Arizona republican., 1910-10-17
THEY RE NOT
 SYNONYMS Word Advancement" And the Word Admission" 
MR. TAFT ON STATEHOOD
An Interpretation Put on His Recent New York Address by a Correspon- dent of His Brothers Cincinnati Newspaper.

The following from the Cincinnati Times-Star of week ago is of spe- cial interest to Arizonians for more than one reason. One is that the statehood convention is in session: another is that Gus J. Karger, the Washington correspondent for the news paper owned by Charles P Taft, the brother of the president, puts an in depreciation on the presidents New York speech that had escaped gen. eral notice, in which he drew a dis tinctiOn-and it is not a very fine one by the way-between being "ad- mitted" to statehood and being "ad- vanced" toward statehood, with the intimation that a further advance de- bends upon the Arizona constitutional convention. The dispatch follows:
 (Times-Star Bureau, Room 16, Post
 Building.)
 (By Gus. J. Karger)
 Washington, Oct. 11.-"New Mexico and Arizona were advanced toward statehood,r said President Taft in his recent New York speech, in the enum- eration of the achievements of the last congress and the administration. Advanced toward statehood" he said, not admitted to statehood. Which will probably come as a surprise to many intelligent observers of current events, who took it for granted that the acts of congress dealing with tho two territories in question, admitted them automatically to statehood and that nothin9 remaine to be done but to sew a couple of additional stars in- to the flag and emit a few patriotic whoops when the arrival of the Fourth Of July makes the proceedings conI- plete. As a matter of fact, although there is nothing to indicate that Ari- zona and New Mexico will mt be full fledged members fo the sisterhood of states when Independence day comes round again. there is yet a pos s.b',ity that they may nJ: be states then, or for year or two thereafter. For the president and congress were alarmed by the situation tlat arose as the result of the admission of Ok Iahoma. When provision was made for the admission of Oklahoma, 1t was fultter provided that the election CT sts.te officers and the adoption of d constitution by the peopi; should be accomplished as one event As a re- suit the best judgment of the new tTsted on neither one Tor the other function, and constitution was adopted, which, President Rooseaelt said, provided for everything except the kind of tooth-powder the citizens of the new state should use and to which President Taft has on several occasions referred to as a Geological garden" The act of congress left rather loose power of veto in the hands of President Roosevelt, but to exercise it seemed out of the ques- ton, and Oklahoma was allowed to come in, geological constitution and all, but with many grimaces on the part of those who had a patriotic in terest in the ceremonies.
 Congressional Representation
 Under the provisions of the state hood act, Phoenix and Santa Fe will remain the capitals of Arizona and New Mexico respectively until 1s2G l Arizona, with Its population Of ap- proximately 200, ,O0o-it had a popula- l tion of 122,931 under the census of 19O0-will be allowed one representa- 1 tive in the House of Representatives | of congress. New Mexico. who's, pop | ulation in 1910, according to census | figures already made public, is 327,396 | less than that of Cincinnati-wi | have two members of the House. Of course, each state will have two l United States senators, and it was on this account that the proposed ad- mission of the two new states encoun- tered its greatest opposition, more es- pecially among members of the repub- lican party Arizona went republican by 7OS in 1908; New Mexico showed a