The oasis., 1906-03-17

VNHVff NfiD VT" VHt tHfN# tN# ffFHf# ] dent in his gallsut fight aQalnst monopoly will be asking why should Arizona and Nev Mexico have iouf votes in the United States senate in the Interest oil monopoly when two are far more than are their just portion2 And the great and growing sentiment that the Pacific Coast states are already disproportionately repre-. sented in the Senate of the Uuited States will make itself heard. In testimony of the foregoing asser- ton declaration from the Co., lumbus Dispatcn commenting upon the Senate action upon the joint statehood bill is herewith present. ed.
 After approving the creation of Oklahoma, and showing it's relative rank as to population etc, as far above the standing of nearly a dozen of the states, some of them among the original thirteen, the Dispatch makes the following sig nificant a SCI, ion:
 ssThe house may we'll adopt the sen ate solution Of the matter; justice can be done to Oklahoma and then the ques- ton of an injustice to all the rest of the country, by the creation of two sspocket l. txt,}f Il. ( desert, can be fought out on its merits. It is no desire for the public good that animates much of the senatorial opposi- ton to combining these territories, but if the proposition stands alone, then there will be better chance for reason and right t0 assert themselves For every person living in Arizona, there are more than six hundred living ont- 1 side of it 1t has less than one-siXth of ! one per cent of the population Of the 1 country It is likely that the interests of the ninetv-nine and five sixths per cent will De conserved, II they give n0- ! tiee to their representatives in congress that 20 United States senators are enough for the Pacific states. present and prospective, since all combined | have fewer people by nearly \ hundred ' thousand than the single state of Ohio.
 There are the issues that THE OASIS has long perceived as in- volyed, and has not hesitated to say so: Six-tenths qo of the popnla tion of the entire United States to the other ninety nine and four tenths proportional representation on the Senate, and senators re- presenting corporations rather than the people of the states from which they are credited. The people of the great states realize that in both these cases the limit has been reached, and they will stand for no more of either The nine Pa cific Coast states, viz: Washing ton, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. have already eight cen senators in the natio nal le- gislature. Yet all those nine states with Arizona and New Mexico fall short of the single state of Ohio in population fully one hundred thousand people. That's what ails the people of Ohio, and they do not at all relish the prominentI part their senior senator has taken in the effort to defeat the will of his own people in the jointure struggle. They are willing to grant the Pacific Coast states two more senators, but they are not willing they shall have more. They are willing that monopoly shall have two more senators, but they are not inclined to give more than that number to be added to the re- presentatives already in the upper chamber, and they are opposed to about one-half of one per cent of