The Washington times., 1906-03-10
STATEHOOD BILL
BADLY MANGLEO
Doubtful Whether House
Will Know It's Creation.
BEvERIDGE FOUGHT HARD
Undismayed by Absolute Certainty Of
Defeat He Battled Gamely
to the Last.

The not entirely unexpected happened
to the Statehood bill in the very last
hours of it's consideratio ton in the Senate
After il had been amended half TO death
| in the committee of the whole it was
subjected to the process of amputation
/ in the meeting of the Senate proper.
and all reference to Arizona and New
Mexico was cut out of it.
The measure will now go back to -
parents in the house committee, who
by diIgent search may possibly find
somewhere on the mangled remains the
strawberry mark by which TO identify it
as their own progeny. Whether. in its
disfigured and deformed condition they
viii choose to chloroform it at once
rather than let it drag out a miserable
existence. is the question now up to the
House management.
Beverage Fought Gamely.
The closing scenes OF the fight in the
Senate were the most animated that
Senatorial dignity has permitted tits
session Senator Beverage knew he
was defeatd on the only contention as
10 which there was serious division 81
was accepted as certain that the For
aker amendment would be Incorporated
In the bill; but none the less the gentle
man from Indiana fought his way right
up under the guns OF an opposition that
was certain to defeat him. Charge and
counter charge were made. under the
leadership Of Beyeridge. Nelson. Dick,
and others for the committee and OF
Foraker. Teller. Clark of Montana. ana
other opponents of the joint Statehood
program. Motives and methods OF men
on both sides were assailed with a vicor
har
audience, both in the galleries aud on
the floor. gasp
All day long. in committee Of the
whole, under the ten-ninute rule the
bill was debated. The committee amend
ment TO Increase from SIOO,Oo0 to SI50pgg
the amount appropriated for the ex-
penses OF the Statehood elections was
defeated by vote OF 10 10 81 The For
aker amendment. to provide that Ari-
IONA and New Mexico should vote sep
arately on the question whether they
want joint Statehood, at special cleo
lions az which no other question should
be before them, was adopted bv the
vote of ~ to @.
Burrows Amendment Carried.
After the acceptance without division
OF a number of amendments designed to
perfect the bill in form. came the Bur
rows amendment to strike out all of
the bill after section %; that is tn
strike out all the provisions relating to
Arizona and New Mexico and Iaa,,s Il
simply measure providing for the ad
mission of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory
On the first roll call il was defeated
by the vote of Senator Scott.
But a Few minutes later Senator
PUT rvs renewed his motion and this
time 1t carried, 81 yeas to IS NAYS.
How They Lined Up.
The vote was as follows:
BuIkeley. Burrows, Carter, Clark Of
Montana, Clay, Culberson. Daniel Du-
Dolls Flint, Foraker, Foster. Frazier
SIaIIlh8er' Gearin, Hansbrough. Hev-
DuFn, Latlmer, McCreary, Mallory.
Martin, Morgan, Newlands, o. errnan
Scott. Simmons. Spooner. Stone, Italia,
ZERO, Teller, Tillman-37
Nays-Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bever-
age Brandegee1 Burnham. Clapp
T 6iaII & or wyoming, Crane, CuHom.
Fulton: Gamble, Hale Hemenway, Hop
kins, kean, Knox, La Toilette Lodge
Long McCumber, Willard. Nelson Nix
on, Penrose, Piles, Proctor, Smoot
ouLherIand; Warner, Wetmore-35.
BuTkett, Burton, Carrnack. CLARKE Of
Arkansas, DepeW, Elkins FRYE. Cor
man, Kittredge, McEnery, McIaurin
Money, Platt, Warren-11.
Thus the trick was turned The
half or the bill was cut out The com
mtttee of the whole rose, reported the
DILL Immediately to the Senate and il
was passed without the formality Of
roll call.
Senator Tiilman was on his feet in a
moment to demand that the rate bill
be made unfinished business This
was agreed 70 without objection.