The oasis., 1906-03-17

uispIONtus Wdc tildL tiAlHllHR the pIdt- tical absence of Mexicans among the people of Arizona. Senator Beyeridge produced the Great Registers of num- Der of counties with the Spanish names all marked and numbered. And he showed that Pima County has 2l% Yuma county 19%, Santa Cruz county 20%, Apache county 50I etc. He also produced an election proclamation of Phoenix Ca placard posted about the streetsl printed in Spanish. In the face of those proofs several senators un- blushingly asserted that ''more than 95% of the people of Arizona are Amer jeans, and hardly 5I are Mexicans." Wouldn't that jar you?p And then the exploded points of the ''impass- able mountain barrier between the two territories, " ''the overwhelming pre- ponderance of Mexicans in New Mex ico, !" the s'unanimity of the people of Arizona upon the issue," all of which had been demonstrated as being untrue, were paraded again and again, and made to do service by senators who should be above claptrap. But they are not. No attempt whatever was made to reply to the arguments of the sem ator from Indiana. The opposing sem ators were probably like Colonel ] F. Wilson of Prescott. "There was mo- thing todebate.
 With Senator Beyeridges final speech under the ten minutes rule the debate was closed, and voting commenced. First the amendments were considered in the committee of the whole, and as amended was reported to the open Sem ate The Foraker amendment, to sub- nit the matter to the people of the two territories, was carried in the committee of the whole. An amendment offered by Senator Burrows Of Michigan, to cut out all that part of the bill pertain ing to Arizona and New Mexico, was re- iected by vote of 36 to 8. In the open Senate Senator Burrows renewed his amendment, and if was carried by a vote of 37 to 35. One senator going over, and another who had not voted in the committee of the whole voting for the amendments That settled the mat ter so far as the proposition Of jointnre goes back to the House for concurrence in or rejection of the amendments.
 What will be the final outcome 1t is impossible at this time to predict By arrangement in the House committee on territories it will not be taken up until the return of a number of congressmen who are absent on q tour of inspection ot public works in the South, which will be some time next week Speaker Cannon told Judge AinsWorth and my self that he saw no reason why the House should change it's mind But l find some of the other Republican congress- men not so confident as the Speaker. They seem to think that the House will accept the amendments In that case, aver these gentlemen, there will be am other bill from the House committee on territories next session which will provide for admission of Arizona and New Mexico jointly. The issue has been made and it will continue to be presented until Arizona and New Mex ico are admitted jcintly, and never in any other way. The people of the Unit ed States are determined upon that, and the two territories will eventually come to it
 Of course our friends upon the other side are lubilant, and they claim to have settled the question for all time. But the fight has only commenced They have been given run for their money, and they have simply got to the first stage of the struggle. The measure they have opposed so bitterly will prevail in the end because it is in consonance with the eternal verities, and in accordance with the principles of equal and exact justice toward all the people of all the states Upon that proposition has the issue been made, and 1t is an issue which will not down.
 In this connection it may not be out of place here to mention the fact that the senators on the Republican side of the Senate who have been most active in defeating the statehood measure so far as are concerned the territories of Arizona and New Mexico are mostly the selfsame statesmen who are arraved against the administration upon all of the important measures, such as the