The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-06-30
TWO NEW STATES ADMITTED,
Constitutions Hust b. Approved By
the President-Coudltions That New
nexico and Arizona Must Meet.

nexico and Arizona Must Meet.
The President has signed the bill
for the admission Of New Mexico and
Arizona as States of the Union. Ii
there il no hitch in the matter of ap-
proving the constitutions to be
framed and adopted the States should
be admitted early in 1911.
Conventions for the adoption of a
constitution will first be held in each
Of the States After the conventions
have adopted constitutions these lat
ter will be submitted to the people for
ratification atspecial elections which
must be held within from 60 to 80
days after the conventions adjourn.
Ii the constitutions are not ratified.
a new election for a constitutional
convention will be held.
After the ratification of the consti-
tutions by the people, the constitu-
tions will be sent to Washington for
approval by Congress and the Presi-
dent. If they approve, or il the
President approves and Congress
fails to approve at the regular session
of Congress, the President will certify
his approval to the Governors, who,
within 80 days after the receipt of
such notice, must issue proclamations
calling for special elections for the
election of State and county officers,
Chief Justice, Legislature and other
officers, as well as Representatives in
Congress, these elections to be held
within 60 to 90 days; and when these
elections have been held and the pro-
posed new States are ready to set up
their governments, the President
will issue a proclamation admitting
them into the Union. There is q pro-
vision in the bill to the effect that no
session of the Legislatures of the pro-
posed States shall be held in 1911.
The Statehood law prescribes GER
tain conditions upon which the Terri
tories are to be admitted. There
must be adopted, along with their
constitutions, in the form of an sir
revocable ordinance" which cannot
be changed without compression.
al consent, certain stipulations and
conditions contained in the State
hood law, as follows:
Perfect toleration of religious senti-
ment; polygamy to be forever prohib
tied; the sale of liquor to be forever
prohibited to Indians and the Pueb
los; debts and liabilities of the Ter
ritories to be assumed and paid by
the new States; public schools to be
established, free from sectarian con
troll, and pupils to be taught in. Eng
lisb; the new States are never to en-
act any law restricting or abridging
the right of suffrage on account o
race, color or previous condition O
servitude, and ability to read, write
speak aHd understand the English
language sufficiently we'll to conduct
the duties of Office without the aid o
an interpreter, shall be necessary
qualifications for all State and legis
lative officers; certain stipulation:
relating to public lands.
i Santa Feis to be the capital of New
Mexico until changed by specia
election, and no such election is to bt
held before 1925. Phoenix is to b,
the capital of Arizona under similar
conditions.
i Two sections of land in every town
ship in each proposed State are to b'
given,to the States for the support o
the common schools.
j Thefollowing grants of public land
are made to each new State: 20O,OO(
acres for university purposes; 100, ,OO'
acres for legislative, executive and iu
} dicial buildings and payment OF bonds
100000 acres for insane asylums
100000 acres for penitentiaries
100000 acres for deaf, dumb am
, blind schools and asylums; 50,00'
acres for hospitals for disable'
miners; 100000 acres for norma
schools; 100, 900 acres forState char
, liable, penal and reformatory institu
tions; 150, 900 acres for agriculture
and mechanical colleges; $1,000
} acres for schools of mines; 100, ,O0'
acres for military Institutes, an
, ], 100000 acres for payment c
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