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Show Statehood Bill to Occupy the Senate Until It Is Out of the Way Other Measures Will Have to Eemain on the Sidetracks. t WASHINGTON, Jan. The intention is to keep the Statehood bill to the front In the Senate during the present week, With the hope on the pnrt of Its friends that by the end of the present week they may be uble to get a vote on this. Thus far the opponents of the measure havo held out stUbbbrniy against naming a day for a vote, and, while they do not say In, explicit terms that it is their Int.. .Hon to filibuster agalr.st the passage of the bill, Il Is evident that unless a compromise com-promise can be reached for the limina-tlon limina-tlon of Arizona from the measure they will make un effort to prevent a vote before be-fore the close of the present session. On this account there Is coming to bt more or less discussion of plans for tht modification of the bill, and most of the talk gravitates toward the suggestion ofj Senator Foraker for a separation of th-. votes of Arizona and New Mexico on the question of admission or that suggested, by Senator Bard confining the operation of the bill to the creation of the State old Oklahoma out of the Territory of Okla-" homa and Indian Territory, and entirely1 eliminating Arizona and New Mexico, from the bin. In the meantime the debate will go on. Senator Bate, the senior Democratic member mem-ber of the Committee on Territories, said that u number of Democratic Senators would be prepared by Monday lo take tho floor In Opposition to the bill in Its present pres-ent shape. He would not admit a willing.-ness willing.-ness to accept tho Foraker or BarH amendments, but said that either of then would be debated. Other Democrats do not manifest a .Hi -position to hold out so stiffly, and sons o say frankly that they would feel liberal! y Inclim -l toward the union of Oklahorr.a and Indian Territory If the hill Is conflru'd to those Territories. Senator Bevetidfge Will be absent from the city during the. greater part of the week and the bill will ' be In charge of Senator Nelson. Mr. Beverldgc goes to Indianapolis to be pr-s- J nt at his prospective re-election to the -jH Senate. The pure-food bill will become the un-finished un-finished business when the Statehood bill is disposed of. hut, as only one of tho appropriation bills has b"-n oaciJt tho. f...nl l)',! may not be given much time. Tuesday tho Senate will receive officially the 't ie of the late Senator Ingalla of |