Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-05
THE sIxTv-FiRsr CONGRESS

OSNoA A1ecANot- se~NA
 watching congress closely since the national republican convention met last at Chicago. because of the prom ise then given that Arizona and New Mexico should be Immediately" ad- mitted as separate states
 Not only will Arizona watch closely the proceedings of the coming session of congress-. but the entire country will do the same because of the de sire to see whether the republicans. who have s safe working majority in both house and senate. intend to keep any of the promises made in the Chi cago convention
 The special session of this congress was a decided disappointment to the country at large The session was called. presumably. for the purpose of carrying .out the pledges of the republican party and the republican presidential candidate in the campaign preceding 1t for a revision of the tar If law. The. promise was that there should be a revision of the tariff and this pledge was interpreted by the republican campaigners and the re- publican press of the country as mean ing that the tariff was to be revised downward. That was the interpreta- ton placed on the promise by the re publican candidate for president.
 A revision bill was passed by the special session of congress. but ia stead of lowering the tariff schedules they were raised. as a whole. On some impcrtations the tariff was re- dnced and on some the tariff was raised, but on the whole there was an
 
 increase.
 Republican politicians in Arizona are as loud now in their promise that Arizona will be admitted as a state by the coming session of congress as they were that Arizona would be ad- mitted as a state before the fourth day of last March. The people of Arizona have been asking for state hood for many years. It has been promised by both republican and dem ocratic parties for years. The wonder now is whether the republicans will keep the promises being made now. If they do it will be the first time that party ever kept a statehood prom ise made to Arizona.
 In the sixty-first congress the dem ocrats will be found ready to redeem their pledges to admit Arizona as a state If the republicans will vote in accordance with their pledges, which they have never done before, then there will be no doubt about the ad- mission of the territory.
 One reason why the public will keep a close watch on the sixty-first congress is the growing war between the insurgents and the stand-patters in the republican party. The stand patters are gradually losing ground and at any time that the progressive republicans would join with the dem ocrats the administration would be in the position of having no party be- hind it
 The president, it is expected, will deliver his message to congress on Tuesday Undl few years ago the custom had beea for the president to send the message to congress on the first day of the session. but re- gently the message has been held an- til the second day.
 If the republican majority carries out its promises to Arizona the ter ritory will be converted into a sta5e before the first day of the year 1910. for the bill for the admission of the territory will have been passed. Let us hope that such =:::i =.:i be the result