Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-09
CARE NEEDED F WE ARE ID GET
 STATEHOOD


 Alfred Franklin. one of the promln- ent attorneys of Phoenix, who was . member of the constitutional conven tion, and while he opposed some of the prominent features inserted at. tached his signature to the compiet- ed document. has written lengthy article to the Arizona Democrat, in which he reviews the provisions of the statehood enabling act. taking inc proposition that the ending of the Sixty-first congress on Saturday last all opportunity for further ac- tion on the admission of Arizona under the enabling act passed at the first session of the Sixty-frst was lost He, as lawyer, interprets that part of the enabling act. declares that if the president approves the constitution and congress fails to disapproye it at the next session of congress then the president shall is sue his proclamation for admission, refers to the next regular session of congress after the passage of the act. which was in June of last year. and that the next regular session" meant the session of congress which convened after the passage of the enabling act. which was the one which came 10 an end on Saturday last.
 This IS not the view of the meaning of the act as interpreted by Presi. dent Taft, as in his remarks to the visiting Arizonans last week he spe- officially stated that he assumed that the next regular session" of con gress spoken of in the enabling act meant the first session of the Sixty second congress, or the first session of congress to convene after the re. ceipt of the constitution at Wash ington and not the next regular ses. sion after the approval of the en- abling act in June last.
 After assuming that the present enabling act is dead, so far as Ari- zoHa is concerned, Mir Franklin, to our mind, offers some good advice to the people of Arizona, as follows:
 If congress in the future passes an act for Arizona's admission it will be of DO effect until it shall be pre- sehted to the president and approved by him, or being disapproved by him shall be passed by two-thirds of the senate and house of repre- seBtatives. This is the mandate of the supreme law of the land. and we might as well recognize this power and yield 10 1t without an idle boast ing of our rights and our powers
 It occurs to me that it will not be the part of wisdom for the people of Arizona to keep continually chas- ing the shadow of statehood and thereby lose the substance. We must realize that every victory conduct of WAT, is fraught with com promise. We must further realize and, realizing, recognize that, while the people of this territory are most directly concerned in its consum- nation, the ultimate power that con trols our admission into the great American Union is vested in the composite citizenship Of a nation numbering some ninety millions of patriotic people, and represented DO litically by the president and the con ngress as the constitutional au- thority that controls our destiny.
 It would not be in any sense de feat if we were persuaded to yield in some of the non-essentials of our constitution. if thereby we could ob- tain the approval of the president and congress and become a sovereign achieved, other than in the brutal state in the great Union, with the privilege and power of then working out our governmental problems, as in our wisdom and sense of justice would be most conducive to the hap piness and welfare of it's people
 It was a common phrase during the time Of the French revolution that Confer. member Of the direc- tory. was so in love with the beloved constitution Of the year, 1871, tha. he placed himself astride of it and as his steed made a sad stumble, he fell with it
 It would indeed be a singular cir cumstance which prevents the peO pie Of the territory from having the benefit of political sovereignty and their own constitution. If out of a too great love for it, and every arti ole and sentence and sentiment in it the constitution as adopted by the people will always meet with either congressional or presidential dissp proyal. or both.
 By non-essentials ] mean thai which is not fundamental and neces ssry That it is not the part c
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