People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — WOULD MAKE NEW STATES. [ARTICLE]

WOULD MAKE NEW STATES.

Republican Senators Hold a Caucus to Consider the Question. Washington, Jan. 25. —The republican senatorial caucus Tuesday afternoon decided by a majority vote to take favorable action upon the admission ol the territories of Utah and New Mexico, but left Arizona out in the cold, This result was not attained until after prolonged discussion. A great deal of opposition was manifested on the part of some eastern senators, who pointed to what they called the manifest evidences of the inability of these territories to take up the cares and burdens of statehood. Objection was made to the admission of New Mexico on account of its great preporfderance of citizens who could not speak or write the English language; to Arizona because of its immense debt and the poverty of the territory; to Utah on account of the prevalence of polygamy, and Oklahoma by reason of its newness and the absence of the essentials which go to make up a successful territory ready for the more advanced position of statehood. The house has already passed the bills for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona, but no action has been taken on Utah.