Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-23
TRIBUTE PAID BY
 |COLORAD0 SENATOR ID. ARIZONA

would not have been permitted 10 10 stand in the way of statehood by anyone. but as l aided in conducting the examination of those who spoke upon the subject I think it is but fair to senators here who may not have read the report of that investi- gation to call to their attention some things which have not yet been ltsted. When Mr Morrison made his statement before the committee-and this. will be fOurd on paEe 61 of the aearings-i rat this question to him.
 Are these people who cannot read the constitution in English all of one political faith?
 Mir Morrison: No Sir: I am satis fled that they are not. but that they are divided between the two political parties.
 Senator Hughes: About equally?
 Mir Morrison: About equally. l Should say; yes. sir.
 And yet. an act which elevates. ac- cording to his estimate and view. the standard of citizenship to something like the exalted height favored and fixed by a report of the chairman of the committee on territories is now made the basis by him for rejecting the house bill and introducing radical changes into this bill
 It has been said that this provision was a political trick, and yet here is one of the most active politicians from Arizona, a man who said in his statement to the committee that he had eanYassed Arizona, speak. ing politically for his party for the last twenty-five years, and that the loss. if one should occur. would be equally divided between the two par. ties. Now. that is all in fairness there is in that proposal. But il was pointed out that along the bor der which lies between Arizona and Mexico there Is a class of rowing. ir responsible people. who are here to day and gone tomorrow, who might be induced under the prior statutes and, of course. under the proposed senate amendments, to vote and dis appear, SO that frauds would thereby be perpetrated The Arizona iegisla ture adopted the law which has beer found sound and satisfactory 1T Maine in dealing with a somewha' similar situation. little believing thaI it could be claimed that it was a DO ntical trick when this democratic territorial legislature adopted a law which had been enacted by the re publican legislature of Maine Tha
 is the situation upon this feature o difference between the house an, senate bills.
 It is said that there is no appea from the rejection of a voter unde
 this requirement. There is an appea
 and in addition, an express provisio
 for mandamus to compel the exercis
 of the right to vote by any citize
 who is not. but should be. put upo
 what is called the great registe Nor is the right to be put upon th great register confined 10 the offici; act of one, but several officials ar
 granted the right to thus qualify th voter. Then an appeal lies from th rejection of the voter. and then tn district court or supreme court ca compel the recognition of the rigt of the qualified voter, and upon ele' ton day the law provides that if vo
 CTS are excluded, upon making a oath as to their qualification to vot must be received, and thereafter d termination had of the right to vot That is as fair an election law 2
 any state has. and yet that is mad the basis of an elaborate attack upO the house bill in this particula This law brings the requirement. | and this qualification is brought | to the standards that exist els where, and the hearing to which P have referred disclosed this 10 be q - condition and the fact.
 Never before in the history of u admission of any state has the fe
 eral government in advance attemT V ed to dictate the terms for the co stitution for new state as is dol : here. You will find in this bill th u there is imposed a liquor law; tn
 1t limits the powers of statehOo' ' that it authorizes the federal gover U ment to go upon lands within q U boundaries of the state forever to e s force a police system and police lay
 upon subjects exclusively under q s constitution and the states powt '' things which cannot be done in al s other state. The bill takes hold - these purely state matters, and tn
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