Weekly journal-miner., 1910-02-02
BREEZY GOSSIP FROM CAPITAL
 OF NATION Washington Items Of Interest to Arizona
 Residents Cameron'S Aggressive ness is Bringing. '
 Rewards
Special Correspondence.)


 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31. - Delegate Cameron, after continued and persistent effort, was finally suc- cessful in securing the large appro- priation of $5O,OOO, by the insertion of an item in the Indian appropria- tion bill, for the prompt construction of a bridge across the Little Colorado at Tanners Crossing, about sixty miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona.
 After being refused and turned down various and sundry times, Dele gate Cameron just said he would not take "no" for an answer, and con- tinued his fight so consistently that the committee had to give him the $50,000 so they could proceed with the consideration of other parts of the bill. Delegate Cameron will watch carefully that it is mot knocked out in the House or Senate.
 Delegate Cameron has introduced bill which authorizes the Board of Supervisors to issue bonds of the county in the sum of $6O,OOO for the erection of a court house at King man, and for the improvement of of the surrounding the court house. The first bill, which is carrying the appropriation for the bridge, the delegate secured from the committee on Indian affairs; and the second bill, providing for the erection of the court house, he hopes to get through the committee on territories.
 Delegate Cameron is having hard tussle with the Postofice Department in the matter of the establishment of a sub-station of the Globe post office in northern Globe. This is subject in which some 800 residents of North Globe are extremely inter- ested. It is a difficult matter to se- cure sub-station in a town of only the population of Globe; but if it is possible to be had the delegate will get it.
 Delegate Cameron has another sub ject up with the Postofice Depart ment for establishing a postofice at Lightville, Cochise eohnty, Arizona, and the appointment of John W. Light as the first postmaster Light vile is a thriving and rapidly grow ing community in the Sulphur Springs valley.
 Delegate Cameron, for the next few weeks, will give his most careful and serious attention to the Senate side of Congress to see what changes, if any, the Senate committee on ter ritories will make in reporting the House bill admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood; or if the Sen ate committee will slash the House bill; or present an entirely new Sen ate bill. While all the members of the Senate committee have promised | the president to report the statehood | bill out of the committee without de- lay, there are persistent rumors that come from that committee room that | Beveridge is preparing a bill that he will introduce in the Senate which | will provide for the meeting of the constitutional committee in the spring or early summer, and voting on the constitution in each territory on the | second Tuesday of November, 1910; | but to extend the time several months longer than the House bill provides for the election of the state officers, Representatives in Congress, the county officers and legislature, whien will elect two Senators. The effect | would be to make it in the summer or early fall of 1911 before the terri tories could enter the Sisterhood of States with all the rights and privil- eges of other states.
 It is not believed by the. earnest friends of statehood that the presi- dent will consent to such an unusual | and unprecedented delay. While the president is urgently pressing the Senators and Representatives to i'm mediately carry out the pledges in the platform upon which he was elected president; it is not believed that he will consider such an unusual and unprecedented delay as comply ing with the plank in the platform which demands immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states in the Union. The president is grow ing stronger and stronger every day;