Arizona republican., 1910-06-02
PHoNEIx, ARIZ, JUNE ?, 1910.
Encouraging News of Statehood.

Encouraging News of Statehoou.
 Altogether encouraging is the news from Washington of the statehood ing. The statement accurately covers the views of Governor Sloan as ex- pressed to our Washington correspon- dent yesterday, and must therefore be accepted as entirely reliable The governor is conservative always, and in the interest of truth Is always careful to state only the facts of a subject as they are known to him.
 The governor has the promise of President Taft that as soon as the conservation bill is disposed of the whole force of the national admins tration will be e1erted for the passage of the statehood bill at this session. After conferring with Senator Bever- idge, chairman of the senate commit tee on territories and author of the senate statehood bill. and with Con- gressman Hamilton. chairman of the house committee on territories and author of the house statehood bill (which has passed the house and has been reported to the senate in practi- cally a new form), and after talking with other senators and representa- tives, the governor thinks that the house bill with some of the senate amendments will pass the senate and will be accepted by the house with out a cC,ference.
 The governor went to Washington with some misgivings as to the out look for statehood legislation. He was ting Arizona and New Mexico could be passed at this session. His present conclusions, reached after careful in- vestigation, are therefore all the more reassuring His belief that it will not be necessary to send the bill to conference is especamy encouraging. The Washington correspondents have been predicting lately that if the sen ate did pass a statehood bill it would be in such form as to ue unacceptable to the house and consequently would go to a conference committee of the two houses. where no agreement would be reached. These predictions were, of course, predicated upon the assumption that the senate bill as re- ported would be the bill passed by the senate-if it passed anything and it was known that some of the features of the senate bill are mot liked by the house leaders. It ap- peared probable, therefore, with the two houses taking stubborn positions against each other. and with no great desire of the senate leaders to pro vide statehood in any event that if the bill went to conference it would die there.
 The logical conclusion from today's news is that some of the senate the senate bill, by consent of Senator Beveridge. The Beveridge bill differs from the Hamilton bill in three radi- cal particulars-it greatly prolongs the time necessary to complete the details of admission, it provides for submission of the constitutions of the two states to the president and to congress for approval, and it permits 'flliterates" to vote in Arizona by re- pealing the disfranchisement act of the late legislature. It also places greater restrictions around the dis posal of the lands granted to the states than does the Hamilton bill. Which of these features. of the senate bill will be modified or left out will not be known until the senate acts, nor do the people of Arizona greatly care, what form the bill takes on final passage-what they want is state hood. and at last statehood seems to be certain.
 We have necessarily to say it seems to be" certain. because nobody can foretell how much time will be consumed by senators in long winded speeches on the conservation bill, and it is impossible. therefore, to know to what extent the congested condition of business in congress in the closing days of the session will lead to the sacrifice of important measures. The days in Washington are hot. and the1 la~makers are anxious to get an ad- journment by the first of July.
 But Governor Sloan is on theI ground. and he is convinced that statehood will go through at this ses- sionm.