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Show ARIZONA ELIMINATED, STATEHOOD BILL GOES THROUGH THE SENATE WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. After a. continuous con-tinuous session of nine hours the Senate at 8:45 o'clock last night passed the joint Statehood bill. As passed the bill provides pro-vides for the admission of tha States of Oklahoma, to be comprised of Indian Territory Ter-ritory and Oklahoma and New Mexico, according to the present boundaries with Arizona eliminated. The long session was characterized by many surprises. Beginning promptly upon the convening at U o'clock, the Senate Sen-ate proceeded to consider tha various amendments which had been passed over. One of the first of these taken up was the amendment prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating In-toxicating liquors In what Is now Indian Territory for the next ten years, and this was displaced with a substitute offered by Mr. Galllnger, which extended the amendment to the entire State for a period of twenty-one years, and this was adopted. The first surprise of the day came when the committee accepted Mr. Foraker's amendment providing for a separate vote by each of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico on the constitution to be adopted by the proposed State of Arizona. That provision had scarcely been made a part of the bill when Mr. Bard presented his amendment, which had been originally ofTered by Mr. Patterson, and which provided pro-vided for the admission of New Mexico as a State without the addition of Arizona. Ari-zona. This amendment proved to be the point around which all the subsequent proceedings proceed-ings of importance revolved. It was at first adopted by the close vote of 42 to 40. This vote was taken while the Senate was sitting In committee of the whole, and was reversed In the Senate proper by the tie vote of 38 to $S. Subsequently the Senate decided, by a vote of 38- te 3a to entirely Hlmlwati New Mexico and Arizona from the bill, and this result had hardly been announced when Mr. Hard. In slightly changed form, renewed re-newed his proposition for the admission of New Mexico as a State, and this time the amendment prevailed by the vote of 40 to 17. One of the affirmative votes was. however, how-ever, cast by" Mr. Beveridge, In charge of the bill, for the purpose of moving the reconsideration of the. .vote. He was prompt In making the motion as soon as the result was announced, but the motion was laid on the table by a vote of St to S8. The effect was to eliminate Arizona from the bill and to establish a State of New Mexico and another of Oklahoma and Indian" Territory. . In this form the bill was passed. An amendment was proposed by Mr. Kearns. providing that all that portion of Arizona- lying north of the Colorado river shall be annexed to Utah. Mr. Beveridge, Bev-eridge, In behalf of the committee Indicated Indi-cated a willingness to accept the amendment; amend-ment; but the chair asked if the yeas and nays were desired. Several Senators Sena-tors Indicated a desire to that end, and Mr. Bailey, sitting in his seat, but with his voice sufficiently raised to be heard throughout the chamber, said: ".Before that trade is consummated we certainly want the ayes and nays." "The chair did not htar the remark of the Senator from Texas," said Mr. Frye, who was presiding. "The remark was not exactly intended for the ear of the chair." responded Mr. Bailey: "but I will repeat that before that trade Is consummated we should certainly have tbe ayes and nays." Mr. Beveridge responded that the provision pro-vision had been offered early in the session ses-sion and had been printed. The ayes end nays were ordered and the amendment amend-ment was accepted, JS to 33. The bill . as amended then was passed without division, and, on motion -of Mr. Foraker. the Beqaie at 8:06 adjourned. |
