Show sf FOR foil STATE statehood nooD silver allver question comes come up to bar the territories washington april ayria a 2 toda at meeting of the giouse house committee committe on terri borle tor fee wai w devoted belted 0 in o a discretion discue tion of the arizona and ananew new statehood bills bill no vote jw as jaken delegates delegate murphy and catron asserted aerated ted that opponents of statehood were doing talking merely merel as ai a mote consequently the meeting was wa rithia a warin one endeavors endeavor to induce the committee to vote binl aal refused to je c drawn into debate although the opponents op of tite state hood asked them many quotient questions to prevent son consumption of t liine I 1 me the dele gait gatei e a dei declined lined to ans most quotient questions taking the ground that the matter had been thoroughly discussed already the only test vote wat was that upon consideration of the bills which carried 6 to 5 those thoe voting for consideration were perkins rep la ia lefevre rep N avery rep mich Ml ch harrit harris rep 0 turner dem va cooper dem texas agalha knox rep matt mass tatt taft rep 0 lowe rep N Y harrison demla owens owen dem ky 11 Y mr tatt taft during the discussion de dared that could not yes eyes to the fact that the admission of the he two territories would add four votes vote lot for free silver to the senate he argued it was as not fair to the existing status that their hair functions should be changed in the in midst of a great controversy like the financial question the question should be settled by the union as it now stands and the sound money men should not be e handicapped andi capped by new silver states he also charged that 35 per cent of the inhabitants of arizona and 33 per cent 1 of I ne new mexico are illiterate mr owens said the territories whose area was greater than that of new eng lind and their po population pu lation less bess than that required for a congressional district were unfit for statehood he alio alho attacked the system of representation proposed for the constitutional convention in arizona as a a parti partisan sait one devised to further republican interests mr avery held that the only questions to be considered were the qualifications odthe territories for statehood mr harris argued that the silver question should not be brought into the controversy |