President. that one Congress can not bind future Congresses on a question of this kind. And no statutory regulations enacted by Congress can override the constitutional authority to which I have here referred. It is apparent then to every intelligent immigrant who settled in Arizona that the Congress that created the Territory of Arizona could make no binding stipulation on future Congresses respecting the manner in which that Territory should ultimately be admitted as a State into the Union. It is apparent also. Mr. President. that the intelligent immigrants there. if they knew anything about the Constitution of their country. knew that the constitutional requirements to which I have here adverted could not be modified or changed or overridden by any statutory law that might be enacted by any Congress. The language to which the advocates of separate statehood for Arizona refer and upon which they base their claim for admitting Arizona into the Union as a separate State is as follows: Provided. That said government shall be maintained and continued until such time as the people residing In said Territory shall. with the consent of Congress. form a State government. republican in form. as prescribed In the Constitution of the United States. and apply for and obtain admission into the Union as a State on an equal footing with the original States.
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