The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-14
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NJ indiana, chairman ~ Tho COMMITTEES on
Territories Tho fiUrss will promptly
foliuw suit and tin result will 10 ,hs al.
mIsslon Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Jointly ~ one state under the nams Of
Oklahoma. aud permitting tho citlsens OF
Arizona and New Mexico 10 vote separately
az the November election on the question Of
joint statehood.
The IMPORT wss adopted without q roll
call after about two hours Of lively debate,
participated In mainly by Democratic Hen.
ators.
Senator Bailey OF Texas attacked the
conference report because II required the
new State TO provide In its Constitution
against the sale or gift Of Intoxicating
liquors 10 the Indians. This, he asserted,
deprived the new State OF It's police powera.
He said that Oklahoma hould have had
statehood long ago. She had more than
the necessary population and would enter
the Union with a larger representation In
the House than some Of the -anoiept oom-
monwealths." He believed that q Terri
tory 10 we'll equipped ought to have been
permitted TO make her Constitution without
Federal interference. He said also that he
hoped Arizona and New Mexico would
become States and then the doors should
be forever closed to the admission OF any
other Territory, unless, possibly, Alaska.
Senator Foraker. of Ohio defended the
prohibition clause. which, he said applied
to the Indians only. He believed it wise.
The Indians, although nominally citizens
Of the United States were not good citizens
when under the influence Of drink.
Drink makes them Wild" suggested
Senator Galhnger' Of New Hampshire,
author Of the prohibition amendment.
That is not peculiar to the Indians
suggested Mr.. Bailey. white men get
wild, too, when drunk
Mr.. Gallinger insisted that the Indian
was more susceptible to the effects Of drink.
Senator Money Of Mississippi declared
that the Republican majority had refused
to make separate States Of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory because they feared that
the Democrats would gain two Senators II
separate statehood was permitted. He
created laughter by declaring that one
Oklahoma citizen was the equal In %lntelli-
genoe Of five citizens Of Athe effete East
Il predict he said, that the Federal
influences that prevail In the Territories
will give the Republicans two Senators
and all the Representatives in the new
States, but that after the first election
the experiment will never be repeated"
Senator Patterson Of Colorado said he
was one Of the minority oonferees n had
nothing to say in making the report. The
Republican conferees did the work and
then called me in to approve it, said he.
He made humorous allusion to the relative
Importance Of the minority conferee,
"a minority conferee," said he, lis like
the vermiform appendix. He fills no office
except to be an irritation to the body Of
which he il a member. In my judgment
1t would be a good thing to perform an opera
ton to remove the minority conferee."
The debate closed with an impassioned
appeal against Mormonism by Senator
Dubois Of Idaho. He criticised the Senate
conferees for failure to retain in the State
hood bill the amendment making the test
oath in the Constitution of the State OF
Idaho a part of the Constitution Of the new
States. 1t was aimed at polygamy. MI.
Dubois declared that it was the only way
to arrest the growth of polygamy.
Il warn the Senate that it is playing with
fire in compromising with this Mormon
hierarchy" exclaimed the Idaho Senator.
They know where / stand. l ask no quar-
ter and give them none. When began tho
fight | knew it would end my political career.
flad | yielded | could have remained in
official life. 1t is impossible now for any
man TO lie elected to either house Of ON
gress from the State Of Wyoming, Utah
or Idaho unless he yields to the dictation
of the Mormon hierarchy"
When Mr.. Dubois concluded the conference
report was adopted.
Earlier in the day Mr.. Kittredge of South
Dakota presented an order for unanimous
consent, providing that a vote should be
taken on the bill for a sea level canal next
Friday. Mr.. Hopkins of Illinois objected
and the matter went over without agree
ment.
Senator Knox's bill to incorporate q
company to construct a canal from the
Ohio River to Lake Erie met with deter
mined opposition. Senators Teller OF
Colorado, Bacon of Georgia and Culberson
of Texas opposed it in speeches of some
length, The bill was then laid aside until
tomorrow to permit Senator Willard OF
Nebraska to address the Senate in favor OF q
lock level canal.
Mr.. Carmack OF Tennessee withdrew the
special order setting apart next Saturday
for memorial speeches on the late Senator
William B. Bate Of Tennessee, saying he
would renew the request later.