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Show When the proposal was made to admit the two southwestern territories simultaneously With the two northwestern, the friends of the foinser were ready to postpone the whole question until the second seeslon, and then lot the arithmetic of the census decide It. Had this been done, the n-sult would have been to show that New Mexico alone of the three had population adequate numerically for admission, admis-sion, especially with the rising ratio of apportionment appor-tionment for congressmen. New York: Sun. But wba about the other conditions nessary to statehood? Would the Sun, after watching the methods by and the leadership under which the constitution was rejected, still advocate the admission admis-sion of New Moxico as a state before a much greater proportion of her people consUt of Americans than is at present the case? |