Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-04
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THE HANDSOME THING
Oolorado's Memorial to Congress De-
manding Justice for New
Mexico.
A Strong Petition for Statehood A
Northern Neighbor Speaks
Out.


introduced in the Colorado state senate a
Joint memorial, which strongly presses
upon the attention OF congress the claims
OF New Mexico for admission as state.
The memorial recites how, by an unfortu
nate accident, Colorado's sister territory
did not reach the requisite vote in the
house of representatives when the former
was admitted; presents her claims in
matter of population and commercial and
mining importance, and declares the SYM
pathy of this state toward the aspirant for
like membership in the union. The
memorial, in full, is as follows:
THE MEMORIAL.
To the President and Congress OF the United
States.
Your memorialists, the senate and
house of representatives OF the state of
Colorado, would respectfully suggest that
the citizens of the state of Colorado have
great patriotic and material interest in
the welfare Of the territory of New Mexico.
That territory was added to the United
States by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
in the year 1913. 1t was organized as
territory under the laws of the United
States i'll the year 1850. By the terms OF
the treaty by which it was ceded to this
government, the people of that territory
who should not pursue the characters of
citizens of the Mexican republic were
guaranteed that it should be incorporated
into the union of states and be admitted
to the union at The proper time, to the en-
joyment of all the rights of citizens Of the
United States, according to the principles
of the federal constitution.
1t is public history that the people of
that territory have frequently demanded
and asked compliance on the part of the
general government of these promises, so
solemnly made, believing that their in
terests would be best subserved and their
welfare promoted by the admission of the
territory into the Union as a state. Their
petitions have been before congress on sew
eral occasions, and in 1874 the house of re-
representatives. of the United States passed
a bill to admit the territory as state,
which bill was subsequently passed by
the senate, witt. an amendment, and
which amendment was not concurred in
by the house for want Of a two-thirds
vote (six votes only being needed) to sus-
pend the rules and take up the amend
ment. 1t was by the same congress that
the enabling act for the admission Of
Colorado into the union as state was
passed. The bills for the admission
Of New Mexico and Colorado were pre-
pared and introduced at the same time;
they passed the house of representatives
by practically the same vote; they went
to the senate, and both passed the senate
each Of the bills having amendments at
tached thereto, and Colorado was only
more fortunate than her then sister terri
tory of New Mexico in that she succeeded
in getting the necessary two-thirds vote
to suspend the rules of the house of repre-
sentatives to take up the amendments,
while New Mexico failed by few votes
so accomplish the same result.
Lying, as Colorado does, Immediately
to the north of New Mexico, and the peo-
pie of both constantly intermingling, and
being closely allied in interests and com
merce, from knowledge we can assert that
the citizens of New Mexico, ever since the
territory's annexation to the United States,
have been unswervingly devoted to the
general government and loyal to its prin-
ciples and institutions, not excepting in
the days Of the civil war, during the
whole of which they stood firmly for the
union, and at which time several thous-
and of the territory's militia were sent to
the front and engaged in the service of
the United States and all this was done
without fee or compensation from the
general government, the people of the
territory submitting to taxation to raise
money necessary to defray the expense of
such service.
The population of the territory of New
Mexico at the present time is more than
5000 persons, exclusive of Indians, who
neither vote, claim nor have the right to
vote under it's laws.
The territory is not behind other terri
tories of the United States in point of
progress, but in fact is far ahead of some
of its sister territories in many respects.
1t is traversed by railroad and telegraph
lines in various directions, giving to every
part of it speedy and easy communication
with every part of the United states.
There are now more than | 400 miles of
railroad within its borders, and with their
construction have come from the different
states large, wealthy and enterprising
immigration. The number of this class