Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-24
Story of the Exciting and Brilliant Statehood Debat
Conference Report Is Finally Adopted In Both Houses Giving Arizona The Right To Vote Separately Against Joint StatehoodBaly
 Foraker Cannon Moon and Mark Smith Made Speeches

at last makes a tardy recognition of | the rights of that million and a half of American citizens.
 | MT. Money. MT President, if have never offered any remarks or sugges- | tions on this question of these united Territories coming in under single ! statehood it has not been because I l have never thought of the subject. for il is an old one. The Territory of New | Mexico has been ready tO be admitted | into this Union for DOw nearly fifty i years. For my part, 1 am unable to l see why the two Territories of Arizona | end New Mexico should be permitted 10 vote as 10 whether they shall be | dragged into this Union with one an | other reluctantly or not, and why the two greater Territories, Oklahoma and | Indian Territory, with four times their | population, should be united without | leaving it to them. have yet to see a single soul or to get a single letter Or telegram out of the many hun | dreds l have received that has ever expressed a desire on the part of any
 one in the Indian Territory to be unit ed with Oklahoma, except when sepa-
 rate statehood failed. They have asked | for me 10 vote for the Territories to be united in one State only because they have been consistently told that they could not get entrance 10 the 1 Union separately.
 The Senator from Texas (Mr. Bai ley) has told you that there are mil l lion and half of people, He might
 have added 300 900 more, as I am iII- Horned there is that number in the Territory, covering more area than New England; and the proposed State will have as many votes as the State Of Mississippi in the House of Repre- lsenIatives when it is admitted; and Iyet those Territories are compelled to
 come in here as one S.ate. whether thy will it or not. You are not voting to please the people of the Indian Ter TitCrv when you bring them in with lOkiahonla. I do not admit the right of Congress to do this. l do not deny the power of Congress to do iL; but I ldeny the right. Here are two great
 Territories, with a population. greater than that of at least fifteen States
 of this Union, and yet they are com pelled to come into the Union as one Estate and, I am sorry 10 say, by Democratic votes, as well as by the tunited vote of the Republican side
 of the Chamber
 , There is another thing about this.
 In the interest of fair play, in the inter-
 est of that equilibrium of power which
 the New England States especial l ly struggled for In the constitutional
 convention, in the interest of thac
 eQuipoise which Connecticut contend . eG for, and which she secured, of two Senators from each State, and with no power IO deprive a State of its equal representation in the Senate, except with it's consent. That was the very
 last act of the constitutional conven-
 tion. It was to preserve the power of
 the States as such. When the Louis jana purchase was made, Josiah Quin-
 cy announced upon the floor of the
 House, after it was consummated by
 an act of Congress, that it would De
 q sufficient cause for the secession Of
 the New England States that by that
 act, by he accession of new States
 they would be denied their equal pow
 CT in the confederacy. Now, want
 to say to Senators plainly and unequiV. l tCdliy, NltAO'lJ any IhlSAllOu Ol Nnuo
 ing offense, that if these two Terri
 tories had been in the North not man , on that side of the Chamber would
 have voted to unite them as enc State, When Dakota applied for admission
 having about 900 people. she was
 divided into two States so as to get , four Senators at Washington. There are now a dozen Western States that have not the population today of the
 Indian Territory; ahdthere Is not a
 single Senator on the other side who
 will admit now that he would vote to
 unite two Territories lying north of
 Mason and Dixon's line with a united
 population of 1,S0O, 900 souls-not one
 of you gentlemen would do So.
 I want to say that this whole move ment in relation to the admission Of
 these two Territories is to prevent the
 accession of senators upon this floor.
 There is a feeling that there is now a
 sufficient number of Senators, and
 probably too many. A small section
 Of the United States, by the domInaT-
 ing influence of it's character and it's
 intelligence On this floor and else
 where, has succeeded in binding the States of the West and East 10 its
 chariot wheels of power, and they nave
 marched together under the protec-
 tive tariff and other devices of legiSla-
 tive skill to a great summit of prosper
 ity. Mere vassals have been brought
 in. and not coeoual States. Because
 these Territories happen to lie % the South. this measure is forced upon he country and forced upon these two Territories by the Republican Ejcri- ty. assisted by the Democrats on this
 side of the Chamber. I do ot know