The copper era., 1911-04-21
ALL SIGNS POINT TO STATEHOOD.
All Sides COnccde That New Stars Will
 Be Put In Flag This Session.
BY KARL GREEN.

hood will be granted Arizona and New Mexico during this session. On the promises of the present speaker of the house, Champ Clark, when he assumed that office, statehood for the two territories occupies prominent part in the program of the Democrats in the extra session now on. In the senate, too, a majority is in favor of it. The president has gone so far as to say that he believed that the two territories should be admitted, even while admitting that personally he did not approve of some of the pro- visions of the Arizona constitution. On all sides the spirit manifested is extremely favorable to statehood and without a doubt 1t will go through this session, whether that be six weeks or twenty.
 THREE RESOLUTIONS IN.
 In the house, Representative Flood, of Virginia, the new chairman of the committee on territories, has intro duced resolution approving both constitutions; Delegate Andrews has introduced a resolution approving the constitution of New Mexico, and Delegate Cameron has introduced a resolution approving the constitution of Arizona. These have all been lreferred to the house committee on territories.
 OWEN IS BUSY MAN.
 In the senate, Norris Brown, of Nebraska, progressive Republican, has introduced a resolution approving both constitutions, and a similar re- solution has been introduced by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, pro- gressive Democrat, as distinguished from a Bailey Democrat, or a tory, as some are now calling them. The Brown resolution is formal state. ment approving the constitutions, section one being devoted to New Mexico and section two relating to Arizona. In this resolution a simple amendment striking out the last four words of the preamble and section two of the resolution, would eliminate Arizona entirely from the resolution and make it apply entirely to New Mexico Such an amendment could be easily stated, would be clearly un. derstood and would probably pass the senate were it made.
 1 IS HARDER TO AMEND.
 Senator Owen, however, has drafted a resolution which is much harder to iamend. His preamble could not be amended to leave out one of the ter ritories without rewriting it entirely, while in the body of the resolution both territories are SO mentioned as to make any amendmen impossible without rewriting all of it.
 PLANS TO ACT SOON.
 The house committees were elected Tuesday and it was the announced in tention of Chairman Flood to convene the territories committee at the earliest convenient date. The re- solution adopting statehood, acc@d- ing to the chairman, will also be the first thing considered, so that it is probable that the third week of the session will see the house on record favoring the admission of the terri tories and the battle on in the senate.
 Here things will not be SO easy, but still persons who have been following the course of events claim that a majority and to spare will vote for the admission of the two territories. 4 A progressive Democrat and a pro. gressive Republican have each intro duced resolutions favoring the end sought, so it is safe to say that the i. i.Drogressives, irrespective of party will be lined up for the two terri tories; the SC include twelve Republi. cans about sixteen Democrats, per. haps more, some claim as high as twenty-two among the Democrats under the Owen banner. Then there is group of standpat Republicans, some of whom it is known will vote for the resolution. Senators Root and Hepburn, among the standpatters, and Bailey, among the Democrats, will oppose the resolution, but SO far as known Bailey is the only man who is known to be preparing a speech against the resolution, or rather against the recall, and the initiative and referendum.
 BAILEY BITTEREST FOE.
 There is no likelihood of a flibus- ter against the resolution, for it is admitted that the only man who feels intensely enough against the resolution to carry on fight against it, is Bailey, and at the close of the last session he asserted in public that be would never again in his legisla- tive career filibuster against any measure, a promise which he repeated this week when an Arizona delegation called on him. He steted that he believed that the doctrine of the referendum and the recall were populistic and would not stand the test of actual trial, and that he would speak against admitting Ari- zona with such paragraph in it's