December of 1905: I recommend that Indian Territory and Oklahoma be admitted as one state and that New Mexico and Arizona be admitted as one state. There is no obligation upon, us to treat territorial subdivisions. of convenience only, as binding us on the question of admission to statehood. Nothing has taken up more time in the congress during the past few years than the question as to the statehood to be granted to the four territories above mentioned, and after careful consideration of all that has been developed in the discussion of the question, I recommend that they be immediately admitted as two states. There is no justification for further delay, and the advisability of making the four territories into two states has been clearly established. ---Theodore Roosevelt. On 10/20/2011 10:55 AM, Billie Walsh wrote: > I never knew that at the time of the debate over admitting Oklahoma and > Sequoyah as separate states or a single state, there was also talk of > combining Arizona and New Mexico territories as one state. Seems that > some of the congress critters of the day thought that was a good idea. > Not a very popular idea back in those two territories. > -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb." - Benjamin Franklin - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._