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Show THE THREE-STATES BILL Vigorous Efforts to Bo Made to Pass It in Senate. EARLY ACTION TO BE URGED Discussion of ths Political Complex-Ion Complex-Ion of the Territories of Oklahoma, Now Mexico and Arizona The Proposition to Make One Big State of Oklahoma and the Indian TerritoryThe Terri-toryThe Friends of the Three-States Three-States Combination, However, Will Adhere to Their Bill, ..i k,iS Washington, Nov 22 It Is accepted as a foregone conclusion that the ln-qulrs ln-qulrs Senator Beserldge and his fellow committeemen from the Senate Committee Com-mittee on Territories are making through Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona will preclpltite a fiee-for-nll fight on the Statehood question when Ihe hill comes up In the Senate December Decem-ber 10th Under the agreement that Senator Quay succeeded In wresting from the majority of the committee the bill Is the unfinished business for thnt da nnd Is (o be considered until disposed dis-posed of by a vote The friends of the measure are confessedly In a state of mind over the course thnt Senator Ileserldgc has pursued In tnklng his sub-committee oser the ground so tint they cm state with the effect of eyewitnesses eye-witnesses the facts that favor or obstruct ob-struct tho admission of the three Territories Ter-ritories The trl-Stnte bill was the effect ef-fect of fine management on the part of Mr Flerin. the tleleirnle from Oklaho ma, who has felt so sure of Its pis-sage pis-sage bs the Senate thnt he declined a renomlnallon to the House, with the Intention of becoming one of the first Senators fiom the new State It Is now said that Mr Plsnn Is debating whether wheth-er the trl-Stnte airnngement Is any longer ot mlvanlage to tht peorlo of Oklahom i They fear that the committee com-mittee will hue too much use for tho Spanish stenographer whom thes took along when they reach New Mexico nnd Arizona, and that there will be a telling tell-ing protest against the admission of the mass of greaser" population ln those two Territories. In this event It would be to the advantage of Oklahoma Oklaho-ma to make her light alone Her claims rest on solid ground With over half u million of people, possessing rich arid varied natural resources and the promise of rapid development by the building of railroads, there Is no rea-kon rea-kon outside of politics on which to base opposition to her admission Hut this Is not nil of the situation. The people of the Indian Territory nre also demanding admission nnd they claim that having nearly the same population pop-ulation as Oklahoma the latter Territory Terri-tory should cither pool Issues with them or that one large State should be made of Oklahoma und Indian Territory Terri-tory To further this proposition there will ho a 'one-State' convention consisting con-sisting of 1000 delegates from both Territories Ter-ritories on December 3rd, one week before be-fore the Senate takes up the trl-State. hood bill, and it is the plan to send fifty or more representative citizens from both Territories to Wnshlngton to tnka a hand In tho tight and endeavor to get the ONE tllO STATE admitted The friends of this Idei siy thnt it in the only way the Indian Territory Ter-ritory can gain admission There were bs Ihe recent census over 300,000 people In the Indian Territory, and It Is estimated esti-mated with the gain made during the lost two sears there are now upward of 600 000 In that Territory Oklahoma has a larger population The two combined com-bined have about two-thlids of the population of the great State of Kon-sas Kon-sas Yet If Oklahoma should be admitted ad-mitted ns a single Stule, In linn Territory Terri-tory would have the prospect of waiting wait-ing mnn jearsjierore Congress would think ot admitting It, notwithstanding there nie more people living ln tho Territory Ter-ritory thnn thero are In either South Dakota. Delaware, riorlda, Idaho Montana, Mon-tana, Nevnda, Utah (Vermont or Ws-omlng Ws-omlng The chief reason that would actuate Congress lagalnstltha ndmlsslon of tho Indian Terrltors' as one State Is that Its population Is objectionable nn the score of llllteraes. There nre but S6 0O0 Indians In the Terrltors-. The rest are either colored persons or white "renters' from other btates There nre 3d 000 colored persons Of the whites about to 000 are of tho Pike county sort from Missouri, a lurger number are from Arkunsas and there nre upward of 70 000 Tcxans thero To admit Indian Territory ns n single sin-gle State would be such a proposition ns ndmittlng Atkunsns If that State wero now a Territory. With stith n mass of Illiterates there could bo no hope of anything llko a republican form of government for many decades Indian In-dian Territory would ho nn unaltctahly Democratic Stale foi n eentury to come If the Democratic party should survive so long. The objections that apply to Indian Territory as a single State are nearly on forcible against the ndmlsslon of Oklahoma and the Terrltoiy as one State Die new Stale would bo Demo, crat c. and tho Illiterate eastern half would be a i log to the more enlightened TM. i"r""?u e"l" Population T.hL '", the outline of the fight that Is fhaJh. ?" .'""""''n ' cn her,i that the Senate committee will bring .Ye 7 bl" IToposIng tho ndmlsslon of Oklahoma alone and that all the lost longer'' ,h 0l"" riarkm" auhilo fi.ynn Annivrs. Delegite Klsnn nnd a delegation of Okln homa clt,en arrived here las rLyUr hlln,r bMn r""r severe Iy shaken up In a rallroa I accident uXVSrl1 n"n""""" from New Mexico and Arizona nre expected to nrrlse this week and a union trl State headquarters will be opened nnd the light for the admission of the three f'".1":"" Mr 1'lsnn ansa that there should be no ttolltirs n th. si uutlon Oklahoma has just gone He publican and New M.xl.o roMed un a Hoc ev rhnt Arizona wou 1 go Demo, crat,, ns usual was discounted "5, he sail In fact it was agreed on n .hee'h0., ,,h' r"0' ratio' vote". In the Senate In favor of the bill Mr Hsnn declares that Ihe prospect Is good for he passage of , , '," '", snss he will stand for It lo the end He does not think ansthlng will , "ne of i1-'" r1" "' ' OHIahoma i big State ihe Democrats mav urn that thinking ihjt Mr neve" dg." de. hie to keep New Mexico and AH. zona rut becous they may be Demo crallc hereafter J ' mo n,?n"i.eef.'.hi nr"m"1"1 '"ected from Ihe lleseildke suh-eommlltes again, New Mexico and Arizona Is that ihn.e Terrltorl have an Immense area that nHon"". ,' V"""1 nn """ ""I Po ultti on will always bo scattered i their mining Industries u .m b'1 ,'"r ffih,pV.r V" h,ck ll'coverer f"; rich in n to buy up the ,e0pc ,,' convert sovereign Stat, Into a imr poik.t borough as has be." dn,c lhtar before fflw !& cVuve'iX money, according to his own testimony before a Sennto committee, that Was never attempted before In any other Stnte, und in Nevada sslth her 42 0OO population, .Mr New lands has latlghed at his Republican opponents who tried to bent him bs nn oppeal to tho Intelligence In-telligence of voters PJtOSPECTS OF THE DILL. Tho friends of the bill have had assurances as-surances from Senator Quay that he will champion their cause In the Senate. Mr. Quas, hnvlng gained such a signal victory over the opposition led by Senator Ileserldgc last Besslon, looms up to the trl-State people as a tower of strength He urges them to stand solidly by the bill ns It Is, nnd not be deceived Into nny action which will divide their forces. There was strong opposition to ihe bill In the House last session Speaker Henderson Hender-son wns agnlnst It and the Republican Republi-can leaders regarded It a3 a piece of unwise legislation Had they not supposed sup-posed that It could be defeated In the Semite, It would never have had Its day In court, nnd at adjournment the three Territories would have been right where they were nt the outset. The espousul of their cause by the Pennsylvania Senntor was the salvation salva-tion of the three-State people, and thry now rely on him to make their fight Mr Quay has not been unmindful of tho Stntehool bill since the adjournment, adjourn-ment, and. It Is said, has milled a strong support for It In Ihe Senate, and predicts its passage The only thing he is said to fear Is that the Btntehood people mas break their alignment and give the opposition a chance to defeat the measure He will oppose any amendment because he has no confidence confi-dence In the attitude of the House toward the measure and would not be willing to risk It In conference In n short session. The friends of the bill count on the aid of President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, who Is vers popular In the pro-poed pro-poed States, and will no doubt be nble to catry at least two of them, Oklahoma nnd New Mexico, In the next Presidential election |