The copper era., 1909-07-29
STATEHOOD BILL IN CONGRESS.
Delegate Cameron Introduces Measures
 Intended to Free Arizona.

duced a bill to admit Arizona to statehood.
 The bill bears the title H. R. 1157S and was introduced into the house on July 15. After being ordered printed the bill was sent to the committee on territories of which Chairman Hamil ton, of Michigan, is still the moving spirit.
 It is not probable that the bill will be brought out of the committee on territories until after tie holidays.
 The new statehood bill introduced by MT. Cameron provides for con- stitutional convention to be held in Phoenix and composed of ffty-two members. The delegates are appor- tioned to the several counties in ac- cordance with the voting population as shown by the vote cast at the election for delegate to congress in said territory In 1908.
 The election of delegates shall take place by authority of procla- nation to be issued by the governor of the territory within sixty days after the passage and approval of the statehood bill.
 The convention to frame the con- stitution will meet in Phoenix on the third Monday after their election and shall not receive compensation for more than sixty days of service.
 By provisions of the bill introduced the constitution of Arizona must pro- vide for perfect toleration of re ligious sentiment; that polygamous or plural marriages and the sale, bar ter or giving liquor to Indians are forever prohibited.
 ?. The constitution must declare that the new state forever disclaim right and title to the unappropriated and uugranted public lands lying within its boundaries and to all lands owned by Indian tribes, except as otherwise provided in the bill.
 3. That the debts and liabilities of said Territory of Arizona shall be as- sumed by the state.
 4. Public school system must be 
 5. That said state shall never en- act any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of 
 6. That the capital of the new state shall temporarily be at Phoenix and shall not be changed prior to 1915.
 '. That the state shall grant to the United States government all rights and powers relating thereto necessary for the carrying out by it of the provisions of the Act of Con- yress, entitled:
 "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public ands in certain states and territories ;o the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid ands."
 In the event that a constitution is ldopted in accordance with the lbove provisions the bill further pro- ,ides that an election for the ratif- ;ation of the constitution must be leld within thirty days after it's adoption. The returns of the cleo ion, in the event of the adoption of he constitution, shall then be for varded to the president at Washing on, together with a copy of the con and if he shall find it to be .epublican in form and not repugnant | o the constitution of the United l States and the Declaration of Iude- | ,endencc, it shall be the duty ot the president within twenty days from he receipt of the certificate of the esult of the said election to issue his 1 announcing the result | if said election and Arizona declared ! admitted as a state into the union.
 Arizona will be entitled 10 one | member of the House of Repre- entatiyes.
 The first state election shall be on he first Tuesday after the first Mon- lay in November, 1910.
 The bill provides for the usual | mount of land for school purposes md in addition the bill appropriatesi ' he sum of 2,5OO, 900 as a permanent und, the interest from same to be sed for school purposes.
 One hundred and fifty thousand ollars is appropriated by the United states for defraying the expenses of he constitutional convention and he election.
 .Opper Belle Ships Two Carloads Daily.
 George K. Reed, superintendent of he Shannon Copper Co.'S. interests t Gleeson, was in Tombstone last yeek, being called there on business onnected with the company. MT. Ieed stated that the Copper Belle, ne of the Shannon group of claims,
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