People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Oklahoma Statehood Convention. [ARTICLE]

Oklahoma Statehood Convention.

Oklahoma City, Ok., Jan. 9. —As soon as the statehood convention met yesterday a fight was opened. It was over the question of forming a state of the territory alone or with the Chickasaw nation added, with a provision to admit other Indian nations on application. Finally, after a long wrangle, the delegates from the Chickasaw nation were recognized. At 8:15 at night the statehood convention came to an inglorious end. At that hour, the committee on credentials being unable to report, owing to the strife between the “single staters” and the “double staters,” Chairman Hensley declared the convention adjourned sine die. This, it is believed, will end all organized effort to secure statehood from the present congress. »