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Show STATEHOOD BILL HAS SLIM CHANCES WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 28. The prospects of the statehood bill today are unpromising. As the situation now stands only by unanimous consent can any statehood state-hood bill be passed through th Senate. In the House of Representatives the fate of statehood rest practically with half a dosen men. But in the Senate any one Senator may Interpose with an objection and in the present crowded state of business busi-ness before the Senate that objection would be sufficient to prevent an action on the bill. Senator Bailey Monday offered an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill, giving Oklahoma and Indian Territory Terri-tory Joint statehood without reference to the other Territories. This act caused a good deal of hostile criticism on the part of members of the House, who declared that the House would not stand for a rider of that kind on an appropriation bill. N Later Mr. Bailey announced -to the Senate Sen-ate that In offering that amendment he had acted In accordance with requests that had been made of him and that he did not intend such an amendment to Interfere In-terfere with any ' agreement that the conferrees might make on the statehxd bill.' In the event that the conferrees fail to come to any agreement It Is possible that a vote may be forced in the Senate on this proposition, but it has not yet been determined that that course will be desirable. |