Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-20
NEWEST STATES
 IN NOVEL RACE
Long Term of Senators Is Stake for Which
 They Strive for Haste
ONLY FORMAL MATTER

O4NLI ORAlAL MA I l Ill
 There is a peculiar k.nd Of roce iI . progress between Arizona and Eaw
 Mexico. The peculiar part of the race
 is that no one is running. It is q | kind ot Ben Hur chariot race on ] the stage. when a maying platform makes it appear that # is the horses that are running Clarifying .S> comparison, it is moving events. oI at this early stage of the race. the moving shadows of coming events that throw a picture an the screen showing Mark smith and Henry Ash urst pulling the Arizona senatorial chariot and the New Mexico sena- torial cart waiting for the team to be connected up.
 The pirze for the race is a long term senatorship. The first state sena. tOrship. The first state senators to be ele%ed by the two new states will get terms of four and six years, to be drawn for by the two senators of the state The state that comes un- der the wire last in the mattCs of electing senators will have one one year senator and one ftye-y5lr sena- tor, Which of the two states of Arizona and New Mexico will have the short and sweet senatorships?
 Arizona Has Lead
 Arizona's senators are already vir- tullly already elected by an advisory vote, and all that is necessary is for them to go by Phoenix and get a little note from the state legislature saying the bearer is a good sort not sport, mind you, Mir Mergsn- thaler-and entitled to the privileges Of the club.
 As get. however. no one knows when these credentials will be ready The legislature cannot elect United States senators on the first day of ts meeting. as is pOpularly sup pcFed This item of business can not be transacted until the second Tuesday of the session. This infor. nation comes from Senator Marcus A Smith to a republican. bat re- liable source So, as far as Arizona is concerned. there is a double han dicap-the uncertainty of the date when the count will be finished, and 
 And in the meantime
 The governor Of New Mexico has issued a call for the legislature of that state to meet on March IT,. There was no advisory vote for Unit ed States senators in that state, and the legislature will select them That New Mexico will object to being rep resented in the national congress by
 Bull' Andrews, of Pennsylvania and New Mexico, is already apparent, and { is not improbable that the fight will result in considerable delay in elecJug senators 1T a deadlock de lays their election long enough, until the Arizona legislature meets, Sena- tors smith and Ashurst wlli draw the four and six year terms.
 Another View cf t
 There is possibility that Ari- zona may be first, of the two new states. to have a full representation in congress. There is rot only probability that the United States senators from Arizona will appear in Washington and sworn into that body as members ahead of New Mexico, but there is a very strong probability that such will be the case. says the international
 The governor of New Mexico has issued his call for the meeting of the first legislature in that state and the date is fixed for March IL When the legislature meets in New Mexico it is expected that there will be no less than a half dozen can dldates lined up as candidates for the senate with none of the mem- beTs pledged to anyone, so far as instructions of itheir constituents are concerned. That it will require some time to reach a result under these conditions is the expectation in the new state, where there is determined fight being made for the defeat of w. H. Bull" Andrews
 The enabling act under which Ari- zona is coming into the union pro- vides that the governor of the state shall issue his proclamation conven- ing the legislature within thirty days after his inauguration, but leaves it with him to fix the date for the meeting of the legislature which, as We understand, might be within a few days after the date Of the proclamation. The expecta- ton is that Governor Hunt will de sire that the senators from Arizona, who have already been chosen by an advisory vote of the people, shall be sent to Washington as early as possible and that he will give no more time than is necessary for bringing the legislature together When the legislature is organized in Arizona the senators may be elect ed on the first day Of the session, as they probably will be- Should President Taft issue his Arizona statehood proclamation by February 10 it should be forthcoming soon- er), there would then be plenty of time for the election of our sena- tors before March Il.
 If the Arizona senators are quail fled ahead of those from New Mexi- co they will be given the long terms, six and four years, leaving the two short terms for the sena- tors from New Mexico. so there will be a reason why the democrats of A rizOna will desire that all pogsf