finding itself unable to force the western territories into the Un- ion as joint state, we do not believe that the country will believe that it has performed it's whole duty if, be- cause 1t is not permitted to bribe Ari- zona, it ceases to act in favor of Ok lahoma and the Indian Territory.
 No House organization argument can obscure the fairness of the present Foraker amendment or the Foraker proposition for a vat at the regular territorial election.