The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-14
THE REPORT
 WAS ADOPTED Senate Acts on State
 hood Bill. THERE WIS NO DIVISION Indian Territory and Oklahoma to
 Pull Double. Senators Generally Relieved That This was Best That Could be Done Money Criticises Action
 of Each.
THERE WIS NO DIVISION


 on the statehood bill in the Senate to- day and after almost three hours dis cussion the Senate adopted the report without division.
 When the discussion began Senator Bailey indicated dfspIeasure over the location of the capital of the proposed new State of Oklahoma at Guthrie 1n- til 1908 but said that feeling that Okla homa and Indian Territory had been kept out of statehood too long he would make no effort to defeat 'he adoption of the report.
 He spoke at some length of tho ef- fort to link the fate of those two ter ritories with that of Arizona and New Mexico as inexcusable and expressed the hope that the separate vote allowed to the two last mentioned would settle for all time the question of their con sideration as a State.
 Senator Money objected to the union of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. He expressed special regret that Demo- cratic Senators are united with Re- publicans in bringing about the result. He also declared that If the two ter ritories were in the North not man on the Republican side would vote to /. unite them. He declared the motive on the part of the people of the East to he to secure vassals.
 He expected he said, to cast the only vote in opposition to the adoption Of the report but he would never sane ton the outrage" He also spoke of the liauor provision as the subject of just Indignation on the part of the people, in saying that it Is d result of that pharasaical cant and hypocrisy which leads some to scrutintze with great care the sins of others, while totally oblivious of their own"
 Regulate Own Affairs.
 e1x- ha rf0 of ple of the new state to regulate their own affairs and declared that he would not give any one hundred thou sand people of the west for seven hun dred thousand people of the east, be- cause one western man is worth nve eastern men In all the clements of self resoect, ctiirage and manhood and could take better care Of their morals than could the people of the east. Some countries might require blue laws, but not that section. In conclusion he denounced the bill as sectional and partisan in purpose.
 Senator Forager replied in depreca- ton of the tone of Mir Moneys speech saving 1t was the first time since he had entered the Senate that he had heard A speech based on sectional is- sue He declared that there Is no oc- casion flor the turbulent condition or the Senator's mind" and pointed out that according to the latest indications the Republican party would have gain ed by the admission of two states in place of one. because so far as there has been election returns they have been favorable to the Republican par ty. He said however. that he had not heard political or sectional reason given for the fegislation-
 Mir Foraker also expressed the opin- ion that MT. Bailey had made too much of the nrohibition provision.
 Tt may be-" he said, that they are not wild Indians" but was about to proceed when Senator Gallinger said, "they are wild after they are drunk.
 Usual With a Drunk.
 MT. Bailey followed with the re- mark that they are not peculiar in be- Ing wild when drunk.
 As the Democratic member oi tne conference committee. Senator Patter- son made a statement of his reasons for assenting to the report. speaking of minority members. he hkened tnem tSat their principal office is to create irri- tation and for all practical purposes might as well be cut out.
 He said however, that the minority members had been better satisned than the majority members on the outcome in New Mexico and Arizona and added that the union of Indian Territory ana Oklahoma works no great hardship pe- cause their union is mere bringing together of parts which formerly con stituted one sub divison of the coun- try.
 From the very first the Democratic party had. he said. been favorable to the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as two States if possible, but if not as two then as one He pre- dicted that Joint statehood for Ari- zbna and New Mexico would be over whelmingly defeated by the vote in both territories and thought the ef- feet would be to settle the question for all time.
 Morgan Against Compromise.
 Senator Morgan criticized the com promise on the ground that it leaves to the President the right to say whether New Mexico and Arizona de eide to enter the union. saying that this is delegation or power tnat Con-- gress has no authority to make
 He predicted that the vote of the two territories would be for Statehood be- cause they would not be able to resist "the bribe of $5,00o.000 given by the bill to the proposed State of Arizona. He advanced the proposition that Con gress can admit new States without the co-operation af the President.
 Senator MeCumber who has from the first obiectel to Joint Statehood for OK lahoma and Indian Tefritory, indicated his intention not to "surrender De- cause he believed that each Territory OOSSeSSed all tne QudIltieS hcSSSSNiS " make a good State. He did not agree that the consolidation of the territories had been urged by the Republican Par ty but he believed with MT. Money that 1t had been influenced by sectienallsm.
 Senator Dubois found fault with the report because of the omission of the nnti-polygamy amendment as applied to Arizona He declared that there are many polyeamlsts living in that Ter ritorv and that Arizona, if admitted to Statehood. the Mormon hierarchy would enter politics and have control. He then said, T know what 1t means to me 1t means the end of my political career. I have given no quarter and have asked none. l enjoy the life and duties here and I would have had continuous service in the Senate but for this conflict. I. would not have been defeated in 1896 but for this hicr- Arehy and knew that no man can now A> Alacted to the Senate from Utah.