The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-12
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY MORNING, 12,
COMPROMISE REACHED
ON STATEHOOD BILL
Arizona and New Mexico May
Decide the Question by
Popular Vote.

WASHINGTON, June u-Tho Carter
compromise on the statehood bill was
agreed upon today by Republican leaders
OF the Senate and House Nothing now
stands in tho way or tho admission of
oklahoma and Indian Territory as a
State and a choice by Arizona and New
Mexico as to whether they desire TO come
in as another State
Will Make Amended Report.
1t is expected that the pending confer
drawn when 1t comes up tomorrow. and
an amended report returned TO both
houses embodying the compromise. In
this way the discussion OF question that
has been before Congress almost contin-
uously for six years Will be ended.
Provisions of Compromise.
The compromise presented by Senator
Carter provides for the rejection OF the
Burrows amendment striking from the bill
all reference to the admission of Arizona
and New Mexico and the adoption in lieu
of section "a OF the original bill an
amendment providing tho following:
Plan for Convention.
That at the general election TO be held
on the 9th day OF November 1906 all the
electors OF said Territories respectively
qualified to vote at such election are here
by authorized TO vote for and choose dele
gates TO form a convention for said Ter
ritories. The aforesaid convention shall
consist OF ll0 delegates. sixty-six OF which
delegates shall be elected TO said con-
ventlon by the people OF the Territory OF
New Mexico and forty-four by the people
Governors Chief Justice and Secretaries
of each Of said Territories respectively,
shall apportion the delegates TO be thus
elected from their respective Territories,
as nearly ns may be equltably among the
several counties thereof In accordance
with the population as shown by tho Fed
eral census OF 1900.
People Have Choice.
THAT at the said general election and
on the same ballots on which the names
OF the candidates to the convention afore-
said are printed there shall be submitted
10 the qualified electors OF each OF said
Territories question which shall be
stated on the ballot In substance and
form as follows:
Shall Arizona and New Mexico be
united TO form one Stater
Then follows Instructions In detail for
marking the ballots and transmission OF
the results to the Secretary OF the Int
rior, after which IL is provided:
Question of Majority.
III 1t appears from the returns that a
majority OF the electors In each of the
and not otherwise. the inhabitants OF Ari-
zona and New Mexico. as at present de-
scribed may become the State OF Arizo-
ma but II in either OF the Territories a
ma ojorty OF the electors shall have voted
against the union, then provisions OF the
bill for the assembling OF the Coustitu-
tional convention shall be null and void.
excepting that the nppropria ton made
shall be available for d6fraying all
and every kind and character OF eH-
pense Incurred on account OF the
election Of the delegates TO the con-
vcntion and the submission OF the ques-
tion OF statehood.
Each Territory Will elect n delegate TO
Congress and vote for regular Territorial
officers at the same election. SO that in
case the Joint statehood proposition is re-
jectcd, the affairs OF the Territories Will
continue as heretofore"