Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-23

n be Thrown down at no distant day.
a There never has been any good rea-
]. son for surprising that the fight would
be Abandoned; there is much less
reason now, that the Philippine tariff
) victory was achieved with so little
, bloodshed. NJ
In addition to the claim that: sew
enty republicans are pledged to fight
and vote to the last against state
hood for mex Mexico and Arizona, the
insurrection leaders claim there are
twenty-five republicans who will op-
pose the house organization program
up to the point of voting against any
form of statehood for any of the ter
ritories. Their claim is that these
twenty-five halfbreed insurgents are
opposed to statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, but favor it for Okla
homa and the Indian territory. To
that extent they in accord with the
L >,
however, are willing Oklahoma and
Indian territory shall fail of statehood
rather than New Mexico and Arizona
shall attain it. The half-breeds are
willing to oppose the measure so long
as they can do SO without actually
voting against the admission of the
two territories they tn uk ought TO
be admitted.
)? This situation presents the bare
possibility that the statehood CUES
ton may be divided, after all. When
the rule for consideration of the state
hood BILL is brought in it will provide
for SO many hours OF debate and at
the expiration of this time the vote
shall be taken without intervening
motion" That is the house way of
shutting off opportunity for the offer
ing of amendments.
Whoever presents this resolution
from the committee on rules will i'm
Immediately move that after debate
On the rule of, say twenty minutes,
that the previous question shall be
considered as ordered. That previous
question is the club with which the
national house Of representatives is
governed. If the house votes to Or
der the previous question, there will
be no chance to change the rule; it
will have to be accepted or rejected.
If the rule is accepted as reported,
there will not, Of course, be an oppor-
tunity to- amend the statehood bill. If
lit is rejected entirely, statehood wild
be dead. - ~.
+ The way round this is to vote down
the previous question on the rule.
That would give opportunity to amend
the rule SO ais to permit the offering
Of amendments to the statehood bill.
Here is where the twenty-five half
bered insurgents come in. IF they are
willing to fight as far as the insurg-
en- leaders represent, they can amend
the rule, thus securing opportunity for
a. separate vote on Oklahoma and En-
dian territory and New Mexico and
Arizona. 5000 80
Should this come to pass, the stu
alton would lbe clear: Oklahoma and
Indian Territory would he admitted
as one state, and New Mexico and
Arizona would have to wait until some
other year. ..
There is very strong reason to
doubt, however, if the stalwart lead
ers ever viii allow such a situation to
arise. 1t would be a public and de
cisiVe defeat, and would demoraIize
4 the house organization. It would be
less thumiliating,. though equally a, de-
feat, to refrain from bringing in any
statehood rule at all. 1t is true that
this would encourage future insur.
rections, but not to the extent that
an ,<pen defeat would do
In the meantime a great many
hungry statesmen are casting long
ing gIances toward the safety vault
in which Uncle Joe' has locked slp
the pork barrel The speaker has q
fierce "mad" on and swears by all
the saints that il he can't have q
statehood bill, the members can have
no pork. l.a
There are constituencies that want
lGublic buildings and these eonstitu
encies, as a rule, don't care tinker's
dam how many states are admitted
tic the union. &
It is hard enough on the insurgents
but It is ten times worse for mem
Ibers who are standing by the speaker
The insurgents can tell the folks al
home that they were lighting for q
principle the overthrow Of the tyran
nical house inner circle. That VIA