The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Statehood Bills Ought To Pass
 Senate Easily
Recall of Judiciary to Be Omitted, but Arizona
 Gan Amend that

| ORA
 Washington. Aug. S.-A poll of the 1 Senate to-day indicates that the joint | resolution, admitting the territories of | Arizona and New Mexico to statehood, will pass the upper House with colors flying when it comes up tomorrow | for consideration. Only some unfore- l seen contingency, say the packers of l the measure. can defeat the favorable | legislation conceded on all sides. If l the resolution does pass the Senate, | it will end a fight for statehood that has endured for over 60 years in the case of New Mexico and for nearly 20 years in Arizona.
 So sure are the packers of the meas 1 ure that success awaits them in the Senate that large delegations from >>c e Mexico and Arizona are to-day preparing to celebrate the history making legislation on an extensive | scale. Conferences with their respec- tive delegates, Ralph Henry Cameron Or Arizona and William H. Andrews, of New Mexico, are in order; and ev-
 anywhere about the hotel Hobbies groups of enthusiastic westerners are discuss ing the optimistic outlook of tO-mor-
 row.
 The cause of the long delay in ad-
 hitting New Mexico and Arizona to
 
 constitution of the latter. Exception
 was taken by the legislators in Wash
 ington to the Arizonian provision for
 the recall of the Judiciary, and in many
 quarters the initiative, referendum and
 recall features in general were also
 viewed askance. The antagonism
 that these progressive features called
 forth, coupled with a. refusal of certain
 members of Congress to permit the
 admission of either territory separate
 ly for a long time defeated their ef- forts to gain admission to statehood.
 To obviate discussion upon \ that . question, the recall of the judiciary,
 the United States Senate, in its vote
 tomorrow upon the joint statehood
 resolution, will tack on an amend
 ment providing that the recall pro-
 vision of the Arizona constitution
 must be construed as not applying to
 the judiciary. This amendment must
 be agreed to by the people of Arizona
 before they get statehood, but as their constitution provides for it's amend ment at any time within three months they will probably interpose no objec-
 tion. Statehood at the present ses-
 sion is the wish of every one in the
 territory, and the recall of the jndi- ciary can be left out or put back,
 as the majority wishes once state- hood is attained.
 The Arizona constitution is modelled largely after the Oregon constitution, and is admitted to ibe, by those who have examined at the most modern of all the present day popular govern ment experiments" It provides for the initiative, referendum and the re- call which is extended to include the Judiciary of the territory. It was this last feature that President Taft oppos- ed and while he has been commftted all along to statehood for the two ter hn 7Cic aH ha LT1nf n would not approve this extreme con- stitutional provision, and it is to be cut out to secure Presidential sanction.
 New Mexico goes almost as far to the other extreme in her constitution. It is a staid, practically unamendable fundamental law, containing a variety of the best features from the constitu- tions of other states, with the excep- tion of the method of dealing with corporations, in which it stands alone among the states. The New Mexico constitution provides for a corporation commission of three elected by the people and having direct supervision over all corporations doing business in the new state. The peculiar feat | ure consists in an automatic transfer | of matters before the commission to the Supreme court of the territory in cases where corporation fails to | carry out the instructions of the con-
 
 it is claimed by the drafters of the constitution, will do away with the in- l terminable delay which can be brought | about in other states by injunctions | sued out by corporations.
 Nominal1y New Mexico is Republican | by about 5000 majority, while -Arizo- l na is about equally divided between | the two parties, with the Democratsl having a slight advantage. Arizona, | however, has a large number of pro- | gressives in both parties, and contains | a greater proportion of American born | citizens than does New Mexico where probably 50 per cent. of the people are of Spanish descent although natives l of the territory, descendants of the | early Spanish settlers.
 There is a spirit of concession among | all elements in Congress, and whereas | a few weeks ago, it was practically | decided that the question of statehood | could wait until the next session. just | as well as not, the territories jointly ! have waged such a campaign for im- mediate statehood that it probably ] will be given them at this session
 AS a consequence of the unsettled | condition of the statehood question, hundreds of telegrams and letters, not | only from the territories but from ev- eryone they could influence in the states, have poured into Washington | begging for action this session. It was pointed out that all business was at standstill, outside capital was not being invested, enterprises all over both territories were being held in abeyance pending statehood, and ev- erything was in generally demoral- | ized condition. This has had it's ef- feet, and when the agreement for a vote an reciprocity and other measures was proposed. friends of the territor- ies refused, to become parties to it un- til statehood was ipcluded