. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . y Congress, and the effortfailed to secure statehood, but it brought a numberof men into prominence and prepared them forthe Constitutional Convention, which formed theconstitution for Oklahoma. Charles N. Haskelland William Murray were the leaders in the Se-quoyah Convention. Pleasant Porter, governorof the Creek Nation, was chairman. After a long struggle the fifty-ninth Congresspassed the Omnibus Statehood Bill, June 14,Omnibus ^^^^ (Fl^g Day), and it was approvedstatehood by the President, June 16. It pro-vided for a single state of Ok
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . y Congress, and the effortfailed to secure statehood, but it brought a numberof men into prominence and prepared them forthe Constitutional Convention, which formed theconstitution for Oklahoma. Charles N. Haskelland William Murray were the leaders in the Se-quoyah Convention. Pleasant Porter, governorof the Creek Nation, was chairman. After a long struggle the fifty-ninth Congresspassed the Omnibus Statehood Bill, June 14,Omnibus ^^^^ (Fl^g Day), and it was approvedstatehood by the President, June 16. It pro-vided for a single state of Oklahomaand Indian Territory, and for a single state ofArizona and New Mexico, provided the peoplein those two territories wanted to unite. Thepeople of the two last-named territories wereopposed to uniting, and as a result those statesdid not enter the Union until the year 1912. The Enabling Act provided for one hundred andtwelve delegates, to be elected to a ConstitutionalConvention; fifty-five from Oklahoma, fifty-five THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD 141. from Indian Territory, and two from the OsageNation. Oklahoma was divided into fifty-fivedistricts by the governor, the secretary, and thechief justice of theTerritory. IndianTerritory was di-vided into fifty-five districts bythe commissionerof the Five Tribesand two of thejudges of the Fed-eral Courts ofIndian Territor}^ The delegates were elected November 6, were Democrats, twelve Republi-cans, and one Independent. The conventionmet in the City Hall at Guthrie, November 20,1906, and continued in session until July, 1907,except that two recesses were taken ; one in April,to give the committees a chance to complete theirwork, and the other in June, to aw^ait the resultof an injunction suit brought against the conven-tion. The constitution was submitted to the people,September 17, 1907. At the same time state City Hall, Guthrie, Oklahoma 142 OKLAHOMA HISTORY officers were elected. One provision of the Ena-constitut
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