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Show GAVE ROUGH RIDERS AND WANTS STATEHOOD WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. Immediately after the Senate was called to order today. to-day. President pro tem Frye laid before it a telegram from the Governor of New Mexico transmitting a memorial adopted by the Legislature of that Territory protesting pro-testing against the union of New Mexico and Arizona In one State, and urging the admission of New Mexico as a State according ac-cording to present boundaries. One of the reasons urged for admission was the fact that New Mexico supplied more than half of the members of the regiment of Rough Riders, commanded during the Spanish war by CoL Theodore Roosevelt. |