Show ANOTHER 81 STAR AR ADDED TO FLAG Roosevelt Signs Bill Admitting Oklahoma to Sister Sisterhood Sisterhood hood of States BEVERIDGE IS ON HAND ALSO HAMILTON OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June lG star was added to the unIon to today ay when President signed the bill ad adi i O lahoma and Indian territory as one state The m also J o pro provides provides vides that Arizona and NOW NeW Mexico J loo may be admitted to statehood as the state of Arizona th the people I or of the territories vote vot In favor Qt of ad admi admission mi mission s on on the terms submitted by cop Jh gross gress The sIgnIng ot of t time e measure w was E made the o occasion caslon ot of an interesting aero mony Senator Beveridge and Hamilton chairman pf of the senate and house committees ot on ter territories territories who have worked long and hard for t the e measure were pre precept as also were Delegate Qt of Okla Oklahoma homa and a number of of Oklahoma Delegate Andrews ot of New Secretary Loeb and others Just before the president nt signed the bill Ambassador Speck Von ot of Germany was ushered into the omae and he too witnessed the ceremony The president used two pens in sign signIng signing Ing the measure writing the first Theodore with a solid soUd gold pen pre presented presented by the people of Arizona his family name Roosevelt with an eagles quill taken from an American eagle in Oklahoma After signing the bill President Roosevelt congratulated Senator Bev Beveridge Beveridge and Representative Hamilton on the completion of their long and arduous arduous ous labors in connection with the meas measure ure He also expressed the hope that the people ot of Arizona and New Mexico I would vail avail themselves of the opportunity opportunity to come into the union as a state From every tnt he 1 said 11 lie re regarded r this as s the wise thin thine for them to do as the opportunity might not come again In a 8 score of years The president said id that he has a L personal per interest In the admission or of Arizona a and New Mexico as manY of the mem members members bers of his regiment th the rough riders resided in those territories |