The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-11

ARE NOT LIKED
House Committee Would
Send Them to Territories
for Amendment
NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA
ARE STILL KNOCKING
Waiting at The Door for State
hood, but Congress Would
Have Many Changes
Made First

WASHINGTON, d. c., May H.
The recall OF judges. as set forth in
the Constitution of the proposed State
of Arizona, must again be submitted
to the people of that Territory, and
the people of New Mexico must vote
on an amendment making their Con-
stitution more easily amendabIe be-
fore either State viii be admitted to
the Union, If the resolution which the
House committee of Territories to-day
voted to report passes Congress.
The Democratic errftories com
nittee. after g long series of hearings,
decided 10 make the admission OF the
new States dependent on the holding
of constitutional elections. The Dem
ocrats OF New Mexico succeeded in
inapressing the committee with the
drastic amendment provision of the
proposed Constitution as submitted
Arizona Must Amend.
The amendment to the Arizona
Constitution, vote on which Is made
condition precedent to the admis-
sion of the State. provides for except
ing the Judiciary from the general re-
call provision. The Republican mi
nority on the committee will present
Mexico amendment and against coup
ling the approval Of the two Consti-
tutions.
Chairman Flood. of the committee.
obtained the conset of the leaders to
have the House take up the resolu-
ton next Tuesday.
Minne<otans Cry .On TO Washington"
WASHINGTON. ID. c., May ll.-A
militant delegation OF farmers from
Minnesota, with FIRE in their eyes and
badges on their breasts, descended
upon the Senate committee on finance
to-day with protests against the Ca
madam reciprocity agreement. They
represented the State convention of
farmers. and therefore the entire ax-
riculturai interests in the State, they
said
Henry Feig opened fire for the
noTthwesterners with the declaration
that the agreement was discrimina-
ton of the rsnkest description. 1t
was free trade for the farmer and
protection for the manufacturers.
We repudiate the action OF Pres
ident Taft, manufacturers. boards Of
trade and the Great Northern Rail-
way Company in their efforts 10 force
out this unjust proposition through
Congress" said Feig.
Farmer Not to Blame for High Prices.
The high cost Of living Is not due
to the farmer. It is caused by the
railroads and middlemen. The far
mer receives only IS per cent. OF
the price paid by the consumer.
Throughout the Northwest all the
farmers I have talked TO have OPP
posed the treaty, with one exception.
That man owns a thousand acres in
Canada, and last year he raised Ia. 600
bushels OF wheat. Reciprocity would
his wheat crop
Since the Civil War" declared r.
r Collins, editor of the Northwest
eTn agricultural paper, there has
been no question that no people have
been SO aroused az this iniquitous pact
aroused the farmer. No other issue
compares with 1t,
II challenge President Taft to show
that there IL any Justice In sacrificing
! the farmer to the interests OF the
manufacturers In the East. The East
is the most provincial part of the
nation and needs educating, Except
the Eastern farmers who are with US
there are many who should learn that
all @f the United States is not IN the
| coal fields and that all the people do
not get their bread and butter in the
New England mills.
Says James j. Hill Is Joker
There are many unsophisticated
men in the East who are easily de-
ceived by Western jokers. You had
joker here in James J. Hin. presi-
dent OF the Great Northern Railway.
He deceived you by saving that West
ern farmers generally, and two out OF
three in Minnesota, favored this
agreement. This is contrary to the
true situation Hill Is no longer in
terested in the States traversed by
his railroad. He has twenty spurs ex-
tending from. HIS railroad to the Ca
madam border. and sees a pot of gold
in the long haul involved in the de-
velopment of the Canadian West.
These lines will be extended into Can
ada with a dominion subsidy OF $40
900 mile