Statehood for
Territories
Washington, Feb. 19—As the result of the territorial
hearings for statehood, the prediction is made from reliable sources that a
bill will be reported in the near future from the House Committee on
Territories joining Oklahoma and Indian Territory into a single state under the
name of Oklahoma. This state bill will not be admitted, however, until after
the allotment of lands by the Dawes Commission has been entirely completed and
the school land question has been settled. This, it is estimated, will take at
least two years. The state, when admitted, as is expected, will have a population
of 800,000, and will be divided into four Congressional districts. Later a bill
will be reported admitting Arizona and New Mexico as a single state, but this
latter proposition will not be pressed for some time.
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