Arizona republican., 1906-04-11
NEW FORAKER
 AMENDMENT
The Best of all for This
 Territory
Eugene Brady O'Neil Says a Statehood
 Agreement has Been Practically Reached by Conference Committee.

Eugene Brady O'Nein returned on
 Monday night from Washington, where
 he had been called by the serious ill., Iness of his sister, who, however. was greatly improved before he started for nome.
 MT. O'Neill said there is no longer
 any interest in the statehood matter
 since the program has been agreed
 upon. It has been decided that the 1 conference committee shall report in | favor of a Foraker amendment but neither the first Foraker amendment
 nor the second one l The first amendment provided that | the question of joint statehood should 1 be submitted at regular election at
 which there should also be voted for
 the state officers, who should act in | the event of their election and the
 adoption of joint statehood. The sec.
 ond amendment provided merely for
 a referendum, the vote to be taken
 within three months after the pass
 age of the bill
 1 The amendment which has been
 agreed upon provides that the election shall take place at the regular territo-
 rial election for the election of a dele
 gate to congress and for the election of county officers. This arrangement
 will leave the question of jofnture en- l tirely unhampered and from the point | of view of MT. O'Neiu is more advantageous to the territory
 than even the second Fora
 ker amendment would nave been. | It is proposed that the territorial 1 conventions of both parties shall adopt strong anti-jointure resolutions, and that both parties at all their county 1 conventions shall do the same Thus all candidates will stand on platforms pledging them to work against joint | ure. There would then be at the cam paign meetings nothing but anti-joint-
 ure speeches. The result it is believed. instead of showing that 90 per cent of the voters are against joint statehood will show practically unanimous op- position to it. It is uncertain. Mr O'Neill says, when the report of the conference committee will be made. but there is no doubt about what it will be.
 The sentiment against the presi- dent. he says, is growing rapidly and ! Is finding expression in all of the Washington papers, though the reports sent out by correspondents greatly modify it. This modification is the re- suit of censorship as effective as any that has ever existed in Russia. A correspondent who sends out informa- tion distastefuI to the administration is barred from all news sources con trolled by the administration, and he is brazenly informed that ne on the black list. Thus his usefulness to his paper is greatly reduced.
 The president is very sensitive to newspaper criticism, so that the Washington papers are not now favor ed in the giving out of news relating to executive and departmental affairs The appointment of his secretary, E. F. Barnes, as postmaster as Washing ton has produced the fiercest com ment. Barnes. it will be remembered is the man responsible for the election of Mrs Morris from the White House When it became evident that the pres ident intended to appoint him, tie pa pers discussed seriously the consider dtion of the names of James J. Coroe7t and Robert Fitzsimmons for tie post mastership. They mockingly recount ed the qualifications of these gentle men for the position. but they stated that each of them possessed ott; quail hcation which was against him-it Was well-knOwn fact that eacn of these bruisers had some respect for wOmanhood.
 In subsequent serio-comic discus sion of the probability of the appoint ment of either MT. Corbett or MT. Eitzsimmons. it was stated it had been learned that neither of them would accept the office. Both of them were already in satisfactorily remunerative positions, which were really less de- grading than the postmastersnip of Washington would be in the circunl- stances.
 A state of war not adequately de- scribed by the press reports exists be- tween the senate and White House The flames were famed by the recent