Show An argument Is being used in the East against the admission of Arizona and New Mexico that runs like this A railroad syndicate has In view the building of a gooddeal of road In those now Territories and wants to get subsidies but a Territory cannot extend aid to a railroad without the consent of Congress therefore tho powers bade of he syndicate and the syndicate itself are pressing for Stat6liood on the achieving OL which the aid could be granted by the States As tho amount of the aid said to be desired is put at fifteen million dollars the story Is de Idedly fishy for it would he Impossible for Arizona and New Mexico to extend aid to that amount to any proposition It Is more likely than anything else that the story is a bugaboo put forward for-ward by the opponents oC Statehood and that the proposition was never heard of at first by anybody else |