Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-31
STATEHOOD BILL NOW PENDING
 IN CONGRESS
Constitutional Convention to Consist of FifU-two Dele gates Who Shall Meet in Phoenix the Fourth Monday After Election.

The following is a brief analysis of the Hamilton statehood bili. which in view of the great interest that will be taken in it during the ses- sion of Congress. is valuable con tribution for all Arizonans.
 The bill recommends that con stitutionsl convention of fifty-two delegates be elected by all who are now qualified voters within ninety days after the passage of this bill. The delegates are to be apportioned among the counties in proportion to the number of votes cast at the last congressional. election. Their cleo ton shall be in acordance with the regular election laws of Arizona The delegates shall meet in the hall of the house of representatives on the fourth Monday after they are elected and after adopting the constitution of the United States shall frame a con stitution and submit it to the voters.
 The following restrictions are named:
 The constitution must guarantee tolerance to religious worship. must prohibit polygamy. and the sale of intoxicants in Indian country. It must waive ali right to tax Indian or government lands, and must agree to tax all property owners alike, whether they live in, or out of the state. It must assume all of the debts of this territory, and provide for good pub lie school system. No law must be allowed that will abridge an y per sons right to vote because of his race, color or previous condition of servitude- and no man may be elected to an office who cannot speak and read our language we'll enough to conduct the business of his office without an interpreter.
 The capital must remain at Phoenix until 1915.
 The privileges granted the United States by the act of June IT. 1902, touching the reclamation service, shall not be interfered with.
 Four sections of land from every township must be reserved for school land, 0,OO0 acres for the State Uni, versity, s6,O0OO acres for legislative iexecutive and judicial buildings, IeO,. O00 for insane asylums, 100000 for peniteHtiaries, 100000 for asylums for deaf, dumb and blind. 5O,O0O acres for normal schools, 100,0 acres for state charitable, penal and reformatory in stitutes, 15O,00O acres for an agricul .tural and mechanical college, 100 GOO acres for a school of mines 100, ,0O( acres for a military institute. 6O0,00i acres for public irrigation and i'm provement of rivers, 3,300,000 acre! to go to pay the territorial debts, O
 which, if there remains any after tn, debt is paid. it is to go to the perman ent school fund The schools support ed by state funds must always remaiI
 non-sectarian
 | None of the public school lant
 must be sold for less than $500 pc
 acre and none in irrigation district
 for less than s25.Oo Der acre. No cas.
 now on appeal from the supreme cour
 of this territory and no homesteai
 entry or desert claim will be affecte, by the change to statehood CT tn adoption of the constitution. The fifty-two delegates may rt ceive pay for sixty days and s1OO,0O
 is appropriated for this and the cos of the elections. The people ma
 vote for or against the constitutio
 as a whole or any separate provisio
 of it. If rejected the delegates mus assemble and frame another. When adopted and approved by tn : president an election of all state o ficers shall follow and the legislator 1 when assembled, shall elect two stat
 senators and the present territori; lgoYernment shall cease