Show I UNRAVELING A TANGLE Statehood Compromise Now Being Considered MONTEZUMA NAME OF STATE Territories of Now Mexico and Arizona Will Make 1 It Later on Arizona Is to Become a Separate State Provided People Vote for Separation Wnshlnrrtnn Feb 1Th 5ttnt hood compromise which Is expected to unlock the present tangle In the Senate Sen-ate and remove the blockade proposes to admit two States one to be Oklahoma Okla-homa according to Its present boundaries bounda-ries with a proviso that Indian Territory Terri-tory shall be added to Oklahoma In 190G when the treaty obligations with the Indians will not be In the way Tho other State is t be composed of New Mexico and Arizona under the name of Montezuma with 1 proviso that when the present Territory of Arizona has a population of 300000 people It shall become be-come a separate State providing that the peoplo of the Territory affected vote in favor of being divided from New Mexico CONFERENCE OF LEADERS The Republican leaders conferred all day on the subject of the Statehood compromise and most oC the Democrats Demo-crats were Informed oC the general terms of the proposition To all propositon al questions ques-tions n to whether they would accept such a compromise they said they wanted to see a definite proposition and to know from whom It came tlien they would be in a position to confer and ecl eOn e-On the Republican side it Is found that two Republican Senators Bever idge and Nelson both niembersx > the Committee on Territories are very loath to accept any compromise save that which the majority originally presented pre-sented Their position is that the omnibus bill is defeated and that Senator Sen-ator Quay who has been so persistently persist-ently pressing It has loot strength by his course in supporting Senator Morgan Mor-gan during the latters light against the canal treaty SPOONERS VIEW Senator Spooner reported to his colleagues col-leagues that there was no legal difficulty culty In the way oC admitting Oklahoma Okla-homa and afterward attaching the In dian Territory to the State In this same connection there is a proposition to have Included in the legislation 0 provision for a trust school fund for Indian Territory to be provided by the Government This IsIto meet the objection ob-jection raised against Indian Territory that it I has no school lands and no grants to be made for public schools The division of New Mexico and Arizona Ari-zona is to be made upon proclamation by the President when there is a population pop-ulation of UOOOOO In Arizona but objection ob-jection has been raised by the Democrats Demo-crats to this suggestion as It now stands because no provision Is made for a census and It would be at least 1910 before any test could be made EFFORTS TO FIND SMITH During the day efforts were made to find Delegate 1 A Smith of Arizona to ascertain what his views would boas bo-as to the proposed compromise but ho was not at the capitol He has beor decidedly opposed to any such move al along and today Senator Blackburn told some of his colleagues that the joining of the two Territories wouSJ not be acceptable nnd said It would causo strong opposition DEMOCRATS INDIFFERENT Another feature of the Democratic position developed today was that many Democrats are Indifferent as to an extra legislative session of Congress Con-gress while some think that it would be bad policy to have such a session and have the subject of trust legislation legisla-tion and revision or the tariff discussed dis-cussed Tills Idea was communicated to some of the leaders today and caused considerable uneasiness I Is realized that with the business now pending In the Senate 0 very few men could force enOugh appropriation bills over to cause an extra session of the Fiftyeighth Congress At the same time the members expressed their opinion opin-ion that before the coming week nan paused the blockade will he raised in some manner and all necessary legislation legisla-tion disposed of by March 4th |