Show T he HH 4 9 th L at em iaz mcada C 09 A 0 0 K AN 5 As K 0 M A V tw DMA CITY NEW MEXICO f e MONT 1 allas 1 4 T E X A ti wood af AUSTIN ka 11 0 7 IZ VICY C F th r 0 lf or this will it be this by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 9 so run 0 o to be another star lit in tin the american Aine paz ain and if MI bullat state will it II lep reent will it lie indicate unit that tin people of that territory uie ate about remly ready to knok knock at anle sums sams door for admi inn to lo ills union and they arp are so e eager ager to be we lie forty ninth state that during file recent celebration of ahl fins day they flew an american bauner banner in whose hose field of blue they had sewed another star ns As indicative of their ambit ambition lon will it be alaska the 1935 19 i pioneers who went there recently may be the vanguard of a migration which Nl ilch will populate that territory so rapidly that it will also have statehood ambitions and the vast empire which was once known knod as folly may honor the man nho mho bought it from russia by joining the sisterhood of states under ills his name will it be porto rico which already has a population more than three times that of ll hawaii aall and alaska combined or instead of promoting one of his territories to the dignity of statehood will uncle sam 41 play realtor and open up tip a new dew subdivision vision in that case will the new commonwealth be illiana Ill hilll fana ana composed of cook county ill and lake county led idd or will it be made by piecing together parts of southwestern montana northeastern wyoming ind and southwestern south dakota then again it might be Tex lahoma composed of the texas panhandle and western oklahoma including that strip of territory 30 miles wide ide and 00 miles tong long which was once known as no mans land or it might be cimarron another name which has been proposed pio posed for a cattle state down donin in the southwest As a matter of fact several such ideas for forming new dew states have been adian advanced ced during the past few months even though they have not fared ey ery well thus far the indiana legisla tuie promptly squelched the suggest suggestion lon that lake county secede from and join with cook county to form illiana with chicago as its capital no doubt either rapid city the thriving little municipality which put itself on the map in the days of president calvin call in coolidge or historic old deadwood would be glad to be the capital of f the forty ninth state which would bear the tribal name of the crow indians but sheridan wyo which Is 13 in the land of the sparrow hawk people Ab might dispute the claims of the black hills cities even it if montana Slon tana wyoming and south dakota would agree to hand band over slices of their territory tor for a new state slate which Is doubtful the latest suggestion for the creation of a new state that of Tex Texi lahoma came about when an enterprising oklahoma cillan petitioned the state legislature for such action glin giving as his reason the rank discrimination by parent states against the counties within the described territories by those in official authority commenting on this proposal a texas newspaper dispatch to the new york times said in the past such proposals have originated in texas which Is so large and diver rifled that some sections occasionally feel discriminated against politically while this proposal Is more clearly del defined lined than its predecessors it Is extremely doubtful it if its fate will prove happier what sentiment might have existed years ago for the division of texas has long since been dissipated and with regard to the tank rank discrimination against the panhandle it Is only Dec necessary essary to say that not only does governor allred come from one of the counties that would secede but the four high men in the race for governor of texas last summer were ere all from the region covered by the proposed state moreover both economic aud and patri patriotic otle forces resist division today modern means of rapid transportation and communication are reducing een this vast frontier to a neighborhood the approach of the texas centennial Is serving to crystallize this unity and it Is significant that some of the roost most enthusiastic manifestations of pre centennial patriotism are arc coming from athe the panhandle far removed from the shrines of texas historical period one of the proposals to which he refers camy came about some five ears cars ago when vice president cartier carner then a member of the house of representatives senta tives made a speech in congress advocating the di division islon of texas into five states as a means of giving the lone star state slate the depre Isen tallon in congress especially in the senate which she feels she should have As tor for the names of these five states it Is suggested that there should be but one texas and that the hie portion of the state which la Is now dow designated as central texas should bear it it this natate should not embrace san antonio as aa well us as austin and for that reason san sah antonio m would have to be thrown into south texas for alamo or davy Croc kettis suggested other state names suggested are jev jep vison tor for r la it tae aft m 1 DAK nr 6 a it ar CHO raft ca CAL vj aw K u 1 C reix RIZ it wit K C 0 2 LAL LA L west texas sam houston for east texas and hogg for north texas another suggestion la Is that the state of west texas be called panhandle texans who iio believe that they have the right to dinice their state up tip into five parts base that right upon the terms under which texas was annexed to the united states in 1815 1945 at that time sam houston was president of the republic of texas anson jones was secretary of state and isaac van zandt was the texan charge daf faires at washington houston told jones to write alte van zandt a letter of 0 instructions on how to negotiate the treaty of annexation with the united states and sent J pinckney henderson Ue along to help van zandt handle the matter with the american secretary of state this letter dated february 25 emphasized two points not embraced in previous instructions the first ot of which was this the number of states into which the territory of texas shall be subdivided it Is presumable that in the settlements alreada made there Is a sufficient population to conati tute one state according to the requirements ol of the federal constitution and that the remaining territory of the republic Is sufficiently large to constitute three more at a future period you will therefore provide in the treaty for the ultimate creation of at least tour four states and for their admission into the union so soon as the population of the respective territories shall be sufficient tor for that purpose and in the meantime that territorial governments shall be established and maintained as circumstances and the wants of the people residing in those limits respectively may render proper and necessary president tyler in his bis message of december 1844 refers to this same matter urging the prompt and immediate annexation of texas be says future legislatures can best decide as to the number of states which should be formed out of the territory when the time arrives for deciding that question the bill to provide for the annexation of texas to the united states and to restore the ancient limits of the republic which was finally passed says among other things the said compact of cession and annexation when made as aforesaid to provide further for the future formation in said territories of at least two states and it if more than two then four states and if more than four then of 0 six states to be hereafter admitted into the united states of america henry clay then living in retirement but a candidate for the presidency wrote a letter april 17 1814 emphasizing the fact that texas was ultimately to be composed of live five states and declared that only two of them would be slave and three of them free in that fact lies the fallacy of the idea that texas has the right to divide itself into five states stated this idea arose front from a misinterpretation of the clause in the joint resolution of congress annexing texas by which the missouri compromise line was carried to the west boundary of texas at that time texas claimed territory far north and provision was merely being made that states subsequently carved from texas should be slave below the compromise line and free above since the outcome of the war between the states settled the question of slavery it ano ako obviated the necessity for determining which of the five new states were to be slave and which were to be free soil even though none of these recent proposals for the creation of new commonwealths from those already existing has made much progress they have added to the literature of states that might liae haie been and have revived the memory of other such proposals in the past it if ll li llana and Tex lahoma would look queer on a map mail of the united states today how bow much queerer would it look if it had bad tamla and Cherson esus on oil it yet there were such names on the maps of JIZO years ago and we might now have states bearing those names if thomas jefferson had had Us his way about it t P 1 J thomas jefferson back in 1784 the new nation cation was considering the possibility of forming new states out of the old northwest territory won for the american flag by george rogers dark clark during the revolution in the ordinance ot of 1784 which was largely the worl work of jefferson provision was made tor for 10 states and Jefre jefferson who was one of the foremost classical scholars of his day proposed these names for them silvanna Sil SlI vanla mich Cherson esus illinora linola Il saratoga tamla and washington A map published by john fitch later famous for his invention of a steamboat in philadelphia in 1785 shows the boundaries of these proposed states although his spelling of some of the names varies slightly from jeffersons the new state of washington included a strip through the middle of ohio from lake erie south to the ohio river saratoga comprised the lower halt of indiana and ohio westward from the western boundary line of washington to a line drawn straight south from the eastern shore line of lake michigan comprised the up per half of indiana and ohio with the same eastern and western estern boundaries included nil all of the present lower peninsula of michigan and a small portion of the present up per peninsula Sil vanla included the rest of the upper peninsula the upper tipper third of the present state of wisconsin and a portion of the eastern part of minnesota Michigan la comprised the central third of wisconsin and Arsenis pla the lower third 1111 nota would have taken in the upper third of the present state of illinois and over into In indiana dialia to the western boundary of tamla would have included the central third of illinois with the same eastern boundary and Peli sipla the lower third a triangular tract bounded by the ohio and bussis mississippi sippi rivers although jeffersons report was adopted it was never put into operation and e eventually the old thweat territory instead of being divided up into ten states was divided up into five wisconsin michigan illinois indiana and ohio american history affords two or three other instances of proposals to erect new states from established commonwealths at one time there was an effort made to form a state named hiis susquehanna qu que hanna elianna from a part of pennsylvania and in the early days of the republic there was a proposal to divide virginia and make a state in the western part called West sylvania eventually of course the state was divided that was in when virginia seceded from the union and joined tho the confederacy while the alie western part of the state voted to remain under the stars and stripes at that time it was suggested that the new state should be called kanawl W blit but butchen when herb it come came into the union in 1802 it come came as wes virginia 10 0 western newspaper union |