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Show Amends Joint Statehood Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. II. Senator Patterson trvlay fjreented two proposed amendments to the joint Statehood hill. One of them strikes out the word "mnle" where It appears aa a qualification for voters In votlnn for delegates to the Constitutional conventions of the proponed pro-poned States, thus (tlvmr to the women of the Territories an equal right with men to cast their Votes In that election. The other amendment amend-ment provides for the admission of New Melco as a State acrordln- to its present boundaries and for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one State. |