Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — NO MORE NEW STATES. [ARTICLE]

NO MORE NEW STATES.

New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona Must Wait Awhile. The House Committee on Territories has been considering the Arizona, Oklnhopiu ami New Mexico statehood bills for several days and‘will probably be ready to make a report next Friday. These territories have sent strong delegations to Washington to plead for statehood, but it is more than likely that the urging will be in vain, for the committee seems disposed to make adverse reports on all three lulls, it is felt in Congress that a mistake was made Hi admitting two or three Western territories into tlie sisterhood of States, and that n ftlrthodmistnke might lie committed by taking in cither New Mexico, Oklahoma or Arizona at this time. Nevada, with a voting population of loss than ten thousand, is perpetually an example ever in view-,to deter Congress front being too hasty in matters of this kind.