Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-24

Wdrm Ouucn IO opSaheT SannOu and those who had been aiding him I in the effort to yoke Arizona with New Mexico in statenood, has attracted | the attention of the press of the en- tire country.
 There are no newspaper editors so ignorant as not to know that the re- marks of Mir. Smith were appropriate and deserved. Concerning the loren sic clash between Arizona's delegate and the boss of the House the St. Louis Republic says: k&N
 If circumstantial evidence is worth anything Speaker Cannon doth pro- test altogether too strongly in his re- ply to Delegate Smiths insinuation that he had endeavored to influence statehood legislation in ways that would subject an offender of like kind to severe punishment under the laws of Arizona.
 Probably Mir. Smiths remarks car ried to Speaker Cannon the first know ledge he has had that his arbitrary control and influence over the legisla- ton of the House, and his strenuous efforts to bend the Senate to the views which he imposes upon the House, would be deemed unlawful in any part of the United States.
 Ever since the Reed rules have pre- vailed in the House, the speakers cast iron control over legislation has been matter for boasting, rather than for concealment or denial. In fact, MT. Cannon did not deny MT. Smiths i'm putation; he merely paused to give any member an opportunity to back up Mir Smiths remarks, but the House was in too good humor at the mo- ment to be so cruel.
 The cold history of statehood legis' lation in the House during the entire session is that the speaker, upon good understanding with the presi- dent, dominated it almost to the end with a rod of iron. Else why was not Representative Murphy's bill provid- ing separate statehood for Oklahoma and Sequoyah permitted to come be- fore the House? And why was not the House permitted to vote on the 1 statehood bill with the Senate amend ments, before sending it to confer ence?
 i If Speaker Cannon had not used to 1 it's utmost limit the great power of his office to make only two states of
 the four southwestern territories; there
 would have been a fighting chance in
 this Congress to win separate state
 hood for Oklahoma and the Indian
 Territory.
 l Long before the session opened MT. Cannon and Senator Beveridge under
 took to discourage the Sequoyah move ment by circulating in the territory
 assurances that the House and the Senate would never consent to the
 creation of more than one state be
 tween Kansas and Texas And when the House convened in December he
 had to take of his coat" and labor
 prayerfully with members to suppress
 statehood insurrections and tariff in
 surrections, so that the House should
 do not otherwise than he had said il
 would.
 If the speaker has not endeavoret to influence the action of the House { why has Doctor Bartholdt been hold - ing back the public buildings bill un
 til the end of the session, when i should have been out of the way lonl , ago? If he did not withhold thes' "plums" in that bill in order to con |, trol the statehood votes of intereste' :. members, he has been grossly wrong ,. ed by nearly every newspaper core = spondent in Washington, and he ha . never said word in protest.
 . In all this Mir. Cannon violated n y law, for he was not operating in Ar zona. He has not exceeded his al = thority, for the republican majorit r in the House freely voted him tn right to boss it. And he has bosse ). it in such a way that all through tn g present session of Congress the Hous $ has been little else than a puppet C = the speaker and the president. -O-