Show STATEHOOD HILL BILL BILLi t i IS HANGING FIRE tArizona a New MeXico Will Not Know Fate ate Until N Next Week SENATE SETS DAY TO VOTE HOUSE OCCUPIES TIME WITH MILITARY BILL 1 i W Feb s c nate to todAy i iday day agreed t vote on the i bIll before adjournment on Friday March 9 The proposition to take the tho vote at that time ws made by Mr Beveridge and there was wa little dim difU culty In reaching an understanding The Immediately followed a in fri support of the by Mr during the course ot which I Mr Hale suggested that the tho torn torri tonies were net prepared repard state statehood statehood hood and su suggested that theIr slon be deferred The remainder of the day was do voted to the or of the bill pro providing providing viding for the of the af affairs affairs fairs of the five civilized tribes of la In Indians the major portion or of the time being given to the for br the disposal of the cool co lands In Indian Territory Mr Hopkins discussed the charge that the railroad and mining corpora corporations corporations of Arizona wore were standing in the way ot of the union of that territory with New Mexico and when Mr Dubois asked some questions on that point Mr Nelson replied that those two in interests Interest terest dominate the legislature Of Arizona and he be added the opinion that the union or of the two as one state would have the effect ot of mini minimizing minimizing mizing the evil In reply to Mr Dubois as to how the union would improve the situation Mr Nelson elson said that while no protests against consolidation had com como from the corporations of New Mexico most or of th the oPPosition in Arizona came from the railroads and the copper mines He added that these Interests pay less taxes in proportion to the value of property than do other interests Mr Carter made the point that un under under der congressional control It would be easier to accomplish that result in a territory than In a state Mr Nelson replied to this point with witha ltha a general exposItion of conditions In both ArIzona and New Mexico not al altogether altogether together favorable to those territories In the House matters held the attention of the house today the anny bill being under consideration for amendment That General Corbin and General MacArthur might become lIeutenant generals the provISion cu the bill abol abolIshing abolishing that rank was eliminated on a point of order raised by Mr Ir Gros Grosvenor yenor venor of Ohio Who substituted an amendment to abolish the grade after I these officers had been promoted but this too met defeat Members of oC the appropriations corn com disputed the right of the mill mili military 1 tary committee to appropriate for an apparatus for fire control of field ar artillery artillery tillery but without success Only eight of the fifty ugee of the bill were passed upon when the house adjourned The house hOUS the Dalzell bill charterIng the Lake Erie Ohio Ship Canal company with rUh an authorized capital of |