Speech #510090130

President. really to eliminate from the subject the suspicion of political influence. and only political influence. as being the operative cause of the passage of this bill. I regard the proposition of the Senator from Arkansas as being the most important and most beneficial to the people of the United States that has been presented in many years to this body. It will have a reviving effect upon immigration and industry of every kind in all these four States proposed. and after expressing our opinion here upon what the constitutions of these new States ought to be. in order to make them not merely republican in form. but in correspondence with the original thirteen States or the States now :in the Union. we can afford then to go on and allow them under their constitutional conventions. organized in due form and by legal authority. to establish for themselves an organic law and to come back here to be admitted into the Union. It must require some violent emergency to justify us in the action we are about to take. There is no haste about the admission of Idaho or the admission of Wyoming into the Union that does not equally apply to New Mexico and Arizona. unless it may be the political calculation that when these States are admitted into the Union there will be six more Republican electoral votes to be counted by the Houses in deciding the next Presidential campaign.