New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-04

AT the time this decree was passed all the northern pr,
virces ofMeXico including Sonora Chh'1hua New Aex
CO Coahuia and Texas embraced under Govern
men without defined acknowledged territorial limits.
Their boundaries when laid down maps according
10 the idess OF the map makers hence no two sgree
In the year ls25 Chihuahua organized itself into State
and adopted Ms Constitution. In s53 appointed corps
ct engineers the principal Of which senior Pedro
Garcia Condo and AlT Staples American. 20 make
vey Of the State This accordingly done. and large
and beautiful map the result If this survey now hangs
the wall OF the Governors Hall in the capital In 1885,
General Condo presented his official report which
braced statistical account Of the State THIS published
bv order of the Government 10 lsf2 in folio volume In
this report only It's territorial limits defined with
great precision but every town which exercised
jurisdiction is named, well It's mines rivers noun
tans Sc This official map well As the report, claim or
it, northern limits line crossing the Rio rande at about
y degrees 30 minutes and thence extending north to b de-
srees 81 minutes - seconds north latitude embracing the
copper mines and territory nearly 20 miles north VI the
line agreed upon by the Commissioners and which 30 miles
of territory had always belonged TO- and been under the
Jurisdiction Of chihuahua. w.Mexco never claimed,
much less exercised any uri aicton this territory
In lsi7, the Constitution of Chhuahus was revised and
lis limits defined with grea, precision They embraced
the 9d article Of the Is; chapter, as follows:
AT "a TIE territory Of chihuahua ths, ysh hs pesl
So ana s. 81 81 North Essss1 Sns Srsesn I med.n, of 70
Sc @ and n l1 " ieosi'rde Wet on the Guy Of Aesso az
els Condo n the year lSSi'
The State of Chihuahua did exercise jurisdiction over
the Mesa valley in ls5O 81 the very time the Commission
of the Governments at III P&so for pur
pose of fixing the boundary and far from that State
osstmpg jurisdiction over the same as Gov Lane as
serts and without having obtained the consent of the
ned States the Territory OF New Mexico, ." the lat
pretended to claim il and Of course, consent
necessary.
GOV Lane saws this assumption in defiance Of the
remonsirances of large portion of the inhabitants Of the
disputed territory, who then numbered 1000 souls."
When the boundary determined ON. the " MssiIA
Valley which Includes the whole populated portion Of the
disputed territory numbered but 700 instead Of sons
among which there not 20 Americans. And when il
was announced that this settlement would continue in the
- NJ ma IN.
which State had always belonged, there firing Of
and public reocings the occasion at the Of
MeSlla.
In the autumn Of 1851, when in sonora was informed
that Americans had settled a Mesa and endeayored
to create among its quiet citizens feeling of hostility
ward Mexico offering them great inducements TO remon-
srae against the established boundary but with what suo
cess have never learned But when il is known that Of
the population which composes this valley, than
one fifty read and write will be that an evil
disposed person might induce them aix their mark 10
what they could neither understand read. will speak
hereafter of the population of the Mesilla Valley
During discussion Of the boundary question treaty
Of peace the Commissioner Of Mexico proposed part Of
tins disputed territory y dvsns It between the two Reoueh Aud
reisnty over all the territory IN dispute.
The first assertion in the above clause is entirely without
foundation far the Joint Commission is connected
with it; proposal Of the kind having been made by
the Mexican Commissioner. or by myself
With regard 10 the latter assertion that "the United
States virtually asserted right of sovereignty over s the
the territory in dispute will the following Com
mee of the Senate upon state made by party who
objected TO the line ana who Withheld important facts
relation thereto and without hearing from me
in defense of the same reported unvoraby To the line;
while the other hand the President Of the United States
virtually acknowledged the correctness of through the
Secretary OF the Interior as appears by his official letters
tome;
l. The claim of chihuahua to disputed territory believed to
had agreed upon BOUNDARY Line between chhu.ha, nd
10Th upon the United and th.
final whereas valid asreem,ni had ben made and I'd
been virtually Tpudstsd nuded by United States
The claim of chihuahua Is based upon jurisdiction en-
ercsed by her the territory far north deg 81
min ~ sec which embraced Santa Rita del Cobre (the
Copper mnes But of this territory she was compelled TO
renqush TO the United States all north Of % deg % mn
which her limits according to the map Of Dsturne AZ
determined by the chief astronomers Lieut. Whppe on
the part Of the United States and Senior Saazar on the part
Mexico and conformity with their report established
by the Commissioners Of the two Governments.
The "unwauantable assumption of Chihuahua as Gov
Lane pleased TO call it, consists therefore, in retaining
possession of district she had Arrays possessedover
which she had ainog exercised jurisdiction which ac-
corded her by the Treaty map and all authorized au
heniic maps-by tine official report made by her engineers
in 1896 by various printed works the country previous
to the and lastly by her Constitution These are the
grounds which Chihuahua bases her right of occupancy
The assertion that valid agreement had not been made
and has not yet been made by said Board is contraded
by the official Records of the Joint Commission
"The action Of the Board has been virtually repudated
and nullied by the United Sates says Cove nor Lane
This reputation and notification by United States
consists unvorable report Of Committee OF the
Senate which had heard only side of the question
The following extract from the h Article Of the Treaty Of
Guadalupe Hdalgo, will show whether treaty stipulation
be "repudiated and nulldsd by report OF Com
mee OF the United States Senate which dow Lane seems
imagine the final action Of the Government aud upon
which he based of the grounds for his proclamation
"The shall zach appoint Commissioner and
eSesge treaty st the port Of San
Diego and proceed to run and max the SAG boundary - whole
eSSs 20 n9 sI " no SO ssd as
uon ~ them ,1an Be dsi ssyt ne Treaty and saH AaSs as
ri" boundary Iae fatAat ~ hi. article 'AaF be yefouv,-
Jd By each VI ne tEo Rpts and change hal be made
herein ecep BY The pyess free VI bon Nations, Ia suy
by the General Government Of each in conformity with
Constitution t
Gov Lane continues 49,
Each Of the high contracting parties Trssy Guadalupe
rcneesiote ay reserved the rjec
City Of Ctlbuahua and the north
States the Cy Of santa ssd che county south Of tho
bee. Iessrded ss final n -
know OF no right by any individual to accept or re-
ec the decisions Of the Board of the Boundary Commits
'soners" But Gov Lane quite right in supp0sng that
f the Board had assigned the City Chihuahua and the
Country north Cf the United States the CITY of San
ia Fe and the country south OF il 10 the Mexican Republic
the action Of the Board would certainly not have been
'garded final - for such assignment wOnd have been
at variance with the Treaty and the Treaty map.
Ever territory question thus focby aad Illegally
annexed the State Of Chhuanna that state has sEH1y %
uouery e0nsceDce and has bs
border Indian degdon and thereby
esnsors against the United states tor the property taken b. tho
lnoisns.
No force has ever been used by the State Of chihuahua
retain possession Of her territory to which ausion
made but is that she has failed "t0 protect the in
habitaIts of the territory in question: against border
Indian depredatOns in the that Texas aud
New Mexico have failed to protect thar people from similar
depredaons SO with regard to the protection Of the
Labiants Of the territory lin disputed in their rights Of per
son ard property the Mexican authorities have doubtless
been lax in the administration Of justice in the Mesla val
ley But authorities should say litte as possible