Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-24

but that when the next Congress meets. if the result of the vote snali be such as Is predicted. bills for the admission of these two Territories, each to be a separate State, Will be introduced and will be passed wi,h lit tie or no controversy.
 Mir. President, like the Senator from Texas, | stand here now in behalf of the people of the country to welcome the new State of Oklahoma into the Union of States, and ! believe that be- fore another Congress has expired we will be able to welcome the peopie of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union as inhabitants of two separate. distinct, great, and independent Com monwealths.
 Mir McCumber. Mir. President, un- like the Senator from Missouri (Mr. StoneD. am not taking on an extra load of happiness or qualification be- cause of the final settlement of this very vexed question and this long dis pute, for the reason that I can not get Q great deal of comfort out of the set clement of controversy until that settlement is right and not wrong settlement.
 MT. President. I wish this evening very briefly to suggest to the Senate that I at least, as one who has op- posed and, believe, consistently op- posed the uniting of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico. can no, agree to surrender the principle winch I feel has been surrendered in this compromise movement. When I voted fn- hn or three years ago in this controversy. l voted for 1t not because 1 thought il was sound in principle that We should submit to any given Territory the question whether it should be joined tc another and admitted, but because at that time. in order to pre- vent a greater wrong. the proposition of the Senator from Ohio was placed tLere as a kind of check against leg isiatiou which would. without it. proba- bly have united the two Territories. I voted for it because of that and that only.
 Now, the Senator from Ohio tMr. Forake-) and the Senator from Mon taua (Mr. Carter) who seems to father this compromise measure, ap- pear to me to have surrendered the principle that was really at stake i'll that proposition. What was that? That no two Territories of themselves should dictate to Congress either whether they should come in jointly or come in together, nor should that question with them in the slightest de gree affect us.
 MT. President, the question whether Arizona and New Mexico should come into the Union as a single State is not question for those two Territories to decide. You might as well Say that those two Territories should de eide whether they should come iE as four States instead of two Sta.ss. It Is for Congress to determine what Ter T!!orles should be taken Into the Union. and no people now living in any section of the United States have a right by their vote to disfranchise any portion of the territory at present within the boundaries of the United States in their voice in the Senate of the United States fifty or one hundred years from today.
 With the sparse settlements in those two Territories, with the great influence that will be brought to bear In those Territories by politicians who are spurred on with the hope of se- curing some political preference, I am not so certain that they will not be able to secure vote in both of the Territories in favor of joint statehood. I hope that they will not. I know that if they were not influenced one way CT the other they certainly would no; vote in favor Of any joint statehood. But what insist upon is that Congress should not be bound by the vote of those two Territories if they desire 10 come in as one State any more than 1t should be bound by their preference in coming in as four States.
 l do not entirely agree, MT. rresl- dent, with the sentiments that have been expressed by the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Moneyl. The Senator from Mississippi seemed to think that this has been made 8 political ques- ton. As between the two older par ties II certainly has not been made 2 Poliuca! question. It was within the power of the Republican majority in this body to create two States one of which would have been certainly Republican and the other, which would have certainly been Demo cratic. and the one would offset the other, so far as political influence in the Senate was concerned. They have laid aside that view of it, and nave by majority voted for a State that will De absolutely Democratic as it comes in as new State. and, in my opinion, the Senators who will come from that State will be Demo cratic Senators, because believe that is the sentiment of the entire Terri tory now unitd in one.
 What influence, then, has been at work which mas compelled the Senate 10 adopt measure which is to take two Territories, either one of which would make splendid State, and eItn. | CT one Of which would De equal in area to the average State east of the Mississippi, and say that those must come in simply as one State? It is not the influence of the politics of parties so much as the influence of the poll. tics of sections. It may De that there ! is no politics other than ssctionalism ! in this matter