Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — FLAG IS TO HAVE A NEW STAR. [ARTICLE]

FLAG IS TO HAVE A NEW STAR.

Senate Acts on Atluiiwston of Oklahoma nml Indian Territory. The conference rcjxjrt on -tlie statehood bill was adopted without revision by the Senate Wednesday, following a three hours’ discussion, led by Senator Beveridge. Senator Money opposed the measure, calling the union of Oklahoma and Indian Territory an outrage. The question of admitting New "Mexico' and Arizona as a single State has gone over indefinitely, pending a vote of each territory. The statehood bill provides that Oklahoma and Indian Territory will be united to form the forty-sixth State in the Onion. When a constitution ts adopted in State convention it must be ratified by the people, and thereafter the President will proclaim the admission to the union of the State es Oklahoma. The new Stale will come In with representation in Congress of five Representatives and two Senators. The capital will be at Guthrie until 1913, and thereafter at such place as 6hnll l>e fixed by the legislature. Arizona ainl New Mexico will elect delegates to a constitutional convention Nov. 6»- At the same time they will vote separately on the question of whether they desire to unite as the single State of Arizona. If there is a majority 1n each territory for a unit'd sfntcllOod, the delegates elected to the constitutional convention will assem- [ ble, otherwise statehood w ill go* over until another enabling act is passed.