The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-24

STAKE, OUT Tar more important than this
is the question as to whether Uncle Joe
Cannon and President Roosevelt can
hold their unwieldy republican MAORI
ty together or not
If the boilers, with the assistance of
the democrats, can best the administra-
ton, it means something like an end to
discipline for all the rest of this ses-
sion. No one can tell tonight what the
outcome will be. Speaker Cannon is
confident, but so is Babcock, leader of
the rebels, and both sides agree the vote
will be extremely close, and the result
may be decided by half dozen men,
either present or absent.
Whip After .Absentees.
Acting under orders Of the house or
ganization, letters and kilograms have
been sent to every absentee republican.
Every man who is not in his seat and
who is impaired in advance will be sub
jected to suspicion. The fight is so
close and the count Of noses wavers so
from day to day, and hour to hour, the
administration may be sustained or de-
feated by the narrowest kind of mar
gin, and as the result of almost any &C
cident in the way Of sudden illness or
delayed train. ~ a./- -...
The fight will begin Immediately
after the reading of the journal, accord
ing to the program generally agreed
| upon. The statehood bill was formal
| ly reported to the house yesterday by
| Hamilton Of Michigan, chairman Of the
committee on territories, who has given
measure, and who will come out with
laurels, whether the bill is passed in its
| present form or not.
| The fight comes at the outset, of
course, not on the merits Of the ques
tion at all, but on an important episode
in the way Of parliamentary tactics.
! Soon after the journal is approved Dali
Zell, as chairman of the committee on
rules, the all-powerfu inner body of the
1 special rule, which in substance will
provide that the statehood bill shall be
debated for a couple of days and there
after shall be considered under the FIVE
minute rule, and finally voted upon the
third day, which would be Friday. This
part of the rule no one objects to partic-
ularly The house will be asked to
vote, however, upon a separate section
of the rule, which forbids the considera-
ton Of any amendments. $780,. -
The Real Test. j..
If this part Of the rule is adopted the
! u
is defeated Uncle Joe and his ieuten-
ants will suffer most disastrous defeat
and the door will be open for a
series Of rebellions in the future, the
Importance of which no man can well
estimate.
AS the matter now stands, the state.
hood bill reported by, Hamilton pro-
vides that Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory shall be combined together to
| of nd hot Ari1
New Mexico, shall be combined togeth-
er to make another state, thus erecting
two states out of four territories. This
would increase the number of states in
the union to forty-seven, and it would
wipe out all continental territories I'M,
der our existing system.
The object Of the house managers is
| of course, to create two states and only
two states out of the four territories
IF the rule is beaten, it then would be
| in order for any member to offer an
amendment and these amendments may
be as diverse as the members them.
selves choose. ....
The Democratic Plan.
If the republican insurgents, thru
their combination with the solid demo
cratic strength, are enabled to defeat
the special rule, they will, in all prob
ability, merely amend the bill so as tt
make one state of Indian Territory an(
Oklahoma, and leave the two south
western territories where they are
There is no possibility at the present
time of the insurgent combination IS be
ing strong enough to pass a bill provid
ing for separate statehood for Arizona
and New Mexico. The best The insur
gents can expect is to prevent joint
. statehood.
The whole Fl ht is, therefore, in re
, gard to Arizona and New Mexico, anC
it is suspicious, to say the least, tt
| find republicans from Wisconsin, Ohio
) Pennsylvania and other states defyins
the policy adopted by the party lead
| ers and insisting these two southwes
J territories shall not be merged as tn,
two more northern territories wer,
united, practically without opposition
Suspicious Are Aroused.
The more one looks into the situa
tion the more suspicious become tn.
motives Of the republican insurgents
The democrats are entirely logical il
their position. They know that if Ari
IONA and New Mexico are kept out O.
the union now, the time may come whel
the democrats will be in control, an,
the two territories can then be ad
mitted as separate states.
1t is a fact known of all that mine
in Arizona are assessed on basis O
) less than per cent of their actua
} value. Senator Clark of Montana
multi-millionaire, has mine which ha
an assessed value of something Xix
$1SO,OOO. There is said to be in sigh
: on the dump ore worth half tina
/ amount and the yearly output Of tina
one mine probably is a good deal NOR
than SO per cent Of its assessed value.
The Santa Fe railroad, running thr
$ New Mexico and Arizona. is assesses
on an average Of about $4,000 or $500
: It's assessed value when it crosses int
/. the state of California approximate
: $4,000, and in Texas. which is not a