Iron County Record | 1935-01-10 | Page 5 | New States

I 1 New State Stat Population has nothing to tn do with admitting a territory to statehood The Constitution states New ew states may be he admitted by the congress into this Union but no new state shall be he formed or erected within the Jurisdiction tion lion of any other state nor an any state be formed ormed by the Junction of two t or more of the states or parts paris of or states without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as 89 well weil us as of or orthe the congress Political circumstances tn govern o ern the admission of the static Some territories have been made mada states though their population n was only a handful while Hawaii with a population population tion larger than titan th that thit t of or several of oC the states will probably never have other than a territorial government